Rationing in WWII (British Homefront)

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  • @Bottomprem
    @Bottomprem 4 роки тому +3975

    My great grandma is still alive at 98 and she still remembers knitting in the underground during the blitz.

  • @thecrippledpancake9455
    @thecrippledpancake9455 4 роки тому +479

    My grandma has a good rationing story. Her and her older sister were out shopping and the store had a policy of 1 bag of sugar per family. When they got to the checkout the clerk asked if they were sisters. She looks her dead in the eye and cooly says, “Never seen her before in my life.” The clerk believed her and they bought two sugars.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 4 роки тому +38

      Lol omg that's funny and smart.

    • @MyShiroyuki
      @MyShiroyuki Рік тому +22

      I remember dealing with that so much back during the early days of the recent pandemic. People thinking they could trick me by saying they weren’t together when they were buying more than what was allowed. I wasn’t paid enough to care so unless they were buying way too much toilet paper, I didn’t care.

    • @emmiesevillana459
      @emmiesevillana459 Рік тому +2

      Perfect plan

    • @FortyJester
      @FortyJester Рік тому +2

      That sums up siblings perfectly

    • @charakaamayantha_ca9784
      @charakaamayantha_ca9784 Рік тому +1

      Thanx for sharing the story ♥️

  • @todortodorov940
    @todortodorov940 Рік тому +149

    Fun fact: While WW2 rationing limited people to 1 fresh egg a week it also limited Churchill to 1 bottle of premium Cognac/Brandy a day, somewhat below his daily consumption target.

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 Рік тому +19

      In fact when Churchill was shown the weekly ration for one person laid out on a table - the 1 egg, 4 rashers of bacon, 2 oz butter, however many oz meat - he said ''you could make a reasonable meal from that''.

  • @samuel88andrews
    @samuel88andrews 4 роки тому +598

    My grandma told me that during the war her father bought her a bicycle on the black market. It was a racing bicycle which was the only one available so she took a wrench and flipped the handlebars upside down so it would be more comfy to hold onto the handlebars.

  • @stevenaudet
    @stevenaudet 4 роки тому +1958

    1939: Ministry of Food needed
    2020: Ministry of Toilet Paper needed

    • @sussekind9717
      @sussekind9717 4 роки тому +52

      What we really need is, a ministry that's responsible for protecting the people from disease outbreaks. I don't know, like some sort of Center for Disease Control or something.
      It would be really nice to have something like that up and running right now.

    • @europe_ablaze
      @europe_ablaze 4 роки тому +11

      Bruh that’s the CDC @Susse Kimd

    • @europe_ablaze
      @europe_ablaze 4 роки тому +3

      Susse Kind Are you dumb?

    • @USrifles
      @USrifles 4 роки тому +25

      @@europe_ablaze r/wooosh

    • @UgandanAirForce
      @UgandanAirForce 4 роки тому +11

      federal bureau of toilet paper, or FBTP

  • @wesleywebb5554
    @wesleywebb5554 4 роки тому +178

    The distaste for spam after having to eat so much of it during the war eventually led to many survivors of the war swearing never to eat it. This led to in 1970 when the surrealist comedy group Monty Python created a skit in which spam was a part of practically every dish in a restaurant which an old couple complained about. Over the course of two minutes the word spam would be said 132 times, including with vikings chanting it. Then during the days of usenet and later the early internet junk email would be sent to email. People started calling it spam because it was repetitive and undesired much like the singing of the vikings in the Monty Python skit. And that is how war time rationing made the name of a salted meat product from the US to also be the name of unwanted emails. The public consciousness works in strange ways.

    • @The-Spanish-Inquisition490
      @The-Spanish-Inquisition490 11 місяців тому +1

      It was only the wife that was complaining, the husband wanted her Spam.
      Wife: Can I just have the egg beans and Spam without the Spam.
      Husband: can I have her Spam!
      Vikings: Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spamty Spam Spamy Spam!!

    • @simpleviewer1334
      @simpleviewer1334 2 місяці тому

      My great Grandfather (A filipino during the occupation) apparently never touched spam until the day he died afterwards

  • @IntrepidMilo
    @IntrepidMilo 4 роки тому +512

    I have had the chance to speak with a gentleman who served in the home-guard his name was Jack. When Jack moved from England to Canada in 1950's he said that England was still rationing food, clothes and other goods. He crossed on a Cunard liner and he said that there was so much food that he could hardly believe it.

    • @amxelcbis4464
      @amxelcbis4464 4 роки тому +6

      Seems like he crossed on Queen Mary.

    • @aaron8169
      @aaron8169 4 роки тому +1

      Oof

    • @iriscollins7583
      @iriscollins7583 3 роки тому +14

      Rationing didn't completely end until 1954

    • @billijomaynard8924
      @billijomaynard8924 2 роки тому +10

      Makes sense, Canada had a smaller population during ww2 then Britain and far more arable land to grow crops. Today Canada has a little over half the population then Britain, 38 million for Canada compared to 70 million for Britain.

    • @michaelplunkett8059
      @michaelplunkett8059 2 місяці тому

      Cunard advertised that they provisioned their food stores in North America so as not to consume limited food resources.

  • @piotrekszczepanski5125
    @piotrekszczepanski5125 4 роки тому +645

    It's amazing how the British got used to the Blitz so quickly; In fact by the end of the Blitz many were able to sleep through it.

    • @p4m209
      @p4m209 4 роки тому +45

      My great grandma slept through a bombing in her street

    • @thecoolguy7403
      @thecoolguy7403 4 роки тому +5

      I sleep at night during coronacation

    • @stuartward1755
      @stuartward1755 4 роки тому +51

      Kids: "mum what's that noise outside?"
      Mum: "it's just a bombing raid kids. Go back to bed"

    • @Capthrax1
      @Capthrax1 4 роки тому +3

      me how... the concussion, the noise, I imagine all the windows were broken by then but the house musta shaken, I mean god damn I wake up when my dog is snoring weird cause he is sleeping funny

    • @armergamer2179
      @armergamer2179 4 роки тому +8

      Cause we are humans, we adapt and evolve

  • @djsalad5752
    @djsalad5752 4 роки тому +975

    Britain: Store essentials only
    Everyone: Wait tea is essential right

    • @3.2187_Kilometres
      @3.2187_Kilometres 4 роки тому +50

      It is to us Brits.

    • @bigbrotheriswatching1190
      @bigbrotheriswatching1190 3 роки тому +42

      Most british thing I've heard in a while.

    • @erinandcory7812
      @erinandcory7812 3 роки тому +15

      Well yea doesn’t expire so it’s a good choice.

    • @ultrablueslime8216
      @ultrablueslime8216 3 роки тому +7

      don't forget the milk. this isn't a joke, forget the milk and we're not letting you into the bomb shelter.

