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19-03-17, 08:39 PM
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RATIONING IN BRITAIN 1942.
© IWM (D 7958) Tray containing a ration book for a Mr Norman Franklin and the weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese as issued to an adult in Britain during 1942.
 © IWM (D 14667) This photograph shows the amounts of milk, sugar, bacon, cheese, butter and chocolate received by two people per week in Britain. 
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24-03-17, 11:17 PM
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SHOPPING IN WARTIME LONDON,1942,LONDON CARRIES ON
© IWM (D 6587)Men and women queue at the counter to buy meat in the well-stocked meat department at Selfridge's in London. Above the counter, under a sign saying 'Empire and Imported Meat', hang large joints of meat and strings of sausages.
....and I was under the impression that people lived with stringent rationning regulations at the time...  © IWM (D 6567) A busy scene in the bakery section of a large London department store.  © IWM (D 6594) A wide view of customers in the Grocery Department of Selfridge's in London. 
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Last edited by Voltigeur; 24-03-17 at 11:25 PM.
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25-03-17, 01:54 AM
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Rationing was strict."one egg, per person, per week, perhaps". However, rations were for home consumption.
If you ate away from home, you got extra food, and could make your rations last longer. Places like works canteens and national restaurants:. "Significantly, communal feeding programmes were a fixture of Britain’s experience of total war in the 20th century. Between 1940 and 1947, for example, there existed a network of 2,000 state-subsidised ‘national restaurants’ (so christened by prime minister, Winston Churchill, who feared that the Ministry of Food’s original moniker – ‘communal feeding centres’ – was too ‘redolent of communism and the workhouse’). These national restaurants of World War 2 were partly inspired by their overlooked World War 1 predecessor: ‘national kitchens’. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/100292 Plus, if you had the money you could eat out in grander style in "posh" restaurants. These places sold things that were not rationed, like game and horse, which was sold as beef or steak. There was also a lot of black market involvement.
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25-03-17, 02:14 PM
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WARTIME LONDON, 1942..../2
BEWF....
Plus, if you had the money you could eat out in grander style in "posh" restaurants. These places sold things that were not rationed, like game and horse, which was sold as beef or steak. © IWM (D 6577) A waitress collects a plate from a chef at the grillroom of a Holborn restaurant. The ornately-decorated restaurant is full of customers enjoying a meal. Another grill chef and several waiters can also be seen in amongst the diners. [url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205199091?cat=photographs]  [/ur
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25-03-17, 02:31 PM
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Some places in the West enf of London had the added advantage of supposedly "bomb proof" shelters.
If you had the money you could dine out at the Ritz or wherever, and if you did not not you could sleep in the underground or a pretty flimsy shelter. A famous incident was when the posh "Cafe de Paris" was bombed in March 1941: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...Caf-Paris.html
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