BIG DRIFT ALERT

"The standard 1-1/4lb white loaf came in 2 varieties - sandwich (square section) or tin (a harder crust on a raised top). The latter was best for toasting on a toasting fork in front of the fire. Both varieties sold for fourpence ha'penny." ====

Historical note: this 4½d was the 'controlled price' in the late 40s. Altho the War was well over, there was still rationing, & what the idiot Labour Government of the time called "austerity". They pretended it was necessary to keep us on even keel while getting over effects of the war; but in reality it was all down to that puritanical fool Sir Stafford Cripps who loved being in control so that he could make everybody suffer for his own sadistic socialistic work ethic which outlawed all enjoyment of anything. Meanwhile, W Germany was just rebuilding & putting own real work ethic into place so that they flourished thruout the 50s while we continued to decline, so that we, as people said, had "won the war but lost the peace". All the fault of those idiot upper-class [he was SIR Stafford Cripps Bart] public-school [Attlee had been at Winchester] bullies, Cripps, Attlee, et al. This was what made the name of 'socialism' stink in the nostrils of the decent British public to this day; so that any Labour poltician who went to the polls with anything approaching real 'socialist' policies from then on was doomed: leading inevitably to the haverings & evasions oif Wilson & Callaghan & the idiocies of the present pathetic Blair/Brown 'New Labour'. of which nuff said.

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End of history lesson. End of drift. Back to the bread...