I was talking to my grandmother who was in Shropshire during WWII, and she described a lot of the food rationing of the war, along with rationing of everything else imaginable
That's made me interested: what items, foods, or services were rationed in your country during WWII, or other conflicts? Any stories from your grandparents or family friends about it?
Rationing continued until 1954, it took us that long to recover.
James Young
>participated in WWII >no rationing >literally one of the best economic bpoms in mexico after the Porfiriato and before Salinas Aww yiss, WWIII when?
Jackson Kelly
NZ and Aus soldiers ate a lot of ANZAC biscuits
they were simple to make They're very tasty too
Bentley Lee
op pic makes me feel comfy and hungry at the same time
Joseph Sanchez
She said it was still being done when she left in '52 for California, so that makes sense.
And damn, I can't believe you guys had to deal with that shit for that long. I got a better respect for it when I watched BBC Two's 'Wartime Farm's, easily my favorite BBC programming series. I'd highly suggest it.
But egad, rationing colored fabric? Really? That's some hardcore shit right there.
Henry Richardson
Fuck yes Anzac cookies as we call em here are the fucking SHIT. We had an old crotchety asshole down the street who was an Australian expat from Brisbane, and even though he was grumpy he always baked Anzac biscuits/cookies available when we visited; damn if they don't make you regular though.
We make em for camping trips, and for care packages; they keep for weeks out in the open.
Zachary Campbell
*always made baked Anzac cookies available
Damn brain, it's way too late here
Luis Hill
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Dominic Evans
>Local leader/municipal representative had to learn Japanese within 6 months and abandon english. My school football field was turned into mud tanks to bait bombers and the school hall became behading hall for Yurops. >Young men don't need to go to school, they get school bus/trucks to Railway of Death >As war goes on almost all the rice are taken by IJA, everyone eat tree barks and boiled cassava >Bicycles taken by IJA >Issued worthless banana leaf currency with gorillion inflation
Ian Hernandez
*beheading
Connor Powell
>"LEARN JAPANESE!" >prints banknotes in English
Brody Brooks
800 g of rye bread 500 g of potatoes 320 g of fruits and vegetables (fresh and preserved) 170 g grains or noodles 150 g of meat 100 g of fish 50 g butter, fat or oil 35 g sugar 20 g of cookies 20 g tobacco
Cooper Barnes
Dear lord... was that per week? I knew you guys had it bad, but damn. I'm going to hug my Mosin Nagant a little tighter tonight after finding that out.
Jacob Wilson
a day
Noah Ross
>And damn, I can't believe you guys had to deal with that shit for that long In Poland we had that shit in 80's. Thank to Ruskies of course. After costly space race there was that war in Afganistan. It was just too much for their economy so they decided to get food and other stuff from Eastern Bloc countries. Almost everything was rationed here starting with milk and chocolate candies ending with white goods and cars.
Ian Davis
A day? I find it hard to believe you got so much more than us.
We had potato peals, tulip bulbs and other left over shit they could find
That's more than I eat a day
William Edwards
Oh hang on, I haven't read the OP, this was a red army ration
Camden Rodriguez
Fuck, keep forgetting I don't have a Dutch flag here
Robert Robinson
That doesn't make sense with first person accounts I've read.
It might have been the ration for an officer, but I doubt it. Shit was very restricted throughout the war (and I'm not just talking about Stalingrad and Leningrad)
Whoa fuck that sucks, damn.
Thomas Murphy
There is another white around that took over Bong naval bases. Some white men with swatika came with subs called Monsoon Gruppe and took rare metals back to Yurop. They probably give local jews a free ride back to Yurop as well since they are nowhere to be found post war. Man such nice guys, too bad they never paid for the metals and rubber they took.
Kevin Foster
>We had potato peals, tulip bulbs and other left over shit they could find Daaaaang. I'm glad my families (Van Laar's and Hekman's) left in the 1890's.
Its called the Hunger Winter for a reason. It was an extremely cold winter, the north was pretty much cut off, I'm looking at you US, and little food could be imported. My grandmother stillvhas stories about walking for a day to get to a farmer that had some food he could share.
I don't know how accurate it is, some people swear they ate them other say it never happened. I do know my grandfather got extra food from the state until in the 50s because he was seriously underfed during the war. And because he got food from the state his family didn't give him food.
Brody Edwards
There were rations for the obvious stuff like bread, floor, meat, but also for non-alimentary stuff like clothes and shoes.
Luis Adams
People in wartimes do fucked stuff in order to fill their stomach, like sometimes cutting the flour in their bread with sawdust.
Nicholas Thompson
We had clothing rations too, at the end of the war the cost was so high it took a years rations to buy a new coat.
Nathan Roberts
>my grandmother who was in Shropshire during WWII Was importing British women to the States a thing during the war?
