49 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:While what you describe is largely true, we in the US and elsewhere lived with rationing. Yes, every member of the household had a ration book, coupons and tokens. Red tokens for meat, blue for non-meat. Odd-bits required fewer tokens, maybe were not rationed. We ate things like beef heart, tongue. Steak maybe a couple of times a year, like a family birthday party. We dug up lawn and planted victory gardens, grew stuff on windowsills. My mother saved "top milk", cream from unhomogenized milk, and churned small quantities of butter. Other than that, there was margarine which was not colored but white like Crisco. Country and small town people fared better than city folks. In Coastal California, we still had good if rationed produce. But we did have tomatoes and onions and garlic and grew our own herbs. I don't remember our food's being particularly bland.
Yes, I know America had rationing too, as did other countries, but nowhere near to the same degree. The list of foods which were rationed in the US is much shorter. Virtually all food was rationed in Britain. Only vegetables, fruit, fish and bread went unrationed in Britain. In fact, the US was exporting food aid to Britain throughout. Britain had nothing to export!
Also Britain was in the war longer and rationing lasted longer.
