The Second World War II was an era of
thrift and self-suffiency. Government campaigns entreated the resourceful
British to turn their potato peelings into costume jewellery, grow mushrooms in
their Anderson shelters, use their shirt buttons as currency, lay their own
eggs, and even hibernate.
This poster was one of some to encourage
scavenging. At a time when most of the country’s food supplies were
requisitioned to feed the pigs that provided pork to the workers who melted
down railings to make armaments to destroy enemy food supplies, survival was
often a matter of eating whatever could be sourced.
Other campaigns promoted the consumption
of roadkill, rare birds’ eggs and invalids.
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