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WW2 Food Rationing Officially Ended in UK
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On July 04, 1954, while Americans celebrated their independence by gorging on hot dogs, the British celebrated being allowed to gorge on hot dogs. That day the U.K. officially ended 14 years of food rationing imposed at the dawn of World War II.