Get the Good... from meat (pot roast, tough cuts)
Chart 7 of the Bureau of Home Economics 'Get the Good' set: Photographs of a tied roast being browned with a glass of water beside it, a pot roast tested with a fork, and bones simmered for soup, headed 'To pot roast tough cuts'. A household-instruction sheet; the persuasive device is faint and rests on the word 'good' and the Food for Freedom emblem.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-867G (NAID 514367).
Text on the object
Get the Good... FROM MEAT To pot roast tough cuts • Brown first.... • Be sparing with the water. • Cover.... Cook slowly. • Cook only until tender.... Make gravy from drippings • Use bony pieces for savory soup, stew, or scrapple. • Crack bones.... cook slowly to draw out the "good". [emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM BUREAU of HOME ECONOMICS U.S. DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE 7 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-465074
