Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 12, 2022

Sunday Funday

Run, Pucky! Run like the wind!

…I feel like there should be some specific, Italianate plural for one pepperoni. A pepperono? Like paparazzi, plural; paparazzo, singular. Maybe a pepperonum, like media/medium?

Or maybe I should just say “slice of pepperoni” like a regular person and go to bed.

Her full name is Marigold?

Never eat anything you can’t pronounce. Or dried fruit.

That’s the happiest I’ve seen Puck in a while. Pepperoni will do that.

Got the pepperoni off the shark-cuterie board! And Pucky makes a dash for it!

Sounds to me like a place to bring your less-than-adorable sharks for lessons in how to be more squeeable.♥

P.S., Speaking on behalf of all of us who choose to not eat mammals, the dried fruit is definitely appreciated in addition to the crackers and cheese.♥

Puckeroni!!!

Did anyone else get the reference to Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, or am I overthink things again?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Thomios: Uncle Floof and I have put together this special honey and cheese tray.

Floofnet the Joyous: Please enjoy the new honey made from Trevor-Hotep’s new line of Meese Sunflowers.

Lupinium: It’s an unusual gold color.

Puckmosis: What an amazing flavor. It starts out tangy, almost sour, but then has the most delicious sweetness.

Beatrixia: It reminds me of something. Or maybe that’s someone.

Puckmosis: Why are they called Meese sunflowers?

Uncle Floof: Here is an example of one. Notice the large, puffed out flower.

Thomios: And the sour and sweet flavor.

Enter Elvis-Anum

Elvis-Anum: I like this new honey. It seems sweet and dignified at the same time.

Elvis T. Distraction.

For several years I’ve been dragging around the phrase “putting the cute in charcuterie”. Only time I’ve gotten to use it organically was when a bunch of us went to a Korean place where you grill your own meat at the table.

Does anyone else remember the mail-order gourmet cheese catalogues? The pages had a particular scent.

I love Elvis’s little paw-pat in panel 6. Also, about the chyron: Claw game? Is that the grocery (or whatever) store thingy where you put money in and try to grab something with a metal claw?

Me not understand this at all.

Pepperoni Pucky, yum yum yum!♥

Thank you OPs. Without your comments much of today’s strip would have flown over my head. Although I still enjoyed it.

I will keep my cats’ secrets and I trust them to keep mine.

Sharks are cute. I approve of this boutique.

Incidentally, I recently discovered the Baby Shark song. It’s been stuck in my head ever since.

So is there a special occasion for the cute shark cheese plate?

I once had a full fish fillet on my plaate but just as I sat my cat snatched it

Honestly though, dose anyone eat the dried fruit in the cheese plate?

I make a much smaller selection of cheese and sausage and have it with my martini on the weekends. The sausage comes from the Volpi Company (https://www.volpifoods.com/), and the cheese comes from the Wine and Cheese Place. After all, what is a cocktail without a nosh?

P.S. Marigold?

P.P.S. Elvis is right. Nobody eats dried fruit; it is collected throughout the year and given to Fruitcake makers in November for final disposition.

So many good jokes here. This could’ve been a whole week of comics.

Goldie is Marigold! I’d forgotten! My fave part of today’s strip is the solemn Siamese, “I will keep your secrets,” and the Woman holding Elvis in panel 8.

A lot to love in this one. Many have noted the reminder of Goldie’s full name, but Elvis’ unwavering support and Puck’s charcuterie caper are also great. That is just pure delight on his face in the last panel!

I’ll stick to my simple cheese platter. Living in Plymouth WI I have 4 cheese factories within 2 miles of my house. And a few short miles to the NE is Johnsonville. My platters usually consist of Johnsonville summer sausage, Sargento cheese and some Ritz or Townhouse crackers. Oh and my platter is plastic from the dollar store

Pepperoni Pucky!

Mmm…pepperoni.

…not as good as the mythical ham, of course, but we’ll take what we can get.

“I will keep your secrets,” says the reporter, on the air live!

Oooh yummy, I think I see Ritz crackers.

Or is that a pepperono?

MMMMMMMMMM. Those never last in a house full of 5 cats and 3 dogs.

I love Puck’s fangs!

I thought today’s discussion would be about how to pronounce Charcuterie and experience of charcuterie boards forthwith, instead it is about Judy Blume and Aunt Flo. LOL I love how Georgia’s comic strip generates tons of comments on just about everthing. And we learn new things.

Have you ever laid out a shark-cutery full of horse do-overs?

“I will keep your secrets,” Elvis says, as he broadcasts them live.

I love the look of pure glee on Puck’s face in the last panel!

Off topic: Smudge caught a bird the other day and dropped it, most sincerely dead, on my foot. For some strange unknown reason, he was miffed when I buried it in the back next to Yum Yum.

Happy Puck got a Pepperoni!

That is a really good looking plate of chees & pepperoni!!!

My very first charcuterie board, this exact same thing happened! Black cat, Ziggy, snagged a pepperoni while we were talking!

I took French in high school. For some reason the pronunciation was easy for me. The curse is the reflex French pronunciation of words like “charcuterie” that have been adopted in English. If I’ve heard the American pronunciation I’m ok but if not I get in trouble.

Nothing in the world is sweeter (and yet saltier) than a stolen pepperoni.

I swear my tortie is part dog because she could devour a cheese plate in seconds (I don’t let her though!)

Wow, it’s like a cheese buffet! Very nice.

My dad my my baby sister a charcuterie board for this past Christmas. FAR cheaper than going to a home goods store and buying one. And it looked better too. He used firewood that he cut into boards and lined up the grain to give it a beuatiful apperance.

“How ’bout them hor-doovers

ain’t they sweet?

Little piece of cheese,

and a little piece of meat!"

Name the author.

Isn’t this just an antipasto tray?

For folks who want to avoid the aphonetic mess that is the French language, that can also be called a ploughman’s lunch.

And if you’re thinking, “Hey, English is also an aphonetic mess!” Have you ever wondered why the English language is such a crime against vowels?

1066! That’s why! If France had left England and its language alone, it would still be a fine, easy to read and pronounce, Germanic language!

OT – Horatio

Yay, the return of Pepperoni Pucky!

I loved that “I will keep your secrets” too.

Ericka (pictured) kept my secrets, but only because we didn’t have Internet, cell phones, et al. during her lifetime. Now, I’m sure she’d be on some cat channel with videos of me.

I’ve wondered how to pronounce “Charcuterie”, too. Natcherly, I looked it up: shaar·ku’·ter·ee

Aw, Puck is so happy with his stolen treasure!

I could never make an antipasto/charcuterie/sharkcuteree. One for the board, one for me. One for the board, two for me. One for the board, three for me … ad nauseam …

So, um, who is the Woman talking to?

I understood that reference.

I do wonder if she was a licensed librarian.She was about 110 years old, and very protective of “her” library. She’d been the high school librarian for some time I guess, she probably didn’t have all the training that a newly hired librarian would have had (and remember this was about 60 years ago). She was of a generation that thought girls and boys were two separate species, and that children in general were not totally human. I had a run in with her again when I was in 10th grade and checked out Ivanhoe (the unabridged edition with ALL the footnotes). She informed me that it was only for seniors in the advanced English class and that she would not let me renew it when the first 2 weeks were up. I read it in a week.

OMG! never knew!