Ptak Science Books: Food and Not Having It: Visual Displays of Data, Britain and Germany, 1918

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Ptak Science Books: Food and Not Having It: Visual Displays of Data, Britain and Germany, 1918

".... Unfortunately we do not see what the Germans had to eat, though in the next graphic (same source, though 23 March 1918) we see the "ingenious" ways in which the German people got around not having certain foodstuffs. The means look more desperate than anything else: meat/sausage for example is replaced by "War Sausage", which was coagulated ox blood bleached with peroxide, and also by a "vegetable" meat, which was dyed glucose. "