Tramp, shopping for food, now dont you mean queuing for it........If you went
out no matter how old you were you carried some newspaper or a bag..
You never knew if that queue had fruit or the butcher had some offal,or the
fishmonger had just had his allowance delivered......
We had a shop as I mentioned and had if I remember right 30 Registered
Customers, all had ration books,,Fawn for an Adult, Blue a child over 5 and a
green one for babies, when folk came for their grocery (which one could carry
in a todays plastic bag) they gave their books for the coupons to be cut out..
Dad and I had the job of cutting from a side of bacon,the rasher as thin as
tissue paper,this was so all the family had at least a taste, now I cant remember
the actual amounts allowed so think of about 3 rasher at todays weight as the weeks ration.....there was small allowance for bones.Some people with big
families surrendered their butter ration to get extra marge or "sold" it for some
meat from the Butcher, some days there was,nt any meat to buy.Even liver
heart and all the insides got grabbed as soon as people found somwe in the shop...................I hope you are sitting comfortabley cos I can go on for hours
however thats your Ration for now..tarra..d.o.b 9.2.1930