1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain

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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm

1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain

Children all over Britain have been emptying out their piggy-banks and heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today.
Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also disappearing fast.

One firm in Clapham Common gave 800 children 150lbs of lollipops during their midday break from school; and a London factory opened its doors to hand out free sweets to all comers.

Adults joined in the sugar frenzy, with men in the City queuing up in their lunch breaks to buy boiled sweets and to enjoy the luxury of being able to buy 2lb boxes of chocolates to take home for the weekend.

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[raccoon]

1. Wonder if there was an increase in cavities after that. Nt

[rurallib]

2. Wow - looks like that was still rationing from WWII - 8 years later

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, here in the States, where we had a long period of massive economic growth from the end of

the war until the 1970's, we can scarcely even imagine the hardships Britain endured from 1939 until the mid-50's. The war nearly bankrupted and starved the whole country.