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Rural Pie Scheme

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The Rural Pie Scheme was organised by the Ministry of Food to provide pies for labourers in the countryside who did not have access to a works canteen or British Restaurant. It started in 1942 and was quite successful so that, in one week of 1944, 1.3 million pies were sold through the scheme.[1][2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Janet Clarkson (12 January 2016), The Rural Meat Pie Scheme, Britain, WW II
  2. ^ Ian Gazeley (2003), Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965, Macmillan International Higher Education, p. 136, ISBN 9780230802179
  3. ^ Angus Calder (1969), The People's War: Britain, 1939-1945, Panther, p. 445