“Death to the lactose intolerant!”
The evil plot by big sewage to sell more sewage! We’ve been played for fools!!!
The site I originally got this from says it shows butter, milk, bacon, lard, sugar, cheese, tea and jam.
I could see them trying to use up the bacon within the first couple days in order to avoid spoilage, but I’m left wondering how they kept the last few days of milk drinkable during a time when most in Britain didn’t have fridges, or even an icebox & ice service.
I gather they had cool larders to help with this sort of thing, but somehow I’m not sure that would cut it, unless maybe it was circa wintertime.
Not all delivered at once - you would use ration coupons to pick these up.
There used to be a milk man who would deliver daily when I was a kid. You’d fill out a little form saying what you wanted on what days and it would arrive very early.
They’d collect your empties too for reuse.
Sometimes the birds would peck a hole in the foil if you were slow to get at the cream that settled near the top before homogenisation became a thing.
Yeap, same around here and I think in many countries around the world, before refrigeration became common.
But that also gets back to the issue of how to keep milk unspoilt for an entire week at a time, when food was rationed during emergencies like this.
Why would you keep it for a week when you’re getting daily deliveries?
I’m guessing there were generally no daily deliveries at all. Instead, you’d take your ration vouchers to nearby stores and pick up these supplies, as needed.
That makes way more sense than this being a weekly delivery, which I incorrectly understood from the thread title.
Interesting, but isn’t that basically excluding most of the food? I’d like a visual of the whole allotment.
Also, that’s a generous amount of butter for a week, unless they had no access to other cooking fats.
Also, that’s a generous amount of butter for a week, unless they had no access to other cooking fats.
No, that’s the whole ration of meat/dairy/fat for the entire week. Until the increase in agricultural production after WWII, there was a lack of nutrients, especially fat among the population (in German: Fettlücke). In Germany, the Nazis were even banning wooden spoons, which were common among the poorer people, as they were soaking up fat.
I only go through one of those bottles of milk in a week. I wouldn’t know what to do with all that.
I presume it’s to make up the protein shortfall in the rest. Very little meat for an adult for a week in half of that.
Edit: it’s a half pint each per day so about 280ml which is not a huge amount especially if you’re having cereal for breakfast. Those pint bottles were common up to the mid 80s here and the UK.
I’m surprised at the amount of sugar mind you.
Tea and baking, one presumes.
Seems like a lot of sugar and milk relative to everything else. What about tea bags? Coffee?
Oh I guess that’s tea on the far right?
Lots of dairy. I could live on þis.
You could live off piss? I’m not one to kink shame but that’s pretty intense.
