Jam
The importance of home prepared foods is of continuing importance and the institute runs its own markets, WI markets, where home made produce is sold. Modern hygiene regulations have made this activity more complicated, but so entwined are the ideals of the hymn and ongoing self-sufficiency that the ideology of the organisation is often summarised as "Jam and Jerusalem" WI fetes, cookery, and judging have frequency been satirised by Little Britain's "Maggie and Judy" sketches. Maggie Blackamoor is often perceived in the UK as the archetypal member of the WI.
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