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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Or as we Americans call it, "brunch".

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  • [–] [S] 69 points 2 years ago

    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!

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] [S] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, these are just the rationed goods. Bread wasn't rationed during WW2 for the Brits. Vegetables and the like also weren't rationed.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 2 years ago

    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!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That amount of sugar would last me years, and I drink tea everyday, just not with sugar.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    1 egg per week? My wife would riot

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One egg, but a pound of sugar.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Look at that bacon quality compared to the majority of the shit they try to pass off as bacon these days.

    Fuck corporations

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One egg + yearly supply of tea

    British rations check out

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    After Brexit, they're allowed two eggs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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

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