My parents lived through the Great Depression and WW2 - I'm in my 70's. I remember stories of those times, and recipes my mother would routinely make that she learned during those hard times. There were some very tasty dishes, and we learned the value of soups, the broth being made from leftover bones and kitchen scraps, then frozen for future use. I still follow a lot of these frugal habits, and even on a small retirement income can eat well from those lessons learned in childhood.
Many of the signs of malnutrition in US armed force recruits and industrial workers were actually an effect of the Great Depression, from which the American economy was still recovering at the dawn of WW2. One of the main reason people were turned away from voluntary enlistment in the US Army was that they were too short / underweight, largely as a consequence of an impoverished diet during childhood.
Exactly. The 1970s were a hungry time in the US also, and when I joined around 1980, I was small and underweight. They told me to eat bananas to "make weight" well, I couldn't afford bananas but I drank a lot of water before stepping on the scale and just made it. Going into the army was great, the food was great.
@@alexcarter8807 this is what my grandfather did. He was underweight so he ate some bananas to meet the requirements for the Navy. He was also 16 but lied about that.
You eat less food than this today. The normal wartime ration was 3000 calories per day because people were more active back then. There was a show where somebody tried eating a wartime meal for a week and they complained how heavy and fatty it was.
Found food ration stamps in dads trunk, his eyes got big, and shared story of the effort during war years back then. The War started on his 5th birthday Dec 7th. Gramps went from day job as a butcher, to making planes at North American Aviation in El Segundo. By the way, recycling was the practice as nothing could be wasted. For Victory🇺🇸
All the love to your dad and grandpa, Joe! There are so many beautiful stories of the extraordinary sacrifices made by very ordinary people. Even little boys and girls would collect scrap metals, papers, etc., for the war effort. Everyone knew they had a stake in the outcome of the war. In that way, it was a beautiful time in America. I cherish every one of these personal stories, and I hope others do too (especially young people). My mom, who was twenty when the war started, shared stories of families pooling their ration cards so that they could bake a cake, make a special holiday meal, etc. Wonderful stuff!
@@iriscollins7583 I'm absolutely sure of that Iris, but I think Americans/Canadians were willing to do their best for the war effort, regardless of conditions. The French, British, Russian, and many other peoples in Europe, were heroic in the way they did whatever necessary to persevere. I once met two Czech women back in 1973. They were on holiday in Naples, and I was a young sailor of nineteen. I engaged them in conversation about the war and one of them told me a dramatic story: The Nazis were in Pilsen, and engaged some partisans in a brief firefight on the street where she lived. During all the shooting, a horse was killed and lay dead in the street. Once the fighting was over, women came out of nowhere with their kitchen knives and butchered the poor animal minutes after the shooting stopped. She was a young mother at the time, and she said she was filled with joy because she now had meat to feed her little ones. The impact of this story on a young teenaged sailor, provided tremendous respect for all people who endured WW ll
Interesting to note that British food rationing only ended on July 4 1954 with the lifting of purchase restrictions on meat and bacon-9 years after the end of the war.
The reason that it took so long to lift the restrictions on meat and bacon is because so much of the wartime British agricultural system required culling of the herds of cows, sheep and pigs to free up the land that had been formally used for grazing to grow crops. It was decided the land was far more useful grow food for human beings than grass for animals. The waste food that had formerly been used to feed pigs didn't exist so pigs had to go. Britain lost some of its old varieties of animals due to the war.
Fortunately my family ancestors were farmers before,during and after WW 2 .. They did not starve and helped ensure those that lived in the City did not starve either .. I'm proud of that
Jeez 35 cents for a chopped sirloin steak? With inflation that rounds out to be 5$ of today’s currency. Hard to find a restaurant that serves a 5$ steak
Saw films like this in home economics all through high school and once a month nutrition films were shown in gym class as a study day with a quiz after.
During WW2 when my father's ship was docked in England, he had made friends with a British Customs Official. My father, due to his Naval rank of Captain, was always able to "requisition" things from the ship's galley like butter, fresh eggs, and other things as a gift for his friend. The Customs Official had two little girls, and my father wanted them to have things that were severely rationed.
JAG312, my father served in the British Army during WWII and he would trade his mre rations (meat dinners)for vegetarian in order that the other soldiers could gain more strength. Our British soldiers were very thin, but they were able to carry on❣️🇨🇦
Well, increasing the amount of vegetables in school lunches did cause an uproar in Obama's times. Mrs. Obama's kitchen garden was ridiculed. Nowadays, fried potatoes and ketchup count as vegetables again, and the WH kitchen garden isn't even mentioned anymore. The president gifts young visitors with hamburgers and sodas. 🇺🇸
@@MariaMartinez-researcher I know... my comment was a bit "tongue in cheek". But it's a sad state of affairs that healthy nutrition is seen as a partisan issue.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher lets be honest, people in america don't care about thier diet. as long as people have the luxury of being fat, you can bet that alot of people will choose being fat over eating something healthy.
@@adm0iii I'm not going to follow the diet in this video. But seeing people in hard times and having to make the most of everything they have makes me feel ashamed of my eating habits lol.
My family were farmers during WW2 they got extra rations for gas. My family was well fed and subsequently dad and his five brothers grew to be men of 6 ft plus. They had a dairy operation and made butter also. They also raised goats and hogs. Along with chickens . The chickens were also a commercial egg production. No one smoked ... The rationing was a money maker for them.. they got ration books but didn’t use many of them because they were self sufficient .. so they sold them. The depression was catastrophic health wise to folks in the cities. Dad said they were poor but the depression really didn’t affect them because barter became such a big thing. The war brought in a little better money thing to save resources they used the horses more and instead of driving the truck to town they would hitch the wagon. He said that grandpa enjoyed using the horses but had to use the tractor to insure production. My grandpa never stopped using the horse and wagon to go to town. On my way to the bus in 1972 to go into the service we passed him heading to the feed store with his horse drawn wagon. He use to brag that a car tire on a wagon would last ten or fifteen years....
