Jeannie-Ju Missing from the list is sweets! 3 ozs a week of sweets and/or chocolate. Apart from being rationed, sweets were often very hard to come by. If you know anyone with the "Dad's Army"dvds, there is a brilliant scene in one episode where 17 year-old
Private Pike explains why he always takes his ration in "hundreds and thousands" - which we wouldn't even think of as ...