WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942

Or as we Americans call it, "brunch".

The Brits referred to American GIs in the UK as "Overfed, oversexed, and over here" (some versions have 'overpaid' instead of 'overfed')

To which Americans developed a response - that Brits were underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower!
I only see one egg.
- Y’know in France, one egg is un oeuf.
- Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
- Yes but it's eggceptional.
Including the block of sugar and the tray

I'm assuming they got carbohydrates elsewhere? That hardly seems like enough calories to last a working adult for a week. Also that's a ton of sugar it'd take me at least a month to go through that amount but also I don't drink tea like the Brits do.

Yeah, these are just the rationed goods. Bread wasn't rationed during WW2 for the Brits. Vegetables and the like also weren't rationed.
- Bread wasn't rationed but the only bread you could get your hands on was "the national loaf", which my grandmother informed me was "saltier than unwashed seaweed".
  
  Potatos and carrots were abundant so lots of people learned to make potato scones and potato dumplings to make their flour stretch further.
  
  The ministry of food developed recipes to help people make their rations last.
  
  Woolton Pie is one that stuck around because it was so versatile.
That amount of sugar would last me years, and I drink tea everyday, just not with sugar.
- I would assume most of that sugar is going into cakes and puddings. If you're only getting one egg a week, it's probably put to more use in baking than eating straight up.

1 egg per week? My wife would riot

If you had kids in the household, you got more eggs on your ration cards, same with milk when it became rationed. Housewives would find ways to combine the entire households rations to feel like more for everyone. One egg and a rasher of bacon per person doesn't fill anyone, but if you have a family of 4, suddenly four eggs and 4 rashers of bacon, in a potato bake/ flour stretched quiche is a filling meal, and you might get 6-8 serves from those 4 peoples rations.
- I would have to find a neighbor with kids and see if they would take a swap of my portion of ingredients for the end product.
Yeah, rationing was easily one of the most hated things on the British home front. Rationing continued several years after the war and more or less directly led to the Labour government losing to the Conservatives over the issue of continuing rationing.
- Things that were less obvious to the general public were rationed until 80s, maybe even early 90s. Certain types of fluids for machinery hydraulics, certain types of alloys, a large number of purified chemicals for a wide range of industries and uses.
- Why did it continue?
One egg, but a pound of sugar.
- tea
Damn, normally they only get one a month
Id be trading bacon for eggs
- Trading ration cards was actually very common! I imagine the only Brit who didn't like tea or sugar was living like the king.
- Oeuf

Look at that bacon quality compared to the majority of the shit they try to pass off as bacon these days.

Fuck corporations

Can you shut the fuck up? My god, those poor CEOs need all that extra money, otherwise they would be embarrassed when their rich buddies learn they can’t afford a seventh mega yacht.

Have a heart ffs
- Apparently people don't know sarcasm...
- Seems like people are not reading your full post ...
Bro good bacon is like 10 pounds american
- *dollars

One egg + yearly supply of tea

British rations check out

That's only a year's worth of tea by American standards. For a brit that'll last a couple hours, tops.

After Brexit, they're allowed two eggs.

Yes but more importantly they don’t have to contribute anything to the other eu nations! Cutting the nose off to spite the face always works out for the owner of said face after all

I don't get anywhere close to that in a week apart from the egg so I would have been trading the excess for some playstation games

We are in a climate emergency. We should ration it again

That would go over very poorly.

Half of the people in the USA doesn't believe your statement. Among those that agree with your statement, most wouldn't be willing to take that drastic of steps to combat it.

Rationing would destroy the farming world financially. Supply stays the same, but demand is reduced by government mandates.

The cost of meat and dairy would drop which would bankrupt many farms. They can't just switch crops, most beef is raised in ranches where there isn't enough water to grow consumer crops. Then there's the issue that about 35% of US corn production is fed to livestock. Limiting meat would also cause the price of corn to drop. Causing further chaos in the farming world.
- There is no point in individual rationing until the 7-10 largest impact corporations are brought to heel first. If they are going to guarantee that we are all fucked, then I'm going to enjoy myself while I can.
No, no. We can overconsume till the very end knowing no limits of our greed.
We should teach people how to eat properly.

Although not from the UK, I grew up listening to my grandfather and my older relatives retelling the years of rationing during the great war.

First things first, it wasn't equal, as who had money would find ways to get more food to their houses. My grandmother often mentioned the pantry in the houses she served at were always stocked, regardless of rationing.

The average citizen would get their ration of goods but although you could live on it, you would be somewhat uncomfortable if you didn't had any way to suplement your diet. Rasing pidgeons in the city became common fare, more than what already was, and many people started raising rabbits, that can sustained on hay, to eat and sell.

Gardens in every space available became common, to put more vegetables and potatoes on the plate.

It was in the country where people felt the rationing less, being accostumed with surviving from what they farmed, raised and collected. And these were people used to hard work, hand labour. The basis for their day to day living was made up of large quantities of vegetables, dry salted fish (cod), salted and/or cured meats from the yearly pig families would raise, eggs and olive oil and bread. Fresh meat was an event often reserved for special occasions.

Let's learn and teach how to eat. No need to ration; we already produce more than what is really necessary.