    • @ThatD1spynser
      @ThatD1spynser 3 роки тому +10

      @@3.2187_Kilometres I may be bullied for saying this just like one time before when I understood a joke, but I'm American and tea is actually pretty gud

  • @jewishspacelaseroperator5410
    @jewishspacelaseroperator5410 4 роки тому +1791

    My grandfather grew up in Scotland during the war, he says the candy ration for children is the only reason he still has his teeth

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 4 роки тому +86

      He must really love candy back then

    • @ChristianVBlue3
      @ChristianVBlue3 4 роки тому +27

      LUMBAGO THE FROG Couldn’t people in the countryside grow their own food rather than ration

    • @benn454
      @benn454 4 роки тому +144

      @@ChristianVBlue3 People in the countryside already grow everyone's food in peacetime.

    • @photoisca7386
      @photoisca7386 4 роки тому +12

      @@ChristianVBlue3 Yes they did and people still rent small pieces of land in cities called allotments to grow food as a hobby.

    • @whocares269
      @whocares269 4 роки тому +27

      @@ChristianVBlue3 scotland isnt the countryside, its a whole country 🙄

  • @cannonball666
    @cannonball666 4 роки тому +461

    "I can't walk down the street without dogs licking my legs"
    "Maybe you should stop wearing gravy stockings."

    • @sliverbullet7973
      @sliverbullet7973 4 роки тому +3

      b ray ?

    • @TheTux
      @TheTux 4 роки тому +2

      I heard it was actually shoe polish that women used to darken their legs, not gravy, that's ridiculous.

    • @ludo9234
      @ludo9234 4 роки тому

      Me and my dog are doing just fine.but having a broken arm things are a bit awkward at the mo.

    • @michaelsorenson3887
      @michaelsorenson3887 4 роки тому

      "But what would the neighbors think of it?!"

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 4 роки тому

      @@TheTux Actually, gravy legs would improve dating...

  • @rasdread0989
    @rasdread0989 4 роки тому +1285

    Food inspector: this is a fine meal
    Also food inspector: now that, was a FINED meal
    Restaurant manager who wasn't told earlier: *LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SH--*

  • @branden3118
    @branden3118 4 роки тому +3044

    Essentials: Tea
    *Laughs in British*

    • @dapperfield595
      @dapperfield595 4 роки тому +28

      AnotherHoly Templar damn it! Was about to comment that one ;(

    • @Predator42ID
      @Predator42ID 4 роки тому +124

      Essentials: Bullets
      Laughs in American.

    • @cf1925
      @cf1925 4 роки тому +78

      Essentials: Meatballs
      *Laughs in Swedish*

    • @aslamnurfikri7640
      @aslamnurfikri7640 4 роки тому +75

      Essentials: Vodka
      *Laughs in Russian*

    • @Fred_the_1996
      @Fred_the_1996 4 роки тому +24

      DON'T DISRESPECT THE HOLY EARL GREY

  • @wheneggsdrop1701
    @wheneggsdrop1701 4 роки тому +3049

    Preserve essentials.
    Normal people: water
    British people: TEA

  • @OregonDX
    @OregonDX 3 роки тому +58

    I can remember my great grandma. She survived the Great Depression as well as the war. Anytime we went out everyone had to finish their meal or else you’d hear about it from her lol. She would reuse anything she could. Including washing and reusing straws, and plastic silverware, and plastic microwave trays. Events in the lives of people from those years changed them forever!

  • @samueleveleigh2767
    @samueleveleigh2767 4 роки тому +1182

    Fun fact
    Due to rationing in the war many britons actually got healthier and more fit for war since they were no longer on a highly fat-sugar diet

    • @alek488
      @alek488 4 роки тому +41

      Mr Miner Obviously because they were eating less and not as much sugar

    • @alek488
      @alek488 4 роки тому +8

      Mr Miner Obviously because they were eating less and not as much sugar

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 4 роки тому +17

      Just like during prohibition in the 1920s a lot of alcohol consumption did go down.

    • @ganjaman4755
      @ganjaman4755 4 роки тому +7

      @OCD Stig still not the fattest country anymore

    • @benn454
      @benn454 4 роки тому +4

      @OCD Stig Only those who don't serve in combat.

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 4 роки тому +951

    1942: Psst you want spam?
    2010s: Psst you want crack?
    2020: Psst you want toilet paper?

    • @cOOLray13
      @cOOLray13 4 роки тому +45

      2020: psst you want a mask?

    • @ballsquid4135
      @ballsquid4135 4 роки тому +9

      @patrick howard aight grandma killer

    • @frizzy9919
      @frizzy9919 4 роки тому +8

      psst you want a rapid test?

    • @blankblank5409
      @blankblank5409 4 роки тому

      Yer Nan cause the pandemic is 20s

    • @hectorleon465
      @hectorleon465 4 роки тому +2

      2020: Psst you want a Nintendo Switch??

  • @piobmhor8529
    @piobmhor8529 2 роки тому +182

    In Canada we had rationing as well, albeit it not nearly as limiting as in the UK. My parents both grew up during that time and the lessons learned weren’t lost on them. I remember my mother baking “War Cake” decades after the war was over. It was a recipe using maple syrup, flour, margarine and one egg. It was a dense, chewy square that actually tasted pretty good. I guess people got pretty innovative back then.

    • @Labyrinth6000
      @Labyrinth6000 2 роки тому +5

      You have the recipe? How much of each other than the egg and how long to bake?

    • @piobmhor8529
      @piobmhor8529 2 роки тому +5

      @@Labyrinth6000 I’ll have to ask. It may have been one of those recipes my mother never wrote down (like most of her recipes) and she’s beginning to get a little forgetful lately so I can’t promise anything.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 Рік тому +3

      That war cake sound tasty.

    • @Astrocat-od5cy
      @Astrocat-od5cy Рік тому +1

      ​@Labyrinth6000 it seems that the recipe can be found online (or at least one of the iterations that people call war cake)

    • @tommyfox854
      @tommyfox854 Рік тому

      Hmm, "War Cake" aye?
      Is there anything else you can say about it or no, you have my intention with it. =)

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat580 4 роки тому +361

    Ian from forgotten weapons did a good rationing "simulation" where he ate a weeks worth of rations throughout the week, eating potato leek soup and whatever. Its a good food week, probably the only food week i watch

    • @ErickSatoh
      @ErickSatoh 4 роки тому +12

      Thanks for the tip, going to look the videos, take care with the corona

    • @thegoodwin
      @thegoodwin 4 роки тому +8

      @zoopnoop , ua-cam.com/play/PLj9u4Ts2NpEtHrO1NLjk_n9ebj12102sb.html

    • @DangerasTM
      @DangerasTM 4 роки тому +6

      I second this. You actually got quite a lot of food, and tasty too. Home Made Bread, Soup and meat.

