Eat your food, there are people starving in__________________
Enter name of country ….
During my childhood the country of choice was “China.”
I cringe when I think of being told that statement.
It was the thing to do during the 60s…
Maybe not everyone went through that, but I know from talking to others, they did too.
So I was supposed to eat more than I really wanted to because there were starving children in China?
My eating and cleaning my plate made it better?
Oh, wait…don’t waste any food on your plate…not when there are starving people in China.
I’m still cringing and would never think to say such a thing.
Then there's "waste not, want not."
That's the new motto of Britain.
Because of the economy and food shortages, they are being encouraged to think back to the time when the did have actual food rationing, during wartime.
"Well, of course, in the war years it was not only immoral to waste food — this was one of our slogans then — it also was illegal," said Marguerite Patten, 92, who worked at the Ministry of Food during World War II and urges a return to those more thrifty days.
"I know it's old fashioned, but some old fashioned things are worth doing," she said.
During the war, Nazi Germany's U-boats crippled the flow of ships carrying food to Britain. Diets were tightly controlled by rationing. Bananas and pineapples became exotic treats, and enterprising housewives traded recipes for baked hedgehog and carrot fudge."
Britain Urging Return To Wartime Frugality í here
