Garfield by Jim Davis for December 17, 2019

For something with the word “cake” in it, it sure isn’t well loved, is it?

and to whom will the squirrels gift the fruitcake if the Arbuckle household won’t take it? the rabbits perhaps?

??

The squirrels will pass it to the dogs. The dogs will bury it. Problem solved!

Regifting, or regurgitating ?

It will come back to you Jon.

Can’t say I blame them.

Johnny Carson once joked that there is only one fruitcake in the entire world and people keep regifting it.

Fruitcakes make great regifts.

The squirrels will just give it back to Odie!

I wouldn’t cross the street for a slice of fruitcake; but every Christmas, a client from Houston would send a fruitcake to the office, and we would all fight for a piece and consume every crumb. Maybe it was the novelty of food at the office; or maybe Houston has the only good fruitcake chef.

Fruitcakes have been the butt of jokes as long as I can remember. However, I’ve always enjoyed it when I had a chance to have some around the holidays .. especially if the baker went heavy on the rum/brandy in the recipe. I worked at a place where, every Christmas, one guy would bring in several fruitcakes for coworkers in the production area where he worked. As I recall, you could pick up a slice and squeeze it in your hand, and catch drops of rum running out of it. He would bring it out at lunch break, and I can say with certainty that the afternoons were less ‘productive’. Just thinking back … a great memory now that I’m retired.

speaking of fruitcake, there’s this one Michigan family who has had theirs for almost 150 years…https://weartv.com/news/offbeat/141-year-old-fruitcake-is-a-michigan-familys-heirloom?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

Contrary to popular opinion, I really like fruitcake. Of course, there are those who think I AM one!

Fruitcake is as popular as ever.

Why

https://ishkabibel.weebly.com/the-fruitcake-that-would-not-die.html

those squirrels are gonna put acorns in the cake. Change my mind

They’re squirrels. They’ll eat it if there are nuts in it…p.s. i LOVE fruitcake. Not ALL fruitcake, but many of them.

This is way off the point, but it always bothered me in movies and tv shows that they represent what one sees thru binoculars is overlapping circles, when in fact one sees only one circle. (I can think of a lot of reasons Why they do that, but it still bothers me… like hearing explosions in space, or never closing a door one just opened…)

Some squirrels can be very fussy about what they will accept. In the park where the foreign tourists are fascinated by them, generally only peanuts will do. But down by the river they will eat anything.

Give it to the army, if that won’t stop a tank, nothing will.

Fruitcake is a waste of good rum, and all rum is a waste of good sugar.

And ye shall face the wrath of P.E.T.A &/or the A.S.P.C.A.

It’s traditional in Yorkshire, UK, to eat Christmas fruit cake with a decent sized piece of Wensleydale cheese. It sounds bizarre, but the cheese is a lovely contrast to the sweetness of the cake.

It looks like Jim Davis is regifting his comics, because it feels like I’ve seen this one before.

The gift that keeps on giving.