The American War Bride Experience

GI Brides of World War II

Feb. 17, 1946, Omaha World-Herald - Nebraska Scene

GI Bride Hits Out Cookery

By John Bentley
One, two –
No meat for stew;
Three, four –
No steak any more;

Five, six –
A helluva fix;

Seven, eight –
Vegetable plate



A BRITISH girl, war bride of a Nebraska soldier, concedes that the United States is “wonderful, just wonderful – despite the way you mess up good food”.

“To say nothing of the way the Government messes up our food production business – asking farmers to produce enough food for ourselves and most of the world with less and less machinery,” asserts Josephus Henry, Scottsbluff.
Star-Herald.

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