American Reacts Eating in a London Blitz Bomb Shelter

[@lilyliz3071]

It is said that the British people were never as healthy as they were during rationing , lots of vegetables and little fat and sugar

[@nigelleyland166]

Streaming on my Mothers 100th birthday! During the war she was a land girl and a Munitions factory welder. She was also a fantastic cook, and never wasted a morsel!

[@dzzope]

Sifting or siving, aerates the flour making things fluffier, it's also good for removing any impurities or removing clumps of flour.

[@auldfouter8661]

Jerry Springer ( yes the US politician and show host) was famously born in a London bomb shelter.

[@jasonshaw8094]

Possibly Hampstead

[@PerryCJamesUK]

He's gone now. I'm starting to sound like my Dad...

[@davidpearson243]

Watch him on “Who do you think you are” a very interesting but ultimately sad story about his family fleeing Germany

[@andrewbrown1712]

Highgate tube station was the shelter

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@andrewbrown1712 I have deleted my earlier comment as googled Jerry's birthplace and realised I was in error. Google said Jerry Springer was born in Golder's Green. Hopefully I can find my other comment and delete that too as I was wrong and don't wish to leave incorrect information in answer to someone's comment. If I miss it, please ignore or delete if if you can as I write Eltham*. I was wrong. That* was Bob Hope*. Sorry.

[@claregale9011]

Hi connor , love how you put your hand up when you have a question for us . Never change 😊.Great video

[@bill-wd7zs]

Even if you hate Marmite it is great added to stews, soups etc. Been doing it for years and no one in my family ever notices.

[@AfterTheRains]

You boil the bones to infuse flavour and remove before eating. Marmalade is made with citrus fruits eg oranges, limes etc. Jam is generally sweet berries.

[@NightingRoseGale]

Sixpence at that time was 6 pennies, a shilling was 12 pennies, 1 pound was 240 pennies or 20 shillings.

[@johnnybeer3770]

A good film to watch regarding evacuee's and the blitz is " Goodnight Mr Tom " 🇬🇧

[@wessexdruid7598]

That makes me smile, remembering John Thaw in our local shop sporting 'that' beard. Of course, he was always buying the cigarettes that killed him. 😕

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Connor, my Mother told me that the Womens Royal Voluntary Service (the WRVS) had canteens everywhere during the war. They'd hand out cups of tea to those digging people out of bombed out buildings, the bombed themselves, firefighters and anyone else who needed it. The WRVS is still going today, but I think it's called the RVS, because men are now allowed in !

[@Ukhome-s4p]

People in ww11 were encouraged to grow their own food, they were asked to dig for victory. Many people without gardens would have an allotment, a small plot of land to grow food on, often provided by the council. They are still going strong today

[@PerryCJamesUK]

A lot of land along the side of railway tracks or embankments were used for this in London.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

It was referred to as WWII (two) _not_ ww11 which would indicate world war eleven!! We haven't gone quite that mad - yet!!

[@Ffinity]

Sadly, large numbers of allotments are being sold to property developers.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@Ffinity The only allotments I know of are in Torridon Road, London SE6... I haven't seen others. They fill up a corner of that road not far from Torridon Road Primary School, and appear to have been created from what may've been a WWII bombsite, originally, as there are several railway lines in the area which were obviously targeted during 'The Blitz' and even further up the road (past Forster Memorial Gardens - a large park, wooded along two sides) up on the right hand side are the _last six_ 'Grade II (?) Listed' Prefabs on what's left of the Excalibur (Prefabs) Estate... Previously run by Lewisham Council but sold off as probably too expensive to continue to be maintained as they'd been erected just after WWII to help increase the housing stocks for families who had lost their old homes from the heavy bombardment as previously mentioned. (I used to know two families who lived there, plus one family who lived in a prefab which was part of a line of them, running along the edge of Hilly Fields / Adelaide Avenue between Brockley SE4 and Ladywell, SE13, but those ones were demolished in the late sixties/ early seventies, and I assume the Council rehoused the family's from there, though I don't know where). These places have changed so much that the towns are barely recognisable these days...if not for the Parks and other open spaces being kept, I doubt I would know my old childhood playgrounds and friends old homes. High-rise buildings are being raised virtually everywhere... I can only hope, safely and not prone to fires such as at Grenfell in 2017, or collapsed tower blocks such as at Ronan Point. Building by corporations "on the cheap" with substandard concrete or inflammable exteriors etc... Fingers crossed lesson were learned from such tragedies.🤞

