waste not want not and demonstrated the proper etiquette necessary to join the ranks of the clean plate club in that era saving food was presented as part of the war effort and to do otherwise would be unpatriotic using food wisely and being aware of waste became second nature to a generation that had first hand experience with world war economic downturn and food scarcity. in both world war one and world war two the emerging might of american industrial and manufacturing power was bent toward the war effort and consequently to feeding the troops in a world where millions of starving america had become the bread basket of rome of the guard from of democracy. our farmlands and ranges must produce more food than ever before to supply our own needs and to help our fighting alliance. with dian to do so and the greatest food producing country in the world backing him up the american soldier no matter where you may be in the jungles. the arctic. the desert. or in his home care can rightly consider himself the best fed soldier in the world and in the future the war born knowledge that has made him