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  2. Penny bun - Wikipedia

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    A penny bun or a penny loaf was a small bread bun or loaf which cost one old penny at the time when there were 240 pence to the pound. A penny loaf was a common size loaf of bread in England regulated by the Assize of Bread and Ale act of 1266. The size of the loaf could vary depending on the prevailing cost of the flour used in the baking. [1]

  3. Rationing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Offal and sausages were rationed only from 1942 to 1944. When sausages were not rationed, the meat needed to make them was so scarce that they often contained a high proportion of bread. Eggs were rationed and "allocated to ordinary [citizens] as available"; in 1944 thirty allocations of one egg each were made.

  4. Red Cross parcel - Wikipedia

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    The SS Embla was bombed by British aircraft on 6 April 1944 causing a fire, ... at a cost of $47,529,000. ... One loaf of longlife bread;

  5. Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    1944–1950 : West–East division ... to the occupation of the Ruhr caused the cost of a loaf of bread to rise from 3 Reichsmarks in 1922 to 80 billion Reichsmarks ...

  6. We Tried 8 Popular White Breads And This Is the Best ... - AOL

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    Bunny White Bread. $3.87 . This gigantic loaf of 28 slices was all that was available, but please do not fret about waste, because that thing has “tomorrow’s bread pudding” written all over it.

  7. Assize of Bread and Ale - Wikipedia

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    The assize presented an established scale, then of ancient standing, between the prices of wheat and of bread, providing that when the quarter (~240 L / 6.9 US bushel if the gallon is taken to be the wine gallon) of wheat was sold at twelve pence, the farthing loaf of the best white bread should weigh six pounds sixteen shillings (~2.5 kg / 5.6 ...

  8. 18 Cities Where Grocery Prices Have Skyrocketed - AOL

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    While inflation has made nearly everything more expensive, the cost of groceries has been especially affected -- prices for food increased 13.5% between August 2021 and August 2022, double the ...

  9. Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 or 200 billion (2×10 11) marks by late 1923. [14] By November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 or 4.2 trillion (4.2105×10 12) German marks. [16]