We were watching an episode of 'Foyle's War' the other evening, and a side-story was the police station raffle! The first prize was an onion, and Sam says to the desk sergeant that she hadn't seen one since before the war, and could she just sniff it for a treat!
We thought that there were always plenty of onions about in those dark days, and C.H.Middleton often refers to them throughout his wartime broadcasts! He also spells broccoli as 'calabresse', but as we've just started our PSB, we'll forgive him for that, but the TV people should have looked into this little snippet before giving Sam palpitations, (or me for that matter..;0)
(There was an episode of 'Dad's army', where Hodges was raffling an orange, but they were in short supply)!
Any other shortages...?