O.K. Chow Hound - just be sure you eat it - Watch your waste!
Navy mess-hall poster: a tattooed, red-faced cook ladles food onto a tray held out by a dog in a sailor's uniform, under the line 'O.K. Chow Hound - just be sure you eat it'. The slang, the cartoon dog and the galley setting give an informal, one-of-the-crew voice to a plain order not to leave food on the plate.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (artist Hotchkiss, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1443 (NAID 515106).
Text on the object
O.K. CHOW HOUND- JUST BE SURE YOU EAT IT WATCH YOUR WASTE! [signature: Hotchkiss USNR] [imprint: BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS : NAVY] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-595865]
