The Food Controller published on Saturday last the details of
his experimental scheme for rationing meat in London and the Home Counties from February 25th. Each adult will receive four coupons a week, and each child under ten four half-coupons. Three out of the four coupons, but not as a rule more, may be used to buy fifteenpence-worth of uncooked butcher's meat. The fourth coupon may be used to buy the food equivalent of five ounces of uncooked butcher's meat, " with average bone," in bacon, ham, poultry, game, the elusive rabbit, tinned meats, and the like, as de- fined in an official scale, which, for example, gives four ounces of bacon or twelve and a half ounces of poultry as the counterpart of the meat ration. Thus each adult will receive what amounts to a pound and a quarter of meat weekly, or twice the German ration. The coupons may be used to obtain meat in hotels, restaurants, or clubs, except on the two meatless days. The housewife and the butcher have their troubles before them, but with goodwill and patience the rationing scheme can be worked, provided always that there is a sufficient supply of meat.
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