Rationing in the United Kingdom meat, tea, jam, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cheese, eggs, lard, milk, and canned and dried fruit. In June 1942 the Combined Food Board was set up by Great Britain and the United States to coordinate the world supply of food to the Allies, with special attention to flows from the U.S. and Canada to Britain. Almost all foods apart from vegetables and bread were rationed by August 1942. Strict rationing inevitably created a black market. Almost all controlled items were rationed by weight but meat was rationed by price. Fresh vegetables and fruit were not rationed but supplies were limited. Some
Christianity in Roman Britain Christian community. Dorothy Watts suggested that Christianity was perhaps introduced to Britain in the latter part of the second century. Circa 200, the Carthaginian theologian Tertullian included Britain in a list of places reached by Christianity in his work, "Adversus Judaeos". The Greek theologian Origen also wrote that Christianity had reached Britain. The accuracy of these statements can be questions given that both writers had a strong rhetorical aspect to their work, which was designed to glorify what was still an illegal and underground religious movement. It is nevertheless possible that Tertullian and Origen were basing their statements on some