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title: Fresh fruits are best in season with care they'll keep within reason
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fresh-fruits-are-best-in-season-1942/
description: 'Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 7: photographs of hands handling strawberries and pears, and a cartoon of three frightened fruits with a small'
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# Fresh fruits are best in season with care they'll keep within reason

Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 7: photographs of hands handling strawberries and pears, and a cartoon of three frightened fruits with a small horned devil above them. The tell is the cartoon, which casts rot as an 'enemy' (a wartime frame applied to a kitchen task); the photographs are plain-folks.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FRESH FRUITS ARE BEST IN SEASON
with care...they'll keep within reason.
Spread berries
keep dry and cold.
That's the way
to prevent mold.
- Wash and cap just before using
Don't pinch, bruise or
break our skin....
You'll let the enemy
'rot' come in.
- Be gentle with tender
skinned fruit.
- Spread to keep from
bruising.
- Keep ripe fruit cold.
- Let under-ripe fruit
ripen at room
temperature to bring
out the flavor.
[emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM
FIGHT FOOD WASTE in the home
BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
7
[imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 25c per set of 10 charts
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-465386
```

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