FOOD ECONOMY VAGARIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 February 1918, Page 5

FOOD ECONOMY VAGARIES.

A correspondent writes to an English paper:— "It would be comic were it not for the gravity of the food situation to give a list of the various and contradictory ideas about economy which prevail up and down the country." "During the last few weeks I have had to travel to various districts in the British Isles. Everywhere in the hotels and restaurants I haye, found, with scarcely an exception, a serious economy in the consumption of bread and meat.

"But why should it be sinful to ask for toast, which is refused at Folkestone, while at Eastbourne toast is often served instead of bread? "At Sheffield, when 1 asked for a fried egg without bacon the waitress looked shocked and said tbTat fried eggs had been forbidden for some time. But I could have had boiled eggs asd bacon.

"At the tea room at Victoria Station, London, a poached egg was not to be had, but boiled eggs—certainly. "In Harrogate bread is served in small squares, a very economical method, but there was a ridiculously small helping of vegetables at a time when they are most plentiful.

"At Stranraer, in Scotland, I was surprised to find the loaves placed en the table for guests to help themselves ad lib.

"In towns like Birmingham and Manchester there seemed to less econ omy than anywhere."