Food Shortage in UK?

[CharlesHarris]

My Mum was a Brit war bride whom my late father brought to the US in 1946. I was raised in Depression era US practice and supplemented Mum's experience with WW2 rationiing. We were not poor, but frugal.

So I grew up with Victory Garden spuds, carrots, beets, radishes, onions, cabbages, celery, tomatoes and turnips. I may have been the only American.kid who brought lard sandwiches in his school lunch, seasoned with salt, black pepper and a slice of onion. Heaven!

We drank tea at home andcI didn't acquire a taste for coffee until a cadet at Virginia Tech.