Naval meals from salt beef to submarine barbecues

Which traditional naval meal would be most appealing before the Japan trip?

Suggestions range from Royal Navy pepperoni pizza and Imperial Russian borscht to reconstructed salt beef and Australian submarine barbecues.

Clarke chooses Royal Navy pepperoni pizza, recalling consistently good meals and placing that service tradition roughly in the period since the 1950s. Other preferences include Russian naval food and curiosity about reconstructed salt beef. Heavy salting preserved the beef, while boiling and washing removed much of the salt before eating. A recollection of Cold War Australian submarines adds surfaced deck barbecues and beer reportedly kept cool in redundant torpedo tubes.