Unicorn
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Food...food... what was that!!! Heck queing for food became a way of life for us all. A new slogan was announced during the War it was called 'Growing for victory'. Oh!! that was fine if you had a backgarden to grow any food in, but if like many you lived in what we call a back to back house with no garden what then.
I do remember the good old ration books, who could forget those. You were allowed a certain amount of coupons to use on food. Each person in the house was allowed 2oz of butter....1oz of cheese....and, I think, either 1 or 2 eggs per week, oh and some tea ration as well. Meat, well you had whatever the butcher had got. For us kiddies, we were allowed a bottle of concentrated orange juice, and a bottle of codliver oil, oh how I grew to hate that stuff, we were told it was good for us, which of course it was, but not when you were lined up to take it every day, Yuck!!!. I think Mum more or less had a stew pot going most days, but strangely I can't recall any of us ever feeling hungry. Dried egg powder came into its own, but one thing I can remember was the lack of fruit. In fact us kiddies never even knew what a banana was until the end of the War.
Bathroom facilities....well thats a tale for another day because its bed time over here.
Regards 'U'
I do remember the good old ration books, who could forget those. You were allowed a certain amount of coupons to use on food. Each person in the house was allowed 2oz of butter....1oz of cheese....and, I think, either 1 or 2 eggs per week, oh and some tea ration as well. Meat, well you had whatever the butcher had got. For us kiddies, we were allowed a bottle of concentrated orange juice, and a bottle of codliver oil, oh how I grew to hate that stuff, we were told it was good for us, which of course it was, but not when you were lined up to take it every day, Yuck!!!. I think Mum more or less had a stew pot going most days, but strangely I can't recall any of us ever feeling hungry. Dried egg powder came into its own, but one thing I can remember was the lack of fruit. In fact us kiddies never even knew what a banana was until the end of the War.
Bathroom facilities....well thats a tale for another day because its bed time over here.
Regards 'U'
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