I’m 74 now but I well remember being a poor university student and begging bacon ends from the butcher and ends of the cheese rounds from the grocer. We ate Pavlova most nights – sugar was cheap and we got egg whites free from the laboratories because they only used the egg yolks for their tests. We used to line our rooms with egg cartons for sound insulation and to stop draughts. That was in 1957.
[Egg cartoons for sound proofing and insulation; now that is an oily rag trick! – Oily Rag Ed’]