Today we’ve been celebrating the part Huntley and Palmers biscuit factory took in nourishing the troops on the front line and in the trenches of World War One. They made a special military biscuit, called the ‘Number Four’, designed to be filling, but not necessarily tasty. In fact, one disgusted Tommy sent his home, attached to a label that read: ‘Have gone on hunger strike, reason attached, mind your toes!’. It’s now in Reading Museum, which starts a new WW1 exhibition on April 4.
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