Post-war Britain rationed nearly all basic foods including fresh produce

Evidence

when meat, butter, cheese, sugar, eggs, bacon, milk, and even biscuits, sweets and chocolate were rationed, when fresh vegetables and fruit were scarce, lemons, oranges and tomatoes as rare as diamonds, commodities such as olive oil, rice, and imported pasta no more than exotic memories, and fresh fish something you stood in a queue for — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 40

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 40
• XREF: connects to: Postwar British rationing made basic cooking ingredients scarce or unobtainable in 1950 — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 32; By mid-1942 most foodstuffs were rationed, except fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and bread — Rationing in Britain during World War II: A resource for Key Stage 4; Certain staple foods were never rationed, including bread, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, and fish — Rationing in Wartime Britain

Related

• By mid-1942 most foodstuffs were rationed, except fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and bread #contradicts (0.85) — Rationing in Britain during World War II: A resource for Key Stage 4
• Certain staple foods were never rationed, including bread, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, and fish #contradicts (0.85) — Rationing in Wartime Britain

Library Connections

• Postwar British rationing made basic cooking ingredients scarce or unobtainable in 1950 #corroborates (0.85) — David, Elizabeth, Book of Mediterranean Food, 32