You Can't Breakfast Like a Bird and Work Like a Horse

WWII poster designed by Walt Disney Productions for the Food and Nutrition Committee, California War Council and published in 1943. Poster shows Donald Duck struggling to work while Horace Horsecollar energetically rivets. It's titled "You can't breakfast like a bird and work like a horse!" Bottom reads ""This is a good breakfast. Grapefruit, orange juice, melon or berries. Milk. Cereals with milk. Eggs now and then. 2 slices whole wheat or enriched bread and butter. Distributed in the interest of the National Wartime Nutrition Program."

This poster is part of the political and military collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. It was designed for specific political purposes, and accordingly it may contain sensitive or offensive imagery specific to its historical function and period.