6 Wartime Foods | British Pathé

[@Everyoneelsewastaken]

Haha I love the humour in these clips.

[@britishpathe]

So do we! All best, BP

[@tomservo56954]

@@britishpathe Why there will always be an England

[@tw15t3dup5]

That was the English culture that everyone says we dont have. Cannot even joke anymore. Food was 100% more nutritious than the processed foods of today.

[@windwoman3549]

There is a food bus here called "London Calling." Pasties, sausage rolls, and British soft drinks and candy, etc. A British guy & his American cousin started it. Very successful - they're branching out. They even have a heated/air-conditioned double-decker red bus for customers to eat in, if they so choose. Super nice people, great pasties! I crave them in the winter - not so much though in the summer, when it's 107 F. in the shade.

[@urbanmech8064]

@@GTVAlfaMan it's called the London Calling... pretty self explanatory.

[@GTVAlfaMan]

Aspiring Champion I looked it up a month ago and discovered that it is in Springfield Missouri, not London, England.

[@urbanmech8064]

@@GTVAlfaMan ok

[@cryptidian3530]

Great business sense!

[@liverpool4ever552]

This is the BEST channel on KZbin ......

[@Nyckname]

@@suzannereilman4516 Sheffield forever!

[@cheeskybohlam]

Agree

[@달구름-i5h]

indeed :)

[@lesleyswindells2431]

@@Nyckname Macclesfield forever!!! I have family in sheffield also

[@gillyjames9609]

Up the Reds mate 👍 from a fellow scouser .. also, yes, this is a gear channel xx

[@earlystrings1]

“Under the War Office scheme, she can learn to become the perfect wife ...” 😍🤣

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Or she can volunteer to fight the Japanese in Burma.

[@steveosshenanigans]

The prefect wife ......there’s no such thing !

[@rosrychaplet]

It's always a "scheme" in the commonwealth

[@bernadettec6386]

@@steveosshenanigans Oih!!! 😀

[@OffGridInvestor]

Give me a perfect wife, war office.

[@LiamVideos]

when he said "I'd knock my grandmother down" I was like *OMG*

[@ReportsOnChina]

Liam ... “for a freshly laid cackle berry.” LOL

[@MYERZ08]

Think what he'd do to his poor old granny for a chocolate bar

[@jojojojo4332]

​@@MYERZ08 wait until he heard of how many chocolade cakes he could eat around the 1970's

[@angelaberni8873]

Nostalgic, lovely to revisit.

[@admiralradish]

Im an American i love watching your channel its a nice look back on a time that was way before my existence.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Oh what a treat! I loved every nano-second of this one, too! Like Oliver Twist, may I request: 'More please!'

[@britishpathe]

Glad you're enjoying it Daniel. All best, BP

[@michaelfurgessons2896]

2:52 hey that's pretty good! Next month maybe do medicine during war.

[@britishpathe]

We like that idea, will add it to our suggestions list. All best, BP

[@PacoOtis]

Thanks for sharing and the best of luck and may we always remember what our ancestors went through!

[@tessat338]

It's kind of heart wrenching to hear about the Christmas puddings going out to Alexandria, Gibraltar, Malta, and Singapore. As the war got going Alexandria, Malta, and Gibraltar were bombed. Malta was mercilessly blitzed for 100 days more than was England, was running out of food, fuel, and ammunition and was about to be surrendered when relief ships finally made it through in August of 1942. Singapore was overrun by the Japanese in February of 1942. It was not relieved by the British until after the Japanese surrender in September of 1945.

[@pata299]

parts of that Scottish "Potato" script I still use while shopping!

[@spacecentergames]

"...ignoring the chance for a dirty crack..." 0:47 😂

[@jeanmuehlfelt7942]

Cackleberries! I remember my folks saying that. I sure wish I had all those egg shells for my garden and orchard!! :-)

[@GTVAlfaMan]

Egg shells are good for your plants?

[@RICDirector]

If you want lots of eggshells, talk to the local fast food restaurants if you can still find any that crack their own....you can also get coffee grounds that way.