[@barrywalker4295]

Pre decimalisation there were 240d (pennies) in a pound.. £sd known as pounds, shillings and pence.£=pounds, s= shillings, d=pennies

[@auldfouter8661]

Treacle is molasses , a byproduct of sugar refining. Sifting removes lumps from the flour - or any beasties !

[@AfterTheRains]

Sifting also adds air. It’s not required now (no roaches) but many people still do for fluffing the flour.

[@mairiconnell6282]

I wish Americans knew more about our suffering during WW1 and 2. Rationing gave our food a bad reputation from Americans that still linkers today totally unfairly. Jerry Springer was born in a bomb center.

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Yep spot on with the vegetables, potatoes grow just about anywhere. A lot of crops grown in England tend to be hardy ones that can survive cold temperatures.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Babies can live on just Breast milk for quite some time, but it's a good idea to start feeding them (bland) regular food when they're around 6 m/1 y old, to get them used to it, otherwise they may get eating disorders. ETA According to google, they don't need anything but Breast milk the first 6 months, but I'm pretty sure they can survive on it for longer

[@cheryltotheg2880]

Yes I’m a health visitor and I can confirm 6 months exclusive breast (ideal but not always possible) or formula feeding is recommended

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

The affects of asbestos wasn't really known by the general public until the 1980's and wasn't dealt with until the 2,000's

[@auldfouter8661]

Gert and Daisy were sisters of famous actor Jack Warner who was a fixture on BBC TV as policeman Dixon of Dock Green.

[@Zajuts149]

All sorts of root vegetables like carrots, potatoes, swedes(rutabegas) could be grown in small patches all over the UK.

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

And big. I lived in Norfolk for about 6 years. The crops would rotate between rape, barley, potatoes and sugar beet. Sugar beet can grow in the cold temperatures pretty well.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

In the UK pence is the plural for penny. I have grown up with potato and root vegetable stews. They have always taste better to me when heated up on the second day. I also sometimes cook the potatoes separately for half the time, so they don't turn to mush. You can add the different vegetables to the pot at different times, according to the time they need to cook.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

My family lived in the North-West area of London ,we did not go into shelters during the air raids, but sat on the house stairs going to the other flats above. But I do clearly remember the metal framed bunkbeds on the station platforms ,very handy to sit on whilst waiting for your train ,during the day. I lost a much loved golly by leaving him on the bunk, realised when we were on the train .My father got out at the next stop but golly was already gone .( This must have been about 1942,my father was called up into the RAF about then) I do hope another little girl loved him as much as I had done .

[@Ukhome-s4p]

Sweets were still on ration when I was born 1953

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Our pocket money during the war went on Smith`s crisps ( with a little dark blue paper twist 0f salt ) and R White`s lemonade .

[@marieparker3822]

Breast milk or National Dried Milk - not everyone can breast-feed successfully. Weaning (variable age) is normally gradual.

[@stuarthumphrey1787]

As is said here, breast is best, but a baby can be fed by bottle from birth with baby formula powder. Obviously with water

[@Em_Rose_]

The spirit you talk about at 25:10 it known as the blitz spirit where people came together. This spirit was inscapulated in the famous phrase "keep calm and carry on" which was first used during the war. This blitz spirit was also seen during the pandemic in the uk where the country came together. The older generations especially were comparing covid and the war. The uk people and citizens do often come together in times of great need.

