"ROPEY" BREAD ON EXHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 8, 4 October 1917, Page 5

"ROPEY" BREAD ON EXHIBITION

WHAT BRITISH HOUSEWIVES WITNESSED. There was a gruesome exhibition of London war bread recently at the offices of the Britannia League of Housewives in London. Two of the most remarkable loaves, purchased from bakers in South and North London, were labelled, with a touch of acid humour, "Raspberry bread" and "Strawberry bread," on account of their peculiar, pungent odour. Both were only two days old, but quite uneatable. A specimen from East London, with a smell that it would be difficult to indicate in polite language,. was of the "ropey" sort—so ehcky in the middle that lumps of it adhered to one's fingers. Other loaves, though but a few days old, were a mass of mould. An even more horrible object was a couple of pounds of coarse flour and "foreign substances," ilivo with grubs, that had been sifted by <i baker from a sack of G.E. flour supplied liiin on July 5. Mr. William Lnwtnn. Ihe founder of Iho league, explained (o visitors (hat "ropey" bread is due lo a bacillus which pets its chance to become active on accoiinl of ihe way in which G.R. flour is