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Post by AuntieEm on Sept 14, 2020 12:43:17 GMT -5
I don’t know when the rationing ended in the US, but certain that it was a lot shorter time than the lengthy austerity period in the UK. My parents were married in May, 1946. My Mom said that she needed to get enough sugar rationing coupons for the wedding cake.
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Post by patriciaanne on Sept 14, 2020 13:42:19 GMT -5
Of course, there are alternatives to sugar -- like molasses, sorghum, honey. We don't see honeybees on The Waltons' property, but that would have been an option. There was one episode where they showed John going to smoke the bees to get honey. I think it might have been The Wedding because Curt joined him to help. Good catch!! I don't recall that.
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Post by alanankrett1 on Sept 14, 2020 14:46:19 GMT -5
I don’t know when the rationing ended in the US, but certain that it was a lot shorter time than the lengthy austerity period in the UK. My parents were married in May, 1946. My Mom said that she needed to get enough sugar rationing coupons for the wedding cake.
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Post by alanankrett1 on Sept 14, 2020 14:47:22 GMT -5
Rationing in the UK didn't end until well into the 1950's
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Post by kazk on Sept 14, 2020 19:35:51 GMT -5
There was one episode where they showed John going to smoke the bees to get honey. I think it might have been The Wedding because Curt joined him to help. Good catch!! I don't recall that. Patriciaanne I had just watched the episode!!
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Post by tommyc on Jul 28, 2021 22:56:17 GMT -5
A local paper has an "On This Date..." section, which is the first thing I go to when I read the paper. Today's, On This Date, had the following: July 28, 1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing, which had limited people to one pound of coffee every five weeks since it began in Nov. 1942.Obviously, this made me think of The Waltons. I don't believe coffee rationing was ever mentioned in any episode. Interesting that coffee rationing lasted less than a year and ended 2 years before the end of the war. Wonder why coffee needed to be rationed in the first place. I guess I could Google it. Edit: I did google and found this article... www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-coffee-rationing-in-world-war-ii-2/
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Post by Easton on Jul 29, 2021 8:22:24 GMT -5
^ Fascinating article. It's interesting that rationing rarely came into play in The Waltons, being featured in a few episodes instead of being a running theme throughout the war years. It was good, though, that the show indicated that everybody was subject to the rationing, including the Baldwin sisters.
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jul 29, 2021 9:45:02 GMT -5
I don't care for coffee. Mum, Dad, and my older siblings love coffee, but not me I rather have a nice cuppa tea or hot chocolate
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Post by Easton on Jul 29, 2021 9:53:06 GMT -5
^ I watched a video once in which a British wife, whose husband worked as a train engineer, always took tea on board with him He love his tea "so strong that a mouse could walk on it."
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jul 29, 2021 9:57:00 GMT -5
^ I watched a video once in which a British wife, whose husband worked as a train engineer, always took tea on board with him He love his tea "so strong that a mouse could walk on it." I prefer my tea mouse-free
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Post by Easton on Jul 29, 2021 9:59:52 GMT -5
^ "Don't want no mouses skinny-dippin' in my cuppa Tetley!!"
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Post by tommyc on Jul 29, 2021 22:40:50 GMT -5
I don't care for coffee. Mum, Dad, and my older siblings love coffee, but not me I rather have a nice cuppa tea or hot chocolate I don't drink coffee or tea. Have maybe tried each once or twice and just never liked them. Now hot chocolate is a different story. I love hot chocolate. Back in college when we'd meet at the local coffee shop to study, I'd always get hot chocolate. Even today if meeting friends at a coffee shop, it's hot chocolate for me. Hot chocolate is also a favorite of mine on a long road trip. Always look forward to a stop in the middle of the night at a rest area for a big cup of hot chocolate. Provides a nice surge of energy to keep me awake behind the wheel. The other day it was 90 something out but had a taste for some. Made myself a nice big glass of it
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Post by Easton on Jul 30, 2021 6:40:27 GMT -5
^ There is iced tea and iced coffee. Ever thought of iced hot chocolate?
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Post by whisper on Jul 30, 2021 9:51:42 GMT -5
I don't care for coffee. Mum, Dad, and my older siblings love coffee, but not me I rather have a nice cuppa tea or hot chocolate LOL spoken like a Brit
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Post by dayton3 on Jul 30, 2021 12:14:08 GMT -5
My parents were kids during the Great Depression and my mom said that you could always get anything you wanted in the nearby town of Mena from the Black Market.
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