Brighton Behind the Front by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-904733-42-6
Publisher: QueenSpark Books
Published: 2015-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Pigs outside the Royal Pavilion. Pigs and pigswill were important in the effort to make Britain self-sufficient in food production. Collecting pigswill was part of the salvage drive and pigs were seen as an easy way of providing meat.

Do you know, I think we were better off, I think today we eat far too much. My daughter and I used to share a boiled egg. One day it was my turn to have the top, the next day it was her turn. We seemed to cope all right. And of course we were both very fond of sweets, so I used to try to save my ration of sugar and take it to Billets which was a lovely sweet shop down by St Peters Church. In exchange for the sugar you got some of their home-made sweets. Which was a treat, to have some nice sweets. We seemed to get by, you know. I mean there was always bread and scrape, and a bit of jam or a bit of marmalade, but we never seemed to go particularly hungry, it's surprising how we coped.

I had to give the allotment up, I couldn't cope with that as well. We could get fresh fruit and veg, but you always had to queue, we had to queue for everything. But it was a way of life, we just accepted it, you know. Nobody was better off than you.

Phyllis Turner

I recall trying to like whale meat, but couldn't face it even if it was disguised with onions. I used to make a dish of vegetables which now would be a good vegetarian dish: cauliflower, carrots, onions, cooked till tender and placed in a dish covered by a white sauce made with the cheese ration, which I think was 2oz, and covered with sliced potatoes and baked until brown and crispy on top.

J P Hollick

There was plenty of black market. I was night porter at a hotel and there used to be lorry loads of this meat, beef, bacon, whisky, cigarettes, everything you could want. It used to go into the hotel, just into the back way, downstairs in the basement. There was a big lock-up store there. They used to sell it to the hotels, the public couldn't buy it.

George Heffaran

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