Austin Murphy
In a parisian restaurant, 4 december 1870 Menu
Consommé of horse in millet Skewer of dog's liver à la master host Sliced cat's saddle sauce mayonnaise Fillet dog's shoulder in tomato sauce Civet of cat with mushrooms Chops of dog with peas Salmi of rats à la Robert Gigot of dog flanked by baby rats Plum pudding with its horse-marrow gravy
Daniel Rogers
My grandparents were just telling me a few days ago about the rationing they had during their childhood (they're English)
Ryan Cruz
People ate during WW2?
Mason Kelly
ww2 is overrated, they had everything lad, there was even a fucking swimming pool in Auschwitz
Connor Morgan
>pool >not swimming in the local pond pleb tier
James Sanchez
will this redditor fuck off
Adrian Watson
No, but she fell in love with my grandfather and tagged along back to the states with him when he rotated from that deployment
Give it up to France to still make fancy shit from the worst foods imaginable
Or in the case of Leningrad, taking apart furniture and boiling the glue that was used in the wooden joints and eating that. Or the glue used in the binding of books. Or how about slightly freezer burnt Russian soldier calf muscle? Freshly cut from that corpse there!
It really was a fucked time.
Jose Williams
>taking apart furniture and boiling the glue that was used in the wooden joints and eating that. That glue was usually made from animal parts we usually eat, so it's not the stupidest thing to do. Now for the soldier corpse yeah that's pretty fucked up.
Michael Scott
1871 New year's Menu Croûtes au vin (pain perdu with wine instead of milk) Sardine in oil | Kipper
Jugged cat | Rat paté Horse's beefsteak | Coal with lean meat
I never ate horse meat, but I'd love to try one of these days.
Adrian Hughes
You should definitely, it's good. Slightly stronger in taste than your average cow steak, but better. It gives you more energy too.
Jackson Rodriguez
You should, don't know why people are weirded out by it, it's good meat, they have a good life and their meat actually gets better with age so you can use them before slaughtering.
Jackson Diaz
>rationing LoL
Nathan Rivera
I've never encountered anyone being weirded out by horse meat IRL desu. But anyway, I've read that horse meat is really good for us, as in it contains a lot of good stuff.
Mason Morgan
All food items, transportation (i.e petrol.) Anything that could be used by the germans in the war had some of it being forcibly bought by the Germans.
It basically just meant boring food and riding your bicycle to work. Since our infrastructure was mostly undamaged, post-war rationing was also relatively low. An additional facet is our closeness to Sweden(which had a lof of fun during the war) meant you could go there and buy stuff that'd be hard to come by in Denmark.
The greatest damage done is probably the effect it had on our cooking culture where frugality was valued above all else including taste. Resulting in depressing and bland food for decades after the war.
Noah Smith
Mostly girls are, becaue they love riding.
Owen Ross
Sounds like us, only they removed all the spices from Dutch food (which it had a lot, because Indonesia) in the early 20th century, also for the reason of being frugal (damn those pesky women spending your hard earned cash on spices)
Jose Sanders
You lot had it too, ersatz coffee made from roasted acorns being one thing.
Xavier Howard
thats actually quite a lot for a ration. and 20g of tobacco is practically a pack of cigarettes.
Brody White
They didn't have rations because there was nothing to ration.
Carson Wright
We didn't because we ate Jews
Gavin Gomez
>wine at will kek, gj france, my admirations
Adrian Reyes
During ww2, fabric and leather was rationed, tights and lipstick too for women, soap and other hygiene products were rationed too. That's where the American soldiers saying "French people stink" comes from. People were eating some vegetables that were normally only given to animals such as the rutabaga/swede, the Jerusalem artichoke, corn. They were peeling their potatoes as thin as possible or not at all. The kids were scolded if it wasn't thin enough. Some people reused them to make pies. They used endive for their make-do coffee, saccharin for sugar. Even wine was rationed!
Colton Clark
But why would you even peel potatoes? Their skin is the tasteful part with the most healthy things too
Ryan Wilson
It's in contact with the ground, and it's toxic in some cases, and back then, bugs were nibbling more on them, so it's to get rid of all the soil and not have the taste.
Brody Parker
I guess cleaning them without running water is a bit harder. I do buy potatoes completely covered in dirt, but I use running water and an abrasive sponge to clean them
Jayden Foster
I found a couple of videos that illustrate how little the war meant
You see how little changed. Not being bullied by the commies helped too. Thanks Englads.
Julian Baker
>The adult rations in cities such as Amsterdam dropped to below 1000 kilocalories (4,200 kilojoules) a day by the end of November 1944 and to 580 kilocalories in the west by the end of February 1945.[6] I just read up on the Hongerwinter again, that shit was extreme. It's a miracle that only 22,000 people died if you look at the number of people who were affected en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944–45
Robert Butler
They needed to check their thin privilege.
Sebastian Hernandez
>1871 Really? That war barely took a year, and mostly consisted of the waving of white flags since you frogs decided to start a civil war right after attacking germany. What need of rationing should there have been? Also, the very Idea and Infrastructure for rationing was only developed during WW1.