This scene. THESE WOMEN.
Okay, here’s my thing about this scene and it hit me when I first watched it but has taken me a while (and some conversation) to put into words.
Peggy, for a moment, seems rather uncomfortable with the idea of stealing food, where the other girls encourage it, even praising each other for it. This to me, seems to underline a real cultural difference. Peggy, having grown up in England with the rationing and the Blitz spirit, would have had a very much ‘make, do and mend’ mindset. What you had, you shared. Stealing or fiddling rations was not only very frowned upon by others, but could be punishable.
The American girls, on the flipside, probably grew up young in the Depression. When there was food, you took it and you took as much as you could, because who knows when it would be there again? They have made ingenious solutions to avoid waste, and to avoid hunger. They eat like women who have known what it feels like to not have anything to fill a hungry belly.
That being said, I don’t think less of either set of women. I just think it’s an interesting dichotomy.
Mostly, of course, yay lady friendships and MOAR PLEASE.