Potatoes are usually plentiful - just along the road from her grocer's Mrs Gill gets 7lb of potatoes from her greengrocer Mr Ferraro No fruit of any kind says the card ( all cards say NO ) which is what Mrs Gill expected Oranges now come in every few months Babies can get a pound on their green ration books and what's left over goes to the grown ups Bananas are now very occasionally seen in London ( half a pound for under eighteens ) 1946