Pictures of rationed foods

Category

Library Item

Item no

32755

Title

The meat card illustrated: Rations shown pictorially. Rationed and unrationed: Forms of food other than meat.

Description

From the Illustrated London News published February 23rd 1918, pages 230-231. Illustration by: W.B.Robinson. Additional title: With authorised instructions: Articles rationed officially or voluntarily, or available without restriction.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1918

Size

39.6 x 53.4cm

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Location

Reference Library

While mandatory rationing had long been in effect in enemy nations, in Britain voluntary rationing was proposed in early 1917, while mandatory rationing was not implemented until 1918. Foods in shortest supply, and the first to be rationed, were bread, meat and sugar. Unobtainable foods for Germans and Austrians, like coffee, tea, and cocoa were not rationed in Britain, and the rationed portions of bread and meat for British civilians exceeded the allowances given by the enemy to its citizens.

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