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WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942
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Or as we Americans call it, "brunch".
The Brits referred to American GIs in the UK as "Overfed, oversexed, and over here" (some versions have 'overpaid' instead of 'overfed')
To which Americans developed a response - that Brits were underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower!
I only see one egg.
Y’know in France, one egg is un oeuf.
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
Yes but it's eggceptional.
Yes it is. That is an ostrich egg.
I could only express my feelings on this if I was an anime character!
Including the block of sugar and the tray