[@austinlondon3710]

Connar, you should have gone to “Home Ec…down the hall”. Sieving is used to remove the clumps of four when making a batter or pastry. 😂 Sieving flour into the mixing bowl brakes the flour down into uniform even particles, that are distributed evenly in a cake batter or pastry.

[@NightingRoseGale]

This sounds like the bacon bone stew that I had as a child in the 1960s made with potato, carrot, onion and pearl barley. Really tasty. It was one of my grandmother's wartime recipe.

[@Em_Rose_]

Yes it is Narnia where the 4 pevensie children are evacuated because of the blitz. C.s.Lewis bases the 4 pevensie on two evacuated children he had staying with him in real life. The reason that veg was so often in abundance was because of the campaign called dig for victory where everyone was encourage to turn what little soil they owned, gardens, allotments or even window boxes into growing veg which was never rationed. Even whole areas of the London parks like Hyde park had areas dedicated to growing veg. I am pretty sure that babies would have been born in the underground. There are some amazing caves where there is a record of a baby being born. It was shown on a Christmas episode of War Farm definitely worth a watch.

[@chrisperyagh]

Connor, I recommend you watch "Q.E.D. A Guide to Armageddon" as that also goes into various bomb shelter designs (both makeshift and permanent) and how flawed they are.

[@Ayns.L14A]

The effects of asbestos had not been discovered yet mate, however splinters of broken glass were a known danger.. Breast milk provides the baby with the mother's antibodies helping to fight illnesses, nowadays we are able to reproduce these chemically back then not so much...

[@B.landon]

"I'm not a mother." 😂😂 stating the obvious.

[@sandraback7809]

I hope this doesn’t double post as I seem to have lost half a post I go to a ‘ knit and natter’ group every week. Most of the ladies are very elderly and only last week were talking about their experiences during the bombing of Southampton (docks and original Spitfire factory)and how they hated going down into the Anderson shelters their fathers had built in the garden. They spoke of rain that ran into them and coming out at the all clear and one had their home’s windows blown out by a bomb. My neighbour’s grandmother was killed during a bombing raid while her mother was taking cover at school. She ran home at the all clear to find her home destroyed. My own mother and mother in law were evacuated into the countryside during the war. Luckily for them they had lovely people homing them but some did not have such a good experience. I watched Blitz the other day, it was okay. I always wonder how I would have coped, sending my children away to strangers and my husband away at war. Shuddering!😮

[@RockyBobbieBuster]

The Taliban are out in the desert when a voice shouts "one SAS is better than three Taliban", the Taliban leader sends in three fighters, after 10 minutes a voice shouts one SAS is better than ten Taliban, the leader sends in ten fighters, after about fifteen minutes a voice shouts one SAS is better than one thousand Taliban, after about an hour one lone fighter crawls over the hill into the leaders arms and exclaims "don't send anymore fighters, its a trap there's two of them", nothing to do with this video, it just reminded me of that joke, be happy, safe and healthy everyone ✌️

[@barrywalker4295]

Many variations on that joke. When I was a child in Scotland it was highlanders and redcoats

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

"One pound was divided into 20 shillings. One shilling was divided into 12 pennies. One penny was divided into two halfpennies, or four farthings. There were therefore 240 pennies in a pound" So a penny wasn't exactly what it is today

[@wessexdruid7598]

Before WW2, a penny would buy a pound loaf of bread, or a pint of milk - or a postage stamp. But then, £8 was a good annual salary.

[@davidpearson243]

My mother was a child during the war The only meat/protein they could get easily was Rabbit (grandad shot them) and fish they lived on the coast and her father could put a sunken line out with baited hooks on Then wait for the tide to come in and go out again then collect what was caught She now hates fish and potatoes as she ate so much during that time

[@Zajuts149]

There used to be a great series on KZbin on the InRangeTV channel where Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons spent a whole week eating only British WWII civilian rations. He went through some of the history and challenges of the scheme, set in place by Lord Woolton.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Babies can survive on nothing but breast milk , this is what most babies in the far past thrived on and in primitive tribes today.