[@RICDirector]

@Sheila T. don't have to EAT there...just take out some of their trash....LOL

[@RICDirector]

@Sheila T. Say what? Their trash is my garden's gold....

[@franklee4289]

I've never heard an egg referred to as a 'cackleberry' before!

[@pitbullwinkle]

Me either, but it was funny.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

I'm reintroducing it into conversations ....

[@Droodog127]

cackleberry is hen fruit

[@scottmitchell8273]

Bumnuts !

[@yfelwulf]

Bum Nut

[@Qolus]

"I'd knock over my grandmother for a fresh cackleberry." You would WHAT?? :O

[@Knasius_Maximus]

it would be amazing if you could find some of the people on all these videos you have and show it to them, I bet you some of them don't even know or remember that they were filmed and if you do film they reaction and hear the backstory :) I would love to see that.... keep em coming :)

[@frederic.marquis7361]

Can you imagine if they were in their 20s in 1938 how old they would be nowadays ?? 120 yo !!! Please think a little bit before posting !!

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

@@frederic.marquis7361 .. They are fooking dead.

[@aureliusmarcus1817]

Yeah, that'd be great. Imagine those 40 year old women seeing themselves now, 82 years on. Amazing.

[@sharid76]

@@cavhutch - "Ireverent" - not a serious, "proper" or reverent comment or issue; in a comic, improper or funny implication. "Irrelevant" - not relevant or pertinent to an issue; not applicable to the current circumstance. Which one did you mean?

[@sharid76]

Yeah, that would be very interesting, except that anyone who was a 20 year old adult in 1940 would have been born in 1920, making them now (in 2020) about 100 years old!?🤔 Considering the general life expectancy of people born in the late teens-early twenties of the 20th century was a good bit shorter than that - even people who were born 50 years later are STILL not reaching 100 years life span - it's highly unlikely that these folks would still be around to tell the tale! And, considering that many of the males in this video could still possibly be caught up in the draft, (unless physically unfit for service,) and sent off to war, or even become one of the 10% or so who were diverted to the coal mines to become one of the "Bevan Boys," to dig for coal. They were conscripted to help shore up a serious need for coal, which was needed to keep numerous industries rolling to produce the materiel of War, and fuel the railroads that transported it all. They didn't even get out of that for several years AFTER VJ Day! So, their service continued far beyond the average soldier, sailor or RAF member. And their life spans were equally shortened with the average coal miner of the time.

[@lauralagarda6292]

I love yours videos. Say hello from Cancún México.

[@poetryjones7946]

All the housewives look like the guys from Monty Python.

[@misolgit69]

watching those inspired ladies at the beginning now you know where Harry Enfield got the inspiration for his 'Mr Cholmondely- Warner and his chums comedy sketches

[@7ajhubbell]

This is the first of these video segments I have seen. Have you done any on Victory Gardens? Or, perhaps, post war rationing, as it continued for so long after the war ended? Thank you.

[@famousamos778]

The way people used to talk those days... no ums, no vulgarities, only pure class!

[@Myacckt]

No there was a bigger divide between formal and informal. People talked in stronger dialects than nowadays, but they made an effort to speak more polished on camera. Also we now see and hear more ‘common’ people on reality tv now. Presenters and such back in the day were educated middle (=upper in usa) class people.

[@ManyaP64]

These were trained BBC announcers. But the British cuss more than anyone.

[@Destide]

now for something completely different

[@BvousBrainSystems]

If you have something about soldiers returning from war, that would be great. World War I, World War II, their situation, the scars of battle, what's next for them, all that.

[@britishpathe]

We definitely have some interesting stuff on that. All best, BP

[@MrsMika]

British Pathe, Please show how people would make do with what they had. How did they cut corners, or fix things to be able to have the best life possible?

[@OffGridInvestor]

There's piles of videos showing compromising solutions during the war. Smoking filterless cigarettes to the end by holding them with a pin. However all this stuff is just what was recorded in the day. Books explain a lot more.

