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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7. "...and sugar, which was heavily rationed, and ate all three [bananas]."
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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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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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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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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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12. The way to understand Waugh & Compston-Burnett is they acted out of aristocratic resentment for wartime restrictions & leveling.
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13. Unexpectedly, wartime rationing actually improved diet of working class: giving them access to fruit that wasn't part of diet before
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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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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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16. RT @ANewInternet the late Brian Jacques remarked on the WWII years, and bananas specifically, as impetus for his constant food porn
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17. Another example of rationing leading to food porn: the career of food writer Elizabeth David.
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17. David specifically started writing after WWII (when rationing still in effect) trying to capture memories of lost meals.
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