[@lewisjames4268]

Time 6:32, Pounds and pence were different back in the 1940s. Back then there were 240 pennies to the pound. So I think. Then there were shillings to make it more confusing.

[@janeslater8004]

They also had guinea notes worth more than 1 pound

[@araptorofnote5938]

It wasn't at all confusing. Most day to day transactions were in just shillings and pence. You wouldn't need to calculate in pounds unless you were buying more expensive items such as furniture or clothing. There were no supermarkets. The weekly shop would involve visiting the grocer, the butcher, the greengrocer, the chemist or the baker and spending a few shilling in each shop. It only seems confusing now because people try to calculate using current prices.

[@Zajuts149]

"What is the difference between jam and marmalade?" At least you didn't ask about the difference between jelly and jam😂

[@tony1973100]

That's the same joke in the UK! 😂

[@Delicious_J]

Well, I thought I knew fair bit about the blitz but ive learnt quite a lot of different little pieces I never knew about from this video, I may attempt the Honey Biscuits, I agree with max, theyre something you could bake now and no one would ever believe you got the recipe from ww2! Even though I never knew about this, I'm unfortunately not at all surprised there was an element of classism in this country even in the midst of the world's deadliest war I trust those who considered the majority who sheltered in the tube stations as 'rats' were exclusively those who could either afford to have their own properly built private shelter with all the mod cons, or living in a very large mansion in the countryside where there were no bombs to worry about and if one ever hit them in the rare event a bomber wanted to simply lighten their return load and was simultaneously flying over their 200acre estate, only some of their western wing was getting a battering; you dont require two drawing rooms..or several deer.. No, the money question completely valid, especially if you remember this was prior to decimalisation (which only occurred in GB in 1971) there were in fact 240 pennies to a pound then and the denomination people mainly dealt in then was Shillings, not pounds (pounds were a unit only the rich or bankers usually dealt with at the time, everyone got paid in shillings)

[@seanmcmichael2551]

Connor ... your question about pence / penny wasn't that daft. The 1940 cost .... sixpence (an actual coin) was pre-decimalisation, so it is equivalent to 2.5 new pence. Ah ... those were the days ... even I can recall (in the 1960s) getting 8 black jacks for one old penny.

[@heathereley9749]

The use of the Underground stations as air raid shelters is pretty much universally known. Anderson shelters are famous. But there was also the Morrison shelter. Effectively a metal cage that fitted under your dining table. Not great, admittedly, but might offer some protection from falling debris.

[@heathereley9749]

Very good if you lack space for an Anderson or didn't have a public shelter nearby.

[@MrBulky992]

But no protection from fire or clouds of dust, unfortunately.

[@AfterTheRains]

You boil the bones to infuse flavour and remove before eating.

[@jeanbicknell7887]

We sift things such as flour to get all of the lumps out. This is less necessary these days as it usually gets a good sifting before itis sold.

[@auldfouter8661]

The hazards of asbestos were not understood until the 1960s at least !

[@auldfouter8661]

WW2 gas masks had asbestos filters inside !

[@martinburke362]

British soil is some of the best on the planet for growing things how can it be so green if it's not crop for crop it's far superior to most of the soils in the USA and Usaualy gives a 25% higher yield per acre the British climate on the other hand limits what can be grown successfully

[@Ayns.L14A]

the London Underground is 24 meters (79 feet) below ground level, the deepest part is 64 meters (209 feet) deep at the time German bombs couldn't penetrate that deep.

[@Mat_Rural]

1:56 Root vegetables like potatoes and carrots are easy to grow, nutritious and resistant to weather changes. There is nothing wrong with British soil; Northern Europe in general can grow just about anything in it, as long as whatever it is suits the climate (and whatever doesn't can be hot-housed).

