Summary
In the height of the silent era's obsession with military slapstick, Hello Lafayette follows an unlikely recruit whose civilian expertise is as niche as it is useless: salmon tasting. After enlisting, the protagonist finds himself relegated to the mess hall, tasked with distributing fish to weary soldiers. His transition to the front lines is marked by a disastrous lack of focus, leading to a high-stakes mix-up where he inadvertently hurls live grenades at his own hungry comrades, mistaking the explosives for tinned rations. The narrative takes a turn for the surreal when a battalion of chorus girls, inexplicably dressed as Anzac soldiers, appears on the battlefield to provide tactical support. Through a series of accidental maneuvers and the help of this musical-theater-inspired army, the recruit manages to capture an entire company of German soldiers, eventually earning an unlikely decoration from his commanding officer.
A salmon taster enlists and is put to work passing out salmon to the troops. When he is assigned to take the salmon in the lines he gets absent minded and throws hand grenades over to the hungry buddies. With the aid of a battalion of chorus-girls dressed like Anzacs and who appear for no reason at all, the recruit captures a company of Germans and is decorated by the Colonel.
