Sugar Once a Month.

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I remember that you’d get sugar once a month and if you went through that you’d have to make do with saccharin’s, you’d get an egg each, tinned stuff and fruit was more or less a luxury. Meat was scarce and you couldn’t buy a lot of sweet stuff.

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