The British tainted small feed cakes with anthrax in the Second World War as a potential means of attacking German cattle for food denial, but never employed the weapon.

Causes involved the transfer of many farmers and food workers into the military, an overburdened railroad system, shortages of coal, and the British blockade that cut off imports from abroad.

Marmite ( ) is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa ; and a version produced in New Zealand.

His four years at Yale overlapped with the American Revolutionary War, and because of food shortages and threatened invasions by the British, many of his college classes were held in other towns.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

On 19 May 2006, the British Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced new minimum nutrition standards for school food.

The British people, who depended heavily on American food imports, generally favoured the United States.

Overseas visitors could choose between British law, that was considered stricter but with more humane prisons, or French law and French prisons, which were somewhat uncomfortable but with better food.

Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P. Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries.

King — and Canada — were largely ignored by Winston Churchill, despite Canada's major role in supplying food, raw materials, munitions and money to the hard-pressed British economy, training airmen for the Commonwealth, guarding the western half of the North Atlantic Ocean against German U-boats, and providing combat troops for the invasions of Italy, France and Germany in 1943-45.

** Operation Manna: British Lancaster bombers drop food into the Netherlands to prevent the starvation of the civilian population.

* Elizabeth I of England decrees that all Africans should be removed from the British realm in reaction to the food crisis.

The results of that missile's explosion are the instant blinding of those who see the explosion, the resultant firestorm caused by the heat wave, and the blast front ; later, the collapse of society, because of radiation sickness, psychological damage, and destroyed infrastructure ; the British Army burns corpses, while police shoot looters during food riots.

* A British Shorthair silver tabby appears on many packages and adverts of Whiskas brand cat food.

The original picture of a British Shorthair came from the front page of happycat. ru, a Russian cat food company.

Fish and chips at a Hesburger fast food restaurant in Finland, advertised as particularly British

British chips are traditionally thicker than American-style French fries sold by major multinational fast food chains, resulting in a lower fat content per portion.

) " He ( Treacher ) served as a spokesman for the restaurant chain in its early years, underscoring the British character of its food.

Although archeological evidence of this grain has been found in Roman contexts along the Rhine, Danube, and in the British Isles, Pliny the Elder was dismissive of rye, writing that it " is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation " and spelt is mixed into it " to mitigate its bitter taste, and even then is most unpleasant to the stomach " ( N. H. 18. 40 ).

Through Franco was keen to enter the war, the Spanish wanted major infusions of food aid to counter the anticipated effects of a British blockade, a German commitment to help modernize the Spanish military, and no German bases on their soil-conditions that Hitler refused to meet.

Few historians have argued that the Great Irish Famine was not caused by the shortage of food, given that Ireland was producing enough food to feed its eight million people, but by the British government's choice to leave open the ports, as they are normally close during Irish crop blights.

Another example of this pacification can be taken from the years revolving around 1896 in which the British empire destroyed large amounts of grain and food stocks, suppressing a riot being formed by the Ndeblee tribe.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Category: British products with protected designation of origin

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

* A British brand of railway locomotives, road rollers and other products ; see Thomas Green & Son

During the latter part of the Roman period British agricultural products, paid for by both the Roman state and by private consumers, clearly played an important role in supporting the military garrisons and urban centres of the northwestern continental Empire.

In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British educational institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours.

The British attempts to resupply the force via the Tigris river failed, and rationing was complicated by the refusal of many Indian troops to eat cattle products.

It was heavily dependent on exports of agricultural products to the British markets, and on its services sector ( especially its large merchant fleet, and the banking sector ), whereas its industry ( whatever remained of it after a century of being confronted by foreign protectionism ) also was dependent on exports.

Australia was, from 1788 to 1900, a collection of British colonies in which culinary tastes were strongly influenced by British and Irish traditions-and agricultural products such as beef cattle, sheep and wheat became staples in the national diet.

Its products had always been referred to by the name ' Bristol ' and this was formalized in 1920, when British and Colonial was liquidated and its assets became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. At this time the Company, acting under a certain amount of pressure from the Air Ministry, bought the aero-engine division of the bankrupt Cosmos Engineering Company, also of Bristol, to form the nucleus of its new aero-engine operations.

The South Bank Exhibition included a Design Review, that presented " an illustrated record of contemporary achievement in British industry ", showing " the high standard of design and craftsmanship that has been reached in a wide range of British products.

The Roca-Runciman Treaty of 1933 gave Argentina a quota of the British market for exports of its primary products, but the discriminatory British imperial tariffs and the effects of deflation in Britain actually led to a small decline of Argentine exports to Great Britain.

This was organised by the Council of Industrial Design established by the British government in 1944 " to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry ".

Category: British products with protected designation of origin

There were 3, 335 sheep, a reflection of the prodigious wool business in the town as a result of trade barriers erected by the United States against British textile imports that spurred considerable domestic demand for woolen products.

Due to British influence, however, only citrus products may be sold as " marmalade " in the European Union ( with certain exceptions ), which has led to considerable complaints from those countries.

Other scales, with the possible exception of N gauge, lack the variety and affordability of UK ready-to-run products, it is likely that this deters British modellers and leads to the prevalence of OO.

As Napoleon had already closed all of Western and Southern Europe to British trade, Britain, which relied heavily upon imports ( especially for timber, naval products, and grain ) was seriously threatened by Paul ’ s move and reacted fast.