The English still underplay how the limits
they once endured through rationing
during - and long after - WW2 continue.
That was when, among many other moves
The Coalition Government of the day
reduced the recipes of commercial bakers
used to make bread with to just four choices.
A second rule was that all bread was sold
the day after it was made-were it sold sooner
it would taste too good and be eaten too soon
and in those days food really had to last.
The bread controls were like the popular press
had been for longer than folks could think beyond.
The recipe numbers were the same the owners
of the popular press. The flavours the news came in
were as formulaic as their owners could make them.
Even today the headlines are as fresh
as if it were minted several days before
-or from several decades ago.
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