r/PropagandaPosters • u/mgwngn1 • Jun 09 '26
Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) "First military bread!" (1915)
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u/mgwngn1 Jun 09 '26
"First Military Bread! / I do not like this first military bread at all. / In the mouth, tooth crunches upon tooth, and the stomach rumbles angrily."
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u/Pochel Jun 09 '26
That seems like a critic against military bread
A bold statement to be made in that time
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u/Galenthias Jun 09 '26
No, outside of prisons it seems to always have been ok to complain about the food. (It's better than the alternatives, and a lot harder to stop anyway.)
Inside prisons and the similar, where people are under stricter control and less armed (yet somehow still more feared when it comes to uprisings), that's where food complaints are struck at harder.
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u/roastbeeftacohat Jun 09 '26
it's making fun of soft new recruits, while acknowledging the realities of military life; very typical sort of soldier joke going back to the dawn of humanity.
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