Parsnip Sandwiches?!

This story has been transcribed and published by Mark Jeffers, with permission from the author.

After the war things were just so scarce that you couldn’t have got a lot of things. It went on for a good while and I remember one night we went to a Navy for Navy men and they were giving out sandwiches. A sailor says to the woman with the sandwiches “What’s in that?” and she says “Banana.” Of course I helped myself. But it was a actually parsnips, it was mashed parsnip with a banana flavouring and you could have sworn you were eating banana sandwiches. Of course these sailors thought they were getting banana sandwiches too!

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