WW2 lifestyle in 2018

Primrose

I remember some years after the war had ended, a local factory for some weird reason decided to test its Air Raid Siren at 1 pm on a Sunday without giving any advance public warning.

At that very moment my mother had opened the oven door and was pulling a hot meat casserole dish out of the oven. She was absolutely poleaxed with shock - (once you’ve heard an air raid siren at close quarters you never ever forget the sound of one) that she immediately dropped the casserole dish. It smashed and the hot contents spilt all over the floor. My mother was in a terrible state of shock for the remainder of the day and we had no Sunday lunch.

qwert_yuiop

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Marguerite Patten is welll known as the doyenne of WW2 home economics. She's written several books about different stages of her life. I'd be tempted to read on now, were it not for the fact that its currently buried under at least 600 others

She died at 99 a couple of years ago. I wonder did she stick to her diet?

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I remember an episode of Goodnight Sweetheart, where Gary and Yvonne (his modern day wife) are eating cheese omelettes, and he's explaining how much of the 1940s ration they were eating.

Gary: It's weird how we take eggs for granted, isn't it?

Yvonne: Where did that come from?

Gary: I was just thinking, if this was 1940, we'd be eating six weeks rations of fresh eggs, fried in a weeks worth of butter, with approximately a months cheese ration, and yet they say the national diet was healthier during the war.