    • @ianhomerpura8937
      @ianhomerpura8937 2 роки тому +4

      Try watching the BBC Wartime Farm series as well.

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  4 роки тому +676

    Hope you are all staying safe during these times!

    • @smort3547
      @smort3547 4 роки тому +6

      You too, simple history.

    • @atrociousbean4096
      @atrociousbean4096 4 роки тому +1

      Okay.

    • @Sergeant_D
      @Sergeant_D 4 роки тому +3

      Can you make a video on the bombing of Darwin please?

    • @thedoomslayer7854
      @thedoomslayer7854 4 роки тому

      Simple History thanks my guy

    • @arachnoslayer
      @arachnoslayer 4 роки тому +1

      Simple History Hope you are as well! I love your videos!

  • @silakkalaatikko
    @silakkalaatikko 4 роки тому +425

    Peacetime: Green Eggs and Ham
    Wartime: Powdered Eggs and Spam

    • @donaldboughton8686
      @donaldboughton8686 4 роки тому +10

      I have never seen a green egg in my 71 years in the UK. I would suggest such a thing would be toxic or that it might be a duck egg.

    • @Shadow-sq2yj
      @Shadow-sq2yj 4 роки тому +9

      @@donaldboughton8686 yes, I am also confused on what a green egg is

    • @cannoneer6680
      @cannoneer6680 4 роки тому +3

      Ahem the netflix show green eggs and hamm

    • @cannoneer6680
      @cannoneer6680 4 роки тому

      I just discovered it on netflix just curios

    • @wiselychosenname2867
      @wiselychosenname2867 3 роки тому

      Ahem
      Nice name op

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 4 роки тому +740

    British soldier: these rations aren't great but at least it's food.
    Soviet solider: *wait you guys get food?*

    • @DESIBOY-fe7nm
      @DESIBOY-fe7nm 4 роки тому +28

      @Lucas The F22 Jetfighter India:- yeah. Cute.

    • @garmenlin5990
      @garmenlin5990 4 роки тому +7

      Stupid joke. If Soviet soldier didn't get food, how did they get all the way to Berlin?

    • @firedskull5015
      @firedskull5015 4 роки тому +34

      @@DESIBOY-fe7nm might come as a surprise but India can feed it's 1.3b people by itself, that's mainly because 60% of those people are engaged in agriculture. Food is rationed monthly. The only time India had a famine was during the British rule which you can probably guess why it happened.

    • @stanleysmith7551
      @stanleysmith7551 4 роки тому +14

      * In Soviet Russia, food eats you. *

    • @pritsingh9766
      @pritsingh9766 4 роки тому +3

      Soviet union didn't stole food from colonies and starved million to win the war .Still Russia is far superior than your tiny island. UK navy can't even dare to take it's ship from a small county like Iran hahahahahahah .

  • @SakorskySP
    @SakorskySP 4 роки тому +3215

    it's really nice to watch Simple History during Quarantine
    Edit: finally, i found this comment

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  4 роки тому +424

      We have many episodes to watch through during lockdown!

    • @tylerj2887
      @tylerj2887 4 роки тому +20

      True

    • @SakorskySP
      @SakorskySP 4 роки тому +24

      @@Simplehistory yep i'm watching all of them

    • @lincolnsmith7067
      @lincolnsmith7067 4 роки тому +6

      Agreed

    • @davidsi5376
      @davidsi5376 4 роки тому +16

      It's amazing what we are going though right now. I hope we get through this quickly.

  • @dhruvmaslekar
    @dhruvmaslekar 3 роки тому +109

    7:00 Commentators in early 1940s be like: "It's Manchester United vs Liverpool in the most important game of the year,
    We will find out who harvests more carrot in 90 minutes"

  • @frederickoftheartic2209
    @frederickoftheartic2209 4 роки тому +1094

    the 12 people who disliked were the people who weren't given rations

  • @SaifSheikh445
    @SaifSheikh445 4 роки тому +393

    WW2: People Rationed food.
    Soviet Union: Rationed you.
    2020: People Ration Toilet Paper.

  • @f4fphantomii468
    @f4fphantomii468 4 роки тому +551

    Meanwhile in the USSR: We don't need no food men! We are powered by the will of the workers!

  • @LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit
    @LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit 4 роки тому +855

    Meanwhile, in the Eastern Front:
    Stalin: Yeah, we need more food. Tell Ukraine to screw off and give everything to us for the war effort.
    Adviser: But comrade Premier, won't that cause a massive nation-wide famine leading to thousands of casualties, and eternal resentment for your rule?
    Stalin: You have implied that I stuttered. Off to gulag.

    • @ImageLimestone
      @ImageLimestone 4 роки тому +20

      Based anime profile picture

    • @MechWarrior894
      @MechWarrior894 4 роки тому +27

      *GREAT PURGE INTENSIFIES *

    • @lc9245
      @lc9245 4 роки тому +35

      This is misleading. Ukraine fall under Nazis controls within 3 months of the invasion, with Kiev fall in September. There is scorched earth carried out by the Soviets, but were limited due to the quick advance of the Wehrmacht. Meanwhile it is the Wehrmacht whose scorched earth reduce many Soviets cities into rubbers, including Novgorod being razed. Collectivisation is another problem. The entire Soviets were under ration since Lenin’s death. Economic activities were restricted in order for Stalin to rapidly industrialised the Soviet Union. This is 2 very different matters, not to mention the Ukrainian were not the specific target of collectivisation, many other members of the Union suffered under collectivisation and many of whom are Russian, not Ukrainian. Ukrainian and Union members who lived in cities are largely unaffected by collectivisation.

    • @randomnerd9088
      @randomnerd9088 4 роки тому +54

      @@lc9245
      Not questioning the validity of anything you said, but it is also well documented that much of the grain produced in the Soviet Union was intentionally withheld from citizens despite it being very much available.

    • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
      @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 4 роки тому +28

      @@lc9245 Rationing, socialism and communism are evil.

  • @Jack-je8zu
    @Jack-je8zu 4 роки тому +1184

    20 years after Coronavirus
    *Simple History: COVID-19, The toilet paper crisis*

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 4 роки тому +88

      Child: "Daddy, what did you wipe your butt with when the Corona virus hit the world?"
      Father: "I had to make sacrifices..."

    • @AureliusLaurentius1099
      @AureliusLaurentius1099 4 роки тому +35

      Me with a toilet bidet:Sorry is this a peasant joke I am too rich to understand

    • @1appa914
      @1appa914 4 роки тому +2

      Well if we survive the virus that vid woulf exist

    • @dahaproject3498
      @dahaproject3498 4 роки тому +12

      you can use water to wash....