[@Shoomer1988]

A sixpence wasn't 6 - 1/100ths of a pound. It was worth 2 1/2 - 1/100ths of a pound, because money before 1971 was stupid.

[@eileencorcoran3057]

I'm from Birmingham City UK.... parks, land etc we suconded for food... I used to walk my dog 🐕 at park over road qnd the Older neighbours told me about this ..also Birmingham had the munitions factories 🏭 so we lost a lot if our old buildings as it was a very industrial place... have you seen series PEAKY BLINDERS...excellent No.5 in Netflix ... about the war after the 1st world war .... try it xxxx❤ .... Eileen I'm irish decent, too x

[@ScorpioLurking]

Jerry Springer was born in the underground whilst his mun was sheltering from bombing

[@jasonshaw8094]

Possibly Hampstead.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@jasonshaw8094 Google said Jerry Springer was born in Golder's Green, (I deleted my earlier comment as had written his birthplace as Eltham*, I was wrong. That was Bob Hope*, sorry,)

[@carolinehering940]

Highgate tube. Used it just last week.

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

​@@brigidsingleton1596 Wouldn't have been Golders Green station because that isn't underground. Pretty sure it was Highgate.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@marcelwiszowaty1751 I only said what Google did but then Google isn't always right! (They've been wrong about George Harrison in the last year or so, for example!!)

[@Zajuts149]

There wouldn't be any onions. Britain imported 90% of its onion consumption from France before the war, so onions were not a part of the rationing system. The same was with spices.

[@martynnotman3467]

There were "British Cafes" where you could get meals off the ration. Mostly in London though.

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

Not only are potatoes carrots, parsnips, swedes and other root vegetables easier to grow in poor soil but they are also filling so you can feel satisfied after a meal. Also you can buy more of them with fewer coupons. During the war we had rationing due to food shortages so we only had so many coupons per week which meant that we had to work out how many items and what type of things we could buy with the amount of coupons we had. I was a small child then so we had more coupons for things like milk eggs butter and a few other things. I remember that the adults were not allowed to buy real eggs they had to use egg powder which tasted awful. Also children were allowed more milk and even bananas and chocolate which adults were not.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Connor... Penny is one coin, pence is more than one penny (multiples of pennies is therefore known as so many pence, example: sixpence (an old silver coloured six pence coin, also known as a 'tanner') (As for Marmite.... I like Marmite but I hate Vegemite) Saccharine is pronounced 'Sack_a_rin').

[@DeanPrime-e2w]

Connor just to answer one of your questions, look up Balham station drowning.

[@claregale9011]

And wasn't there a crush at another tube station where lots died ?

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@claregale9011 I think that other underground station was in East London, I feel it began with a 'B' (? I could easily be mistaken) but cannot recall the station name... I think someone fell on the stairs as they entered the station then everyone around them fell forward and caused a crush... I believe there's a plaque dedicated to those victims outside now. R.I.P.

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

​@@claregale9011Yes. That was Bethnal Green station on the Central Line eastward extension. The route was still under construction but the station was complete... however it had just one subway entrance from the pavement above and there was a 90-degree turn halfway down. As the people crowded down, a woman carrying a child tripped and fell... those people behind carried on, unaware of the danger. Many suffocated and/or were crushed. The details of the tragedy were concealed by the authorities so as not to create panic... it was many years before the full story came to light.

[@chrisperyagh]

Saccharin (sack-a-rin) is a calorie and carbohydrate free artificial sweetener used in many diet foods and drinks, allegedly at least 100x the sweetness of sugar.

[@DavidCoomber-r1j]

No. Before 1969 there was 240 pennies in a £. We then had decimalisation so a new pence was 2.4 old pennies.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Britain brought in Decimalisation on Tuesday,17_th February 1971.... It confused the older generation, but us younger folks attended night school classes to teach us the new coins, and how to shop with them! It was like being at playschool, so my friend and I only went once as we felt quite silly being shown how to shop, (as teenagers) even though the different coins etc were new to us!!

