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- BON APPETIT - FOOD MONTH ON BRITISH PATHÉ (SEPTEMBER 2016): On the Ration.
A selection of films looking at food rationing during the Second World War.
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When I was a little boy in London I remember my mother gathering the ration books and taking me to the shops. The greatest day was when sweets went off the ration and there were long lines outside the shop. We liked turkish delight and licorice allsorts.
What, pray tell, are these "Ro's"?? Or Roes? Or whatever they are called? I can't tell what he's talking about that they mixed up with the baked potatoes? Surely he's not talking about the flowers? It's hard to tell when the film is in black and white.
@@tonyfrenolaski7731 - And you expect WHAT when it's called The BRITISH Broadcasting Company??
Tony Frenolaski hey buddy, did you just blow in from Stupidtown?
Shari D57 most likely the roach fish, poaching fish in milk was a common way of cooking it in the UK
Shari D57 was most likely cods roes, still considered a delicacy in some parts
1:21 This poor man could never have anticipated people psychotically panic-buying rooms full of toilet paper in 2020.
Or 2021 kids given worse food than kids on ration during wartime
@@jusb1066 I mean that's why there were rations, to prevent panic buying and making sure everyone can get their fair share.
The stores did ration TP and a lot of other goods for a good portion of last year after the panic buying so we did have rationing in 2020 just without the coupon books.
@@JohnSmith-dq7sr there's no such thing as fair share.. the rich are never subject to rationing
@Per Sunn look how fat Winston Churchill is for world war rationing, and drunk.,
That stoic look, at 3:40, as the officer tries to enjoy his compressed savoury biscuit. - This reminds one of the Classic British Mum, addressing her recalcitrant offspring: "You will HAVE your broccoli, and LIKE it."
...And that is the cue of the cleverer kid to stick a finger down his throat after having a few bites to puke it up: "There, I had the damn broccoli. Now, for the umpteenth time, I hate the damn stuff and the only way it is ever coming out the other end is if you manual cram it through my stomach and down my intestines. I will eat TOILET DUCK before I have broccoli-take the bloody hint!"
Mary Katherine Goode Kids like that are one of the reasons I'm getting my tubes tied. Awful brats.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 lol you were probably the worst kind of kid of all with that rotten attitude
@@timeiswhat I ate everything my mother told me to eat and never even thought of making a complaint.
And that is why I will do my best to avoid kids who will make themselves puke on purpose just to win an argument over broccoli, just like that scenario that other commentator described.
It wasn't just British mums, I'm Australian and remember being told the same thing. Now my grandchildren put in orders for what each one wants to have at each meal.
The British government did much work to ensure that people had a balanced diet even under the constraints of rationing. Some studies showed that citizens were healthier at war's end than before it began, after consuming less processed foods, vitamin supplements, etc.
In WW1 it was noticed that new recruits actually put on weight as they were getting regular meals, civilian life must have been very hard in the early 1900´s!
While the colonies starved.
Not a lot of processed foods back then , other than high sugar foods. Things that went on bread. And the poor did not have money for vitamins. Even in a country like England, which was well ahead on processed foods.
The real rise in process foods started in the 50s.
Even then most people made many things from scratch. My mother did. We always had homemade bread and baked goods. Much cheaper. When they built a giant supermarket in London, Ontario in the 60s, my mother wondered what they would ever put in a building that size. Tiny compared to today's supermarkets.
The war happened right after the depression. Most of the people living in towns and cities had little to know access to animal protein for a good 9 years at least. So a diet high in sugar and grains by default. And they were far from healthy. Big surprise. It is why the British government had to do something.
Only the well to do had less animal protein with rationing. Also the ones most likely to complain about it and write about it. Like most history you are seeing it from the prospective of those who were better off than average.
With rationing, in Britain, if you could not afford your rations, you got them for free. This was a temporary situation as everyone was soon working. Again they needed to increase the health of the population fast.
Diabetics dropped a lot. Not a surprise with the sugar rationing. It was still a lot of sugar. But people used it for preserving foods. And people were preserving everything they could get their hands on. The apple tree in the back yard did not go to waste.
The average woman gained a dress size during the war. Enough food, but high in carbs. Something not often told.