    • @korbuy1564
      @korbuy1564 4 роки тому

      Jack not funny

  • @ezioleonardo17
    @ezioleonardo17 4 роки тому +1775

    British people: Oh no we can't get French cheese 🧀
    Soviets: You guys get food?

    • @wolfen8619
      @wolfen8619 4 роки тому +35

      Not funny didn't laugh

    • @Mechabang
      @Mechabang 4 роки тому +218

      Very funny, laughed hard.

    • @folderboy
      @folderboy 4 роки тому +51

      Wolfen stfu

    • @KOMMUNISKl
      @KOMMUNISKl 4 роки тому +36

      Unfunny have heard it 3764746737392 times

    • @KoitTamme
      @KoitTamme 4 роки тому +57

      Yea, stalin was evil

  • @thestupidgamerz5352
    @thestupidgamerz5352 4 роки тому +269

    What to do during quarantine:
    Eat
    Sleep
    Watch Simple History

  • @demoncore4467
    @demoncore4467 4 роки тому +334

    “when a nation that’s never known hunger or desperation descends into madness, we’ll be ready”

  • @gonzalezag
    @gonzalezag 4 роки тому +215

    The waiter: your bill sir
    The cop: *pulls out uno reverse card*

  • @footballman271
    @footballman271 4 роки тому +612

    the only thing we’re rationing these days are medical supplies and toilet paper for some reason

    • @ykewl1372
      @ykewl1372 4 роки тому +42

      And hand sanitizer

    • @MsZen21
      @MsZen21 4 роки тому +52

      In Australia everything is rationed right now. Just stupidly. Can't buy more than 2 jugs milk or 1kg meat or 1 packet of toilet paper... Almost everything has a limit... No more than 2 spam. 1 bag of rice.... Single Bachelor or family of 6 has the same rationing. :/

    • @SaifSheikh445
      @SaifSheikh445 4 роки тому +3

      And food

    • @johnrandolph1989
      @johnrandolph1989 4 роки тому +7

      What's not being rationed?
      1. Lube/vaseline
      2. Condoms
      3. Brownie mix
      4. Powdered corn starch
      5. Preparation H
      Everything for after a good time.

    • @jeffbrooks5580
      @jeffbrooks5580 4 роки тому +2

      Dayton Ohio USA same thing we can't get to much of one thing

  • @fecmultimedia1488
    @fecmultimedia1488 3 роки тому +29

    This is something I can relate to, Even though I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s. Growing up in China I was the last generation of people who lived through the rationing system. we were issued coupons for the most of the foods and supplies and we had booklets for everything else. This was a trip down memory lane for me. Thank you very much for putting this up!!

  • @stonebay2111
    @stonebay2111 2 роки тому +31

    Turned some friends on to an old pbs show called the victory garden. Used to watch it with my great grandmother born in 1904...she would tell stories of ww2 and what it was like growing and canning vegetables and raising cattle, hogs and chickens to trade food for other food among neighbors. She was a wealth of information, living through ww1, the dust bowl, great depression, and ww2. Her knowledge was a gift that still gives today. I once received a gingerbread cake baked, sealed and preserved in a 1qt Mason jar and sent all the way to FOB Cobra Iraq on my 23rd birthday.

  • @loganshelby9007
    @loganshelby9007 4 роки тому +4366

    Watch this get demonetized because of "current events"...

    • @oshervaruk4762
      @oshervaruk4762 4 роки тому +248

      every history video gets demonetized

    • @TheAirportAviation
      @TheAirportAviation 4 роки тому +37

      lmao so true

    • @nuklearra1581
      @nuklearra1581 4 роки тому +183

      lmao UA-cam be like:
      AN EVENT THAT HAPPENED 8 DECADES AGO???!!!!!!
      DEMONITIZED!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1

    • @CR-ef4op
      @CR-ef4op 4 роки тому +12

      e e exactly 😂😂

    • @clevermcgenericname891
      @clevermcgenericname891 4 роки тому +34

      They also showed the dreaded swastika

  • @MattMontana-jk4ro
    @MattMontana-jk4ro 4 роки тому +315

    Y’all think I came here to learn about history... naw I’m over here taken notes bruh

    • @puppylovera
      @puppylovera 4 роки тому +3

      makes sence

    • @davidsi5376
      @davidsi5376 4 роки тому +2

      Fo sho

    • @thecoolguy7403
      @thecoolguy7403 4 роки тому +8

      but this sounds a bit commie to me

    • @user-gn6wz9fe1c
      @user-gn6wz9fe1c 4 роки тому +10

      @@thecoolguy7403 it was brought in by conservatives, if you dont have rationing and the poor starve, Then you really will really have a revolution, better to bring in a few soc-dem interventionist policies in crisis than get shot in the streets (Trump is even bringing in universal basic income, which is too commie even for Scandinavia rn lmao )

    • @masonsilvers6789
      @masonsilvers6789 4 роки тому

      @@user-gn6wz9fe1c did you not realise that was probably a joke?

  • @newhorizon1355
    @newhorizon1355 4 роки тому +23

    At 6:15 gotta love that guy. He consumed the fish & steak, then fined them. 7 dollars says he didn't even pay his bill.

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  4 роки тому +1919

    Any one like Spam? 🥫🥚🧀🥓☕🧈😋

    • @haydendenden9076
      @haydendenden9076 4 роки тому +47

      Simple History me PS. Simple history, I love your channel

    • @MrLGJ11
      @MrLGJ11 4 роки тому +66

      Great on grilled cheese or as a breakfast meat!

    • @smort3547
      @smort3547 4 роки тому +21

      I do!

    • @lachlanrose4348
      @lachlanrose4348 4 роки тому +16

      Yes

    • @eco2312
      @eco2312 4 роки тому +8

      Yes

  • @neoandroid4203
    @neoandroid4203 4 роки тому +157

    1940s: staying vigilant, and not being discourage even if their homes are being destroyed
    2020 italy: During covid 19 staying vigilant by pumping music from their balconys
    Staying strong can be different

    • @kurros1270
      @kurros1270 4 роки тому +7

      Italy during Covid-19: *plays Evangelion theme on the flute.*

    • @Gamer88334
      @Gamer88334 4 роки тому +9

      2020 USA: panicking (because some people seriously need to practice controlling their emotions. If ya don’t control your emotions, they’ll control you) and hoarding stuff, which is only going to make the outbreak last longer than it should. Remember to think about the long term results of your actions instead of just the short term results.

    • @MadamePianissima
      @MadamePianissima 4 роки тому +9

      @@Gamer88334 >implying that's exclusive to America
      How goes the looting in italy and the uk?