[@Ukhome-s4p]

There wasn’t much chocolate to be had then

[@jasonsmart3482]

Another woke film (Apples the Blitz) but otherwise i always enjoy Max's videos. I think the whole of the UK showed great strength and character during WW2 something I wonder if it could be repeated today.

[@stumccabe]

Yes the choice of the boy is preposterous - totally unbelievable for 1940s London. The director is pushing his political ideology.

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

In many of the underground station platforms where the trains run are very deep below ground and the bombs cannot penetrate. Most of the central London stations have more than one line going through them so some of the lines are stacked one below the other and the stations which have 2 or even 3 lines passing through them will have very deep below ground platforms. Those stations are very heavily reinforced so they cannot collapse. And for a bomb to penetrate so deep underground is impossible. Perhaps the modern bombs might be able but I doubt that also.

[@carolgrosklags8933]

Treacle is like black strap molasses

[@dzzope]

All mamals survive on milk untill they start weening (slowly introducing food untill they no longer require milk)

[@xKynOx]

Soup when not based on bones/meat is a drink, if it has bone/meat as one of the bases its a food.

[@Ayns.L14A]

Connor you are forgetting, there had never been air raids like this before...he didn't know or understand just what was about to happen....

[@auldfouter8661]

Wasn't Guernica in the Spanish Civil War c1936-38 the first bombing of a civilian town by fixed wing aircraft? Of course there were Zeppelin raids on London and east coast towns of the UK in WW1.

[@Ayns.L14A]

@@auldfouter8661 yes but there is no comparison to the weight of munitions used in those conflicts to the 8 months of the blitz more than 12,000 metric tons were dropped.....

[@richardwest6358]

And, despite their limitations, Anderson Shelters saved many lives

[@stumccabe]

Connor "pence" is the plural of "penny". I suppose "pennies" is also acceptable.

[@MrBulky992]

"Pence" relates to the monetary value. "Pennies" relates to individual penny coins. "I have three pennies in my hand" is not necessarily the same as "I have three pence in my hand".

[@Ukhome-s4p]

You need to look at the food rations for ww11

[@auldfouter8661]

Mum used to tell the story of an old lawyer who had been in a shelter all night and then went to his office . When his secretary brought in the morning mail he wailed to her - " Tak them awa lassie ah canny even see ! "

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Balham Tube station bombing On October 14, 1940, a German bomb hit the road above Balham Tube station, causing a crater and fracturing water mains. The resulting flood of water and soil into the tunnel killed nearly 70 people. Bethnal Green Tube station disaster On March 3, 1943, an air-raid warning sounded and hundreds of people rushed for cover at Bethnal Green tube station. In the crush that ensued, 173 people were killed, including 62 children. This is believed to be the largest loss of civilian life in the UK during the Second World War.

[@chrisperyagh]

I only recently heard about the Bethnal Green tragedy on KZbin - I've never heard it mentioned in any documentaries on telly nor in history books. I'm 52 and can't believe I've never heard of it in all that time.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Molassass, treacle and golden syrup all come from sugarcane

[@trevorcook4439]

Vegemite was invented when we couldn’t get Marmite easily.

[@Zajuts149]

The biscuits could probably be crushed into the soup to make a vegetable lobscouse😊

[@Delicious_J]

Blind Scouse

[@Ayns.L14A]

Hey Connor, Jam is made with berries or currents....Strawberry, Blackberry, Blackcurrant,Gooseberry....... Marmalade is citrus based, Orange, Lemon,Lime .....

[@carolinejohnson22]

Apricot jam is glorious 😋

[@chrisperyagh]

And then there's ginger preserve (mistakenly called ginger marmalade) which is bloody lovely.

