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Food Rationing and Dig for Victory WATCH: A video explanation of wartime food and clothing rationing (11 min) England has been rationing food since January of 1940 in an attempt to cut down on imported food and assure that troops involved in the war have sufficient food. Every citizen in Britain receives a ration book to assure that they get an adequate--though not excessive amount of food each week. Currently eggs, bacon, butter (Jan 1940), meat (mar 1940), jam (Mar 1941), biscuits (Aug 1942), Fish, tea (July 1940), breakfast cereals, tinned tomatoes (Feb 1942), peas (Feb 1942), dried fruit (Jan 1942), rice (Jan 1942), canned fruit ,cooking fat (July 1940). and Muggleborn and halfblood students living in muggle areas would receive these when they are home, but Hogwarts provides food for its students and staff while they are in attendance. Restrictions on food have, however, still reached Hogwarts as they get most of their food from the muggle world. While Hogwarts does not typically run short of food, lavish feasts such as Halloween and the start of term feast have been greatly scaled back and typical meals generally have a set menu as opposed to a spread of options. Fare at Hogwarts has also become healthier, scaling back on sweets and rich or fried meals and wastefulness is strongly discouraged and can, if a continued problem result in loss of house points. Sweets and luxury goods were rationed by a different system where a certain amount can be purchased per month, a system that has not transferred over to the Wizarding World. However, popular sweets vendors such as Honeydukes in Hogsmeade have felt the pinch, causing a sharp spike in prices, particularly of chocolates. While Hogwarts still has puddings, these are only at dinners, and often fruit based. Some sorts of fruits--particularly those that must be imported have all but disappeared from the markets. Alcohol have not yet been rationed, however many pubs have implemented their own limits on how much can be bought per visit so as to conserve alcohol. Prices of firewhiskey and other liquors have been climbing as the war progresses, but not as sharply as many other luxury goods.  However, Britons are supplementing the food available through rations and aiding in the war effort through the Dig for Victory campaign. The Dig for Victory campaign, started in 1939 has urged citizens to grow vegetables and raise livestock in public places and private gardens. Hogsmeade has a large victory garden in its park and chickens, pigs, and sheep are raised in the countryside between it and Hogwarts. Goats are raised near the Hog's Head Pub. Food from these sources supplement Hogwarts as well as other British magical markets. Hogwarts has a small victory garden out by the Groundskeeper's hut and one of the herbology greenhouses and the field have been taken over as potions ingredient victory gardens which are cared for by NEWT level Herbology students and the Home Front Support League.Clothing Rationing and Make Do and Mend Clothing is likewise rationed both by the muggle government but also the Ministry of Magic. Robes are discouraged to conserve fabric for uniforms and bandages and convert textile jobs into those more useful for the war effort. Wizarding clothiers such as Madame Malkin and even higher end designers like Twilfit and Tattings have been running far scaled back public businesses and are required to take careful note of who buys what and when. In effect, an individual in great Britain whether muggle or magical can expect about 1 new outfit every six months to a year. A winter coat could take an entire year's coupons. Those attempting to buy more can be heavily fined. Oddly enough, fur coats are exempt from this. As such, women's periodicals and popular propaganda pieces advocate "Make Do and Mend." Repairing damaged clothes, making clothes from linens, or trading with friends. In 1942, the Civilian Clothing Utility order took this a step further limiting the number of pleats, adornments, decorative buttons, stitching or pockets. Fashions have pretty much frozen since 1940 and the limitations effect everyone, even the wealthy. (Though they may have had larger wardrobes to start and thus draw from). Censorship ost is being censored. Blackouts To come. 1. Food Rationing in the Second World War in Scarborough 2. Rationing in the United Kingdom 3. C20 fashion History of the 1940s 4. Loose Lips Sink Ships Further resources: General: BBC History--British Involvement in WWII General: Women at War In the absence of primary documents, Wikipedia is canon. |