WW2 Rations

[Larse]

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

Was that intentional? 🤣

 

[Brew_DD2]

Hahaha

 

[Sadfield]

A minute on the hips a lifetime on the lips?

 

[MashBag]

A minute on the hips a lifetime on the lips?

A minute on the clicks a lifetime on the bottom

 

[Clint]

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

Yeah.

 

[MashBag]

Yeah.

Me too. Modern thinking shows the importance of all those little bottles...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Yeah.

Same here a gill bottle which was 1/4 of a pint.

 

[Sadfield]

I've a vague recollection of it changing from little glass bottles to clear plastic cartons when i was at primary school in the early 80's.

 

[jof]

I don't mind cold milk, or hot with appropriate choc/oavaltene.
But I can't stand warm milk.

Especially when the school used to bring in those little bottles & put them by the radiator. Made child me want to puke.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Same here a gill bottle which was 1/4 of a pint.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I've a vague recollection of it changing from little glass bottles to clear plastic cartons when i was at primary school in the early 80's.

Thatcher was Education Secretary In 1971 when free milk for children was abolished she was then known as -

 

[Sadfield]

Thatcher was Education Secretary In 1971 when free milk for children was abolished she was then known as -

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Except it wasn't, only for children over 7 from families not getting income support. Harold Wilson's Labour government had already stopped free milk for secondary school pupils in 1968.