WW2 Rations

[Larse]

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..

Not too hard to work out. In the six decades from the war years the economy changed from an industrial/agrarian one to a service based one.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Strangely? Did you look at that week's rations?

I don't think they where still fighting WW2 in the 1970's

 

[Sadfield]

I don't think they where still fighting WW2 in the 1970's

They're on the beaches. Never surrender.

 

[Larse]

I don't think they where still fighting WW2 in the 1970's

We hadn't got to that decade in the thread. Still in the war years.

 

[Clint]

Still plenty of fighting in the 70s...usually on the picket lines.
Shove it up em!

 

[jof]

We had to walk/bike to school in the 70s.
And your mum would kick you out to play until lunch/teatime.

No (much less) TV. No computer games. No car ride the 1/2 mile to school.
Less long distance commuting sat in a car for hours each way.

Food was more expensive (My mum used to tell me money went 1/3 food, 1/3 bills & 1/3 housing)
And while we are on old wives tales, she also still thinks the main meal should be lunch & tea should be early as it's not good to go to bed with a full stomach. Pouring scorn on those who done eat dinner until 8pm as they have to return home from work & then cook.

We all know the differences.

 

[jof]

Still plenty of fighting in the 70s...usually on the picket lines.
Shove it up em!

And in the playgrounds.

 

[Clint]

Playground fights! Those were the days! The fear of going home and telling your dad you lost!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

she also still thinks the main meal should be lunch & tea should be early as it's not good to go to bed with a full stomach

Dinner is at midday.
Tea is at 5pm (Ish)
Lunch is something we didn't have up North when I was a nipper.

 

[Appleton Brews]

The problem is junk food like Burgers, Fried Chicken, highly processed food, sugary drinks, sweets and ready meals. Plus portions are now massive compared to the 50’s. And of course alcohol and lack of exercise. British food in the 50’s was so bland and awful that it’s no wonder people gravitated to the above foods. Who wouldn’t want Curry or Spaghetti rather than liver and onions or tripe.

 

[Sadfield]

And of course alcohol

We'll have none of that here.

Actually, alcohol, particularly beer, consumption is lower than +100 years ago.




Evidently, they didn't have tesco deliveries during the Spanish Flu pandemic.

 

[Larse]

We'll have none of that here.

Actually, alcohol, particularly beer, consumption is lower than +100 years ago.
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Evidently, they didn't have tesco deliveries during the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Where's the graph with home brew added?

 

[Appleton Brews]

I would like to see a graph of ABV not 100%. But look a the volume increase from 1947 to now it’s doubled. Double and beer ABV has risen from say bitter at 3.6% to IPA at 6.0%. No one from working class towns drank wine but now who doesn’t.

 

[Clint]

I don't drink wine.
Yeah,Chippy_Tea...dinner is at dinner time and ya mam called ya in for your tea about 5 o'clock.
Lunch(midday)and dinner(evening)was something people in a jacket and bow tie had in those Mrs Marple films..
Unless it's a Sunday dinner or a Christmas dinner which you have in the middle of the day and is of the meat and veg. type. Any other time dinner is either specified as a "roast dinner" so you know what you're getting otherwise your dinner can range from butties to beans on toast.

 

[Sadfield]

I would like to see a graph of ABV not 100%. But look a the volume increase from 1947 to now it’s doubled. Double and beer ABV has risen from say bitter at 3.6% to IPA at 6.0%. No one from working class towns drank wine but now who doesn’t.

Which means people aren't drinking as much now, smaller amounts of stronger drinks, and still not consuming as much alcohol. Abv of beer, was generally much higher 100+ years ago than it is today.

 

[Larse]

Which means people aren't drinking as much now, smaller amounts of stronger drinks, and still not consuming as much alcohol. Abv of beer, was generally much higher 100+ years ago than it is today.

Yeah, the average OG of beer in the 1900s was 1055 which dropped to 1034 by 1950. Probably brought on by rationing during the war when beer was in short supply.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Yeah,Chippy_Tea...dinner is at dinner time and ya mam called ya in for your tea about 5 o'cloc
Lunch(midday)and dinner(evening)was something people in a jacket and bow tie had in those Mrs Marple films..

 

[Tommo 2]

I don't drink wine.
Yeah,Chippy_Tea...dinner is at dinner time and ya mam called ya in for your tea about 5 o'clock.
Lunch(midday)and dinner(evening)was something people in a jacket and bow tie had in those Mrs Marple films..
Unless it's a Sunday dinner or a Christmas dinner which you have in the middle of the day and is of the meat and veg. type. Any other time dinner is either specified as a "roast dinner" so you know what you're getting otherwise your dinner can range from butties to beans on toast.

Did you get the little bottle of milk at school every day

 

[Larse]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Not too hard to work out. In the six decades from the war years the economy changed from an industrial/agrarian one to a service based one.

All whilst we have a vast range of heavily calorific foods literally within a touch of a bottom.