Much more so than lettuce and peanut butter. The fact that it was specially reserved for children was also a bit disturbing. The only thing at par or worse is castor oil, derived from the same source as one of the most effective nerve gasses.
My father was in elementary school during the war. Apparently rice wasn't rationed, and he got steamed rice almost everyday at school. To this day he doesn't care steamed rice
Those who could have a garden or raise animals were much better off than those without. Poor people in the big cities, or who had food but pledged to the farmer, like the share cropper, often had malnutrition, a condition that had been accepted as the “normal” lot of the poor.
I’m glad I’m eating a very nutritious and diverse diet it really makes a difference in your life to supply your precious body with the precious nutrients found in food
@@biscuithammer00 It WAS socialism. And the socialists took over in England, and rationing continued AFTER the war. In the US, the socialists would have kept rationing going, but the people voted them out.
Because after the war came the biggest economic boom the world had ever seen, sustained for many years. As Cadillacs, houses, and pay packets got bigger, convenience also became a priority in the 'jet age'. Automats were a huge thing at one time, and of course in car obsessed America soon came the drive-in. Then came Ray Kroc. Then came super-size. Then came Uber Eats. Meanwhile the rest of the world, by and large, does without most of that as they have always done. Here in Canada there was a big kerfuffle in the 70's, as the government came to realize that the unhealthy lifestyle they could see developing was causing problems with fitness and poor health, and so launched the 'Participaction' program. Lots of people bought into it, and in time it was fairly effective. In the US even Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't get people moving.
No wonder some men in their 70's now look like they are in better shape than the majority of young men are in. They must have been helping their moms and sisters grow food while the adult men were off to be fighting in the war.
@@rokuthedog The wartime shorts shown with newsreels - Our Daily Bread" and "Australia - South-West Pacific" (both 1943) were important, to get Aussies to co-operate with wartime food rationing - and in "South=West Pacific" - to show British and American audiences that Australia was "doing its' bit" in wartime manufacturing and food supply". P.S. I didn't know that we supplied rations for the Allied armies (inc. New Zealand) - in the Italy campaign. Plus feeding the 1m. Aussies in uniform and the 1m. U.S. servicemen here and in the South-West Pacific. In1943 Brisbane had a population of 300,000 - plus 80,000 U.S. servicemen and our own troops ! Both films were shot by director Ken Hall at the Cinesound studios in Sydney - Note the use of back-projection in some scenes (e.g. factories). I think the two women in the London home scene, may have been Ada and Elsie - two well-known Aussie comedians. If other women actors were used, there were a number of vising British actors who were stuck in Australia during the war, due to no passenger shipping or airlines. One was Atholl Fleming - as the ever-popular "Mac", he hosted the ABC's "Argonauts" school kids show from 1941 to 1972 and signed-off with "Argonauts - Good Rowing !" (from ex-Argonaut Peleus 23 )
@TheRenaissanceman65 Maybe they have trouble seeing what they type, maybe their caps lock key is stuck or maybe they haven't been on the Internet long enough to know that some over-officious cunts think it's "shouting".
@@paulrossi4863 soy has been a large part of Asian diets but not so damn much many Americans eat here. Soy is used in their soy sauce and tofu. Then they have their fermented soy such as Natto and Miso. Also soy has been around in Asia since 1100 BC and has been grown in Illinois since 1851. Soy originally was used as animal feed since the government recommended it for that. Even cars made by Ford in the 1930s used plastic made from soybean. Soybean has been around for a long time and has been eating in various was or used as materials. It's just the recent blow up of soy that changed it. I wouldn't eat it all the time but that doesn't mean I shouldn't eat it at all. Back in these day they thought white bread was healthy. Everything is good as long as you portion it out.
@steve gale depends what you buy and you can even make it at home since it's really simple but lazy so I but the "organic" stuff since it sounds healthier but I slather it in butter so whatever
@@bryanmartinez6600 i est soy products everyday and i would say im pretty healthy, and my country has practically the same diet as me, and its one of if not the healthiest nation in the world.
My Mom did NOT get three balanced meals per day. She was poor and although they had a garden, they were feeding and boarding anywhere from a few to 20+ relatives from the city who’d otherwise suffer from literal starvation.
Amen to that. I'll never forget my mom feeding me Miracle Whip and then one day I discovered mayonnaise. I insisted on switching to real mayo, and it was one of the rare times she listened.
No sell by days in those days you ate every thing you could when you could but my mam always had a big black iron on the fire with somthing cooking god bless her🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪
I would love a chance at walking in the shoes of the past for a year or 2 to see how I'd fare, and vice versa for the person I took place of to see how they'd fare. The food looks healthier there than in our time tbh.
The nutrition and quality what people eat today has nothing to do with a different time or era but everything with you as the individual. If you threw away your fridge and just learn to cook real food instead of choosing the lazy route big macs or frozen products. Too many people have become lazy is the issue
@@MrWolf-kd8yh are you insane...? There is so many extra additives and preservatives and newer "proteins" in food that was never a thing back then cause chemistry was still in its infant form. That was a foolish thing to just say, like you know me and my habits or how I eat. Who tf are you mr. Perfect acting like you are the only one in the world that cooks.
@@andrewwhite1985 oh please cook some beans and vegetables yourself and you'll be as healthy as ever. He's right and you know it. Nobody is forcing you to eat ready-made-anything!
@@Dewkeeper 🤦♂️ you apparently dont understand either. I'll just let someone else get to you if they feel like it. I on the other hand do not feel like breaking it down for you.
Everyone in High school should have to take a one hour class on nutrition and food prepairedness once every month for their high school careear but I guess that is government control.
idk about you, or where you are from, but growing up in the US during the early 2000s all we got in school was nutritional information shoved down our throats constantly with short videos, morning announcements, etc.
@@elijahhmarshall Did they actually teach you how to cook anything, or was it just random information? I was in high school in the 90s and we had an actual cooking class everyone took in their junior year.
@@FunSizeSpamberguesa in middle school we had a cooking class that was mandatory, but in elementary school and high school it was just a bunch of required videos we had to watch in class about nutrition.