There were some interesting choices. You could have one fresh egg per person, per week. Feed for chickens. Or a dozen dried eggs from Canada per peson.
Unless you were good with laying chickens, the dried eggs were the best choice. Taste horrible if you never had them. But you could bake them into things and get the much needed protein.
You could also join a pig club where a bunch of people saved scraps for the pig. The government got half and you shared the other half.
Did not matter what country you were from, food wise better off if you lived in the country compared to the city.
My parents were from the backwoods of New Brunswick. Teens during the war. Everyone had at least one cow, hens and pigs. The lack of sugar, spices and other goods that needed to be shipped in effected them the most.
I have a copy of the Victory Cookbook put out by a ladies group to support the war. Recipes with lower sugar were a big part of it. Blackstrap molasses was used a lot. Spices were used sparingly.
My mother was also effected by the city rationing as she was pulled out of school at ageb12 to work in a factory. Shared a room with 3 other girls and was allowed home 1 1/2 days a week.
My Dad was pulled out at age 13 to be a lumberjack. They eventually got there high school when I was a child.
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They rationed that chap's dental care
Hummus.. thought he was using sugar as tooth paste.
Brilliant! YAP YAP that was my comment also. ROR.
Very british!
i realize Im kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new tv shows online?
@Titan Aldo thank you, I went there and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it !!
Scottish Received pronunciation. 1939. Interesting.
That's Viscount Dunrossil - the Minister of Food in '39 - who was born in Argyll, so he came by the accent honestly
Posh Scots
And 1939 Teeth too 😂
@@Vinesy68 No fluoride toothpaste back then.
What a horrible voice it grates on my last nerve. I'm not talking about the Scottish lilt I'm talking about the awfull received pronunciation
@3:40
Talk about a look of feigned approval
I think he was looking for the bucket to spit it out in!
Came to make the same comment XD
Heinrich Himmler's long lost British twin.
Better that than going hungry like those in Stalingrad and other places.
His expression on his face hahaha hahaha
That baked mashed potato dish looked pretty good, but I had to look up what "soft roes" meant. I think it's referring to codfish or herring eggs, & now I'm considerably less enthusiastic.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure what he was saying.
They are available, try a market stall dealing in fish. They are actually rather nice.
haha, yes, i was thinking the same thing. i thought it was "rose" at first!
@@jimthorne304 an acquired taste, perhaps?
As a child, 🤢 - however it may be noted i also did not care for olives or eggplant as a child and i think they're fabulous now (certainly grilled eggplant and kalamata olives). But i never did come to terms with brussel sprouts :( among other things. It's interesting how tastes can change over time (both concerning trends of an era and within one's own lifetime at different ages).
My parents were both English with a good dollop of Welsh so i inherited certain tastes even though i grew up in Australia, like HP sauce. (Sadly i have coeliac disease so i can't eat it now!) i also had Baxter's game soup when i was about 9 and never forgot it, although i was never able to get my hands on it again.
These were the types of English foods associated with older generations, but i drew the line at roe. i think i can remember my mum enjoying it warmed on bread and even now shudder at the concept. But i also haven't been able to get into caviar as an adult or sushi with fish eggs, so it might just be me. i think it potentially has as much to do with disliking the concept and appearance as the taste. i remember roe as salty (never heard it as a plural?) but with an unpleasant aftertaste.
How do you personally serve it as a dish when you eat it? i actually feel like having it mixed in with potato mash is a lot "safer" than having it straight.
@@jimthorne304 tinned pressed Cod Roe can be found in most supermarkets in the U.K., in some parts the pressed Roe is sliced up coated in batter and deep fried, apparently it’s very tasty.
I was laughing so hard at the line "It's the giant squeeze that does the trick - how like the good ol' income tax."
Old British humor is underrated at that.
On an island, imminent invasion lurking, the people of Great Britain were in a battle for survival.
Amazing people, amazing bravery.
That food cake was probably harder to swallow than the taxes he mentioned. If only they gave Tabasco sauce with it.
Somehow I get the idea the food cake thing never caught on with the military otherwise I would probably have found it in the ration packs I was given when I was in.
