Whilst we laugh at Poland's Strategic Butter Reserve...
Would recommend reading @garius.bsky.social's thread on the incredible lengths Britain went to in order to keep tea supplies flowing during WW2, up to and including buying the *entire world's supply* not under axis occupation
Would recommend reading @garius.bsky.social's thread on the incredible lengths Britain went to in order to keep tea supplies flowing during WW2, up to and including buying the *entire world's supply* not under axis occupation
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Tony Tassell
Poland has a strategic reserve of butter. Now it is releasing 1000 tonnes of it. www.ft.com/content/d1c5...
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Tea & British morale were (still are) inextricably linked
Bombed out of your home? Have a cuppa in the rubble
Missing your evacuated kids? Brew up with a neighbour
Husband killed in the war? Tea with *extra sugar* old girl
We're a parody of ourselves