There’s Something About Dixie

I had just been thinking about how to do some pet snark on April’s Real Blog, and was having the hardest time finding a way to work it in. Howard works in a veterinary office? Howard chances upon the pets in a park? Then aprilp_katje practically hand-delivered and gift-wrapped the answer when she said that April was taking Dixie to Grandpa Jim’s for a visit. Quickly I looked through the entire collection of strips and letters on-line for Grandpa and Dixie and there was only cheese. Havarti cheese is specifically mentioned in the letters, with Elly being concerned about Grandpa overfeeding Dixie both in the letters and the strips. This begged the question, what would actually happen if Grandpa overfed Dixie with cheese? The obvious answer was the exploding Dixie. I was reminded of the scene in Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” where the overeating fat guy is fed one last mint by the French waiter and then explodes. The scene is hysterical and gross beyond belief. I had it in mind the whole time when I was posting back and forth with aprilp_katje about Dixie and the cheese. I also had a good time looking up the various kinds of Havarti cheese which mainly consists of different things placed in the cheese. It’s kind of a boring cheese as far as variations go. The only real variation was creamy or not creamy. After doing all those posts, I suddenly had a craving for Havarti and went and got some from the local grocer. It was low fat creamy, by the way.