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title: Good gag? Not here! Don't waste food
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/good-gag-not-here-dont-waste-food-1944/
description: Cartoon food-waste poster in two panels. Above, three dark silhouetted figures with wide grins and white eyes laugh at a screen cartoon of a man hit
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Three figures are drawn as black silhouettes with exaggerated grins and white eyes, in a caricature style of the period. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Good gag? Not here! Don't waste food, 1944 US poster: Cartoon food-waste poster in two panels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/good-gag-not-here-dont-waste-food-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/good-gag-not-here-dont-waste-food-1944.jpg)

# Good gag? Not here! Don't waste food

Cartoon food-waste poster in two panels. Above, three dark silhouetted figures with wide grins and white eyes laugh at a screen cartoon of a man hit by a pie. Below, a pie hits a garbage can beside a bitten apple, with the words 'Not here! Don't waste food'. The technique is faint: it borrows the laughter of a slapstick gag and turns it against wasting food.

## 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

```
GOOD GAG?
–NOT
HERE!
Don't Waste Food
[signature:] DYER USNR
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—620967
```

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