Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-06
LET'S Laugh
Food Ration
Isn't Too Bad,
It's the Gard
McLemore Is So Afraid
He'll Lose Il ~
By HENRY McLEMORE

FOR ONE, am not too much
Il dismayed at the thought of
general rationing of food.
There have been several broad
hints from Washington that il
was only a matter of time until
meats, dairy products and other
foods would join sugar in the
stamp collection, and be par
celed out on alternate Tues
days of each month.
Right off the bat, rationing
will draw families closer to-
gether by making them eat the
same things.
One of the major problems in
the American home today is de-
Gliding what to have for dinner.
Papa likes lamb. Mama likes
beef. Johnny won't eat beef or
lamb but dotes on pork. Sister
will struggle through a helping
of any of these, but her heart
isn't in her eating unless she
has meat loaf.
WITH rationing. this will all
be ended. Mama can end
any argument or fuss by saying
that this is war, her stamps
call for this kind of meat or
vegetable, and 10 complain is
to be unpatriotic.
One Of the big hardships of
being a child is that grown-ups
force children to taste things.
My father was a great one for
having the chiltren take a bite
and see IL you don't like H."
And he wouldn't take mo" for
an answer.
My tastes ran contrary to his.
very contrary, in fact, but more
than few hours of my child
hood we're spent opening my
mouth and trying to hold my
breath while a connection not
10 my liking was poked via
spoon or fork.
Dad felt that any child could
learn 10 like anything if he ate
IL often enough, even If ii were
squash, which happened to be
one of his favorite dishes.
To this day plate of squash
on the table frightens me more
than the thought of reading Poe
in haunted house at midnight.
DINING in restaurants will be
~ sin1plified by the rationing
Of food. Frankly, how many
times have you ordered food in
a restaurant and then. when the
food was served. coveted the
dish that your companion had
ordered? This. after studying
the menu for 10 minutes, and
having an equal chance TO order
what most appealed TO you.
Wives are the greatest .suf-
fererS in restaurant eating.
Breathes there man with soul
so dead who never TO his wife
has said:
Honey, / like what you have
much more than what i Or
dered."
This poses a great problem for
the wife.
Should she be firm, unyielding,
and 60 right ahead and eat what
she ordered, or should she un-
selflshly suggest that she swap
with her husband?
Most wives yield. There is
soft streak in them that causes
them 10 turn over their lamb
chops and tackle a rooster under
bell that they wouldn't have
ordered in 10 years of dining
out.
EVEN the most hardened wife
~ will share her plate with
her husband. and offer him
choice bits of her food for dab
bles of the dish that he ordered
and which he doesn't like.
If you see two people 60
through an entire restaurant
meal without any swapping of
food, you may be sure that they
are counting and thus showing
off TO each other, that they are
almost complete strangers. or
that they are mad at each
other and will maintain a grim
silence no matter how much
they would like 10 do a little
swapping.
l do hope, however. that "a
uoning will never affect des-
Serts,
There is nothing more graft
flying when eating in a restau-
rant than 10 have one of your
companions decide that he has
had enough. and doesn't want
the sweet that comes with his
meal.
THIS allows you to tell him TO
= order it any way, so that
you will be able TO combine il
with yours and make a really
superb connection.
Not only does this doubling
UP of desserts please the palate;
1t delights the streak of econ
omy that all of us have in us.
It's like getting something for
nothing.
The only fear of general ra-
tioning that ] have concerns
the ration cards. How 10 keen