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Disney World War II propaganda cartoon suggested we’d win the war with giant soft-boiled eggs

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Given that Thanksgiving has the reputation for being a day of Herculean food consumption, here’s a rather strange World War II propaganda cartoon that visualizes such gustatory excess. In the 1942 short “Food Will Win The War,” an overexcited narrator begins yelling about how bridges of butter, flour blizzards, and Brogdingnagian obese children will destroy the German army. Wars are won and lost on tubers the size of the Rock of Gibraltar. The statistics get crazy at 1:40.

See also: Weird early Disney educational cartoons and World War I food propaganda, which suggested that the Germans were eating quartz.

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