The purchasing of the stores he thought would, among other things, open the eyes of women to the economy of canned foods.
I found when I was in the United States that Americans actually pitied the Englishman for having to live on fresh' food, he said, They could not understand why the English preferred to buy food that perhaps had been lying deteriorating on stalls and in open shops, when they could get it in cans, protected against con-amination, of good quality, and with no waste matter.
Major Gluckstein showed me this list that has been compiled of British canned foods costing a total of about £1: Two cans soup; 2 corned beef, lldlb, each: 1 stewed steak, 1%4lb.; 1 meat roll or galantine, lib. 1 sausage, lib; 2 herrings, 140z. each; 1 salmon; 1 cod's roe, 11b.; 5 evaporated milk (1 large, 1 small); I cream, pint; 1 peas, processed; 3 peas, ga den; 2 spinach puree; 1 leaf spinach; 1 whole carrots; 2 carrots, diced; 2 baked beans; 1 apples, solid pack; 1 prunes or plums; 1 plums or apricots; 1 rice pudding.
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