@@mrjockt What did you do? here in the US they're often included in emergency rations for aircrew etc. They're actually not too bad!
@@charliekilo8944 I served in the R.A.F. during the eighties, the 24 hour ration packs we were issued with in the field consisted mainly of tinned rations plus a couple of different types of biscuit, hard tack and oatmeal, plus things like tubes of margarine and jam, sachets of tea, coffee and beef stock drink.
@@mrjockt I was USAF for a few years. That sounds similar to modern rat packs minus the tins! I can't remember who manufactures our emergency rations but they included some sort of compressed biscuit like in the video here. IIRC they tasted slighty of coconut!
@@charliekilo8944 The tinned stuff wasn’t too bad, the one everyone seemed to like was the tin of Bacongrill that was supposed to be for breakfast, sliced and fried in its own fat, then there was the Oatmeal biscuit, or block as it was called, that could either be eaten as it was with some jam on it or broken up and mixed with boiling water to make porridge, the only down side to these ration packs was that there was only three sachets of coffee, and I used to live on coffee in the field.
"I'm sure all of you will buy your fair-share and no more"....LOL...come to 2020 and try to buy some toilet paper....
Were I live in Northern Nova Scotia some things can be hard to find for a while, but toilet paper never disappeared from the shelves. However, most people live outside the town and keep well stocked all the time anyhow. I do not recall anything completely gone. Might not be your favorite version.
My daughter sent me pictures of the shelves in London, Ontario. Rows of empty shelves. I ended up mailing her canned milk for the baby as milk and formula had disappeared. He was just going to milk.
5:06 That little boy did 5 years hard labor for vandalism, but did eventually grow up to be Paul McCartney.
Brushing up on rations, just in case.
The way this country (UK) is going - we may need them sooner rather than later! I guess our royals and MPs will be OK though...
@@Bob.Jenkins What are you on about? Your English isn't the best!
@@Bob.Jenkins 🙄
Same here..
WwIII is about to pop off. I guess rationing would we like WIC.
We already don’t eat meat. Guess y’all are about to suffer without bacon and butter.
Our complete inability to handle the COVID pandemic proves that this really was the Greatest Generation. Not only did they endure the horrors of WW2, they made the whole world a better place coming out of it.
I generally dislike the way people reflexively use that phrase, the Greatest Generation, mostly referring to Americans. My objection is not to honoring the people in WW2, only the lack of thought about what they endured and achieved. It is refreshing to see that you include the British people under that term. They lived under such incredibly hard circumstances for so long.
World population was not even 2.5 billion during the second world war. Only Europe became a better place not the whole world. WW3 can be more horrifying because it can start and end in few hours.
Brilliant video! What a fascinating insight into wartime attitudes
Glad you liked it Catherine. All best, BP
On the Ration | British Pathé 0949am 16.5.23 his wife's on the blob and your missus is on the ration!
@@britishpatheHi I'm Toby Nosike, I'm gonna be Academy of British Pathe of Southeastern with my new academy stuffs is Carew, Dartford, Orpington, Wallington, Beddington, Penge, Sydenham, Bekesbourne, Beckenham and Ebbsfleet of New Academy Logos, Things, Objects, Lifestyle, Activities and Entertainment, I'm with you of this channel of Pathé TV in Programme.
The hardships which that WW2 generation went through is unimaginable in these days of frightful excess and sheer greed and indiscipline. We can learn much by respecting our forefathers and appreciating them.
Well said!
Well when I go to the Supermarket I only buy what I need and Ocachonal treat even though I can afford a lot more but I won't because I'm thinking of those who need the things more than I do
I agree
Someone smoked a lot of pipes (holding the pipe in the right corner of his mouth)...
11Kralle ohhhh, that makes sense!
Clay pipe to be precise
Ahh
It's the giant squeeze that does the trick. How like the good old income tax!
Good Slap!
does that also apply to fish eggs? :v (roe)
Really puts things in perspective right now....
My mother has still got her mothers stamp book
3:39 LMAO
It is said imitation the most sincere form of flattery. 😄
"Good eh sir?"
when they came off the ration, the demand was so great, they quickly went back on the ration.
I remember that, found out when in 'Maynards'
"I'm sure that all of you will buy your fair share and no more."
