Food rationing for the English as a whole actually meant an improvement in nutrition, reflected in improved health. Might not have tasted too good, but nor did what most people had before. That's probably why, having been born then, I see food as fuel rather than a major thing in my life - I like it to taste good, but so long as it's edible and does the trick of keeping me going, that's the main thing

I'm still puzzled at how angry people seem to be feeling about all this. It seems that any suggestion that people eat too much is like accusing them of some depraved activity, and to use the word "fat" is the ulktimate insult. Obviously it'd be better if we were all a lot nmore equal round the world, and God willing somehow in time that'll come to be.

Now if John Evans' bit of mild breast-beating annoyed people, try this for size (and maybe change the identity countries round a bit to fit the turn of the Millennium) - A Modest Proposal