Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-11
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FOOD IN VIENNA
NOT A HARDSHIP
Everybody Eats About as.
Much as Before, Despite
Bread Tickets and Prohibi-
lion Of Meat Twice a Week


Vienna. Dec. 3.--Bread tickets and
TWO emeatless' days a week suggest
rho verge of famine to the person
not familiar with life in the locali-
Ties where such precautionary meas
ures are being supplied. Vienna and
the greater part of Austria are at
p,esent subject to the limitation III
food which the bread ticket, wheat
bread prohibition and meatless days
iqply. But the fact Is that nobody
is deprived of anything by these
regulations People eat as much as
before with the difference that some
of the things they eat have been
prescribed.
The break ticket system allows ev-
cry person three rations daily each
of 20 grammes of rye bread, or 2lO
erammes, not quite half pound,
for the day. The person feeling the
need of more ferenaceous food can
augment this apportionment by buy
ing wheat cake and pastry In the
restaurants and cafes. and, if still
unsatisfed after that. can have an
unlimited quantity of ''nockern
dumplings--for which the Austrian
kitchen is justly famous, or he can
order a dozen portions of 'schmarn,
another Austrian dish Of fame. At
a pinch the waiter may be bribed
into increasing the bread ration.
1t may he asked what, under such
ticket Arrangement. The manager
Of large Vienna restaurant supplied
the answer
The bread ticket prevents the
waste of bread which formerly OBJ
tained," he said. I'VE were in the
habit OF putting baskets with rolls
and cut bread on the table. MANY
of our patrons could start to eat as
many as four rolls and not finish a
single one. The remainder had to
be thrown into the swil barrel.
Right now flour is too scarce to be
fed to pigs
Mcutless Day Il MisnOmcr.
4 'meatless' day in Vienna and
Austria is misnomer. In fact it is
merely a "heef-porkless'' day, and
not even that altogether. Butchers
and restaurants may on "meatless"
or "fleischlose" days sell any kind of
meat with the exception Of fresh
beef, veal and pork Picked and
preserved beef, veal and pork may
he sold. however so may fresh NUT
ton and lamb, every kind of poultry
fresh and preserved game and fish
IT cannot be said that the meat
l......f .1nxs .rt.lr. I. Ap1, ny
body, Fresh beef and pork can be
bought the day before for the meat
less" DAYS.
But what really has hit the Wen
nese hard IS the lack of whipped
cream, without which they formerly
could not drink their coffee. Now
only plain or condensed milk may be
had.
Back Of these slight deprivatiOns
lies the fact that the hundreds of
thousands Of farmers and farm la
borers now under arms can not be
both. soldiers and food producers, at
the same time. Though the older
men, wmen and children have done
their best To keen the crops growing
V'Ie dHu lHtIt with tue uutstibIldpi'
assistance of Russian and Serb pris-
onefs Of war, the result has not been
equal to that Of normal times. In
addition to this the army itself has
drawn heavily on the country's meat
and flour stuff stores. Owing to
their great bulk and relatively low
food values, vegetables can not he
taken to the front Another draw
back is that vegetables spoil too
quickly.
This has resulted in the consump-
ton by tho army of meat and cereal
foods about thirty-fivc per cent
greater than what the same number
OF men would have required at home.
Most Of this represents bread, fresh
beef ana pork, and to counteract the
Increased need for these felt by the
army, the population at home had to
make slight sacrifices, hence the
Tread ticket. and the fresh beef,
veal and pCrkless" days