{"id":201,"date":"2015-02-01T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2015-02-01T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T00:11:07","slug":"yes-we-have-no-bananas-or-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We Have No Bananas&#8230;or Oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=thewartimekit-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00G1XQ3JC&amp;asins=B00G1XQ3JC&amp;linkId=BZ6236TFTCYZ644A&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nImagine never having seen, or eaten, a banana? If you were a child born in the days of World War II in Britain, this would not have been uncommon. Imported fruits were hard to come by due to rationing;\u00a0the unavailability of &#8220;exotic&#8221; fruits due to the wartime bombing of ships prevented these items arriving safely at their destination. When, and if, these fruits became available, there were long queues to get those priceless bananas and oranges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wartime-banana-sandwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wartime-banana-sandwich-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Wartime-banana-sandwich\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wartime-banana-sandwich-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wartime-banana-sandwich.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the onset of rationing, oranges and bananas disappeared from the shops.Fresh oranges did\u00a0occasionally arrive safely by ship from America &#8212; but they were rationed and\u00a0restricted to children only.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimeoranges.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimeoranges-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"wartimeoranges\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimeoranges-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimeoranges.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The British government and the Ministry of Food were concerned that people, especially children, had essential\u00a0quantities of basic foods to stay healthy, and that staying healthy was an important part of the war effort.<br \/>\nDoctors were regularly sent to\u00a0schools to check the nutritional needs and general good health of children. Schools were supplied with Virol (formerly Virolax), a\u00a0liquid laxative made from sweetened bone marrow, that was given weekly to children to &#8220;keep them regular.&#8221; Virol was eventually discontinued during the war as it was too costly to manufacture.\u00a0Even in the days of rationing, poor children were guaranteed meals to keep healthy. To avoid the onset of scurvy and rickets, children under five were given doses of\u00a0cod liver oil; those under three got daily portions of regular or instant dried milk, and the all important orange juice. Mothers were able to get\u00a0bottles of cod liver oil and concentrated orange juice (both shipped to Britain\u00a0by the United States) that were distributed at\u00a0British Welfare Centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimemother-dont-forget-babys-cod-liver-oil-and-orange-juice-wwii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimemother-dont-forget-babys-cod-liver-oil-and-orange-juice-wwii-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"wartimemother-dont-forget-babys-cod-liver-oil-and-orange-juice-wwii\" width=\"234\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimemother-dont-forget-babys-cod-liver-oil-and-orange-juice-wwii-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wartimemother-dont-forget-babys-cod-liver-oil-and-orange-juice-wwii.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine never having seen, or eaten, a banana? If you were a child born in the days of World War II in Britain, this would not have been uncommon. Imported fruits were hard to come by due to rationing;\u00a0the unavailability of &#8220;exotic&#8221; fruits due to the wartime bombing of ships prevented these items arriving safely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}