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Old Sep 7, 2017 | 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by zdave87
I'm starting a food fight on that.
The leftovers for breakfast/dinner is probably wrong, but "lunch" as we call it was the only real meal of the day. Breakfast and late dinner were small meals, bread or porridge or whatever.
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 07:02 AM
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The first pencils made during the 1500's in England were graphite sticks wrapped in thin strips of pig intestines.

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The first pencils made during the 1500's in England were graphite sticks wrapped in string.
England " lead " the way in pencil production. <
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 07:04 AM
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During World War II in Britain, milk became a rationed commodity, and sharing a milk ration with any in England was illegal.

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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 07:21 AM
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War fact
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 10:12 AM
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 10:49 AM
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Purrrrrrfect fact.
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 11:17 AM
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 11:47 AM
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Probable fact.
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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 03:49 PM
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Fact!
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Old Sep 9, 2017 | 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by vtecmom
During World War II in Britain, milk became a rationed commodity, and sharing a milk ration with any in England was illegal.

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Giving milk to a in Britain wasn't always illegal. 's that participated in the war effort by guarding food warehouses against rats we're the exception;
a daily dried-milk ration was their reward.
A " rat-tional " decision! <


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