SUGGESTIVE INDICATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1939, Page 9

SUGGESTIVE INDICATIONS

GERMAN FOOD SHORTAGE /

Germany’s food shortage reveals itself in a variety of ways. The menu recommended to German housewives for use the other day was short: — Breakfast: Rye meal soup and bread. Dinner: Spinach soup, pumpkin, pota-

toes and bacon. Supper: Vegetable noodles, bread and

blackberry leaf tea. A new order regulating the manufacture of “bread spreading stuffs” provides that only jams of various and mixed fruits, apple-waste jelly and turnip preserve may be made. No artificial sweetening is to be used, even for the last named. Deep-sea fishing having been “severely curtailed,” farmers and peasants are asked to develop fishing in all inland waters. To make matters worse for the hungry Germans, an epidemic has broken out among pigs on many Rhineland farms, and cattle are again suffering from foot-and-mouth disease. German troops and Nazi Labour Service men are now drinking tea made, from strawberry and blackberry leaves, according to a teacher speaking during the children’s hour on the German wireless recently. “Are not we Germans immensely rich?” the teacher said (according to Reuter), in an address to a gioup of children who collect leaves, herbs, and berries: — Look at these blackberry bushes and strawberry plants. What fine tea we can get from their leaves! It is wholeqoino and pleasant, and oui soldieis and men of the Labour Service do not dring any tea but this. We shall not allow any more of our German money to be spent abroad on foreign tea sold at exorbitant prices. My dear children, if you continue to gather with the same eagerness we shall not need to import anything from abroad before long.