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title: Choose for Victory - Try a V Dish To-Day
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-choose-for-victory-try-a-v-dish-1939/
description: A restaurant menu with a red 'V' beside the Victory Dish, under the large word VICTORY, is set beside text naming potatoes, vegetables.
section: Collection
---

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[![Choose for Victory - Try a V Dish To-Day, 1939 UK poster: A restaurant menu with a red 'V' beside the Victory Dish, under](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-choose-for-victory-try-a-v-dish-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-choose-for-victory-try-a-v-dish-1939.jpg)

# Choose for Victory - Try a V Dish To-Day

A restaurant menu with a red 'V' beside the Victory Dish, under the large word VICTORY, is set beside text naming potatoes, vegetables, dried egg and cheese as 'ship-savers'. The tell is the 'V for Victory' symbol, a high-valued word and sign attached to an ordinary food choice.

## 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

```
CHOOSE FOR
VICTORY
Menu
VICTORY DISH
Go Easy with Bread
"V" on the menu means VICTORY DISH - a special dish made at the suggestion of the Minister of Food. It is composed of "ship-savers" such as:-
Potatoes & other Fresh Vegetables,
Dried Egg, Cheese.
TRY A V DISH TO-DAY
PRINTED FOR H.M.STATIONERY OFFICE BY CHROMOWORKS LTD., LONDON. 51-3548.
```

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