On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:17:00 -0500, "limey" <[email hidden]>
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:
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"hahabogus" wrote in message
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Britan was still on Rationing well into the late 50's and maybe the early 60's. Whole generations
learned to cook poorly and make do because of the rationing. At least that's my theory.
Well, haha, the youth I'm talking about goes further back than post WWII - in retrospect, I think
it was the 17th century?
You're right about the post-war rationing. Dismal times. I wasn't allowed to learn to cook, because
my mother couldn't risk my failures - not with one egg a week, two ounces of butter, four ounces of
marg (ghastly stuff), a little lard and a miniscule amount of meat. Britons were ridiculed about
the amount of baked beans on toast they ate as a main meal, but those beans kept us going. No
wonder we were all sylph-like.
Okay, so 'splain Winston Churchill, Loosey <g>
Seriously, the DH and I went to Lakenheath American HS in Suffolk in the mid-60s, which was a
boarding school in those days, and our cooks were all Brits. We were snotty teenagers and I shudder
to think what comments we made on the cafeteria line about the food. AFEX (Armed Forces EXchange
Services) provided the food, but the Brits did the cooking and strange meals they often were, as the
British cooks struggled with American provisions, cookbooks and menus. The latter 2 items often went
out the window, AFAICS, and some, erm, "interesting" concoctions were served. We all learned to
dread Fridays, however, as every non-meat leftover was pitched together and served over rice under
the heading of "chow mein." I believe "economy" was the byword.
Oh, and I will never, ever blame my nightmares about dried eggs on the Brits. That's strictly on the
shoulders of AFEX. ;-)
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the
bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very good dinner." Anonymous.
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