bread-and-cigarette

Updated: May 24, 2025

Soldiers were carrying their suppers from the cook tent not at all the bread-and-cigarette diet with which one is always being told the hardy Turk is content. He may be content, but whenever I saw him eating he had meat and rice, and often stewed fresh beans or fruit certainly better food than most Turkish peasants or artisans are accustomed to at home.

Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them