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1957 - The Queen visits a Supermarket in the USA.

Remember in Britain , war time rationing had only ended 3 years earlier, so seeing so much food and being able to 'self serve' with a shopping trolley was probably quite novel for Her Maj...

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1957 - The Queen visits a Supermarket in the USA.

Remember in Britain , war time rationing had only ended 3 years earlier, so seeing so much food and being able to 'self serve' with a shopping trolley was probably quite novel for Her Maj...

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I can remember Mum's little red ration book back in England. I was about 4 and every week we'd go to the grocers and get our rations. This was in 1953 so it went on for quite a while after the war. I don't remember having a sense of being deprived at all and we ate well.
 
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