Reply #5: I was thinking about WWII era British food too [View All]

[salvorhardin]

A couple of years back I saw a show on WWII era British cooking where they actually cooked recipes that were popular at the time, and/or eaten often by average families because they were recommended by the British government to help people scrape by on their rations. The food was simply horrendous! A true dietetic nightmare. Screw any of the diets that claim to represent what's "optimum" for the human body (they're all mostly junk aside from a few like the Mediterranean diet) but damn, WWII era British food was frightening. It's hard to see how they maintained even minimal nutrition. Concoctions of lard, powdered milk and eggs, and a little flour fried. I honestly think that even Americans who eat steady diets of highly processed factory foods get better nutrition than they did. Certainly anyone today who makes a minimal effort to incorporate fresh or frozen veggies and eats an ethnically diverse diet (i.e. includes things like fritatas, stir fries, etc.) does.