Literally not true. The CIA concluded that the soviets and Americans had similar nutritional intake. I can try to link the findings but feel free to google the results yourself.
@@biscuithammer00 Maybe the Soviet troops, thanks to American aid and of course, the Party bigwigs ate well, but the avg citizen, esp. in the cities? Nope.
Maybe we should all go back to war time rationing. We would be healthier. My mom had her first newborn then and was told a teaspoon of peas had all the nutrients the baby would need besides breast milk.
I wished we would. To many times I find it easier to hit a fast food joint of any sort and get a burger and fries. and while I think they shouldn't shut down I wish that they had more, like a chicken pot pie one day and then something like a PB and J special then a chicken day and so on and so forth, easy to make and pass out but a mix of everything you could want, even fucking MRE's that aren't ass at a drive threw would be amazing in the working mans day and age.
This video illustrates the theory.....the practice was somewhat different. Cheating on ration coupons was hardly a rare occurrence; some people printed their own.
My mother's dad got into trouble due to some of those counterfeit ration coupons. He ran a grocery store and accepted some of the high quality counterfeit coupons. My mom said grandpa had poor vision and shouldn't have been working the register. Grandma usually worked that area. When grandpa turned in the coupons the government agent ordered him held as a suspect counterfeit coupon printer. Back then there was no Miranda Warning. Cops could hold you in jail for weeks while they investigated further. Eventually the law enforcement agencies decided he really was just a store owner who got some high quality fakes and not a part of some criminal counterfeit coupon printing organization in Chicago.
David Hoffman It was some of my Dad’s relation from Chicago (Dad was away at the time making life interesting for Japanese people) who suggested to our branch of the family that they start printing their own coupons- which they politely declined.
I suggest just going with the old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories. Stick with real food. While I understand why margarine was used, it is pure poison.
You can learn to build up good soil. You need to work in organic matter and it can be anything, lawn clippings, dead leaves, etc. Steer manure is a good thing to add too.
It has nothing to do with the sport ! It is the first work day after Christmas, where you have the opportunity to give gifts to labourers who serve you.
And a 9 year economic depression can do wonders. Fast foods became popular partly because parents of the 1950's don't want a return to hunger like they experienced back in the 1930's...
@@alexcarter8807 both fdr and hoover are responsible for the great depression. Hoover made it bad by increasing tarrifs and fdr made it worst due to price controls and high taxes prolonging it.
From Warmuseum.ca By 1939 Canadian agriculture was recovering from the worst of the Great Depression. There was some additional production on hand, particularly wheat, to meet the requirements of war. The federal government in Ottawa immediately set up an Agricultural Supplies Board to meet the food needs of Canada as well as overseas orders. In March 1943, the government created the more powerful Agricultural Food Board to bring together all production in a single programme. Canada received a seat on the Allied Combined Food Board in 1943, in recognition of its gigantic contribution to this vital part of the war.nearly 1.5 billion kilograms of bacon, more than 325 million kilograms of cheddar cheese and similarly large quantities of other meats and butter were sent to Britain during the war. Whole eggs were converted to egg powder and milk was condensed, making it easier to ship. Processing plants in Canada dehydrated cabbages, carrots, onions and potatoes. It was hardly gourmet food, but it helped Britons to keep going in a hard war in which they were on the front line. Canadian farmers made these prodigious wartime efforts in spite of a steady shortage of labour. Young people left farms for the armed forces or better-paying jobs in industry. However, temporary help from students, home defence soldiers and prisoners of war, along with a group of harvesters who moved from one region to another, eased the shortages. So too did the putting off of compulsory military service for farmers' sons and farm labourers
We ate BLT’s often when I was a kid. Often w/o the B or the T parts. Peanut butter was spread on to increase the calorie content and add some protein to our diet. Pretty humble food. I had no idea we were on the verge of starving.
Many of the roots of the low animal fat, high carb, high sugar and high vegetable oil diet can be traced back to this era. Long after WWII is forgotten, the diet will be remembered; not fondly, but as one of the strangest and most deadly events of the 20th century.
+soylentgreenb I wrote that the TREND started in the 1970s, as in the low-fat "health" fad. The pseudoscience was earlier but the average person didn't pay it any mind until the anti-fat propaganda started to spread in the 1970s.
soylentgreenb indeed. I enjoyed finding a couple books on Gutenberg from the time. Food at war, I think one was named. Reading it was interesting since most of the "recommended" replacements are now known to be some of the worst health dangers now.
I've read that Britain has never been more healthy, metabolically, than they were during the 2nd world war due to rationing. Less binging, less access to unhealthy (and unnecessary) food.
RonJohn63: It's delicious. I was raised on peanut butter & lettuce sandwiches, and it’s my favorite. Iceberg lettuce is the best to use for this sandwich, because it is crisp and mild. The lettuce cuts the richness of the peanut butter and adds moisture and texture to the sandwich, much as it does with a hamburger. If you like peanut butter and celery, you’ll like a PB&L sandwich. Use a hearty bread - soft white is overwhelmed by this.
Problem isnt food its people to stupid and weak willed to eat smart and healthy they act like kids instead of adults they see 5 dollar meal with a salad and they say no but they will spend 10 dollors to eat shit greasy food with fries and then bitch when their medical bill shows up with a monthly insulin payment
Wow. Back in the old days, America was a great country. Everyone was happy and smiling. Nowadays, you see grumpy, angry people doing road rage on the freeways.
Also the USA had a hard time getting supply ships to England because a lot of the waters in the Atlantic were occupied. They were trying to starve out the English, which is just a dirty sad way to win a war. :(
@@Metalman200xdamnit starve out the enemy bastards. Kill as many as you can. We should stop the agencies sending food and medicine to enemy countries. Stop prolonging everyone's misery. Let the foreigners die.
Of the many government films that I've seen urging good choices in World War II, this one is rather poor. They missed many opportunities, in the choice of some of the shots, in bits of the script, and most of all in the narrator's reading of the script. It would be very interesting to try to make a better version of it.
McDonald's doesn't make you fat OR lazy. Many Olympic athletes eat McDonald's and other fast food--and crazy amounts of it, too--to get the calories their bodies need.
