SlowpokeBlog

This strip began with the headless cow. I've been thinking lately that there needs to be a new kind of meat. Beef is full of cholesterol, E. coli, and possibly prions that will turn your brain into a sponge. Fish can contain mercury and PCBs, and other pollutants if it comes from places like China where it is often farmed in fetid water. As for pork, well, I'm ethically conflicted about eating something smarter than my dog. Actually, I am ethically conflicted about eating most animals, though I do eat some meat. My vegetarian readers would probably say these are just a few of many reasons to give it up entirely. But wouldn't it be nice if we could develop a new kind of meat that grew more like a vegetable? I would love to go running through fields of meatballs. Anyway, I decided to tie the cow into the larger topical framework of Nobel Prize losers, since, you know, they just named this year's winners.

As part of the scholarly research that goes into every cartoon, I looked up gummi bears on Wikipedia. Here is the official definition:

A Gummy bear is a small, rubbery-textured confectionery, roughly 1 centimeter long, shaped in the form of a bear.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Though it seems 1 cm is a bit small for a gummi bear.