Our recent rationing chat led me to check further, and find this UK information
I think there's some vague sense in other countries that food in rationed amounts was somehow allocated for people to pick up. In fact, these were the maximum you could buy, using coupons from your ration book, if it was available.
Not unusual for people to wait in long lines at the grocery they were registered at, no shopping around, only to find when they got to the counter that some items were gone for the week. My childhood food landscape.
In contrast to my own luxurious procedure, like this week's misfits order I placed yesterday, where you see why markdowns are in place.
And it will appear on my doorstep on Thursday.
No wonder I enjoy making dinner, when I can make this chicken stew, all organic, reduced price ingredients
And no wonder it's ingrained, in my generation particularly, to shun waste, from buying food to rescue it from being plowed under or landfilled, to using every bit of it. It's a huge daily pleasure.
Are you up for a puzzle, on a lighter note?
Happy day everyone. In a world full of Joels, try to be a Marilyn Whirlwind.
