Sadly the Her Majesties Royal Navy lost the idea as well in 1970except for very special occasions,
although while in the RAF
I was issued a Rum ration
in about 1982 from a very old gallon "bottle" held in a wicker basket kept in the safe on a radar station.
We had just spent all day shoveling or ploughing snow (I had the drivers licence for the landrover plough)
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