[@lorettatayor5840]

bread, potatoes, pies, eggs, milk, Christmas pudding, oh my!!

[@michellefalleur960]

Thank you for this, love it ❤️

[@lindathomas6116]

Thank you so very much, l love these videos! ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@angelmessenger8240]

We still had the 'tattie holidays' just a few years ago. I don't think they call it that now though.

[@lynetteledbetter9696]

Fascinating!

[@destoker]

Am i the only one enjoying the sign at 3:06 up there?

[@gaggymott9159]

Northern Ireland gets a look-in!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@HERONSKI128S]

that pie looked nice! anything on greyhound racing.

[@thepoormansguidetothegalax3981]

It’s the Monty Python March!

[@maggiesmith856]

I wonder how they made the pastry for those pies when cooking fat was hard to come by.

[@mrmaniac7117]

00:36 And now for something completely different

[@suzannahwade3345]

Fantastic

[@hsinanho3474]

4:38 That kid's the badass for his time

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@FordTransitvan]

Wonderful, god bless them all

[@nulnoh219]

1:22. It's 2023 and we're getting close to reviving this programme eh. What with the labour shortage of Vegetable harvesters.

[@Geekchess]

3:22 why is he spitting/blowing into the cups of egg?

[@dur766]

Maybe you put our historical car mechanic Isabel II//Quizá pones a nuestra histórica mecánica de coches Isabel II

[@klyanadkmorr]

Thats a FINE sack o potatoes ther

[@MrPh30]

Rifle stalking then of the fine deer in various regions of Uk and Scotland, that is something many can go for and many areas that is way lower priced than for wingshooting .

[@aparnapatil175]

0.39 Monty Python end credit music.

[@Psychology_529]

What does LCC training school stand for?

[@rolonnemarieross7243]

Thank-you for this. Plenty of War Efforts by young people to keep are Nations thriving. God Bless them All

[@monkofdarktimes]

all seem good to eat

[@heung1gong2yan4]

dried eggs 😲 really eye opening

[@locouk]

Wife training school? Hahahaha.. At least they had real food back then.

[@queenmaleficent9281]

Green Silver not! During war times substitute would be put into food for preservation and rations poverty! People used cement dust wood chips wood dust dirt in bread because flour was so incredibly expensive and rare due to rations poverty! Millions of people died kidney liver function other side effects;

[@653j521]

Do you have a link for that information? It sounds like what the poor had to resort to before WWII. All the information I have found has shown that people on rationing were the healthiest Brits in modern times. They ate a balanced diet that had no unneeded nutrition and very little in the way of sweetener. It was a diet designed to create a fit country, you know, in case they had to engage in hand to hand combat during an invasion. They did get powdered eggs from the US which took some getting used to. If anyone wants more on this try Sue Perkins and Giles Coren's video on the Forties. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXeciGePmpp4kNE

[@AliasUndercover]

"Woman! Get me my dinner!"

[@mook_butt8037]

K Kr I adore The Supersizers series!

[@Kysushanz]

"Wife training school? Hahahaha.. At least they had real food back then". Yeah and real wives!

[@raufrunter9501]

I want to know the name of the music at 0:35

[@FromSagansStardust]

The Liberty Bell March, better known as the Monty Python theme!

[@gabbarrf1745]

2:08

[@muhammadaminuddinrosnizan3755]

where can i get the background music?

[@JudgementPlays]

Month of Television?

[@britishpathe]

Nice idea, not sure how much we'd have though. All best, BP

[@GirlPowerGirlStrong]

One and a penny per hour to harvest potatoes 🥔

[@confusedwolf7157]

i believe they were called hurricats (hurricanes flying offensively from ships)... any footage? lets not forget spitfires, same role?

[@Randoplants]

@Randoplants 0 seconds ago Does anyone know who the snarky narrator is? His line deliveries are so amusing “I’d push my own grandmother over for a fresh laid cackleberry”

[@FatShork]

"We're putting the yoke on hitler Be egg-zact for victory"

[@MrPh30]

Hunting , the shoot and d stalking of game for november would be very nice , since it is St Hubertus day. the 3rd of November.

