Arizona republican., 1916-01-11
BREAD SLIPS AND
 MEATLESS DAYS.
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 VIENNA, Jan. 11-Bread tickets and two meatless" days a week suggest the verge of famine to the person not familiar with life in the localities where such precautionary measures are being applied. Vienna and the greater part of Austria are at present subject to the limitation in food which the bread ticket, wheat bread prohibi- ton and meatless days imply But the fact is that nobody is deprived of any thing by these regulations. People eat as much as before with the difference that some of the things they eat have been prescribed
 The bread ticket system allows every person three ratiOns daily each of 70 Srammes of rye bread, or 210 grammes, not quite a half pound, for the day. The person feeling the need of more farinaceous food can augment this ap- portionment by buying wheat cake and pastry in the restaurants and cafes, and. if still unsatisfied after that. can have an unlimited quantity of mock erin dumplngs-for which the Aus trian kitchen is justly famous, or he can order dozen portions of 'schmarn" another Austrian dish Of fame. At a pinch the waiter may be brihed into increasing the bread ra- tion"
 It may be asked what. under such conditions. is the value of the bread ticket arrangement. The manager of T large Vienna restaurant supplied the answer.
 The bread ticket prevents the waste | of bread which formerly obtained'. ha | said. We are in the habit of putting baskets with rolls and cut bread on the table. Many of our patrons could start | to cat as much as four rolls and not 1 finish 2 single one. The remainder had to be thrown into the sWill barrel. | Rioht now flour is too scarce to be fed i to pigs
 1 \ "meatless' day in Vienna and Aus tria is 2 misnomer. In fact it is merely l a "beef-pOrkless" day and not even
 that altogether. Butchers and restau- 1 rants on "meatless" or "fleisch-
 lose days sell any kind of meat with l the exception of fresh beef veal or l pork. pickled and preserved beef. veal l ani pork may be sold, however. so may l fresh mutton and lamb. every kind of
 poultry. fresh and preserved game and fish It cannot be said that the
 'meatless" days work a hardship on ian"body Fresh beef and pork can he
 bought the day before for the meat 1 less days
 But what really has hit the Viennese
 hard is the lack of whipped cream
 without which they formerly could moi
 drink their coffee Now only plain ol
 condensed milk may he had
 Back of these slight deprivations lies
 the fact that the hundreds of thou l sands of farmers and farm laborers l now under arms can not be both. sol 1 dierS and food producers, at the sams
 time. Though the older men. women | and children have done their best to
 keep the crops growing, here and there | witn the questionable assistance of l Russian and Serb prisoners 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 l country s meat and flour stuff stores
 Owing to their great bulk and relative ly low food values, vegetables can no;
 he taken to the front to each man ir
 the proportions of vegetable meat and
 cereal food he eats when at home An
 otter drawback is that vegetables spoi
 too quickly.
 l This has resulted in the consumptior
 by the army of meat and cereal food.
 about thirtyfive per cent greater
 than what the same number Of mel would have required at home Most O
 this represents bread. fresh beef anC
 pork, and to counteract the increased
 need fur these felt by the army. tht
 population at home had to make sligh
 sacrifices, hence the bread ticket. an,
 the fresh beef. veal and porkless' days.