Sweeter and Fatter
Most families will find the promise of an extra ounce of fat a week more deserving of fireworks than the anniversary of Guy Fawkes. It is true that the doubling of the cooking-fat ration is only to last for sixteen weeks, with little chance of an extension into the summer, but all the same for many people this small concession will have been the best news since the end of bread rationing. So, naturally, though in varying degrees, are the other concessions which Mr. Strachey announced last Monday. The sweet ration has been switched up and down so often in the past twelve months that its return to sixteen ounces a month deserves only the most reserved applause, and the increases which were simultaneously announced in the sugar ration itself, and in manufactured foodstuffs requiring sugar, show that probably most of this switching has been unneces- sary. But the general impression, if not of plenty, at least of quali- fied abundance, which has been made by Mr. Strachey's statement and by the appearance of most grocers' counters, offers a more cheer- ful prospect for the winter. The country deserves some cheer.
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