[@DickHolman]

Excepting that hunting for game was (& still is) very much the preserve of the moneyed classes.

[@pwhwo1luwk921]

sour candy or just candy in general

[@MajPickles]

Harry Enfield has destroyed my ability to take British Pathe News seriously for me. "Women, know your limits."🤣😂

[@direct78broadcast26]

1938 and 1949 aren't wartime

[@rodrigoarayap1995]

Direct78 Broadcast In 1938 everybody knew there was going to be a war any time soon, and in 1949 some foods were still being rationed (some of them as late as 1954).

[@direct78broadcast26]

Rodrigo Araya I know but war time is 1939 - 1945

[@margueritejohnson6407]

Rationing went on until 1954, with bread rationed only after the war. The fighting may have finished but the home front continued to suffer.

[@jaredgarbo3679]

1949 was Korean War.

[@ushoys]

Every year is wartime somewhere

[@tamz-b1h]

What were people eating before?

[@peterd788]

The UK imported exotic food from around the world before the war. Suddenly all that was gone.

[@slerk9]

Was the potato segment spoken in English!!?

[@heywoodjerbloume]

The theme from Monty Python.

[@Onurtime]

Each girl breaks 6000 eggs an hour? Come on, you can't break 100 eggs per minute, surely.

[@gilesreambonanza2863]

Military parades?

[@britishpathe]

Could do. All best, BP

[@davegoldspink5354]

🤔🤔🤔 Pick spuds for the war effort or go to school personally I would have picked spuds thanks. Thinking about it I went to Catholic schools I think picking spuds would have been more useful than learning about a magical sky wizard. 😂🤣😂

[@hellie_el]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@David_94]

military training in world war two

[@britishpathe]

Will consider it for our next video. All best, BP

[@chagandomrodnoi]

еда 90% россиян сегодня, ну кроме пирогов, те на большой праздник

[@MrFreefonix420]

next do gas attack warnings and about keeping your mask with you all the time

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

Tins are stored up.

[@carsonwelch3521]

Next month should be Exploration month.

[@bluetoad2001]

the same intro music to Monty Python

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

People take breaks.

[@weerobot]

Bread Mr chumley Warner.....

[@anarchoaristocracy8368]

Monty Python soundtrack.

[@bbsrawat5414]

जीवन के रंग आज भी जीवित

[@YelyahSaltessers]

I like potatoes

[@bernadettec6386]

Funny how times have changed, now its the men who want to be in the kitchen doing the cooking. Well that is unless you are of the older generation like myself and the wife does the cooking.

[@leonardogsperin]

Monthy python flying cyrcus

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

Potato's are good.

[@kemikemi756]

Monty Python

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

There are bank holidays.

[@ReynardTheFox-dm8py]

if ya don't eat yah meat, yah can't 'ave any pudding !!!!

[@josephstalin855]

I like babushka's potatoes

[@BellefontePerson]

At 1:58 that girl throws like a girl.

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

People like tin goods.

[@Cascadeis]

Anyone know where that first scene is from? It looks like it could be from a film and the blonde girl looks so much like a Swedish actress... ^^

[@NEWBOTANICA]

i would kill myself if i was born any year before 1980

[@WW1Nurse]

how about life at home--the work of mothers during the war

[@jenniferbunting24]

Yoh

[@milkycream8552]

yoh

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

People like fruit.

[@igorfreitas2841]

🇵🇹

[@GypsyHunter232UK]

I wanted to be a cross dressing drag artist here in the old corrupt UK. BUT HAD TO MAKE DO WITH BEING A UK PRIME MINISTER.

[@cassieoz1702]

Appalling fake Scottish accent

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

Imagine those puddings shipping out in those crockery bowls, a crate of those must've weighed something good.

[@nightwolf7732]

You should do war time torturers I know one where women will be shaved baled for helping the enemy