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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      3. June, 1946. A shipment of bananas arrives. Government makes it priority to give bananas to children, many of whom have never eaten one

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      4. Laura Waugh secures three bananas for her oldest children, Theresa, Auberon and Margaret. They sit at table, ogling the fruit.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      5. Enters the paterfamilias, Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited. He demands all the bananas be put on his plate.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      6. Auberon Waugh's account: ."before the anguished eyes of his children, [Evelyn Waugh] poured on cream, which was almost unprocurable..."

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      7. "...and sugar, which was heavily rationed, and ate all three [bananas]."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      8. The great banana heist was a shattering event for Auberon. After that, he could never take his father's views on morality seriously.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      9. Surprisingly or perhaps not surprisingly, Evelyn Waugh wasn't the only English writer who enjoyed hoarding fruit from malnourished kids.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      10. During WWII, novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett buckled against common habits other adults had of giving rationed oranges to neighborhood kids

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      11. Ivy Compton-Burnett on why she didn't share: "My need is greater than theirs. They have that nasty yellow bottled stuff at school."

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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      12. The way to understand Waugh & Compston-Burnett is they acted out of aristocratic resentment for wartime restrictions & leveling.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015

      13. Unexpectedly, wartime rationing actually improved diet of working class: giving them access to fruit that wasn't part of diet before

      3:53 PM - 7 Mar 2015 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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          14. Conversely, the leveling effects of war hit hardest the culinary habits of aristocrats and would-be aristocrats like Waugh.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Mar 2015
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          15. It's no accident that Waugh's wartime novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) filled with food porn, lavishly described remembered meals.

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        1. Ben Thapa‏ @beebeetaps 7 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet How much is due to Chuchill/British govt purposefully taking food away from Bengalis et al (as in the 1943 Bengali famine)?

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        1. sean gallagher‏ @gallaghers 7 Mar 2015
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          @HeerJeet I remember reading about CSLewis and the BBC broadcasts that he made, sandwiched in with food programmes about growing veggies

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