This is a scan of a 1911 Bureau of Fisheries poster encouraging Americans to eat carp. This fish was introduced to American waters in 1877 and quickly proliferated to the point where the government needed us to eat as much as we could ("It can be cooked in such a way as to remove the muddy taste.") I have to admit, compared to salmon, trout, cod, or snapper, they are truly ugly suckers. I'm thinking that if our government worked the same way in Century 21, we would be getting handouts and recipe books for raccoon, opossum, bedbugs, and pigeon.
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