Since rationing first began, during the war, one item after another has been plucked from the British stewpot until only a mess of boiled potatoes remained. Britons had been eating an average of five to six pounds of potatoes a week, but last week the bottom of the stewpot was beginning to show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed—three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British housewives felt the catastrophe...
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