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title: Meat, poultry, fish are full of flavor, a cold dry place is what they favor
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/meat-poultry-fish-full-of-flavor-cold-dry-place-1942/
description: 'Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 3: a woman puts a meat dish in a refrigerator, with photographs of covered poultry in cold storage.'
section: Collection
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[![Meat, poultry, fish are full of flavor, a cold dry place is what they favor, 1942 US poster: Fight Food Waste in the home](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/meat-poultry-fish-full-of-flavor-cold-dry-place-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/meat-poultry-fish-full-of-flavor-cold-dry-place-1942.jpg)

# Meat, poultry, fish are full of flavor, a cold dry place is what they favor

Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 3: a woman puts a meat dish in a refrigerator, with photographs of covered poultry in cold storage, a stone cellar and a spring house. The technique is faint: ordinary women and rural storage places stand for everyday practice, framed by a rhyming headline.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
MEAT, POULTRY, FISH are full of flavor
a cold dry place is what they favor.
The meat dish in refrigerator is the ideal place
[on photograph:] COLD STORAGE
• Cover fresh meat or poultry loosely.... keep very cold.... 45° F. or lower.
• Put ground fresh meat in clean dish.... cover.... keep very cold.
• Fish and ground fresh meats spoil quickly even in a cold place. Don't keep more than 24 hrs.
• If you don't have a refrigerator you can keep perishable food for a short time in a spring house or a cold cellar.
[emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM
FIGHT FOOD WASTE in the home
BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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[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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