The food industry, highly politicised after the wartime shortages, was under orders to produce cheap bread efficiently.

Now Saturninus comes along and promises them cheap bread in the midst of a famine.

Then off for a loaf of cheap bread.

"But I want cheap bread and a better pension," she replies instantly.

So Amazonia was bland as cheap bread, but there was more wealth under its dome than on any two other planets combined.

Now the source of that ability to put artificially cheap bread on the table is drying up.

The bread was rye rather than the cheaper brown bread we had been eating, and the beer was not so watery either.

Lines form early for a cheap dark bread that bakers are obliged to produce for those unable to afford the regular loaves.

Peel never took office again and was remembered as the prime minister who gave the working classes cheaper bread.

As a result, urban populations, economically emancipated from the land, could still enjoy cheap bread.