Rationing (1944)

Sarah Edwards: Mrs. Beachman

Quotes 

• Mrs. Beachman : [in frustration, with her ration book]  With all these points and things to bother about Ben, I *wish* you'd tell me how my husband and I can get a good dinner.

  Ben Barton : That is very simple. First of all, you take a steak away from a Marine down in Guadalcanal and, uh, you cook it with some potatoes that *should* go to one of the coast guardsmen on the Aleutian Islands, then you add some fresh vegetables from the mess of our troops down in Northern Africa and add a couple of pounds of butter that you were going to send to some sailors on a submarine, with two cups of coffee that belongs to an aviator in the South Pacific.

  [Mrs. Beachman, with indignantly pursed lips, walks off]