On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 2:00:59 PM UTC-4, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> Janet > wrote:
> > In article <1890456931.493400481.445508.jinxminx2-
> > >, says...
> >>
> >> Janet > wrote:
> >>> In article -
> >>> september.org>, says...
> >>>>>> I heard something about Depression Era cooking on NPR recently, but
> >>>>>> it seemed that the recipes were really bland and sad.
> >>>>>> They didn't want people "enjoying" their rations too much...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> John, rationing was during wartime. There was no rationing in the USA
> >>>>> depression, just a lack of funds and jobs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You are incorrect. There most definitely was food rationing during the
> >>>> Great Depression.
> >>>
> >>> You're confusing shortages and poverty with govt food rationing. They
> >>> are not the same thing.
> >>>
> >>> Janet UK
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> >> Regardless of any formalized government rationing system there was still
> >> informal rationing that was done even if only done at the local or home
> >> level.
> >
> > Now you're confusing people in the Depression necessarily "making do
> > with less", with rationing.
> >
> > There was nothing informal or local about food rationing; it was
> > compulsory and imposed on all, rich and poor.
> >
> > Janet UK
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> Yes, except the OP wasn't talking about government formalized rationing.
> She was talking about the rationing done as part of "making do" during the
> Depression, which was done at home, in school lunch programs, through
> breadlines, soup kitchens and other avenues of public food distribution,
> etc. Because it wasn't imposed uniformly on all by the government doesn't
> make it any less "rationing". Perhaps "enjoying their rations" as the OP
> stated wasn't the most apt terminology since she wasn't talking about
> rations received through a government stamp program, but I understood what
> was meant.

I ration my chocolate. Half an ounce after dinner.

Cindy Hamilton