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Anyone remember the 'word' going at express speed from door to door down the street......
"They've [they being the greengrocer] got oranges in. Green books only".

In case you weren't there, mums-to-be had green ration books which entitled them to other 'beneficial' foods.

DS

Don't know what colour but I believe I had a baby's one, they went on for quite a few years after the war I heard.

I have found an ARP Badge and small one, presumably for a cap, amongst mum's things, I know she was on duty in London during the blitz.

From:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk ... ioning.htm

Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight on 4 July 1954, when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were lifted.

The colour of your ration book was very important as it made sure you go the right amount and types of food needed for your health.

Buff-coloured ration books - Most adults had this colour.

Green ration books - Pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under 5. They had first choice of fruit, a daily pint of milk and a double supply of eggs.

Blue ration books - Children between 5 and 16 years of age. It was felt important that children had fruit, the full meat ration and half a pint of milk a day.

And we were healthy, virtually no obesity... Compulsory orange juice and cod liver oil!

DS

Apparently there was a new TV programme called 'Ration Book Britain: Entertaining the Home Front' on the 'Yesterday' channel, this evening (24 February) at 9pm.

Unfortunately I missed it (No doubt it'll be repeated though!)

dickiesam wrote:And we were healthy, virtually no obesity... Compulsory orange juice and cod liver oil!

DS

Ooooh I remember that orange juice! I was prescribed a compulsory foul-tasting, syrupy supplement too, called Minadex ... because I was 'failing to thrive'!

Minadex - still available - just Google it. I can taste it now from around 1942.
That's probably why we are still around!

D

I remember Minadex. I must be odd because I loved it! Almost worth being ill for a few spoonsful!

Barbara B wrote:I remember Minadex. I must be odd because I loved it! Almost worth being ill for a few spoonsful!

Oh lordie! Me too!

So who remembers Viral, that goo your mother dipped your dummy in? It's a wonder our teeth didn't just rot. And... no reminisce would be complete without Nurse Woodward's Gripe Water! Was spooned it and later used it on our two young ones.

Sounds off................. burrrrrp!:oops:

DS

Yes, the gripe water contained a hefty % of alcohol.

And does anyone remember eating 'sugar butties'? (Surprisingly, I still have my own teeth!)

ZED wrote: Yes, the gripe water contained a hefty % of alcohol.

And does anyone remember eating 'sugar butties'? (Surprisingly, I still have my own teeth!)

I do and I still have most of my teeth as well!
What about beef dripping on cold toast for breakfast! Where's the salt?

DS

And Connie Onny butties too, yuck the thought of it now!

MaryA wrote:And Connie Onny butties too, yuck the thought of it now!

I guess bread must have been firmer in those days, to support the glutinous mass of connie-onny!

Pigs trotters boiled for hours in a pan were one of my Nan's specialities

ZED wrote:

MaryA wrote:And Connie Onny butties too, yuck the thought of it now!

I guess bread must have been firmer in those days, to support the glutinous mass of connie-onny!
:

And that would be grey bread too and a 'chunk' sawn off a loaf. Them days was BSD... Before Sliced Bread.
Remember ripping bits from the brown/black crisp crust off the top of a fresh loaf before you got it home and telling your mother it must have 'fallen off'?

DS

Oh my, what nostalgia there is in these posts
I remember all the goodies mentioned, and can't say I disliked any of them apart from the cod liver oil....spooned down our throats whether we liked it or not YUKKK!!!! Despite that I have managed to develop Rheumatoid Arthritis and have one replacement shoulder and two new knees as a result
As for sugar butties.....I recall my mum cutting a corner off the loaf (downwards to make a sort of finger of bread) slapping a scrape of margarine on it and then dipping it in the sugar. It was then given to the baby 'to help with the pain of teething' Dripping on toast was wonderful...what a shame it's gone out of fashion
Happy days
Lil