LONDON'S EATERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 19

LONDON'S EATERS

HEAT-WAVE DIETS

Britain, and particularly London, has been enthusiastically adjusting food habits to changing temperatures, states the "Daily Telegraph." "This revolution in diet started just after the war. The change was slow, but in recent years it has gathered momentum, and this year has seen a notable advance," a representative of a chain of teashops said to a "Daily Telegraph" representative. "The public no longer wishes the same food whatever the temperature." On one day during the recent heat wave, customers of this chain of teashops and restaurants ate, among other things: 55.000 portions of egg mayonnaise; 60,000 salmon mayonnaise; 200,000 other salads; 475.000 glasses of fresh fruit lemonade; 490.000 glasses of fresh orangeade; and 520,000 sandwiches. American visitors were probably largely responsible for the drinking of 150,000 glasses of iced coffee, but not entirely, for this drink, unheard of iA this country until a few years ago, is popular in the suburbs. The public are also coming more and more to regard ice-cream as a food, and not merely as a treat for small boys. Consumption has increased by more than 60 per cent, since 1935. The new summer food habits have also affected the menus of hotels. In one West End hotel 20 gallons of fresh orange juice are consumed at breakj fast every day. Grape fruit is growing in popularity. I "It seems odd that only 10 or 12 years ago grape fruit was a rarity, a small number being stocked purely for the benefit of American visitors." stated a West End hotel manager. Vast quantities of milk are also being drunk at milk-bars throughout London, and several of these have had to double and treble their normal supply. Aluminium teapots can be kept free from stains by boiling in them occasionally the halves of lemons which have been'squeezed dry of their juice. The lemon-water should be allowed to simmer gently for half an hour. The pot should then be scoured with powdered soap and steehvood or other aluminium cleaner.