TASTE FOR LEMONS
LOST BY BRITISH PEOPLE \ Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, March 8. Because wartime diet had robbed many people of their taste for lemons, the first consignment'of the fruit to arrive in Sussex since the war began was almost unsaleable. Children of Brighton described the lemons as "nasty, bitter oranges." Many of the children had never seen lemons before. The authorities said today that the release of 300,000,000 sweet Spanish and Jaffa oranges would provide ona pound of the fruit for every man, woman, and )>child in England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 5
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89TASTE FOR LEMONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 5
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