@@joeytrimble1558 can vouch for rita its not as bad as you think it is i havent been wearing masks or following social distance for a month and counting and no illness this is coming from a guy who used to extremely and strictly lockdown for 7 months
@Rita Roork Oh my goodness...hello fellow sane person. I don't wear a mask either! My hidden disability prevents me from being able to wear one. My hidden disability being... SKEPTASEMIA!
I guess dental hygiene wasn't all that important back then? Just looking at the Surgeon General teeth, that wasn't at all his priority. Just saying you need teeth to eat those nutritional meals. lol
My parents lived through the Great Depression and WW2 - I'm in my 70's. I remember stories of those times, and recipes my mother would routinely make that she learned during those hard times. There were some very tasty dishes, and we learned the value of soups, the broth being made from leftover bones and kitchen scraps, then frozen for future use. I still follow a lot of these frugal habits, and even on a small retirement income can eat well from those lessons learned in childhood.
Thanks 😊 for sharing that’s awesome 😎
snap out of it lol if you are in your 70s spurge, travel and experience the world before it's too late for you. You ain't getting any younger.
"Sandwiches of ... Peanut butter can be made more appetizing if lettuce is added"
No. They can not.
Bruuuuh
NO!
They tried.
no
Dill pickle goes great with peanut butter in a sandwich.
Many of the signs of malnutrition in US armed force recruits and industrial workers were actually an effect of the Great Depression, from which the American economy was still recovering at the dawn of WW2. One of the main reason people were turned away from voluntary enlistment in the US Army was that they were too short / underweight, largely as a consequence of an impoverished diet during childhood.
Very true. Interesting to look at wartime videos of British soldiers alongside German soldiers to notice such a difference/
It's my understanding that that was what prompted the Federal school lunch program in America.
Exactly. The 1970s were a hungry time in the US also, and when I joined around 1980, I was small and underweight. They told me to eat bananas to "make weight" well, I couldn't afford bananas but I drank a lot of water before stepping on the scale and just made it. Going into the army was great, the food was great.
Kinda makes sense now when someone told me that 5'7"-5'8" was still solidly average decades ago but now is on the short side.
@@alexcarter8807 this is what my grandfather did. He was underweight so he ate some bananas to meet the requirements for the Navy. He was also 16 but lied about that.
To me watching this makes me appreciate my food more. This should be shown in history classrooms for kids to see.
Agreed. Films like this are very educational.
Have you seen what kids eat in school?
30 million Americans don't have enough to eat. They don't need to watch old filmstrips to understand food shortages; they're living it.
@@chessthecat I said this should be shown in schools. Schools have children from different backgrounds.
You eat less food than this today. The normal wartime ration was 3000 calories per day because people were more active back then. There was a show where somebody tried eating a wartime meal for a week and they complained how heavy and fatty it was.
Found food ration stamps in dads trunk, his eyes got big, and shared story of the effort during war years back then. The War started on his 5th birthday Dec 7th. Gramps went from day job as a butcher, to making planes at North American Aviation in El Segundo. By the way, recycling was the practice as nothing could be wasted.
For Victory🇺🇸
All the love to your dad and grandpa, Joe! There are so many beautiful stories of the extraordinary sacrifices made by very ordinary people. Even little boys and girls would collect scrap metals, papers, etc., for the war effort. Everyone knew they had a stake in the outcome of the war. In that way, it was a beautiful time in America. I cherish every one of these personal stories, and I hope others do too (especially young people).
My mom, who was twenty when the war started, shared stories of families pooling their ration cards so that they could bake a cake, make a special holiday meal, etc. Wonderful stuff!
@@uralbob1 Well I suppose not having the threat of bombs being dropped on you helped.😊
@@iriscollins7583 I'm absolutely sure of that Iris, but I think Americans/Canadians were willing to do their best for the war effort, regardless of conditions.
The French, British, Russian, and many other peoples in Europe, were heroic in the way they did whatever necessary to persevere.
I once met two Czech women back in 1973. They were on holiday in Naples, and I was a young sailor of nineteen. I engaged them in conversation about the war and one of them told me a dramatic story: The Nazis were in Pilsen, and engaged some partisans in a brief firefight on the street where she lived. During all the shooting, a horse was killed and lay dead in the street.
Once the fighting was over, women came out of nowhere with their kitchen knives and butchered the poor animal minutes after the shooting stopped.
She was a young mother at the time, and she said she was filled with joy because she now had meat to feed her little ones.
The impact of this story on a young teenaged sailor, provided tremendous respect for all people who endured WW ll
@@uralbob1 With the stories that have come out from Venezuela, I can marginally uderstand why that would have been a good day for her
Love it! I can never get enough of these stories related to the 1940s and/or the war effort.
"Desk workers, also under strain, need energy foods, too." After the last couple of weeks working in the corporate office of a restaurant, I'LL SAY!
Interesting to note that British food rationing only ended on July 4 1954 with the lifting of purchase restrictions on meat and bacon-9 years after the end of the war.
And it cemented the cliche of bad british cuisine for decades
@TheRenaissanceman65 The UK was made broke by the war. Europe was starving. They were trying to feed the Europeans, too.
@TheRenaissanceman65 Sorry, not trying to be patronizing.
This was 0 because England, and the other Allies, stepped in to feed the losing countries..
The reason that it took so long to lift the restrictions on meat and bacon is because so much of the wartime British agricultural system required culling of the herds of cows, sheep and pigs to free up the land that had been formally used for grazing to grow crops. It was decided the land was far more useful grow food for human beings than grass for animals. The waste food that had formerly been used to feed pigs didn't exist so pigs had to go. Britain lost some of its old varieties of animals due to the war.
Fortunately my family ancestors were farmers before,during and after WW 2 .. They did not starve and helped ensure those that lived in the City did not starve either .. I'm proud of that
Jeez 35 cents for a chopped sirloin steak? With inflation that rounds out to be 5$ of today’s currency. Hard to find a restaurant that serves a 5$ steak
35 cents in 1943 dollars is $6.20 in 2023.
