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Why did they have to depend on Cuba for sugar? Louisiana has grown sugar for centuries (and it's in the US) and they could have brought it in by train!
After Pearl Harbor, there were all kinds of restrictions on everyday items. Sugar was heavily rationed; same went for butter, coffee, and just about everything else.
@@docadams7099 I understand all that.However, sugar was grown in Louisiana and butter could be created in virtually any dairy locale. However, apart from a very tiny amount of Kona coffee grown in the Big Island of the Hawaiian Territory, coffee was strictly an imported item! Of course rations in the US during WWII were FAR more generous than virtually every other nation. The UK has had to import more than it exported since 1752 (which is WHY the Axis went on an all-out offensive to attack British shipping everywhere possible). Yes, the US managed to be able to grow and produce an abundance of food in great varieties throughout the War even factoring in the Dust Bowl having decimated the Midwest barely a decade earlier!