    • @joeboom0697
      @joeboom0697 4 роки тому +1

      @@MadamePianissima it isn't happening

    • @SaintSC05
      @SaintSC05 4 роки тому +2

      @@joeboom0697 www.thesun.co.uk/news/11135177/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-panic-buying-looting/
      www.thelocal.it/20200329/we-have-to-eat-sicilian-police-crackdown-on-locals-looting-supermarkets
      www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/coronavirus-italy-lockdown-doomed-fail-21666512

  • @darrenphillips1845
    @darrenphillips1845 4 роки тому +26

    This channel makes a great substitute for The History Channel now that it's no longer The History Channel.

  • @DESIBOY-fe7nm
    @DESIBOY-fe7nm 4 роки тому +202

    Britain:- plans to stockpile food.
    Colonies:- *confused screaming.*

    • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
      @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 4 роки тому +9

      Rationing and socialism are evil.

    • @scumf6862
      @scumf6862 4 роки тому +15

      @@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 Not all socialism is Marxian socialism, you have the mentality of a baby boomer

    • @adept151
      @adept151 4 роки тому +1

      @@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 ok boomer.

    • @GurpreetSingh-es1cn
      @GurpreetSingh-es1cn 4 роки тому +1

      From where do you think british got there food supply they killed million of people from India you just chose to ignore that part of history

    • @DESIBOY-fe7nm
      @DESIBOY-fe7nm 4 роки тому +2

      @@GurpreetSingh-es1cn mai bhi Indian hi hu.
      In Angrezo ne Apna desh to luta hi. Mgr Africa, Southeast Asia or kai sare desh lute hai.
      Bharat bhi colony hi thi.

  • @ashtoncunningham6981
    @ashtoncunningham6981 3 роки тому +11

    I was doing a job painting deck just yesterday and guy 97 year old told how all the kids learnt to garden and older people helped teach him during the war as victory garden ..... he had one of most beautiful gardens I've ever seen

  • @ianfinrir8724
    @ianfinrir8724 4 роки тому +61

    "You want some clothing coupons?"
    "No"
    "Petrol coupons?"
    "I don't have a car"
    "Ah, I can help you there"

  • @ArroyoEnterprise
    @ArroyoEnterprise 4 роки тому +87

    1940 Currency: Tin food and tea
    2020 Currency: butt wipes (toilet paper)
    When the Currency of the Apocalypse Turns our to be Toilet paper instead of bottle caps: :(

    • @AureliusLaurentius1099
      @AureliusLaurentius1099 4 роки тому +5

      Toilet Bidets:Am I a joke you?

    • @tordaimihai5394
      @tordaimihai5394 4 роки тому +2

      How many games of the Fallout series have you played?

    • @ArroyoEnterprise
      @ArroyoEnterprise 4 роки тому +3

      I have played fallout 4 and watched another channel play fallout 3

    • @onebigfatguy
      @onebigfatguy 4 роки тому +7

      @@ArroyoEnterprise If you haven't played New Vegas with all dlc's included you missed out. Easily the Best Fallout game over the last decade.

    • @ArroyoEnterprise
      @ArroyoEnterprise 4 роки тому +2

      Ok I’m ask my mom to buy it for me and my bro so we can play it

  • @Kyle-jc8no
    @Kyle-jc8no 4 роки тому +227

    "And Essential Rations, which included Flour, TEA, and Sugar."
    Why Tea?

    • @jakobmorris1483
      @jakobmorris1483 4 роки тому +121

      To drink mate.

    • @MechWarrior894
      @MechWarrior894 4 роки тому +108

      Because they're British.

    • @jonkerr7959
      @jonkerr7959 4 роки тому +127

      did you see what happened last time England went with out tea, The opium wars happened

    • @user-qv8rb9jp3l
      @user-qv8rb9jp3l 4 роки тому +74

      "why tea" because british people need tea just like all other humans need food and water.

    • @jjjjjjjjjjjmmmmmmm4461
      @jjjjjjjjjjjmmmmmmm4461 4 роки тому +50

      *british anthem intensifies*

  • @BedsitBob
    @BedsitBob 2 роки тому +53

    The Home Guard was initially called the LDV, which stood for the Local Defence Volunteers.
    It was jokingly referred to as "Look, Duck and Vanish". 😊

    • @SBragg88
      @SBragg88 Рік тому +10

      In a similar light, the BEF due to so many WWII evacuations was called "Back Every Fortnight" lol

    • @xeanderman6688
      @xeanderman6688 Рік тому +1

      ​@@SBragg88no way, Fortnite irl???!?!?

    • @coolspider295
      @coolspider295 Рік тому

      ​@@xeanderman6688Yes, it was exactly like Fortnite

  • @honestyprofessorcaesarreal5091
    @honestyprofessorcaesarreal5091 4 роки тому +43

    0:37 that guy with the Martini-Henry has super human old man strength.

    • @onebigfatguy
      @onebigfatguy 4 роки тому

      Isn't that from the fucking Zulu wars?

    • @johnsother2440
      @johnsother2440 4 роки тому

      Welcome to Texas.

    • @yoboikamil525
      @yoboikamil525 4 роки тому

      I know jackshit about guns so can you be more specific?

    • @onebigfatguy
      @onebigfatguy 4 роки тому

      @@yoboikamil525 0:34 Of the two old men in the front of the group the one holding the rifle across his chest is holding a Henry-Martini Rifle. Those were the standard infantry rifles of the British army during the Zulu wars some 70+ years prior.

    • @yoboikamil525
      @yoboikamil525 4 роки тому

      @@onebigfatguy thanks

  • @1buddahead
    @1buddahead 4 роки тому +64

    Spam has come a long way. I can remember when the tin need one of those keys to be opened.

    • @donaldboughton8686
      @donaldboughton8686 4 роки тому +2

      Now use ring pulls. I have had a ring pull Spam can with fungus on the meat. Threw it away. Never happened with Spam cans and a key. The can seals were way better. I have stopped buying canned Spam.

  • @retrograde7156
    @retrograde7156 4 роки тому +58

    3:57 ahh, I mean surely everyone would be respectful of other people needing food, surely no one would hoard insane of food which probably would never be consumed. I mean it’s not like it’s happening right now.

    • @donaldboughton8686
      @donaldboughton8686 4 роки тому +3

      One can play spot the idiot in the Supermarket. These were the ones stocking up on frozen food and fresh food for a lock down forgetting that they are dependent on an electricity supply to keep the freezer running. If one persists in wishing to stock up one should buy canned or dried food. Also take note of the best by dates, milk puddings go brown after a few months, some stuff lasts for years. Also remember to use in the order the food was purchased as the contents of the cans may be in edible when one gets to them if one does not. I did not bother to stock up for the lock down and never went hungry.

