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