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Article: Anton Rippon Thank goodness for the regular columnist that conversation in the pub, unlike food half a century ago, is never subject to rationing.
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- Derby Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 11, 2007
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Thank goodness for the regular columnist that conversation in the
pub, unlike food half a century ago, is never subject to rationing.
It doesn't take much to start a debate in a pub. There I was,
sitting in the buzzing Rowditch Inn, with my next-door neighbour,
Peter Hampson, when someone mentioned that they'd enjoyed last week's
column about the end of food rationing in Britain.
The conversation quickly turned to that old chestnut about the
nation being in much better health when one week's post-war food
ration for an adult was probably the equivalent of what most of us
now eat comfortably in one day.
Peter, who, when he isn't keeping me company in pubs, writes the
rural affairs column for ...