BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 10

BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLY

[CURIOUS DISHES SUGGESTED BACON RATION DOUBLED / LONDON, Fob. 26 Although the nation's food position is generally satisfactory, some cautious people in Britain are suggesting a wider consumption of snails, seagulls and seaweed.

The rationing of bacon, which is being retailed at from Is 4d to 2s a lb., has resulted in a surplus, because the poorer people are not purchasing it. Therefore, the weekly ration has been doubled to eight ounces. The Government has abandoned the production of "macon," the name given to cured mutton. Numerous wartime cookerv books are publishing hints for a wide range of appetising vegetable dishes to 'replace meat. Vegetable allotment holders, whom the Government is urging to increase production, point out that it is impossible to sell small surpluses, inasmuch as wholesalers prefer to deal with large growers. A novel suggestion has been made that the Government should open depots in all towns, to which small Vegetable growers could send surpluses, thus conveniently supplying the troops and reducing Government contracts \yith vegetable wholesalers.