[@malsm8892]

At the time there were 240 penny's to the pound sterling

[@ArcAudios77]

Underground Stations - Best & most secure storage area. Wasn't through the 2nd World War - only opinion. Regards

[@charlesfrancis6894]

There are no shelters for Brits today there are shelters for the ruling elite of course. Politicians could have started building nuclear shelters for the people from say the 60s onward , but they did not and they are now fully aware of the likely conditions of a nuclear conflict and the effects on humans living in normal housing .Think about it logically if there was space for millions those millions could be survivors the ruling elite were obliged to care for, as the reason for their survival in their well stocked shelters is to assist survivors. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to care for millions when hospitals were flattened and there was no drinkable water or edibal food and radiation ready to come down? My suspicious mind wonders if our politicians do not want that many survivors !

[@martynnotman3467]

At the time by the way Connor there were 240 pence in the pound not 100

[@edwardwoodstock]

Conor you make me laugh 😊 in a good way. I don't think america can grasp how badly the wars 1&2 impacted us. We lost our men, we were bankrupt and our port cities were bombed to hell. USA can't grasp it because they have no concept of it 😪

[@auldfouter8661]

Potatoes can grow in slightly acid soil hence the tragedy of the potato famine in Ireland.The potato crop could support more people per acre than any other hence the population soared and they were extensively grown - making a large niche for the fungus to invade. Growing potatoes commercially needs stone free soil nowadays to allow for mechanical harvesting.

[@kentpont]

Tories never change

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

The US has never suffered deprivation or suffering like the English have

[@helenagreenwood2305]

I'm fed up of Americans criticising British food and saying our cuisine is just as if it's still WW2 it's an absolute insult to our parents and grandparents who were literally living in rations 🥴 I know this guy isn't one of them but it's really upsetting to see it sometimes

[@saladspinner3200]

It's a running joke in Belgium as well, our country went through 2 occupations and total destruction in both wars, but it's said that even the Belgians never ate as bland as the British did during the war :D

[@helenagreenwood2305]

@saladspinner3200 🙄🥴😆

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Babies are recommended to have breast milk, but not all do a proportion make do with baby formula

[@dzzope]

Crazy to think that Ukraine has been going through this for over 1000 days and the Blitz was only for 240..

[@veronicawilliams7427]

Meat was rationed,

[@carolinejohnson22]

Everything was rationed until 1954.....

[@allenwilliams1306]

The late Jerry Springer was born in Highgate Underground station during 1944 where his mother was sheltering from an air raid, so there is no doubt births took place there in the Blitz.

[@gordonconnah411]

Pence is the plural of penny.

[@malcolmkirkwood-vn9sg]

Give us some leeway and sit on your hands StoP your hands interrupting.i love marite I was born just ish. after the war

[@productjoe4069]

The UK hasn’t been self-sufficient in food since the early 1800s. The ‘dig for victory’ stuff was mainly a morale building exercise: getting people to grow vegetables gave them something to do that felt like it was helping the war effort but it didn’t really make a dent on our food needs. We still relied on imports, but we had to prioritise those that were easier to ship even with long diversions around U boat activity. We depended a lot on the US for this.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

Connor, you interrupted far too much. Please let us listen.

[@lizvickers7156]

Its marga RENE not marg a RIN This is how it's said in the uk. Just get on and watch it all and stop stopping and starting. Ask questions after you have watched. It's very annoying you sitting there scratching your head and asking stupid questions..

[@MrBulky992]

If you don't want the reaction, why do you not go and watch the original video? Connor has explained that if he does not ask the question at the time it arises, he often cannot recall it later.

[@davidmcintyre8145]

The reason there are so many people of Scots and Irish descent in the US is because of the potato famines in Ireland(1845-52)and Scotland(1846-56)when millions died or were driven out of lands that their families had lived in for centuries due to starvation with even Native American tribes who had recently suffered a genocide and were travelling the trail of tears donating money to their fellow oppressed. The irony being that in the 1850's and 1860's the Scottish and Irish grain yield boomed but the grain went south under military escort to feed English export markets rather than starving people in Scotland and Ireland