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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18. David's earliest recipes were for things completely fantastical in rationed England: i.e. how to stuff & roast a whole sheep.
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19. This is not to defend Waugh & Compton-Burnett (who are indefensible) but to give a wider context for their actions.
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20. As a closer, I'll say Waugh & Compton-Burnett are examples I know of. Query: were their others who didn't want to share fruit with kids?
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@johnsonpenelope Sure, but they lost more so were fiercer in protecting their turf and whatever fruit was on it.
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