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]