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Hurrah, the butter is all gone parodies the aesthetics of Nazi propaganda. Showing a typical German family gnawing on various iron implements, including a bicycle and an axe while the dog licks a gigantic nut and bolt. A portrait of Hitler is in pride of place and the walls are emblazoned with swastikas. The accompanying text refers to a speech delivered by Hermann Goring during a food shortage: “Hurrah, the butter is all gone!” Goring said in one Hamburg address: “Iron ore has made the Reich strong. Butter and dripping have, at most, made the people fat.”
Wow, that is awesome mock propaganda. Wonder if the reference to “schmaltz” is about Jews who use chicken fat, kept in a jar after cooking the meat and draining it, to flavor foods and put in pans in which other food (meat, onions, etc,) is cooked. Probably not, but my dad grew up eating eggs and burgers cooked in schmaltz the way southerners in the US grow up with jars of bacon grease to cook and season food.
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i think dripping was very common all over back in the day, I actually remember having a dripping sandwich in my childhood. Plus the typical German burgher was typically chastised by the fitness fanatical Nazi’s (remember Joy through Strength) as being fat.
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Mr. Cake, this is fantastic, and the details are amazing. ~ Miss Cranes
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Thank you Miss Cranes, can you believe he said that? And that people swallowed it. The baby chewing the axe is funny as well as the dog.
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Yes, I can believe just about anything. Thank goodness for the humor, I do love the dog. So much for iron rich blood.
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Thing is goring was rather in the lardy side himself. Well let them eat iron.
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