"Perhaps I'm hard to please
When I was younger.
I didn't much care what I ate or drank or smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you
would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.
You see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be put off with anything less than White Horse?
admit that perhaps I am hard to please -- but take it from me, it pays."
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The time is fast approaching when the con- sumption-goods industries in Germany, with the risen 10s exception of the food trade, may be unable to meet the daily demand created to would-be purchasers.
Apart from the lack of raw materials, the pre- ference which, under the Four-Year Plan, has to be shown to foreign export contracts is putting a ably low severe strain on manufacturers.
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The chief difficulties in the Christmas budgets provinci of German households were presented by the scar- city of dairy produce.
As promised by Field-Marshal While prices as a whole have not recently varied greatly, there has Goering, Commissioner for the been a noticeable decline in the Four-Years' Plan, less maize flour mixed into broad dough, available supply of butter, eggs,|ia now veal and pork. The price of pork with the result that bread and rolls are now somewhat whiter than has risen to some extent. I
hitherto. To compensate for the adul- absence of maize, however, teration with potato flour has in- creased, so that little improvement in flavour or consistency has been achieved.
WHITE HORSE
WHISKY
You can tell it blindfold!
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Housekeeping is apt to be haras- sing work when, after arranging a luncheon menu and waiting for some time
in a food queue, the housewife finds that there are no supplies of the meat she requires. Buying domestic supplies is liable to become a kind of foraging ex- hastily pedition, on which one snaps up a pound or two of what- ever happens to be on sale at the time.
It is impossible for a butcher to receive orders in advance. He never knows from one day to the next what meat he will be in a position to sell.
BUTTER RATION CARDS
There has been little change of late in the situation as regards-but- ter, for which ration cards are still issued. While the amount allowed per head varies from time to time and from place to place, the usual ration per week amounts to about 6oz or 61⁄2oz per person.
The butter is, however, of poor quality and has a pale, unappetis- ing appearance. White specks are occarnally to be found in it.
Eggs are now extremely scarce and almost all those available are imported. Restaurants in fashion- able streets frequently by foreign- ers can still produce eggs, though they are rarely conspicuously fresh.
The seem to come from almost
AVERAGE PRICES
The following lists shows prices prevailing in average Berlin shops at the moment. The mark has been calculated at the par rate of 20 to the £, which gives a fairer view of the situation than the present ex- change rate of 12 to the £. German pounds have been converted into English pounds.
Milk, poor quality, 13⁄4d per pint.
Bread, pound.
off white, 23⁄41⁄2d per
Eggs, foreign, 11⁄2d each. Pork, scarce, 1s 7d per pound. Veal, scarce, is 7d per pound. Apples, 8d to 81⁄2d per pound. Totmatoes, 51⁄2d per pound.
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Oranges, usually unobtainable, 81⁄2d each.
A circumstance which is adverse-
every country in Europe, or evenly affecting poor families this win- ter is that the price of coal has from the Argentine.
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I TOLD YOUR FATHER' TO ASK HIS 8055 TO GIVE MY BROTHER A JOB-1 DON'T KNOW IF HIS BOSS KNOWS MY BROTHER —
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HERE COMES JIGGS-HE'S HOME EARLY
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WELL-I ASKED THE BOSS TO GIVE YOUR BROTHER A JOB- THAT'S WHY I'M HOME EARLY-
SO-YOU CAME HOME EARLY TO TELL ME THE NEWS-
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