[3] Ersatz products developed in Germany and Austria-Hungary during this time included: [4] synthetic rubber Kautschuk produced from petroleum for rubber benzene for heating oil (coal gas) industrial lubricants made by extracting oils from coal tar and brown-coal slags synthetic camphor for imported natural camphor nitrate crepe paper made from cellulose for gun cotton glycerin from sugar rather than fats gypsum-yielded sulphur pigeon guano used to make fertilizer flowers and weeds processed to make alcohol for ammunition rosins and gums extracted from coal derivatives tea composed of roasted barley, grasses, wild flowers, ground raspberry leaves or catnip coffee substitute using roasted acorns, chicory and beechnuts (stretched with caramel-flavoured raw sugar and beet flower later in the war) butter replaced by curdled milk, sugar and food colouring cooking oil replaced by a mixture of beets, carrots, turnips and spices salad oil was 99% mucilage eggs replaced by yellow-coloured corn or potato flour ground European beetles (cockchafers) and linden wood replaced fats sausage made of water, plant fibres, animal scraps and blood (the infamous 'war sausage' which was equated to 'a mouthful of sawdust') bouillon cubes made 7090% of salt rather than meat extract wheat flour stretched by adding potato flour and powdered hay chocolates and cocoa replaced by ground cocoa shells and mixed pure pepper oil and sunflower 'cakes' replaced corn and oats as horse feed rapeseed, poppy and mustard 'cakes' replaced green feed for cattle paper, peat, reeds, bulrushes and free-growing stinging nettle fibres replaced cotton in textiles wood and paper used for shoe soles Germany also stretched its supply of petrol with 'gasohol' ( Benzolspiritus ), which by today's standards would be classed as E25 petrol, consisting of 75% petrol and 25% distilled alcohol, likely ethanol
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Rather than resort to conventional sleep-inducing methods, he famously ordered $44 worth of ice cream from room service
