{"id":2674,"date":"2022-12-08T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:00:44","slug":"what-french-people-ate-during-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/what-french-people-ate-during-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"What French people ate during WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I asked my grandparents how did they managed during World War 2 the answer was \u201cit was a hard time\u201d but it came out as that it was differently hard depending on where you were living, on my mother\u2019s side they were in the countryside in Auvergne while on my father\u2019s, they were in Paris (at least for my grandma, as grandad was a war prisoner in Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandma used to joke saying that at her time a sandwich was a ration ticket of ham between two ration tickets of bread. I never forgot that joke that helped me to put things in perspective when I thought life was hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s see what it was like to eat in Paris between 1940 and 1944<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things were dire. Even though shop windows would display plenty of packaging, all of those would have the mention \u201cFalse\u201d and the long queues in front of the entrance reminded you that you were not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you couldn\u2019t eat where things like potatoes, meat, sugar, milk and eggs as those were redirected to the occupying German Army\u2019s war effort, this left French people with topinamburs, swedes, cabbages …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Topinambur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To eat during this time you had the choice between two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n