Perhaps, then, visual representations of food - including images of cherries or currants - functioned as substitutes or displacements for the #!
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We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
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Home-grown currants, in 1923–25, averaged about 300,000 cwts.
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The currants were white and sugary, and therefore unsuited for sale as groceries.
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If you have a loaf of bread with currants in, what is that?
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The importation of black currants this year, though considerable, is appreciably less than was the case at this period last year.
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We are raising this year just over £10,000,000 by taxation from food—tea, sugar, cocoa, currants, and other articles.
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There were no appreciable imports of currants from these two countries.
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I am aware that prospects are good for certain fruit crops, including black currants.
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Has he power to do anything at all in relation, say, to the cheapening of labour in the production of raspberries, currants and strawberries?
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He told us that he had seen currants which had been bought from the grower at 2½ d. a lb.
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As regards black currants, there was a glut last year, but, with the introduction of canning factories, the glut has now been dealt with.
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The home crop of currants in that year was 328,000 cwts.
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A further allowance is made for the cost of cleaning the currants before they reach the consumer.
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Considerable quantities of currants have recently arrived in this country and are being distributed as rapidly as possible.
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