Custard and Bananas

It was ordinary village life, as far as I was concerned during the war- but things were very hard to get with the rationing. I know one shop-keeper here at Oakengates: a fruitier who also sold fresh fish and that. If she had a commodity in that was scarce, you’d got to buy something else that wasn’t scarce too.

Bananas were very, very rare; you’d have to buy, say, a tin of custard powder to be able to get your bananas.

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