    • @ThatD1spynser
      @ThatD1spynser 3 роки тому

      @@donaldboughton8686 yes

    • @locutus155
      @locutus155 3 роки тому

      No, they were buying up all the bog roll!

  • @matthewoconnell4700
    @matthewoconnell4700 4 роки тому +39

    My Grandad continued to grow food from the second world war right up until a few years before he passed.

  • @cyberleaderandy1
    @cyberleaderandy1 2 роки тому +17

    My parents were kids during the war but because they lived in the country had access to "illegal" eggs, chickens, pigs hidden by farmers away from farms, extra milk, butter and all sorts of produce that many never had beyond the ration amounts. They even got thrown sweets and gum by American troops they say, yelling the obligatory "got any gum chum?".

  • @Jay-hb2xf
    @Jay-hb2xf 4 роки тому +175

    In Taiwan we have rations for masks now. Everyone can get 2 masks with less than 1USD over the government website or from a pharmacy with his National Health card every week.

    • @woopyinator021
      @woopyinator021 3 роки тому +2

      CCP

    • @Jay-hb2xf
      @Jay-hb2xf 3 роки тому +22

      @@woopyinator021 Taiwan has nothing to do with evil CCP. You need to study for more knowledge.

    • @woopyinator021
      @woopyinator021 3 роки тому +2

      @@Jay-hb2xf Republic of China

    • @xanrhind9350
      @xanrhind9350 3 роки тому +2

      glory to the ccp 🇨🇳🇨🇳

    • @Slavtron
      @Slavtron 3 роки тому +4

      Taiwan is screwed

  • @wonk123
    @wonk123 4 роки тому +96

    here is your ration of food
    *-1*

  • @wunderwaffeyt4077
    @wunderwaffeyt4077 4 роки тому +73

    7:46 I like how she's smiling and making clothes from curtains while people are scared and panicking because of the air raid outside. It is a perfect representation of the British people's resilience and bravery during war time conditions.

  • @ewancampbellcampbell1550
    @ewancampbellcampbell1550 4 роки тому +19

    I've got a 1938 "Rational Association Friendly Society" book that seems to be unused. It's amazing how these little peices of history survive up to the present!

  • @WRGOP
    @WRGOP 4 роки тому +10

    My Grandfather had a ration book during WW2, when he was a teen in the 50s and the rationing books weren’t needed anymore, he and his friends burned them all in a giant bonfire.

  • @Renrang
    @Renrang 4 роки тому +102

    1940: Civilian grow vegetables for food in wartime.
    2019: MrBeast plants 20 million trees🌲 preparing for 2020 toilet paper crisis.

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 4 роки тому +47

    Some person: *serves inspector meat and fish combo*
    The inspector after he ate the meal:
    *that was good, now you get fined for serving me a combo that's not allowed*

  • @RamanShrikant
    @RamanShrikant 4 роки тому +63

    last time I was this early the United Kingdom were still garrisioning their ports and didn't have their entire army in cairo.
    hoi4 momments

    • @edgarbanuelos6472
      @edgarbanuelos6472 4 роки тому +1

      Let's stop my was the surly it was still an Empire.

    • @gabrielmora5092
      @gabrielmora5092 4 роки тому +2

      Last time i was this early, USA were still training their only one division

    • @tuccerjim3084
      @tuccerjim3084 4 роки тому +1

      Oh, and they were sending half their army to occupy Sardinia to stop an Italian naval invasion while leaving France undefended...

  • @zirofastable
    @zirofastable 4 роки тому +15

    My grandma ( French ) has talked to me only once about the war, from 1940 till 1944. She told me how, horrified, she saw on the newspapers that the Germans were advancing inexorably toward her city ( Rouen ), and how she and her whole family had to leave because of the heavy fighting that started to occur in the city. They were now on the road, during the exode, with thousands of other french civilians, when German stukas bombed them ( I was playing as a stuka in a computer game and she recognized it ) and everyone died around them. Then how until 1944 they were terribly suffering from malnutrition, and that the only thing they cared about was that little ration card they had to show to the local provider to get a little bit of food.
    My point is that the crisis we're going through today, even if it shouldn't be taken lightly, is cat piss compared with what our elders went through and that a lot of people I know should stop complaining all the time

  • @jonnylee7053
    @jonnylee7053 4 роки тому +132

    "essentials like tea"
    I love my country

    • @3.2187_Kilometres
      @3.2187_Kilometres 4 роки тому +14

      So do I mate.

    • @frizzy9919
      @frizzy9919 4 роки тому +7

      *Walks to british in scottland*

    • @3.2187_Kilometres
      @3.2187_Kilometres 4 роки тому +6

      @Death Metal Mate nearly every country has killed more people than Hitler.

    • @3.2187_Kilometres
      @3.2187_Kilometres 4 роки тому +8

      @Death Metal Highly debatable, as what do we count as this "country kills" obviously we count wars and deaths by colonization, but do we count every death that ever happened in Britain. Besides it's impossible to pin down which country has indeed killed the most because lack of evidence and another thing why are you blaming us modern Brits? It's not like we were the ones who did all the horrific deaths so bringing up the "your country killed more than Hitler" is kinda pointless.

    • @jonnylee7053
      @jonnylee7053 4 роки тому +4

      My country is the only reason that hitler isnt in control of all of europe

  • @irnbru6418
    @irnbru6418 4 роки тому +56

    Fun fact in ww2 the RAF said they had night vision from carrots this was to hide that they had radar because we knew where german aircraft were
    I just remembered this

    • @taskforceboi8977
      @taskforceboi8977 2 роки тому +4

      German pilots proceeded to reqisition and consume untold amouts of carrots in an attempt to gain the same ability.

    • @tommcewan7936
      @tommcewan7936 2 роки тому

      There were also rumours during the war that the Germans had discovered some wonderful new vitamin that they were issuing to their troops and fighter pilots.
      It was actually amphetamines. There turned out to be downsides.

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 2 роки тому +1

      @@taskforceboi8977 Well no, the Germans also had developed a form of radar as well. They also used directional radio beacons to help their bomber squadrons to navigate. It wasn't perfect over such a long distance but it helped.

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 2 роки тому +2

      Yes, a lack of beta carotene can cause vision problems but an excess of vitamin K will not improve vision beyond a person's normal capacity. It can, however, give a person a faint orange tint to their skin.

    • @taskforceboi8977
      @taskforceboi8977 2 роки тому +1

      @@tessat338 oof, messed up, thanks

  • @CRENOKOGOD
    @CRENOKOGOD 4 роки тому +53

    Do a video on the invasion of Germany during the late war period

  • @obviouslytwo4u
    @obviouslytwo4u 4 роки тому +15

    I still have my ration book. With the way things are looking today , I might need it again.

