“They didn’t eat their Filboid Studge!” - obscure literary reference
Ah, yes, the Story of a Mouse that Helped.
Another reference in that same story, a propos to our Modern Military:
“A further advertisement was obtained when an infantry regiment mutinied and shot its officers rather than eat the nauseous mess; fortunately, Lord Birrell of Blatherstone, who was War Minister at the moment, saved the situation by his happy epigram, that ‘Discipline to be effective must be optional.’”
“They cannot buy it now.”