* me chuckles heartily at stories of black market and hoarding *
I reckon "Dave" is around 75 years old today.
Or he was killed during the Blitz.
gwishart that’s the spirit!
@@gwishart You must have missed it, but for that segment, the date flashed up as 1948.
@@Thx1138sober Yes rationing went on long after the war. I think it finally ended in 1955.
@@louisericketts6738 Ah the joys of a leftist government. Rationing in germany/west ended in 1950...
No wonder my Welsh Grandfather always told me on why he vomited after every meal in the 1st Airborne
It probably came up hotter than it went in
Those concentrated food bars are meant to be eaten over time (not gobbled down at once), and while drinking plenty of water. The US Military version--a type of pemmican bar--was horrible tasting.
hahaha.. diolch 🍻
Very interesting
Do you have any footage of army or navy rations used during the war?
The voiceover man was talking about food shortages and then we cut to this little boy with his dog. I thought the poor doggy was about to become Sunday roast!
thanks
I wish these were uploaded in HD, just so youtube would process them better
1:34 "It's a wartime dish."
And so is she! ROWR!
Lol. Not one person look thrilled when tasting the weird meals. See we are spoilt these days. Mum and dad talked about eating bread and beef dripping “ talo “ I guess it’s called now . We all screwed our noses up but I guess when your hungry during the depression . It was what it was lol
What a humble guy
On the Ration | British Pathé 0928am 25.7.22 those little ration books morphed into green shield stamp books. which only went out of circulation in the 1990's. shows you how difficult it is to leave behind the nostalgic impulse...and the green shield stamp book has morphed into plus point cards which you can accrue, those points, with every purchase - which get you some vouchers for future shops... depends where you shop, though... jeeeeeeeeeez; what a sad and pathetic life i lead.
Due to my avid fandom of 70's sitcoms I initially read that as On The Buses
You'll probably like The Dustbinmen and Curry and Chips, a couple of long forgotten British sitcoms.
I have seen Curry and Chips but never heard of The Dustbin Men, will have to check it out cheers!
I remember those they were dire
@@clavdig Curry and Chips never made it to the 70s .for certain reasons LOL
@@clavdig The Dustbinmen: sadly not one of Brian Pringle's highest moments.
Nurses! Nursing school, Uniforms, all those frilly and not so frilly caps, etc. and so forth. Wartime, prewar, Post-War, etc.
Who is the narrator? I love the accent and voice a lot...
Bob Danvers Walker after the war he used to be on TV on a quiz show called take your pick when there was the yes no interlude Dan used to be there and bang a gong if the contestant inadvertently said yes or no When answering questions for a minute.
@@crickcrot thanks for that heads up!
Илгари одамлар содда мехр окибатли булган пиширганли бари табиий нарсалар кушябди ота оналаримиз жуда куп нарсаларни билган
3:38 "good, eh sir?" as he looks like his wife dragged him to a craft fair show as punishment for forgetting their anniversary.
More like tasting the most awful stuff he might have had in a century
what was that last cooking?
Roe (fish eggs, here called "roes"), with potato mashed with milk and stuffed into potato skins. I think it sounds gross but my mum probably wouldn't mind it.
Still looks like enough food to me :) i'd be okay on that no problem especially the potatoes which are filling.
3:39 who you trying to kid... we know it's you himmler... 🤣🤣
Hi I'm Toby Nosike, I'm gonna be in British Pathe of New Channel, I love baking mashed potatoes in 1939, This potatoes is baked at kitchen with the care and you cooked so beautifulliest and nicely like lovely with cooking at the ration of British Pathe, what about codfish or herring eggs at seafood at sea, I think it's referring to seafoods with cowfish, buy how did cooking at this kitchen, I think cooking are beautiful cook for foods at kitchen of cafe, I'm sure about support of you in British Pathe in 1939. From Toby Nosike.
You can’t even get people to wear face masks these days lol, imagine asking them to ration.
Face masks are useless, so the people in those days wouldn't have worn them either - they would have had more independence.
Alex Jones "eat your ass" song playing
What was the steamed portion of the potato dish? Rose or something similar sounding?
