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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 5:30 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
Ice packs weigh quite a bit - I was buying fresh scallops, ducks etc that was particularly hard to get there, as well as pre-packaged meals for convenience, so the amount of ice packs I had to use were quite ridiculous. They probably took up at least 25% of the weight as it was a reasonably long trip (Band 4) and I wanted to make sure that nothing went off.
Sounds like a flying version of Babette's Feast, what no turtles? I bet your dinner parties in Band4Land were very popular.
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