That was life on the gold standard. There was no inflation
Saw films like this in home economics all through high school and once a month nutrition films were shown in gym class as a study day with a quiz after.
During WW2 when my father's ship was docked in England, he had made friends with a British Customs Official. My father, due to his Naval rank of Captain, was always able to "requisition" things from the ship's galley like butter, fresh eggs, and other things as a gift for his friend. The Customs Official had two little girls, and my father wanted them to have things that were severely rationed.
JAG312, my father served in the British Army during WWII and he would trade his mre rations (meat dinners)for vegetarian in order that the other soldiers could gain more strength. Our British soldiers were very thin, but they were able to carry on❣️🇨🇦
@Christina Reynolds That's the Navy word for kitchen.
imagine the uproar today if the government dared to suggest people change their eating habits.
I"LL HAVE MA DEEPFRIED KOOL AID WHEN I WANT IT
Well, increasing the amount of vegetables in school lunches did cause an uproar in Obama's times. Mrs. Obama's kitchen garden was ridiculed. Nowadays, fried potatoes and ketchup count as vegetables again, and the WH kitchen garden isn't even mentioned anymore. The president gifts young visitors with hamburgers and sodas. 🇺🇸
@@MariaMartinez-researcher I know... my comment was a bit "tongue in cheek". But it's a sad state of affairs that healthy nutrition is seen as a partisan issue.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher lets be honest, people in america don't care about thier diet.
as long as people have the luxury of being fat, you can bet that alot of people will choose being fat over eating something healthy.
HeAlThY aT EvErY sIzE
Fun fact: look up the health minister of Belgium
As Napoleon said "An army marches on its stomach"...same could be said for civilians during war time.
Watching this makes me realize that how lucky we are that we didn't get to experience this
This motivates me to eat more healthily.
Stay away from margarine though.
@@adm0iii I'm not going to follow the diet in this video. But seeing people in hard times and having to make the most of everything they have makes me feel ashamed of my eating habits lol.
My family were farmers during WW2 they got extra rations for gas. My family was well fed and subsequently dad and his five brothers grew to be men of 6 ft plus.
They had a dairy operation and made butter also. They also raised goats and hogs. Along with chickens . The chickens were also a commercial egg production.
No one smoked ...
The rationing was a money maker for them.. they got ration books but didn’t use many of them because they were self sufficient .. so they sold them.
The depression was catastrophic health wise to folks in the cities. Dad said they were poor but the depression really didn’t affect them because barter became such a big thing.
The war brought in a little better money thing to save resources they used the horses more and instead of driving the truck to town they would hitch the wagon.
He said that grandpa enjoyed using the horses but had to use the tractor to insure production.
My grandpa never stopped using the horse and wagon to go to town. On my way to the bus in 1972 to go into the service we passed him heading to the feed store with his horse drawn wagon. He use to brag that a car tire on a wagon would last ten or fifteen years....
GREY MARKET
I miss my grand parents ! Remember my grandfather telling me about rations when he was a child in America.
My mother signed all my brothers into the military when they were 17. She said it makes the boys grow.
The thought of cod liver oil still gives me the heebeegeebees
Much more so than lettuce and peanut butter. The fact that it was specially reserved for children was also a bit disturbing. The only thing at par or worse is castor oil, derived from the same source as one of the most effective nerve gasses.
You can get it in a capsule now.
We just gonna ignore how hard dude hit the ground from the plane at 2:02 😂😂
We were tough back then.
Ezilyspeed he near bounced back to the jump point.
Lol he got up and was like "I'm good!" Wheeze "walking it off, I'm good!"
Let's you know why we say it isn't the fall that hurts...but the sudden stop.
Parachute didnt have its vitamin D that day.
Can you imagine if people were asked to ration, or even just reduce these days. 😳
Only a pound of cheese, half a pound of butter and six eggs?
Hard times 😥
My father was in elementary school during the war. Apparently rice wasn't rationed, and he got steamed rice almost everyday at school.
To this day he doesn't care steamed rice
Rice is the most widely grown crop in the world.
Those who could have a garden or raise animals were much better off than those without. Poor people in the big cities, or who had food but pledged to the farmer, like the share cropper, often had malnutrition, a condition that had been accepted as the “normal” lot of the poor.
Back when America provided for itself. Now it outsources everything
Margarin? Cereals? That's cheap fake trash food. This video promotes eating less real healthy food and to replace it with f margarin and cereals.
@@wjdyr 🙄🙄🙄
@@wjdyr like the trash in the supermarkets now. Boycott that crap.
the opening of this sort of sounds a little like the opening of the Wizard of Oz
I’m glad I’m eating a very nutritious and diverse diet it really makes a difference in your life to supply your precious body with the precious nutrients found in food
People didn't waste food back then like they do now
They'd call it socialism if we tried this shit today.
@@biscuithammer00 Bullshit. Your ignorance of economic systems is massive.
@@biscuithammer00 It WAS socialism. And the socialists took over in England, and rationing continued AFTER the war. In the US, the socialists would have kept rationing going, but the people voted them out.
@@SaulBadd The Socialists loved World War I and World War II because it enabled them to grab an unprecedented amount of power.
@@SaulBadd lol. Looks like you were wrong buddy
Now I’m wondering how we went from here to now
Right? Was thinking the same
Because after the war came the biggest economic boom the world had ever seen, sustained for many years. As Cadillacs, houses, and pay packets got bigger, convenience also became a priority in the 'jet age'. Automats were a huge thing at one time, and of course in car obsessed America soon came the drive-in. Then came Ray Kroc. Then came super-size. Then came Uber Eats. Meanwhile the rest of the world, by and large, does without most of that as they have always done. Here in Canada there was a big kerfuffle in the 70's, as the government came to realize that the unhealthy lifestyle they could see developing was causing problems with fitness and poor health, and so launched the 'Participaction' program. Lots of people bought into it, and in time it was fairly effective. In the US even Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't get people moving.
No wonder some men in their 70's now look like they are in better shape than the majority of young men are in. They must have been helping their moms and sisters grow food while the adult men were off to be fighting in the war.