The idea of milt is not so bad as the idea of fishy potato. Thanks for enlightening me
I had the same question, and I have British parents so am pretty good at understanding the accents. It would help if the subtitles were correct, as they put it as Rose, not Roe. I suspected roe, but can't imagine that combination actually being a tasty dish.
"It's a wartime dish, and not rationed"
For good reason, Mr. Enfield.
Cream fish roe in twice baked potato? I'm glad my ancestors lit out to the colonies.
@@allanfifield8256 but I'm sure it's tasty, tasty, very very tasty! Just not necessarily nicely so.
3:39 I can't be the only one noticing how much that guy looks like himmler
3:40 himmler’s long lost English brother 😂
I'd like to try one of those brickettes.
Anyone else think he sounds like George Galloway?
Compressed food ration was used to knock out tiger tanks
I wonder if the politicians rationed?!
I think they did.
There are some sources referring to th Royal Family followint the rules. Of course, they had access to private sources of game.
Is the ration card would put us all on equal plane field It would keep prices low and it would give everybody an opportunity to have quality food
Mmm yummy. Reminds me about the dandelion salads my grandmother told me about.
wx4newengland
Those are excellent actually. And they can double as spinach too.
@@barbaravick5634 nettles can double as spinach too: our teacher got us to pick & cook them at school when we were 10 years old. She taught us loads of good stuff and she was fun.
@steve gale I quite liked them, we put a bit of butter, salt & pepper on. Kids and people with very sensitive taste buds don't like spinach, sprouts & broad beans (all strong-tasting) - I know because I was like that as a kid.
@@jennyhughes4474 and the roots - roasted and ground - were the basis of ersatz coffee both in the UK & Europe.
The food was undeveloped in a gastronomic sense compare to nowadays. However i really enjoy the view of these videos.
It looks bland, but it was at least nutritionally balanced and healthy, from what I've read.
Compared to before rationing, infant mortality went down and (discounting deaths caused by the war) life expectancy went up.
@@drewgehringer7813 Interesting.
@@drewgehringer7813 actually another interesting side effect of war and rationing/food shortages relates to the discovery of coeliac disease. I believe it was detected in the Low Countries, Holland or Belgium, when a doctor noticed that some children actually began to put on weight and thrive when there was no bread to be had, compared to their peers.
rose ? or roe ?
'...an appetising dish of soft roe and baked spuds in their jackets'. Ahh, British cuisine at its best!
When the other option is starving I’ll take the roe and spuds.
Soft roe is alright! I have it when it's available.
The officer on the table did not look very satisfied .like "eehhehhe it's yummy" through his teeth
We take for granted all our blessings .we as a modern oeople on a whole is spoiled .we throw out more food then these people where eating its to me disgusting how society has turned into a selfish me me me I I I attitude .
Ole Churchill , Action is Now ! Oxen - Bucks ! 🇬🇧
coming in 2022
I think you can still buy dried egg powder in Waitrose.
Eggs dehydrate pretty well on a home dehydrator. If they're no stored for long periods thy come back pretty well. I use to use them on long backpack treats. The home dried eggs were real treated compared to the commercial ones.
Rationing is coming back to the UK, congrats to Boris/Truss and co for letting it get this bad for your average citizens whilst their leaders live it large, just like bobo did during lockdown. Will the people never learn...
Holy shit, that's got to be John Oliver at 3:40. It's difficult to tell if he likes the dehydrated food, what with that stiff upper lip and the Adolf Moustache, it's impossible to tell if that's a smile or a look of disgust.
"The only two things, which it is now necessary to ration...", well, three, I dare say old chap; the third being toothpaste - evidently.
I watched this today at school😂
3:40 - This, from the people that brought you vegemite. 😉
4:15 - Whoa! that's all?
damn straight! - I eat 2-3 g of vegemite a day. Standard Australian salt ration. Washed down with a pint of Coopers stout.
That's Mr Cholmondley-Warner's brother - isn't it?
Les Reed And that woman cooking at the beginning....she didn’t know her limits.
@@1978rharris Love these type of shorts - but some things make me cringe!
Cheers, Les.
They seem to have been rationing dental treatment for quite a while too.
the first guys teeth woww
ChlorineHeart he would have been born in the 1880's so it's not surprising.
