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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 162996, member: 25&quot;]Pretty simple&nbsp; ---&nbsp; rations.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if it ever came to food shortages in the USA but in Britain, everything you&#039;d buy, almost, was strictly rationed so the rich could not buy up all the food. 2 ounces of meat a week, 2 ounces of bacon, 1 ounce of butter, and clothes were rationed too. And petrol(gas) of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you went shopping you&#039;d take your ration book, buy you goods according to how many ration stamps you had and the butcher or grocer would clip them out of your ration books (you&#039;d have yours, your husband&#039;s, and one each for the children).</p><p><br /></p><p>The last of wartime rationing did not end in the UK till the early 1950s, ao I remember shopping with mum entailed a certain amount of ration book use.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more information Wikipedia has a good article on UK wartime food rationing, I imagine you can find out about the US scheme there too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard for anyone today younger than 60 to imagine just how long the effects of WWII stayed with us in England. Many bombed out buildings were not demolished and built over till the 1960s. Bombsites were great adventure playgrounds for children and beloved by dodgy second hand car salesmen for the cheap inner city selling space.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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