Great video
This is a great video. Too bad we have forgotten how good food affects our bodies.
See also these short Australian films from 1943 - Our Daily Bread and Australia - South West Pacific.
thanks! i love these old films
@@rokuthedog The wartime shorts shown with newsreels - Our Daily Bread" and "Australia - South-West Pacific" (both 1943) were important, to get Aussies to co-operate with wartime food rationing - and in "South=West Pacific" - to show British and American audiences that Australia was "doing its' bit" in wartime manufacturing and food supply". P.S. I didn't know that we supplied rations for the Allied armies (inc. New Zealand) - in the Italy campaign. Plus feeding the 1m. Aussies in uniform and the 1m. U.S. servicemen here and in the South-West Pacific. In1943 Brisbane had a population of 300,000 - plus 80,000 U.S. servicemen and our own troops ! Both films were shot by director Ken Hall at the Cinesound studios in Sydney - Note the use of back-projection in some scenes (e.g. factories). I think the two women in the London home scene, may have been Ada and Elsie - two well-known Aussie comedians. If other women actors were used, there were a number of vising British actors who were stuck in Australia during the war, due to no passenger shipping or airlines. One was Atholl Fleming - as the ever-popular "Mac", he hosted the ABC's "Argonauts" school kids show from 1941 to 1972 and signed-off with "Argonauts - Good Rowing !" (from ex-Argonaut Peleus 23 )
WE HAVE A GARDEN AND WE NEVER GO HUNGRY WE HELP OUR NEIGHBORS TOO WE ARE BLESSED PEOPLE TO LIVE IN AMERICA
@TheRenaissanceman65 Maybe they have trouble seeing what they type, maybe their caps lock key is stuck or maybe they haven't been on the Internet long enough to know that some over-officious cunts think it's "shouting".
Thank God that fast food didn't exist back then or people would be dropping coming out the door of Taco Bell and Mickie Dee's.
Well one things for sure, probably weren't any SoyBoys in those days.
@@paulrossi4863 soy has been a large part of Asian diets but not so damn much many Americans eat here. Soy is used in their soy sauce and tofu. Then they have their fermented soy such as Natto and Miso. Also soy has been around in Asia since 1100 BC and has been grown in Illinois since 1851. Soy originally was used as animal feed since the government recommended it for that. Even cars made by Ford in the 1930s used plastic made from soybean. Soybean has been around for a long time and has been eating in various was or used as materials. It's just the recent blow up of soy that changed it. I wouldn't eat it all the time but that doesn't mean I shouldn't eat it at all. Back in these day they thought white bread was healthy. Everything is good as long as you portion it out.
@steve gale depends what you buy and you can even make it at home since it's really simple but lazy so I but the "organic" stuff since it sounds healthier but I slather it in butter so whatever
@@bryanmartinez6600 i est soy products everyday and i would say im pretty healthy, and my country has practically the same diet as me, and its one of if not the healthiest nation in the world.
Fast food existed since the days of the ancient romans. You know very little about our ancestor's diets and eating habits.
My Mom did NOT get three balanced meals per day. She was poor and although they had a garden, they were feeding and boarding anywhere from a few to 20+ relatives from the city who’d otherwise suffer from literal starvation.
And we can thank the war for the worst creation... Miracle whip
Amen to that. I'll never forget my mom feeding me Miracle Whip and then one day I discovered mayonnaise. I insisted on switching to real mayo, and it was one of the rare times she listened.
We need more of these Government type of program.A nation government is to better its people and the nation has a whole.
No sell by days in those days you ate every thing you could when you could but my mam always had a big black iron on the fire with somthing cooking god bless her🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪
I would love a chance at walking in the shoes of the past for a year or 2 to see how I'd fare, and vice versa for the person I took place of to see how they'd fare. The food looks healthier there than in our time tbh.
I always say the same thing, if I had a time machine! Food WAS healthier, less processed and perhaps less pollutants as today.
The nutrition and quality what people eat today has nothing to do with a different time or era but everything with you as the individual. If you threw away your fridge and just learn to cook real food instead of choosing the lazy route big macs or frozen products.
Too many people have become lazy is the issue
@@MrWolf-kd8yh are you insane...? There is so many extra additives and preservatives and newer "proteins" in food that was never a thing back then cause chemistry was still in its infant form. That was a foolish thing to just say, like you know me and my habits or how I eat. Who tf are you mr. Perfect acting like you are the only one in the world that cooks.
@@andrewwhite1985 oh please cook some beans and vegetables yourself and you'll be as healthy as ever. He's right and you know it. Nobody is forcing you to eat ready-made-anything!
@@Dewkeeper 🤦♂️ you apparently dont understand either. I'll just let someone else get to you if they feel like it. I on the other hand do not feel like breaking it down for you.
Everyone in High school should have to take a one hour class on nutrition and food prepairedness once every month for their high school careear
but I guess that is government control.
idk about you, or where you are from, but growing up in the US during the early 2000s all we got in school was nutritional information shoved down our throats constantly with short videos, morning announcements, etc.
@@elijahhmarshall Did they actually teach you how to cook anything, or was it just random information? I was in high school in the 90s and we had an actual cooking class everyone took in their junior year.
@@FunSizeSpamberguesa in middle school we had a cooking class that was mandatory, but in elementary school and high school it was just a bunch of required videos we had to watch in class about nutrition.
An hour a month? We did three hours and twenty minutes a week.
Thought I better take a look at this what with coronavirus causing shortages. Glad I have chickens. And 2 acres.
You are very blessed. Certainly if we all had our backyard gardens as our parents did, often with chickens we would be far better off at the moment
Soviet Nutrition: No food
Literally not true. The CIA concluded that the soviets and Americans had similar nutritional intake. I can try to link the findings but feel free to google the results yourself.
@@biscuithammer00 Maybe the Soviet troops, thanks to American aid and of course, the Party bigwigs ate well, but the avg citizen, esp. in the cities? Nope.
@@biscuithammer00 tell that to the Ukraine population. Oh wait. They all starved to death
@@cshaffer1847 Feel free to dispute the CIA's findings. They have no reason to lie about this.