  • @Jingles2423x
    @Jingles2423x 4 роки тому +53

    "Women painted their legs with gravy" WTF? There goes old gravy legs again....

    • @x6621
      @x6621 4 роки тому +9

      Yes, women wanted stockings so badly they would paint their legs with gravy; or those willing enough even became hookers for American soldiers so they could get stockings from America 😳

    • @CleoS-vx5pd
      @CleoS-vx5pd 4 роки тому +6

      It was tea! They painted their legs with the browned water from leftover tea leaves. Never heard of gravy legs!

    • @donaldboughton8686
      @donaldboughton8686 4 роки тому +3

      No nylons available. Some women have been known to get stocking seams tattooed on their legs.

    • @dp-sr1fd
      @dp-sr1fd 3 роки тому

      It was actually gravy browning powder and a little water I think. The seam at the back was put on with an eyebrow pencil. I suppose in the blackout you would not notice. Female vanity, a multi billion pound industry today.

    • @roonilwazlib3089
      @roonilwazlib3089 3 роки тому

      Delicious

  • @Plantrum
    @Plantrum 2 роки тому +26

    Fun fact: The whole "carrots are good for your eyes" thing was created around this time in britain because of the extensive propaganda surrounding home grown foods, such as carrots

    • @ismaeljimenez6562
      @ismaeljimenez6562 2 роки тому +6

      And throw off the Germans from figuring out about their radars

  • @josephattwell1006
    @josephattwell1006 4 роки тому +21

    2:17 Only the British would consider Tea an essential food.

    • @howardhamlin7386
      @howardhamlin7386 4 роки тому +1

      At the time it was an extremely popular drink. I mean we’re talking drinking it like water popular.

    • @generaladvance5812
      @generaladvance5812 4 роки тому +1

      It is essential though.

    • @3.2187_Kilometres
      @3.2187_Kilometres 4 роки тому +4

      Are you implying that Tea isn't essential.

  • @Lucky-be3oq
    @Lucky-be3oq 4 роки тому +45

    Brits in the 1940s:
    *T E A*
    Brits/All of humanity:
    *T O I L E TP A P E R*

    • @kenzozo34
      @kenzozo34 3 роки тому +2

      Asian i dont have such weakness

  • @pierre-mariecaulliez6285
    @pierre-mariecaulliez6285 4 роки тому +28

    7:05 FYI, the balloons you always see in this time period are 'interdiction balloons'. They are what they appear to be, except there is a grenade attached to the balloon, meant to detonate if a plane were to detach the rope...
    At the time, what people feared the most was (propeler) fighter planes strafing with machineguns or diving for a precision bombing run ! Interdiction balloons prevented exactly that as the plane would end up at very low altitude once done with its manœuvre, and likely collide with one such balloon, prompting an explosion that wooden planes of the era couldn't wistand !

    • @someguy1747
      @someguy1747 2 роки тому +6

      So that is what they were, I always assumed they were some kind of Early-Warning Observation Radar Airships for the RAF against the Luftwaffe.

    • @sarkybugger5009
      @sarkybugger5009 Рік тому

      Where on earth did you hear such rubbish?

  • @w.a.w.o3387
    @w.a.w.o3387 3 роки тому +16

    3:00 An addition to this video is that many of those supplies came from the British Commonwealth. Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. These merchant seamen from these nations risked their lives onboard ships without military escort guard until they reached at least the South or Mid Atlantic and were under constant threat from German U Boats operating as far as the Pacific and Indian Oceans. In order that Britain could continue the war effort these nations also went without, rationing their food sources so that Britain could continue to be fed.

    • @lightfootpathfinder8218
      @lightfootpathfinder8218 3 роки тому

      I agree the commonwealth played a important role in ww2 and were very brave in doing so however British merchant seamen did the exact same job as Canadian, Australian,new Zealand merchant seamen only to come back to there towns & cities in ruins and possibly there loved ones dead from the air raids

    • @GeorgeyTheApe
      @GeorgeyTheApe 2 роки тому +3

      @@lightfootpathfinder8218 Yeah I think the original poster is one of those people that would find fault if the British were to cure cancer tomorrow.

    • @lightfootpathfinder8218
      @lightfootpathfinder8218 2 роки тому +2

      @@GeorgeyTheApe lol I know what you mean.... unfortunately it's trendy to hate everything British at the moment

    • @lightfootpathfinder8218
      @lightfootpathfinder8218 2 роки тому

      @@reminiscence4142oh really?? Can you name me a single British extermination camp in India or name me any Indian women that were forcefully sterilised or disabled indian children that were murdered by British doctors🤔??? ...thought not!. Yes the empire was not perfect but to compare it to the Nazis is ridiculous. the only reason India is a democracy and that we have a "free world" today is because of the British empire. Britain stood alone against the combined dictatorships of the world and a lot of it's people died defending democracy so show some respect instead spouting your anti British rhetoric

  • @Dezzerray
    @Dezzerray 4 роки тому +23

    Inspector; "ah! waiter, bill please the meal was quite delicious"
    Waiter; "why thank you sir, we're glad yo-"
    Inspector; "BUT you're getting fined instead!"
    NANI!??

  • @archiegoddard2714
    @archiegoddard2714 3 роки тому +15

    Just re watching this and noticed at 0:38 , the ‘home guard’ depicted are the dads army characters.

  • @IrkenExile
    @IrkenExile 4 роки тому +10

    00:38 I got that reference immediately!! I love "Dad's Army!"

  • @dakotaraptor5918
    @dakotaraptor5918 4 роки тому +30

    2:42 “was”? Last I checked we still are 😂

  • @vickypedias
    @vickypedias 4 роки тому +4

    5:45 surely you don't mean that they only received that much a week? That's barely 2000 calories worth of food:
    1 egg - 90 cal
    4 oz marg - 50 cal
    4 oz bacon - 600 cal
    2 oz butter - 200 cal
    2 oz tea - 0 cal
    1 oz cheese - 70 cal
    8 oz sugar - 880 cal
    Total: 1890 cal.
    How could they stretch that for a week? That's beyond starvation level of diet, which requires 450-800 calories a day.

  • @1940sExperiment
    @1940sExperiment 2 роки тому +1

    Just a little support for keeping history alive C xxxx

  • @dteddy304
    @dteddy304 4 роки тому +27

    1 egg per week??? Fam, I use 3 eggs per day in my omelets lmao.

  • @asahelsmith9490
    @asahelsmith9490 4 роки тому +9

    I have more appreciation for my grandfather's ration book I inherited.

