Wartime rationing

agnurse

I believe that the rationing system was once used to help solve a crime.

It was made a requirement to have your fingerprints taken, I think it was, before you would be given your ration book. The authorities figured this approach would work because people need to eat, so everyone would need to get a ration book.

I believe it did work.

This did not happen in UK.

Wow this brings back memories. When I started school sweets were rationed and a girl in our class used to bring coupons for sweets. Guess who became her best friend?

I seem to remember sugar was still rationed and bananas had not been invented lol 😂. Hard to believe but happy days.

I was born in 1946. The main thing I remember is the lack of variety. Margarine of course instead of butter. It was years before I got used to the taste of butter. My mother used to cook Coley Fish for the cat. Sometimes she got whale meat which was revolting. Even the cat wasn't keen. I can remember us running out of milk sometimes and having to have dried milk in our tea, which I hated. And, of course, I remember sweets coming off the ration.