The Archive · 1940

Some Horrible Foods

The latest comestible offered to us in the cause of nutrition-cum-economy is a compost of all the remains of vegetables usually thrown away. You boil them up together, wash them well and press them into pudding basins. Next day, and for days afterwards, you cut from the block what you want, heat it up and persuade your family to heat—mean eat—it up.

But worse things are threatened. "The scientists are producing food in concentrated tablet form warranted to contain all the nourishment derive ed from a six-course dinner. From.I have read the tablets appear to be composed chiefly of cowheel, bullock's heart, the skins of the wild. onion, the offals of the soya bean, and the linings of the stomach of the female herring.

But really one might be in Germany.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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