  • @bonktonk74
    @bonktonk74 2 роки тому +5

    ngl the weekly rations for a single adult sounds so little, it seems more fitting to be a breakfast rather than a whole week ( 5:29 )

    • @ianfinrir8724
      @ianfinrir8724 2 роки тому +3

      People managed to get by on it, though. Although there was also the British Restaurant which was used to either supplement your ration or used when you ran out of ration coupons.

  • @Station_Master_13
    @Station_Master_13 4 роки тому +13

    6:52 when you and your identical quadroplets are bored so decided to watch a man digging

  • @greg1938
    @greg1938 4 роки тому +13

    me: chillin during quarantine
    YT/Simple History: here's a video about rationing
    me: withdraw all cash to atm, listing essential items, buying those items,
    cupboard is now full of SPAM

  • @churchofpos2279
    @churchofpos2279 Рік тому +2

    Funny story about my English Grandma. Everyone was on high alert about German soldiers invading. One day she goes to use the bathroom and finds the door stuck closed. When she tries to open it, the door seems barricaded and she can hear what sounds like a growling sound behind the door. She thought that a German soldier had barricaded himself in her bathroom. She notifies the local police.
    The police come to the house and are able to partially break down the bathroom door. When they get into the bathroom, they find a very large, oversized teddy bear jammed in the bathroom. Seems one of the kids had left their teddy bear in the bathroom and it had become lodged near the door. The growling noise was from a growler unit in the teddy bear's tummy. It seems that everytime , some one tried to open the door, the door hit the growler in the the bear's tummy.
    True story.

  • @ghazghkullthraka9714
    @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 роки тому +39

    ‘Essentials like tea’
    GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

  • @matthewgibson8245
    @matthewgibson8245 4 роки тому +7

    I was in the middle of watching a simple history episode when I saw the notification. Switched over to this episode real quick!

  • @SamMorrison-n9b
    @SamMorrison-n9b 5 місяців тому

    My great grandmother told me stories about her experiences during the war. She was evacuated, and brought back by her brother. A story for another day.
    What stuck with me was the ingenuity and creativity of her, the family and people around her. How they used what they had, during and after the conflict. And how it defined them, and the new generation they brought up.

  • @Waldemarvonanhalt
    @Waldemarvonanhalt 3 роки тому +3

    My grandmother was born in 1943 and recalls rationing continuing in South Africa for years after WW2 ended.

  • @ModellingWeekly
    @ModellingWeekly 4 роки тому +11

    0:37 Dad's army reference? As in the people in the picture

  • @1Maklak
    @1Maklak 4 роки тому +1

    I like the barrage balloons in the background. It's such a nice touch. They're balloons shaped like blimps anchored to the ground with strong steel cables. They can sever an airplane wing if it hits a cable, so having them discourages bombardment.

  • @LS_Customs.
    @LS_Customs. 4 роки тому +17

    I like how we (british people) class tea as an essential oh i love Britain

  • @totallyfrozen
    @totallyfrozen 4 роки тому +9

    Wow! The WEEKLY rations were as much as most of us can eat in a day. You can see that the system relied heavily on the civilian population’s personal stock. Today, especially in America, most people laugh at “preppers” as being some fringe group of crazy people. During Hurricane Harvey and again during this coronavirus pandemic, I’ve seen people panic buying and hoarding all sorts of things. Recently, during the pandemic it was the toilet paper and cleaning supplies. AFTER the panic rush lead to shortages, I saw my stores rationing. I’ve seen the stores ration eggs, milk, bread, canned goods, bottled water, soap, hand sanitizers, toilet paper, and meats. During Hurricane Harvey, I also saw the local gas stations rationing gasoline! Preparation isn’t about building an underground bunker and stuffing it with bullets and gas masks. It’s about buying just a LITTLE extra every time you shop so you have a little stockpile of things. FEMA actually encourages prepping just like the British government did in the early 20th century. If you don’t provide some preparations for yourself, you be left at the mercy of the government, the mercy of hoarders, or you’ll end up being pushed into becoming a thief.

  • @justinpenney6841
    @justinpenney6841 4 роки тому +9

    I still have my grandmas ration book ❤️

  • @thebossman9176
    @thebossman9176 4 роки тому +9

    Great video (as always). Since we're already on rations topic,how about the rationing during the siege of Leningrad and how they grew their own food to survive until soviets broke through and the river allowed to get food and supplies in. Simple suggestion for Simple History.

  • @keithcorrigan658
    @keithcorrigan658 4 роки тому +8

    My father was a child in the north of England during WW2 he told me that the rationing made people healthier and this was visible in that generation of young people.I believe that rationing played a vital roll in the war effort !🇳🇿👩‍🎓🙈🙊🙉

    • @leechowning2712
      @leechowning2712 Рік тому

      I love seeing all the "we could never survive on that" when "that" was a 3,000 calorie diet, spaced over a week. If we have a hard time imagining surviving on 3,000 calories... suddenly the US/UK weight gains make sense.

  • @annalieff-saxby568
    @annalieff-saxby568 Рік тому +1

    I was born in 1950, and _just_ remember rationing. I lived in London, and there were still plenty of bombsites, and the big trees in my road had broad white stripes painted around their trunks, so people didn't bump into them during the Blackout.

  • @babalonkie
    @babalonkie 7 місяців тому +3

    The ending hit home...
    As it was officially the start of the and of the Empire... and it was not coerced into submission... it chose to spend what little it had left on Europe... after pumping everything else into trying to liberate Europe and Asia...
    I can think of more horrid ways of a Empire coming to an end...

  • @kennyflanders8337
    @kennyflanders8337 4 роки тому +40

    Hey Simple History do the battle of leyte gulf (the largest Naval Battle in History)

  • @lexsamreeth8724
    @lexsamreeth8724 Рік тому +2

    Young adult author Brian Jacques, the creator of the Redwall series, had clear memories of growing up during rationing. He cites it as a key influence for why the entire population in his books are foodies.

  • @yikes3011
    @yikes3011 4 роки тому +19

    It was hard being a soldier in WWII. Especially in the USSR!

    • @privyetcomrade4841
      @privyetcomrade4841 4 роки тому +3

      Yikes
      Ivan you have boolet in head, yuo must still drove.

    • @slick8038
      @slick8038 4 роки тому

      Not just a soldier as we can see from the video. It was hard being a civilian

    • @davidsi5376
      @davidsi5376 4 роки тому +1

      I think Germans had it worse buddy. They lost alot in the end and many had to escape.

    • @apple222sickly
      @apple222sickly 4 роки тому

      In ussr you become soldier then go to front line with no thing
      BUT WITH POWER OF RED ARMY!

    • @Cpt_Dibis
      @Cpt_Dibis 4 роки тому

      @@davidsi5376 they deserved everything they got