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Their own parents had instilled in them this view that you must finish your plate. They had experience of rationing. In the wake of WW2 clear into the 1950s,
by DrScump 10y ago
Their own parents had instilled in them this view that you must finish your plate. They had experience of rationing.
In the wake of WW2 clear into the 1950s, there were food shortages in Europe, with hunger and malnutrition. Even Americans were guilted into not wasting food. For example, Allan Sherman (an overweight Jewish American comedian, sort of a Weird Al Yankovic of his era) said in a song monologue:
'My parents would say, "clean your plate; children are starving in Europe!"
So, I would clean the plate.
Four, five, six times a day.'
- aembleton 10y agoTrue, my Dad born in 1952 had a ration book for the first couple of years of his life. He didn't remember that but for his parents it would all feel too recent.