Good morning, the families are now running shops as they would have been run during World War II. The shopkeepers will have to deal with rationing. Just a warning, Juliette the historian is going to be irritating in this episode, you will see why later in the episode. The run time for the episode is 56:44.
Will modern people manage to endure rations? Shopkeepers became part of the rationing process and will give the people the wartime experience. I am very nervous about this episode. The shopkeepers are surprised to see how the high street has changed. The Devlin’s will also bake but also be a British restaurant. The restaurants were to give the British public a good meal. If you watched Wartime Farm, these meals were cheap for the public. The butchers will be selling mutton. Does anyone even eat mutton? The dressmaker will be embracing the make-do and mend spirit of the age. The blacksmith will be running a hardware store. The grocers may find the wartime conditions a bit of a challenge. Carl, the head of the Sergison family, takes in the shortages. The British had imported many goods. The shopkeepers will also have to live on wartime rations too. However, they are also given access to a communal vegetable garden too. Man, I hope that the chamber of commerce prepped the town’s younger generation. I am sure that the older generations will be able to work it. Or as some people in the comments pointed out, they probably sneaked off to the modern stores to supplement their food. The locals are in for a shock with the rationing. It makes me think they did not really learn how rationing worked during World War II. The bread was the one thing not restricted during the war. Caroline is back in charge at the bakery and she is already concerned. She is restricted to making the national loaf with a lot of salt. She is frustrated with not making good bread. The locals seem okay with the bread. The blacksmith and the dressmaker team up to talk about the spirit of make-do and mend. Both talk about the skills required to recycle and recreate. To help make the rations stretch, the grocers are organizing a community meal. We will see how long that lasts. The butchers are experimenting with macon, bacon made out of mutton. A couple of locals comment on how mutton was tough. The locals are skeptical but they are embracing the macon. In the meantime, the Devlins are opening up a British restaurant. Their first challenge is to cook for thirty schoolchildren. Caroline is feeling like a school lunch lady. The school kids are unimpressed with the meal. One of the Devlin kids commented that during the time the children would eat it or they would starve. The Sergisons had held back some stuff and are operating a black market. This is the section that made me irritated at Juliette. Did she not read about the black market and how a black market was set up during the war? It made me think of the black marketer that showed up at the Wartime Farm and the experiment with the bread and gas. Did she not think that a black market was a possibility? Juliette should sit down and watch Wartime Farm. Tensions rise between the bakers and the grocers. Nigel did not want to make extra buns for the communal meal. He has a point about not having those supplies to make buns and it would have been better to use the leftover bread from the kids’ meals. Mrs. Sergison really did not think it through. The communal meal is canceled. However, the shopkeepers will be spending the night together. There is an air raid drill that night. The bakers, grocers, and dressmakers will be spending the night in the shelter. The blacksmith and the butchers have a talk about what would have happened. Mrs. Sergison and Caroline, in light of the air raid drill, come to an understanding. The next day, everyone is back to work. The blacksmith has opened up the forge and is working on repairing a rake. He is living his argument that the blacksmith was the first recycler. The dressmaker is also allowing the locals to see new visions for their clothing. Well, this series has its up and downs. I would just show Wartime Farm and be done with it.
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