Former British prime minister Winston Churchill's handwritten menu for a special breakfast, which he ordered while on his last flight to the USA as premier, is up for sale.
Former British prime minister Winston Churchill's handwritten menu for a special breakfast, which he ordered while on his last flight to the USA as premier, is up for sale.
The menu clearly shows that the former PM loved a hearty breakfast laced with whisky and a cigar. While on the BOAC flight in June 1954, the plane's menu was not good enough for the prime minister, so he wrote one out himself. He requested his meal to be brought on two trays. First tray included -- Poached egg, Toast, Jam, Butter, Coffee,
milk, Cold milk jug, Cold Chicken. The second tray included-- Grapefruit, Sugar Bowl, Glass orange squash (ice), Whisky soda. He then added Wash hands, cigar, the Telegraph reported.
At first he tried to amend the printed menu, but in the end wrote out his own on the other side. With his foreign secretary Sir Anthony Eden at his side, the visit to the US
was made during the Cold War and his last to the US as PM. The menu was kept by the air steward and the item is being sold along with press cuttings from the trip. The menu is expected to fetch up to 1,500 pounds when it is sold at Mullock's auctioneers in Ludlow Shropshire on St George's Day.
"This is one of the most remarkable pieces of Churchill memorabilia we have seen. It shows what a hearty breakfast he ate and it was all washed down with a whisky, after which he smoked a cigar," Richard Westwood-Brookes, who is selling it, was quoted by the paper as saying.
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