Sorry Mr T,the_purple_turtle wrote:Please translate.EdinWigan wrote:
If in Germany itself, then Herforder Pils but in 'Stubbies' as you can get anything done by a well dressed salad, with a yellow handbag!
The Herforder 10 pack is known as the 'Yellow Handbag'
and was used as the main trade currency amongst soldiers. Needed your car exhaust welding = a Yellow Handbag for the metalsmith...Rifle picked up for being dirty = Yellow Handbag for the armourer...need a few extra days on your annual leave entitlement = Yellow Handbag for the clerk. Some boxes just circulated around and around, never being opened and drunk (but never the metalsmiths)
A Well Dressed Salad = A soldier on parade or ready for a parade or generally in barracks.