What To Use On A Dagwood Sandwich

This must be what Dagwood Bumstead (hero of “Blondie“) uses on his enormous eponymous sandwiches!

Bumstead’s Salt ad from a 1935 Ward, Lock & Co. guide to London, England.

Here is a link to some Blondie comic strips showing Dagwood Bumstead making one of his sandwiches. I was going to put the image in the post but the copyright/fair use stuff is a little complex for me. Perhaps I just need a little Bokar coffee!

A Zans For Cans (or, Zans and Zansibility)

Here’s why more people REALLY buy Hormel chili in a can:

1. Because it is in a can, and they are tired and do not want to make chili from scratch. Even though it is pretty easy. Well, they just don’t feel like it, all right?

2. No one’s saying that it’s “extra delicious” – oh, the Hormel people are saying it. But come on, it is in a can. It will taste maybe OK. Delicious is stretching it. Let’s not expect extra deliciousness.

3. It is cheap. That is what “sensibly priced” means.

4. No wonder it is cheap. They saved money on the label design. Take a look at the can down at the bottom. That’s some graphic art they have going on! Not.

5. Those little ladies are happy though. The bowl of chili is about the size of a house compared to them. Or an Olympic swimming pool.

6. The last lady seems to be pushing the grocery boy, who is bent backwards from the weight of all the Hormel chili cans in the bags. And she is enjoying it too. That frozen, hostile smile. I don’t like the subtext of this at all.

7. Maybe people are buying it because they can’t see inside the can.

8. In which case why show the stuff in a bowl? This seems counterproductive.

“At our house we open cans
We have to open many cans
And that is why we have a Zans
A Zans for cans is very good
Have you a Zans for cans? You should!” — Dr. Seuss

Perhaps the grocery boy is actually a Zans.