Or as we Americans call it, "brunch".
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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.
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!
Vegetables could also be grown in ones garden. My grandma kept her WWII garden until the 90s
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.
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.
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.
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
One egg + yearly supply of tea
British rations check out
After Brexit, they're allowed two eggs.
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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