They've been rationed.
@@Incognito1986 Brilliant response 😂👏
Incognito 🤣
😁
who is the person who is presetning?
Harry Enfield.
Art Month?? or Music Month??
Could do. All best, BP
شكرا اخ فواز انت تشرف ولك كل المحبة والتقدير من إخوانك واخواتك المغاربة. وبارك الله العلي القدير هذا الشهر المفضل.
First or Second world war -next month? :)
Nice idea, All best, BP
Is quality over quantity
So did you have to pay for it? Too? Or was it free with the stamp things?
You had to pay,the ration just meant that everyone had the same opportunity to buy essentials such as fats,sugar,tea etc.
@@susanlansdell863 well no sugar for me I’m diabetic lol
@@Marcus51090 ah but you could barter with your neighbour…xx😉
@@susanlansdell863 oh yeah! Cleaver did that happen then alot of trading?
@@Marcus51090 people traded goods and skills. There’s a really good series available on here “The Wartime Kitchen and Garden” and also” The Wartime Farm” and “The 1940s House” they all show how ordinary people lived and worked throughout the war - I think you’ll enjoy t(em!xx
Thanks for the video, but anyone wanna bet the hierarchy/rich didn't eat like they show everyone else doing?
Even the rich were issued rationing cards. Not to say that they didn't buy from the black market. Hopefully they still had money if it wasn't in the bank.
I’ve wondered that to. Somehow I doubt the king and queen were eating this stuff.
@Norm T I was saying this during WWII, not the 17th century. Thanks
everone got stuff on the black market, farmers could have as much milk as they wanted and would make cheese and butter to sell.meat was rationed but poaching was rife. seafood was plentiful. nobody starved.
@@robinhooduk8255 Yeah, the black market was huge. Fortunes were made there.
Looks like toothpaste has been rationed for a while.
Wats Himmler doing eating our food at 3.37.
Can't watch anything like this without thinking of Harry Enfield 😄 He's got a lot to answer for!
imagine a small child straight up going to a sit down restaurant, ordering food, and eating it, on his own, now a days the kids are either too done in with anxiety to speak with a server or get kidnapped and have their organs sold a few feet from the store front
My mom grew up in Philadelphia and used to take the trolley halfway across the city by herself once she turned 8. Kids had a kind of freedom and independence that have been done in. First (in the US) by suburbanization, where you need a car to get anywhere, and then societal changes.
Is it true that meat was rationed in England until 1955?
@TheRenaissanceman65 All of the rationing only ended in 1957 with Suez Canal problem and the petrol rationing as 1954 was end of food rationing, but still there was scarsity with some things like cheese making in depression, deficit of luxury fabrick like silk, velvet, satin and brocade beeing hot items. It took time to diverted back from war supplies to daily consumerism, and production.
@Druvis Eglite Not too sure if it was being diverted to war supplies as the war had been over for nearly 10 years by 1954, I think it was more the drive to export after the war as Britain was bankrupt, we needed to get foreign currency, for that read $, so almost anything bar the essentials was exported, look up Export or Die, funnily enough there's a Pathe film with that exact title.
@@yakacm I mean by that the things were still going on toward war aka post-war production lines and buildings past the war. Parachute and military uniform line buildings with other ones became clothing, bread and so on making lines for citizens some facilities even serving up to the sixties. As the new factories where built, the government used the processing power of them to produce from raw ingredients finished products for export. Even so, there was quite a time until the wartime supply production lines got shut down as they made basic necessities. Like cotton, wool fabrics, bread, etc.
And because of that, the luxury fabrics were still quite scarce as the government priotirzed recovery of the factories, food and basic necessities recovery using basic materials like cotton, wool, linen for bulk production.
@TheRenaissanceman65 1954 was the rationing end for the food and end as all. That, however, did not fill some parts of unimportant, important necessities from Europe, East Asia as it was rebuilding also from the war with gaps in the consumer market. Rationing did return only for 1956 and 1957 petrol thanks to Suez Canal crisis with oil not able to come to Britain from the Middle East
Good afternoon Grayson
Good afternoon Mr Cholmondly-Warner
Was WS Morrison, Minister for Food anything to Morrison's supermarket, I wonder?
