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<DIV>I remember:</DIV>
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<DIV>(1) When butter came off the ration, I was given it for the first time, but
I didn’t like it, since I had only been used to margarine (with a hard g).
I’m not that keen on any </DIV>
<DIV>lactic products, even now.</DIV>
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<DIV>(2) One winter’s evening we were sitting round the kitchen table by
candlelight (another power cut), when my father appeared clutching “red pepper”
in newspaper. Presumably, pepper was hard to get. I doubt if the
cayenne was a success.</DIV>
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<DIV>(3) My parents went to Blackpool for a holiday in 1946 or 7. When
they were in the guesthouse, there was a loud knock on the front door. The
landlady ushered my parents into a room, and said Keep quiet; you’ll be all
right. It was the police looking for black-market goods. I only
learnt the other month that Blackpool was a hotspot for the black market.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Jeremy
Hawthorn via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 24, 2020 10:48 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] The Blitz Spirit (7)</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Bananas really were like gold dust in the UK in WW2. A family story has my
father coming home from work (he was drafted, but worked in London) with a
single banana, some time in "the duration." It will have cost him a bit as it
probably "fell off the back of a truck." I was born May 1942, so cannot have
been more that three at the time. The banana was peeled, then sliced into four,
with a part each for my mother, my father, my brother and me. When my part was
put in my mouth I spat it out. I have never liked bananas. To their dying days,
my parents never allowed me to forget this, and suggested that there might have
been something symbolic about the event.</P>
<P>Jeremy H</P>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 24.12.2020 09:59, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>“<SPAN
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supermarket chain Sainsbury's said that if the travel restrictions continued
there could be some food shortages, including of salad leaves and citrus
fruit.” (BBC)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000>From Alan Bennett’s “A Private Function” (set in
1947):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#333333>PC PENNY: Mrs Metcalf?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#333333>MRS METCALF: What love?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="COLOR: #3f3f42" color=#000000>PC PENNY: Are you wanting that
banana?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="COLOR: #3f3f42" color=#000000>MRS<FONT color=#3f3f42> METCALF:
(Apologetically) I am, love, I’m planning</FONT> a trifle.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Stuart</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>(Day 282)</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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