The hundreds of thousands of letters and forms which flow into the Food Offices throughout the Eastern Region sometimes bring a rare smile to the faces of busy officials.
Here are a number of recent amusing extracts:
“Please send me a form for cheap milk as I am expecting Mother.”
“I have a child nearly two years old, and I am expecting an increase in November. Hoping that this meets with your kind consideration and approval.”
“I have had a baby two months old fed entirely on cows and another child four years old.”
“Please will you allow me to change my fat retailer.”
“Please may I change my two children for meat.”
It need hardly be said that, however ambiguously expressed, the letters receive the very willing and attentive consideration of the officials concerned.
[From the Watford Observer of November 28, 1941]
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