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title: 'Eat Cane Syrup and Molasses: Save Sugar by Using Best Louisiana Molasses and Sugar Cane Syrup'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-cane-syrup-and-molasses-save-sugar-1918/
description: A balance hangs from a red-and-white striped roundel beneath silhouetted soldiers, with a sugar bowl on one pan and a pitcher of syrup on the other.
section: Collection
---

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[![Eat Cane Syrup and Molasses: Save Sugar by Using Best Louisiana Molasses and Sugar Cane Syrup, 1918 US poster: A balance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-cane-syrup-and-molasses-save-sugar-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-cane-syrup-and-molasses-save-sugar-1918.jpg)

# Eat Cane Syrup and Molasses: Save Sugar by Using Best Louisiana Molasses and Sugar Cane Syrup

A balance hangs from a red-and-white striped roundel beneath silhouetted soldiers, with a sugar bowl on one pan and a pitcher of syrup on the other. The text asks households to save sugar by using Louisiana molasses and cane syrup instead. The tell of transfer is the flag-coloured roundel and marching silhouettes that attach wartime duty to a choice of sweetener; the sheet itself gives a plain substitution request rather than a reason.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Eat Cane
Syrup &
Molasses

[on the scale pan: SUGAR]

Save Sugar
By Using Best
LOUISIANA MOLASSES
and SUGAR CANE SYRUP

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

LURIA-FOWLER
```

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