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1922: Food

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Are People's Eating Habits Changed?

The 20s and into the interwar period are extremely interesting in terms of British food history. There's a stratospheric rise of canned foods, convenience foods, and crucially sugar. In the 1920s and 1930s is the time where you see the invention of the Mars bar,. All of those kind of classic British treats that we now know and love really come into being in that period. With the war on the Spanish flu pandemic now in the past, have people's eating habits changed? Here's Annie again.

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