Gaggy Mott no. Different W Morrison. This one was Scottish, trained as a lawyer and went on to become a career political and a Governor General of Australia dying in the 60's. The W Morrison of supermarket fame was from Bradford and died in the 50's.
Conclusive proof that things were much better in the good ol' days. Check out the chap at 3.40. Yummy!
Mr Chalmondley-Warners Dad.
Man this dude is the sugar king 😂
When did we change from that era… 1960s?
My mother used to give me cod roes on toast when I was 3 years old.
that's exactly how my mother (English and Welsh ancestry, English nationality) used to "enjoy" it. i thought it was called roe, with no plural, and initially was confused because i thought the video was referring to rose! As a child (in Australia), i thought it was very unpleasant myself. i didn't like the idea of it, nor the aftertaste, and never developed a taste for it later, unlike some other foods i abhorred during childhood which i later decided were great. May i ask, did you ever voluntarily eat it as an adult?
@@mothratemporalradio517 No, you can still get it in tins but I have never bought it..
Hah... that dogfood briquette went down well..
What is the narrator saying during that recipe? baked potato and rose? that can't be right
ROE'S! as in fish eggs. Not to bad if prepared right.
disastertruck
roses are delicious and very high in vitamins.
@@davidboardman8590 Soft roes. Not fish eggs (caviar) but milt.
R H What is milt?
@@rh1587 MILT?? You mean the male fish contribution to fertilization? 🤤😒
3:37 had a Hitler moustschio 🤪
Food.. briquette… ah yes.
Next month....babies!!
Interesting idea....perhaps. All best, BP
Kaylee Gaertner dumb
They taste like chicken!
I don't understand, she put milk and potatoes over roses?
"roes" - from fish (fish was not rationed, but was pricey)
the war inspire many to cook differently and more tastefully good
Rose and milk???
The good old times are coming back!
Yep. Not gonna be good. People should start stocking up on essential (pantry milk+eggs, canned proteins, alcohol, vinegar, bleach, bar soaps, first aid supplies and meds, reusable feminine products [cups are ideal, in case you're interested but probably not, bc they're hygienic and don't require a lot of water to clean unlike cloth or disposable options), extra shoes especially for children in larger sizes, jackets, tools, duct tape, extra building material, CONTRACEPTIVES [do you really want to get pregnant if our society becomes akin to Venezuela? You certainly shouldn't chance it] basically anything you absolutely need for a year or more of unpredictable shortages) and luxury (sugar, coffee, tea, TOILET PAPER, etc) consumables now. It's tricky but pretty important to do it now, order bulk emergency meal rations, start collecting and storing tap water (just in case, you REALLY don't want to be struggling with the unprepared masses for basic survival in a society where we don't face that type of deprivation). I try to use empty, easily cleaned plastic and glass resealable drink containers to add some water from the tap for doomsday prepping. Only issue is that water takes up a ton of space but unless you want to dig a hole in the backyard and drink dirt water... You might have to contend with that issue. Really helps if you have a place to safely store that stuff where it won't go bad bc of environmental conditions. Sorry for rambling. But this concerns me as well and I think at least with RATIONING, the Brits were able to survive but they were marginally assisted by the US so they wouldn't starve. Who knows what would've happened if Britain was COMPLETELY cut off. Yes the Nazi war machine significantly undermined material resources but the British didn't starve to the point that they were cannibalizing their dead children like those in Leningrad for instance. They might've had to do more with a lot less but it wasn't cataclysmic, in fact, it's fair to say that rationing helped the poorer classes nutritionally catch up to their well off peers. All school children got cod liver oil daily. Truly amazing. I think there's something to be said about the overall spirit of people during that time. I'm all for diversity as it gives us great advantages WHEN WE WORK TOWARDS A COMMON GOAL, but it just seems like a more homogenous societies share similar base moral values and norms with their countrymen so it's easier for individuals to sacrifice and contribute to a collective effort like rationing and other war efforts.
@@helenhoward5346 you are American and not British, yes?
i thought that you cant feed a dog potatoes. it can kill them ..
No Soft roes for me ...uggghh!