The Ministry of Information plays the guilt card to keep the home front from grumbling at mealtimes.

Shepherd's pie, stew, sausages, hotpot. What now reads like a typical gastro-pub menu are here used are the examples of everyday mealtime mundanity of the home front. If your parents ever conjured up starving kids in Africa when you were little to get you to eat your greens, then here is an example of the Ministry of Information employing a similar tactic.

A man is bored of stew, cottage pie and sausage and pushes them away. The narrator advises that millions in the world would want that crust he just threw away.