From: Tom Holloway (tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 07:25:17 PDT
Simon Herbert asked me...... > Would bananas have been available in London/Britain at the time children > were evacuated during WW2? Definitely not. They were rare enough (and expensive) even before the war. During the war they were completely non-existent. I do remember, however, the relish with which we ate our wartime banana pie - made with parsnips and banana essence. After that delicious treat (served with condensed milk) the only attraction that _real_ bananas had was the opportunity to unzip them - something you couldn't do with parsnips. ================ Tom Holloway tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk tom@holloways.org <=== private email http://timewitnesses.org 01926-771772 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/Gi0tnD/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/r1FolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: timewitnesses-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/