bread rations
Portioned loaf shares
Bread rations are controlled portions of bread distributed during times of scarcity—wartime, famine, or economic crisis.
Governments or institutions set limits on how much each person can receive: During the siege, bread rations were cut to half a loaf per family.
The phrase evokes subsistence-level survival and the bureaucratic management of hunger.
- loafBaked bread shape
- crustHard outer layer
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- war effortOrganized wartime resource mobilization
- hungerNeed for nourishment
empty stomach · lean times · bare minimum · queue · soup kitchen · allocation · survival · scarcity · portion · slice · stale · crumbs · coupon · daily · subsistence · flour · dole · food stamps
- Ancient Egypt economygrain storage, gold mines, taxation, granaries, tribute
- rationingcoupon books, coupons, coupon system, weekly allowance, fair shares
- Leningrad Siegeblockade, encirclement, Leningrad, starvation, ice road
abundance vs. scarcity
bread rationsabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · surplus · bounty · feast · cornucopia
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