Content note: Cartoon with exaggerated caricature features (bulging eyes, protruding tongue) and the words 'glutton' and 'dummy' applied to a sailor. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Your Food is the Best - Don't Waste It
Cartoon of a sailor with oversized eyes piling a tray with food, shouting 'More! More!' while a messmate looks on and a cook scowls; a drumstick and bread fall to the floor. A rhyme above calls him 'a glutton and a dummy'. The tell is name-calling aimed at a wasteful type, in comic mess-hall slang.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Artist Dyer, USNR; issuing office not printed
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- 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)
Artist Dyer, USNR (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-276 (NAID 513725).
Text on the object
A guy's a glutton And a dummy Whose eyes are bigger Than his tummy. MORE! MORE! Your Food is the Best -DON'T WASTE IT [signature:] DYER USNR [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [date and number illegible]