@@biscuithammer00 I'm not disagreeing but is that about the population or the military? What timeframe?
Thanks
We are moving back tword this. Sad.
What a title for a chart! "Foods That Are the Principle Sources of the Food Constituents".
The ending music is "Soldiers of the Queen".
Thank you for sharing this. I've learned that this diet can reverse heart disease.
This made me hungry.
Maybe we should all go back to war time rationing. We would be healthier.
My mom had her first newborn then and was told a teaspoon of peas had all the nutrients the baby would need besides breast milk.
We'd also be able to more freely redistribute food to the needy. Supply has never been the problem, only distribution.
I wished we would. To many times I find it easier to hit a fast food joint of any sort and get a burger and fries. and while I think they shouldn't shut down I wish that they had more, like a chicken pot pie one day and then something like a PB and J special then a chicken day and so on and so forth, easy to make and pass out but a mix of everything you could want, even fucking MRE's that aren't ass at a drive threw would be amazing in the working mans day and age.
We live in a free country and the government should not make us eat what they want us to eat. They should educate us so we want to eat good.
@@danr1920 what do you mean by a free country?
@@danr1920 against powerfull agro-lobbies spending billions on advertising and trying to persuade the lawmakers ? Good luck.
This video illustrates the theory.....the practice was somewhat different. Cheating on ration coupons was hardly a rare occurrence; some people printed their own.
My mother's dad got into trouble due to some of those counterfeit ration coupons. He ran a grocery store and accepted some of the high quality counterfeit coupons. My mom said grandpa had poor vision and shouldn't have been working the register. Grandma usually worked that area. When grandpa turned in the coupons the government agent ordered him held as a suspect counterfeit coupon printer. Back then there was no Miranda Warning. Cops could hold you in jail for weeks while they investigated further. Eventually the law enforcement agencies decided he really was just a store owner who got some high quality fakes and not a part of some criminal counterfeit coupon printing organization in Chicago.
David Hoffman It was some of my Dad’s relation from Chicago (Dad was away at the time making life interesting for Japanese people) who suggested to our branch of the family that they start printing their own coupons- which they politely declined.
I’m in no way suggesting we do it but a couple of years of wartime rationing wouldn’t do UK public health any harm just now…
I suggest just going with the old 1950s British diet in the prologue of Good Calories, Bad Calories. Stick with real food. While I understand why margarine was used, it is pure poison.
I can't grown anything in my yard. Too much clay.
You can learn to build up good soil. You need to work in organic matter and it can be anything, lawn clippings, dead leaves, etc. Steer manure is a good thing to add too.
I REPEAT, EAT TO DEFEAT! (Boxing Day is just around the corner!) 😂
Judith Nagle what is Boxing Day ?
It has nothing to do with the sport ! It is the first work day after Christmas, where you have the opportunity to give gifts to labourers who serve you.
@@wandaperi : Thanks, but she could have easily found that out. ✌
Look how thin they are. The right foods and exercise really works.
Seven million starved to death during FDR's depression.
Ok boomer
@@Arthur_McGowan It wasn't FDR's depression it was Hoover's depression. FDR is the one who got us out of it.
And a 9 year economic depression can do wonders. Fast foods became popular partly because parents of the 1950's don't want a return to hunger like they experienced back in the 1930's...
@@alexcarter8807 both fdr and hoover are responsible for the great depression. Hoover made it bad by increasing tarrifs and fdr made it worst due to price controls and high taxes prolonging it.
Aint the intro the sample to Chief Keef I Don't Like?
9:06, the guy to the left looks like Martin luther king
How many who watched this have grandparents who go mental if you don't finish your plate of food?
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I think it would stop the obesity crisis if certain foods were rationed! People were healthier in the War.
From Warmuseum.ca
By 1939 Canadian agriculture was recovering from the worst of the Great Depression. There was some additional production on hand, particularly wheat, to meet the requirements of war. The federal government in Ottawa immediately set up an Agricultural Supplies Board to meet the food needs of Canada as well as overseas orders. In March 1943, the government created the more powerful Agricultural Food Board to bring together all production in a single programme. Canada received a seat on the Allied Combined Food Board in 1943, in recognition of its gigantic contribution to this vital part of the war.nearly 1.5 billion kilograms of bacon, more than 325 million kilograms of cheddar cheese and similarly large quantities of other meats and butter were sent to Britain during the war. Whole eggs were converted to egg powder and milk was condensed, making it easier to ship. Processing plants in Canada dehydrated cabbages, carrots, onions and potatoes. It was hardly gourmet food, but it helped Britons to keep going in a hard war in which they were on the front line.
Canadian farmers made these prodigious wartime efforts in spite of a steady shortage of labour. Young people left farms for the armed forces or better-paying jobs in industry. However, temporary help from students, home defence soldiers and prisoners of war, along with a group of harvesters who moved from one region to another, eased the shortages. So too did the putting off of compulsory military service for farmers' sons and farm labourers
Coming again soon.
We eat way to much nowadays. That's for sure.
they were obsessed with milk back then
Sound advice
After watching this!, I have no idea how I'm still alive!!. 🤔🤣
7:50 Peanut butter and lettuce? Anyone ever eat those in the same sandwich voluntarily?
You do what you gotta do to smash the enemies.
I never thought of putting lettuce on a PB sandwich, but I am going to go make one now.
For real lol. Like you can’t have a peanut butter sandwich and a simple side salad 😂
Some people like peanut butter on celery, so lettuce might be alright.
We ate BLT’s often when I was a kid. Often w/o the B or the T parts. Peanut butter was spread on to increase the calorie content and add some protein to our diet. Pretty humble food. I had no idea we were on the verge of starving.
Many of the roots of the low animal fat, high carb, high sugar and high vegetable oil diet can be traced back to this era. Long after WWII is forgotten, the diet will be remembered; not fondly, but as one of the strangest and most deadly events of the 20th century.
+soylentgreenb No, low-fat, high-carb trend started in the 1970s
+bronhi Ancel Keys famous piece of scientific fraud that became a corner stone of the lipid hypothesis was created in the 40's.
