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Question: When did Britain stop using rationing!?
I know that we used it well after WW2 but when did it stop!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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During the Second World War, rationing was introduced very early!. On 8 January 1940, bacon, butter and sugar were rationed!. This was followed by meat, tea, jam, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cheese, eggs, milk and canned fruit!. One of the few foods not rationed were fish and chips!. Strict rationing caused many people to buy food on the black market; however people were often tricked with cheaper substitutes such as horsemeat instead of beef!.

As the war progressed, most kinds of food came to be rationed, as were clothing and petrol!. Clothing was rationed on a points system!. Initially the allowance was for approximately one new outfit per year; as the war progressed the points were reduced to the point where the purchase of a coat constituted almost an entire year's clothing!.

Rationing continued after the end of the war!. In fact, it became stricter after the war ended than during the hostilities!. Bread, which was not rationed during the war, was rationed beginning in 1946!. This was largely due to the necessity of feeding the population of European areas coming under Allied control, whose economies had been devastated by the fighting!. Sweet rationing ended in February 1953, and sugar rationing ended in September of that year!. The final end of all rationing did not come until 1954 with bananas
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Footnote - during the oil crisis of 1973/4, petrol rationing coupons were issued to all motorists!. Rationing was never actually brought into effect, but it was touch and go at one point!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Bananas were the last item taken off the ration list in the United Kingdom in 1954!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

after the world war 2 i think 2 years after the war!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1954Www@QuestionHome@Com

in the 1950'sWww@QuestionHome@Com