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title: Get the Good... from vegetables (cook quickly, no soda)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/get-the-good-from-vegetables-cooking-1942/
description: 'Chart 4 of the Bureau of Home Economics ''Get the Good'' set: Photographs of peas cooked in a little water and served in their own juice.'
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---

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# Get the Good... from vegetables (cook quickly, no soda)

Chart 4 of the Bureau of Home Economics 'Get the Good' set: Photographs of peas cooked in a little water and served in their own juice, plus drawn figures of a clock ('Watch the clock') and a soda box held off by a raised hand ('Don't use soda'). 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

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Get the Good...
FROM VEGETABLES
• Cook in boiling water.... with no more than needed.
Watch the clock.... cook quickly.... stop when tender
Don't use soda.... it destroys the vitamins
[on drawn box:] SODA
• Serve in its own juice or use juice in sauce or soup.
× Don't drain "pot liquor" down the sink.
[emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM
4
BUREAU of HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE
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
```

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