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title: Small Fry
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/small-fry-save-food-army-1943/
description: 'Food-conservation sheet for soldiers: a photograph of a small boy and girl sitting in a large frying pan above an orange flame.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Small Fry, 1943 US poster: Food-conservation sheet for soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/small-fry-save-food-army-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/small-fry-save-food-army-1943.jpg)

# Small Fry

Food-conservation sheet for soldiers: a photograph of a small boy and girl sitting in a large frying pan above an orange flame, under the headline 'Small Fry'. The text links soldiers' food waste to 'rickety, undernourished kids', a fear-appeal built on children shown in the pan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SMALL FRY
Think about America's Small Fry-your son or
the daughter of your Buddy ★ When soldiers
waste food, they feel the pinch ★ We aren't
fighting this war to give America a lot of
rickety, undernourished kids ★ This is the Army
talking. We'll SAVE FOOD and safeguard
their future!
[imprint:] ★ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 — [illegible]
[imprint:] NEWSMAP Prepared and distributed by ARMY ORIENTATION COURSE, Special Service Division Army Service Forces, WAR DEPT., [illegible] Pentagon Bldg., Washington, D. C. Prepared from public sources of information
```

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