Have
you visited the 'Daily Wants' page, which
has a similar list to this one? There
are even more items on this chart than on the 'Daily Wants' one. It's a bit rusty
and the photo is not very good, but see how many items you can identify.
Don't
worry if you can't understand them all. I'm not sure about some of them
myself!
Actually
I wonder if this chart is American. I notice it mentions 'hominy' which
may be an abbreviation here for 'hominy grits', an American food similar
to porridge. This
is the list of the items I have identified - Almonds,
apples, ammonia, apricots, bacon, baking powder, baked beans, barley,
bathbrick, beer, stout, beef, beeswax, biscuits, birdseed, blacking,
blacklead, blue, borax, bovril, brandy, brushes, butter, candles, capers,
carbolic soda, cake, cheese, chocolate, chutney, chicory, coal, cocoa,
coconut, coffee, cornflour, cream of tartar, currants, curry powder,
custard, disinfectant, dog biscuits, eggs, emery paper, enamaline,
essences, figs, firelights, flout, gelatine, ginger, gravy colour,
haddock, ham, haricots, hearth stone, herbs, honey, hominy, infant food,
issinglass, jam, jelly, kippers, lamb, lard, lemons, lemon curd, lentils,
lobster, macaroni, margarine, marmalade, matches, mentholated spirits,
milk, mineral waters, mustard, night lights, nuts, nutmegs, oatmeal, olive
oil, onions, oranges, papers, peas, peaches, peel, pepper, pickles,
pineapple, pipeclay, plates, polish for boots, polish for brass, polish
for floors, potatoes, potted meats, prunes, raisins, rice sago, salmon,
salt, salad cream, sardines, sauces, sausages, semolina, soap, soda,
soups, spices, starch, suet, sugar, syrup, tapers, tapioca, tea, tomatoes,
tongue, toothpaste, treacle, turpentine, vegetables, vermicelli, vinegar,
wash leather, washing powder, whitening, whisky, wheatmeal, wine liqueurs,
notes. Some
of these items are no longer in use. 'Issinglass' for instance was used to
preserve eggs, before the days of refrigeration. And 'blacklead' was used
to polish fireplaces etc.
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