History Memes

I learned about this from a couple of elderly Dutch people we met on holiday in Europe. They were survivors of the Nazi occupation during the Second World War when they were children and they said that food shortages were so severe that at one point late in the war, their family did eat tulip bulbs on a regular basis. I had read about it a long time before as part of historical texts ... but it was bit more impactful to hear about it from people who had actually lived through that part of history.