+soylentgreenb I wrote that the TREND started in the 1970s, as in the low-fat "health" fad. The pseudoscience was earlier but the average person didn't pay it any mind until the anti-fat propaganda started to spread in the 1970s.
soylentgreenb indeed. I enjoyed finding a couple books on Gutenberg from the time. Food at war, I think one was named. Reading it was interesting since most of the "recommended" replacements are now known to be some of the worst health dangers now.
7:00 Butter and lard are on that food chart.
Great, now I'm hungry for a sandwich
I've read that Britain has never been more healthy, metabolically, than they were during the 2nd world war due to rationing. Less binging, less access to unhealthy (and unnecessary) food.
Whats the deal with all the penut butter
@Rita Roork that sounds l7ke something wartime/crisis nutritioners make up to keep the people docile enoug
at 2:28 that baby looked stocked about canned food again
Cod liver oil for children during wartime.
cod liver oil - tran
It prevents the rickets
2:49?! ... just saying...
That... That looks very wrong 😂😂
Student life
It's hard to believe that there so old now
Most are dead. If someone was 20 yrs. old in '43, they'd be 97 or 98 yrs. old now. There are very few WWII vets still alive.
Hello, RUclips algorithm
7:44 Peanut butter and lettuce???
RonJohn63: It's delicious. I was raised on peanut butter & lettuce sandwiches, and it’s my favorite. Iceberg lettuce is the best to use for this sandwich, because it is crisp and mild. The lettuce cuts the richness of the peanut butter and adds moisture and texture to the sandwich, much as it does with a hamburger. If you like peanut butter and celery, you’ll like a PB&L sandwich. Use a hearty bread - soft white is overwhelmed by this.
I prefer PB and dill pickle on rye bread.
No tofu?
Tofu?Ick!!!!
during WWII? are you crazy?
As far as meat went, I don't think rationing affected people who hunted or fished
What happened? The food nation of the world have become blimps, clearly the 'education' material was flawed.
Grow up
Yeah...its all about food.
Now we have fatter but not necessarily better America.
Problem isnt food its people to stupid and weak willed to eat smart and healthy they act like kids instead of adults they see 5 dollar meal with a salad and they say no but they will spend 10 dollors to eat shit greasy food with fries and then bitch when their medical bill shows up with a monthly insulin payment
While the British india was starving.
I look at this and all I can think is "the scouring of the Shire" from the end of Lord of the Rings.
Wow. Back in the old days, America was a great country. Everyone was happy and smiling. Nowadays, you see grumpy, angry people doing road rage on the freeways.
you was happy like that if you wasn't dark skinned
ok boomer, retirement home is looking for you
@@lindsaymacpherson8782 uh..news flash.. they still arent happy today.
racist bunch of religious fuckers they were. (still are, bloody trumpians)
I see you are easily swayed by propaganda.
Nothing like gardening in a dress
Also the USA had a hard time getting supply ships to England because a lot of the waters in the Atlantic were occupied. They were trying to starve out the English, which is just a dirty sad way to win a war. :(
It might be underhanded,but one way to win is to disrupt the line of supply.
@@Metalman200xdamnit starve out the enemy bastards. Kill as many as you can. We should stop the agencies sending food and medicine to enemy countries. Stop prolonging everyone's misery. Let the foreigners die.
7:40 : American State: "American Workers must eat peanutbutter and salad sandwiches."
That's the junk new yorkers ate (hence why trump is so stupid)as he was from New York!
Of the many government films that I've seen urging good choices in World War II, this one is rather poor. They missed many opportunities, in the choice of some of the shots, in bits of the script, and most of all in the narrator's reading of the script. It would be very interesting to try to make a better version of it.
Then along came GMO's and ruined all the food.
Go Navy I eat that stuff up😁👍🇺🇸🎗
Well all that effort worked well in America, huh!
Just about everyone in this film was thin.
My grandfather was 5’1” tiny build. My Dad 5’8” why these horrible rations. I’m 6’4” 267lbs.
@Mercer MM maybe you will. I raise cattle. 😂
@Mercer MM Pffft , yeah right. You and what army bro? 🤣
A peanut butter and lettuce sandwich? Well, peanut butter on celery is good, so maybe.
No!
It's actually quite good.. add some sliced banana and it's very very good!
@@Nunofurdambiznez No!
A hard NO to liver!!! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮 yes I have tried it .. gross!!!
No McDonalds back then making us all fat and lazy
Fast food drive in start3d after WW I, White Castle and A&W started in 1921. Yes we had it.
McDonald's doesn't make you fat OR lazy. Many Olympic athletes eat McDonald's and other fast food--and crazy amounts of it, too--to get the calories their bodies need.
Führer McCheese :P
could you imagine if they tried this now?! people wont stay inside to stop the spread of a plague lmfao they'd be screaming
@Rita Roork we're proud of ya dip shit
@@joeytrimble1558 can vouch for rita its not as bad as you think it is i havent been wearing masks or following social distance for a month and counting and no illness this is coming from a guy who used to extremely and strictly lockdown for 7 months
@Rita Roork Oh my goodness...hello fellow sane person. I don't wear a mask either! My hidden disability prevents me from being able to wear one. My hidden disability being... SKEPTASEMIA!
@Rita Roork you're right.
@Rita Roork You’re right and you should say it. So many are acting like this is the end of the world and it’s absolutely ridiculous.
I wonder how many people watching this are aware of what 'sweetbreads' are?
Ender
sweetbreads and liver are bad for those with gout.
I wonder how many people know what gout is?
@@jamesbulldogmiller Gout's a fairly common issue with the Atkins diet.
Thymus glands of sheep
More than one would think, thanks to Dr H. Lecter.
I guess dental hygiene wasn't all that important back then? Just looking at the Surgeon General teeth, that wasn't at all his priority. Just saying you need teeth to eat those nutritional meals. lol
Dental 🦷 hygiene was important, but the science 🧪 and technology of Dentistry was still in the stone 🗿 ages! thank you 🎌 🚩