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Or as we Americans call it, "brunch".
The Brits referred to American GIs in the UK as "Overfed, oversexed, and over here" (some versions have 'overpaid' instead of 'overfed')
To which Americans developed a response - that Brits were underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower!
I only see one egg.
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
Y’know in France, one egg is un oeuf.
Yes but it's eggceptional.
Yes it is. That is an ostrich egg.
I could only express my feelings on this if I was an anime character!
Including the block of sugar and the tray
I'm assuming they got carbohydrates elsewhere? That hardly seems like enough calories to last a working adult for a week. Also that's a ton of sugar it'd take me at least a month to go through that amount but also I don't drink tea like the Brits do.
Yeah, these are just the rationed goods. Bread wasn't rationed during WW2 for the Brits. Vegetables and the like also weren't rationed.
Bread wasn't rationed but the only bread you could get your hands on was "the national loaf", which my grandmother informed me was "saltier than unwashed seaweed".
Potatos and carrots were abundant so lots of people learned to make potato scones and potato dumplings to make their flour stretch further.
The ministry of food developed recipes to help people make their rations last.
Woolton Pie is one that stuck around because it was so versatile.
Bread wasn’t rationed but the only bread you could get your hands on was “the national loaf”, which my grandmother informed me was “saltier than unwashed seaweed”.
lmao
Makes one grateful to live in a more plentiful age!
That amount of sugar would last me years, and I drink tea everyday, just not with sugar.
I would assume most of that sugar is going into cakes and puddings. If you're only getting one egg a week, it's probably put to more use in baking than eating straight up.
I get it. I made a concerted effort to stop using sugar in foods, and I've been quite successful. Carrots are a great way to add sweetness, so I go through a ton of those orange beauties.
Carrot cake surged in popularity during WW2 for that reason.
Carrot cake is so good! Too bad it took a world war to make it popular.
1 egg per week? My wife would riot
If you had kids in the household, you got more eggs on your ration cards, same with milk when it became rationed. Housewives would find ways to combine the entire households rations to feel like more for everyone. One egg and a rasher of bacon per person doesn't fill anyone, but if you have a family of 4, suddenly four eggs and 4 rashers of bacon, in a potato bake/ flour stretched quiche is a filling meal, and you might get 6-8 serves from those 4 peoples rations.
I would have to find a neighbor with kids and see if they would take a swap of my portion of ingredients for the end product.
Yeah, rationing was easily one of the most hated things on the British home front. Rationing continued several years after the war and more or less directly led to the Labour government losing to the Conservatives over the issue of continuing rationing.
Things that were less obvious to the general public were rationed until 80s, maybe even early 90s. Certain types of fluids for machinery hydraulics, certain types of alloys, a large number of purified chemicals for a wide range of industries and uses.
Why did it continue?
One egg, but a pound of sugar.
tea
Id be trading bacon for eggs
Trading ration cards was actually very common! I imagine the only Brit who didn't like tea or sugar was living like the king.
that would be tough even for me. im not a big tea fan but I don't think there were many other sources of caffeine or just water flavorings.
Depends at what point during rationing, but it wouldn't be too hard to get coffee at all. And even then you had the lucrative black market. You would obviously be worse off than your peers who liked tea though.
Damn, normally they only get one a month
Look at that bacon quality compared to the majority of the shit they try to pass off as bacon these days.
Fuck corporations
Can you shut the fuck up? My god, those poor CEOs need all that extra money, otherwise they would be embarrassed when their rich buddies learn they can’t afford a seventh mega yacht.
Have a heart ffs
Bro good bacon is like 10 pounds american
*dollars
One egg + yearly supply of tea
British rations check out
That's only a year's worth of tea by American standards. For a brit that'll last a couple hours, tops.
After Brexit, they're allowed two eggs.
Yes but more importantly they don’t have to contribute anything to the other eu nations! Cutting the nose off to spite the face always works out for the owner of said face after all
I don't get anywhere close to that in a week apart from the egg so I would have been trading the excess for some playstation games