On Wed 02 Jan 2008 08:00:23a, Janet Baraclough told us...

> The message .net>
> from Blinky the Shark > contains these words:
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>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> > On Tue 01 Jan 2008 05:58:49p, George Shirley told us...
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>> >> I can also tell that many of you aren't very old. If it hadn't been
>> >> for SPAM, a non-rationed meat, lots of folks would have been
>> >> vegetarians during WWII. Where do you think the Monty Python skit
>> >> about "SPAM" came from. The Brits ate so much of it they went a
>> >> little wacky, so did a lot of Americans in cities who couldn't get
>> >> out to the country and scrounge some decent meat. Hell, I still like
>> >> SPAM on occasion.
>> >>
>> >> George
>> >>
>> >
>> > I was born in January, 1945, so was not really negatively affected by
>> > WWII.
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>> I was born in 1947, but the memories, habits and effects of WWII didn't
>> just disappear in the summer of 1945. I'm sure at least part of the
>> reason we ate SPAM when I was a boy was the influence of WWII (and
>> perhaps also the Depression)...
>
> I was born in 46 . In Britain, wartime food rationing and shortages
> lasted for years after the war. Meat was the last food to be
> de-rationed, in 1954.
>
> Janet.
>

Yes, I know the situation was *very* different in Britain. I have friends
and distant family there, and have heard many stories about the lengthy
period of rationing after the war.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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