DEAR BREAKFAST TABLE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1920, Page 6

DEAR BREAKFAST TABLE.

PRICES IN LONDON.

Food prices in many directions contio i<3 t© rise (says the Mail of February 7th). "American bacon, which wo are largely condemned to consume nowadays, has gone up 5d a 2>ouiid in consequence of the decline in the value of the £ in the United States. English bacon, admittedly ■the best in tho •world, is at almost prohibitive prices to-day-, owing to tho enormous cost of all feeding {-.tuffs. Bread, now 9£d per loaf, is going to cost the nation more, as the result of the present unfavorable rate of exchange owing to our heavy purchases of American wheat. To keep tho loaf at 9£d costs the coiintry roughly £50,600.000 a year by way of subsidy, and it: bread is not to become dearer, it is certain that many millions a year will have to be added to t-liis figure. Cheaper tea and sugar would now be possible if it were not for the anfortunate nate of exchange. Altogether the cost of the Briton's breakfast table at tho moment is a thin gto make ono shudder. Butter, which hasi just been freed from control, has promptly soared to 5s alb, and cream* is 5s a pint."