{"id":269,"date":"2015-10-05T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2015-10-06T22:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T03:27:23","slug":"and-none-for-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And none for the pot&#8221;"},"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=B0071IQ19I&amp;asins=B0071IQ19I&amp;linkId=HBX4ZH2V4D4SHG4D&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><\/p>\n<p>No one can doubt the importance of tea in British culture. The phrase &#8220;I&#8217;ll put the kettle on&#8221; led to the all popular &#8220;cuppa&#8221; bringing\u00a0comfort to the British public in times both good and bad. \u00a0With the onset of war in 1939, tea was not initially rationed. \u00a0The rise of supply ships being sunk by German submarines\u00a0led to the government taking over the control of food and prices, and tea eventually became rationed along with meat, sugar, butter, and other necessary foodstuffs. The Ministry of Food\u00a0took even more drastic action to safeguard tea. Within two\u00a0days after war broke out, the transfer of all\u00a0tea to warehouses outside London was implemented to protect the morale-boosting product in case of air raids. After the Nazi blockade of supply ships, tea was rationed to 2 ounces per person, per week, for those five years of age and older. This ration made for rather weak tea, and only two to three cups per day, but\u00a0soldiers and war workers were issued extra rations of tea. A patriotic poem was written when tea rationing was introduced:<\/p>\n<div><em>Cup of Tea, Cup of Tea <\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>You Are Just the Thing for Me<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>No Milk, No Sugar,\u00a0<\/em><em>No Parsley in my cup of Tea<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>No Mint, No Thyme, No Red Red Rose<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em> Just Give Me Normal by the Hose<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>So keep your ration book in Hand <\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>And we&#8217;ll drink tea across the land<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>And an extra cup for Granny, too <\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>And all our dashing lads in blue.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, made regular radio broadcasts on &#8220;The Kitchen Front,&#8221; a program broadcast on the BBC. He greatly proclaimed that all Britons must save on tea. He said &#8220;Here&#8217;s a new slogan for wartime: One {teaspoon}\u00a0per person, and none for the pot!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation1.jpg\" alt=\"tearation1\" width=\"236\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" src=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation3-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"tearation3\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation3-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tearation3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Rationing of tea lasted throughout the war. Due to the continued rationing of food postwar, most rationing of goods including tea, did not end until 1952.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can doubt the importance of tea in British culture. The phrase &#8220;I&#8217;ll put the kettle on&#8221; led to the all popular &#8220;cuppa&#8221; bringing\u00a0comfort to the British public in times both good and bad. \u00a0With the onset of war in 1939, tea was not initially rationed. \u00a0The rise of supply ships being sunk by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/269"}],"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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}