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Skriven 2008-10-28 19:01:16 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: DIY FOOD  81028
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-> Now I'm back from the wilds of Western Europe, I have much catch-up to
-> occupy myself with.
-> 
Were the natives friendly?

->  -> As one of the "Frugal Generation", (like me), your advice to the
->  -> youngsters should be valued in the future to enable them to cope
with
->  -> diminishing resources as result of climate change, increasing
->  -> population and other pressures.
-> 
->  RH> I was raised by "Depression Kids"; it was the same bunch but with a
->  RH> different name.
-> 
-> Much the same for me, but I date from that era, so could be considered
-> to be one of them.

Could be?  If you remember WWII, you're in the club.
  
->  RH> Yep!  I still had my grandparents' ration books around.  I may
still,
->  RH> but they've hidden themselves.  My father remembered getting spare
gas
->  RH> ration coupons from friends with commercial vehicles as a kid.  My
-> 
-> Petrol rationing continued for a while after the War, so I experimented
-> with running my first motorbike on "extenders" of kerosene and
-> turpentine.  They worked, sort of.

I've heard of doing that, but never wanted to risk killing my car by trying
it.  When diesel went over $4.00/gallon here that sort of thing started
being floated again.  I'm not sure how long the rationing lasted here.  It
was a shorter duration than in Britain for certain, but I'm not sure by how
much.
 
->  RH> other grandfather started closing his bakery one day a week,
because he
->  RH> couldn't get the ingredients to stay open 7 days.  Most bakeries
didn't
->  RH> open on Sundays again even after the War.
-> 
-> Here, bread was one of the few items not rationed; that and potatoes.

They rationed sugar and flour, so bakeries were hit.  
  
->  RH> The front lawns of many an urban and suburban house became a
vegetable
->  RH> garden for the duration.  Back yards too.  
-> 
-> As a turning teenager, I was a major source of agricultural labour, so
-> spent many hours digging the garden for onions, beans, cabbages, etc as
-> a normal part of my life.  Of course there was no TV in those days to
-> distract young people from such duties.

Just the radio - which could be turned out the window no doubt...if you
were strong enough. ;-)  My dad got that detail too, as a kid.  
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