Synopsis:
Donald works alone in a baker's shop and he tries to comply with the wishes of the customers. But a baker he is not!

Comments:
Despite all good intentions Donald does not manage to deliver anything from the shop that he has produced. Either he burns the cakes in the oven or he misreads the recipes.

Other examples:
In WDCS158 'To Bee or Not to Bee' Donald has grave trouble with the nephews' honey bees, but in the end he is rewarded with an open honey sandwich. In WDCS236 Froggy Farmer Donald goes to great lengths to grow frogs in order to sell the frog legs to the restaurants.

Synopsis:
Donald is trying his best to establish a victory garden but the crows are giving him a hard time.

Comments:
During World War 2 it was common for families in many countries to grow vegetables wherever they could find a suitable strip of land. This was done in an attempt to be at least partly self-sufficient in greens.

Other examples:
U$51 How Green was My Lettuce (lettuce), WDCS068 'The Kite Maker' (cabbage), WDCS189 'Backyard Garden' (apples).

Synopsis:
Donald and Scrooge pay a visit to a tycoon whom Donald thinks may be richer than Scrooge. But what is the source of the wealth?

Comments:
The ducks are in Texas where everything (according to the Texans!) is bigger and better. Thus the tycoon's produce is of giant size: tomatos, beans, and pumpkins. Not to mention potatos - one to a sack!

Other examples:
In WDCS152 'The Talking Dog' Donald produces a sixteen-mile long noodle (a type of macaroni) which he is then asked to eat in one go! In WDCS164 'Special Flour' Donald is selling a new brand of flour which has to be used very sparingly - otherwise it may expand to the size of a house!

Synopsis:
The nephews win a live turkey for Thanksgiving but they get too attached to it to eat it. So Donald has to find another turkey for dinner..

Comments:
It is fairly rarely that we experience the ducks dining at a dinner table, but when we do they are mostly having a turkey dinner. Still, it is kind of difficult to abstract from the fact that they frequently eat birds! In some way that constitutes cannibalism in our minds.

Other examples:
WDCS087 'Thanksgiving Eagle' (the turkey turned out to be an eagle, though), WDCS136 'Turkey Raffle', WDCS220 'Weemite'.

Synopsis:
Time for New Year's resolutions. Donald resolves to cook only the kind of food his nephews like. The nephews resolve to eat only the kind of food their uncle likes. Collision course...

Comments:
Donald comes up with many mouth-watering and masterfully created snacks during the story, but he ends up having to eat them all by himself.

Other examples:
In WDCS056 'Sleepwalker's Snacks' Donald is raiding the refrigerator every night in his sleep. In WDCS064 'Temper Control' the nephews are making fudge all over the house. In WDCS175 'The Taffy Pull' Donald and the nephews are making taffy candy to be sold for Daisy's club.

Synopsis:
Donald is very successful at his moving job until one day he is hired to move the animals from a zoo...

Comments:
For some unknown reason the ducks do not seem to have any favourite food, so we shall have to look elsewhere in the duck universe. This story's plot is concentrated around the fact that a Minah bird adores prunes, and it goes to any length to get more.

Other examples:
A few other Barksian characters love prunes; in U$58 The Giant Robot Robbers we learn that Beagle Boy 176-167 loves prunes, and in U$69 The Cattle King the nephews serve prune pie to a handful of hungry cowboys. In U$24 The Twenty-four Carat Moon a Venusian king loves skunk cabbage so much that he trades one for a golden moon!

Synopsis:
By accident, janitor Donald at The Duckburg Museum discovers that a square rock from Peru in fact is an egg. He is promptly sent out to get more...

Comments:
Many stories have food as a triggering device. In this one, eggs are not only the triggers but they also permeate the whole story.

Other examples:
FC0495 'Horseradish Treasure' (horseradish), U$45 Isle of the Golden Geese (goose eggs), WDCS291 Delivery Dilemma (rabbit eggs!).

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews become chicken farmers on a hilltop but it is not that easy to earn a living.

Comments:
To make this story Barks drew large amounts of chickens and eggs, which was necessary for the story plot.

Other examples:
WDCS066 'Champion Ice Fisherman' (fish), WDCS153 'Trained Worms' (fish), WDCS211 'The Wishing Stones' (coconuts).

Synopsis:
Gyro gets a new neighbour and - lo and behold - he turns out to be an inventor as well. Soon a feud has started to see who is the better inventor!

Comments:
The feud is all about producing food in explosive haste and from the strangest sources. Gyro invents one delicious piece of food after another. When it comes to ready-made instant food no one surpasses him.

Other examples:
In CP8 Grandma's Present Gyro invents a Dirt-to-Food machine for Grandma. In U$35 Fast Away Castaway he invents a survival kit for castaways which produces all sorts of food from sand and air.

Synopsis:
Scrooge finances the nephews' lemonade stand to make money. But he is also keen to test their honesty so he sits down at the stand to observe - in disguise!

Comments:
For some odd reason we rarely see the ducks drink any sort of beverages - not even milk. But when they occasionally partake in the production or the intake of beverages they do it in an overwhelming manner as in this story.

Other examples:
U$39 A Spicy Tale (loads of nutmegs for tea), WDCS088 'Wintertime Wagers' (gallons of lemonade), WDCS282 Bubbleweight Champ (streams of Gurgleurp soda).