Monday, November 14, 2016
Good morning crew,
I made an interesting discovery this weekend; the wife's little mutt doesn't get how sandwiches work.
I try not to feed the dog human food, but sometimes I feel compelled to experiment and see what the dog will and will not tolerate. In the spirit of scientific inquiry.
So this weekend I was eating a cheese and soppressata sandwich with brown mustard on whole wheat bread, and of course that fluffy, little white head was perched right on my lap. She doesn't beg, but she makes it obvious that any stray morsels will be gratefully dealt with.
Eventually those patient brown eyes got the best of me and
I cut a small, maybe 1-inch square, section of sandwich off
for her.
I held the piece in my fingers hoping she would bite into it, but she refused to bite down. She just held onto it, drooling, until I let go. She then deposited it gently on the floor and dismantled it, eating the bread, then the salami, and the cheese, all separately.
The only thing she left was the bread with a bit of mustard on it, but when I attempted to take it away from her she eventually ate that too.
I tried to explain to her that she was missing out the synergy the individual flavors have when eaten together, but apparently such gastronomic subtleties are beyond her comprehension.
Laugh it up,
Joe
joe@gophercentral.com
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