Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for December 18, 2023

Must be a fruitcake.

I’m surprised it went through that many people.

Check today’s “Argyle Sweater” strip. It will give Chaz ideas about what to do with it.

Chas, you produced a lot of gratitude along that trail. Hint: If you don’t want it regifted, make it chocolate.

… and many happy returns.

How was it Poncho was not in line and didn’t try to eat it ?

Hence the expression, “What goes around, comes around”.

Chaz just give it to Poncho! He will get rid of it in Nanoseconds!

You should have written “To: and From:” on it!

There is an old joke that there is only one fruitcake in America but it just keeps getting past around. (If it’s a good one, lots of pecans and candied cherries, it would stop with me)

Is it called “Christmas Cake” in some places?:

The blonde with the updo must be Pinocchio’s mother

A few more panels and we would be full-on Chris Ware.

Just find out if anyone is getting a boat for Christmas. It’ll make a fine anchor!!!! :)

Our family loves fruitcake. I always wait for Costco’s Christmas fruitcake.

I’ve never given fruit cake as a present to anyone, because of all those awful jokes about it.

My mother used to bake fruitcake and I have her recipe, but it is a lot of work. Her fruitcake was the best. People used to put in orders for her fruitcake.

Am I the only one who loves fruitcake? At least I don’t have to share it with anybody else. ;-)

Seven years later, and still fresh as the day it was, um, … loafed!

The gift that keeps on giving and giving and …

I believe Dave Barry wrote about the regifting of fruitcakes.

This is totally believable!

A very nice synthesis of the ever-circling fruitcake meme and Norman Rockwell’s “The Gossips”.