Why did they get so much butter?
I like butter one toast etc but wouldn't get through that in a week.
I like butter one toast etc but wouldn't get through that in a week.
WW2 Rations
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Not just butter but margarine and lard as well. Must have been that bread wasn’t rationed.
Looks like bread and spuds were uncontrolled so plenty of opportunity to get through the butter also bread and dripping.
What was and was not rationed
The Government categorised foods into three groups: the first consisted of guaranteed rationed food, the second included foods like milk, eggs, fish, fruits, and vegetables whose availability fluctuated, and the third included staple foods such as bread and potatoes, which remained uncontrolled: a policy designed to stave off widespread hunger.
And strangely there weren't many fat people...
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I sure would & the Lard , but you can have my margarine.
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And strangely there weren't any processed foods full of sugar and low fat...
I call it killing us softly...even the "good" stuff is sprayed relentlessly with pesticides.
I'm happy my allotment gives us a release.
I'm happy my allotment gives us a release.
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No no, not killing you softly... The big pharmaceutical companies have all manner of potions..
For a fee
We grow our own too. Best way.
For a fee
We grow our own too. Best way.
I've done my "drugs" ...prescription pain killers. Only pills I take now are for self induced beer headaches.
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I missed the rations they ended 5 years before i was born, so yeah me and my mates were lean and mean, closest we got to fast food was the wimpy bar, i remember when KFC opened jeez they were qeueing round the block i tried it and was not impressed think i might have once every blue moon same as maccys, i would have been well at home on them rations with all the spuds and veg
Maccys...gives me bad stomach...dog food.
I have a Maccy occasionally i prefer KFC unfortunately we have to go to the next town as we don't have a KFC here.
I remember the last time I had a maccy's, I went to Upton Park to see Argyle lose to the hammers 5-0, Sheringham scored a penalty, 19th Feb 2005.
Processed food is a killer.
Processed food is a killer.
Strangely? Did you look at that week's rations?
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The butter allowance per adult was a meagre 4oz, enough for bread & scrape (ask yer mum!) but not a huge amount. Don’t forget that most people worked in manual jobs and then might have to “dig for victory” so those calories would soon be burned off.
At the end of WW2 it was reckoned that the British people were the healthiest they had ever been. At the end of WW1 the British people were starving hence the death rate caused by Spanish Flu. Rationing worked but was not popular.
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At the end of the century it was reckoned that the British people were the heaviest they had ever been.
Where did it all go so wrong..
Where did it all go so wrong..
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