Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 18, 2022

Sunday Funday

So, Elvis licks the donuts AND the frosting from the Santa cookie beards! For shame, Elvis.

I like the “Boston Cream” ones.

I like the chocolate ones .

“Muck filled”… Yum!! (assuming muck = jelly)

Spiky, Dusty and Sandy sound like three more dwarves from Sleeping Beauty.

I was at a Faith in Action (fia-sgp.org) assistance event today and along with the usual free sandwiches and water, they had “build your own doughnuts.” (I didn’t get one though. Maybe next time.)

I love that last panel. I’ll take a box of those 4 special sweeties, please!

We have a marshmallow (white and fluffy), a toasted marshmallow (medium fluffy tortie), a cinnamon roll (orange tabby), and a cookies n cream (tuxedo).

Mmmmmmmmmm. Sprinkles!

My favorite donut is the Voodoo Doll, which is raised yeasted, filled with raspberry jelly, topped with chocolate frosting, and has a pretzel stick stake driven through its heart. It has everything I love about a good donut, plus macabre sense of humor.

What really got the geniuses at that shop in trouble was a mind-boggling weird donut coated in cough syrup, with a capful of Nyquil nested in the hole. The FDA tends to frown upon unsanctioned medicinal pastries …

So, Elvis got spotted. Cranky Cinnamon?

I haven’t laughed this hard at a comic in a long time.

No donuts here, but Blossom always looked like a cinnamon roll. ❤

Donuts – the meal without (Hair)reason:

Creamy ones and covered in glue, oh gawd,

Spiky, dusty, muck-filled and curly what not

Pumpkin rind, yes, you know cat news is good news

But you know they’ll make you all laugh out

After they leave you baffled

Cool chocolate and a nice cinnamon

They steal a taste all the time you aren’t along

Coconut toasted really blows down those blues

But you know they’ll make you all laugh out

After they leave you baffled

You might not feel it now

But when the fun cuts throughYou’re going to know and how

Laughter tears is going to fill your head

When it becomes too much

You’re going to snort aloud

But you know they’ll make you all laugh out

After they leave you baffled

You know that what you eat you are

But what is sweet now, turns sweeter, I bet

We all know powdered su-hu-gar

But can you tell me, what you laughing at?

Savoy Truffle / The Beatles

Good Man strip.

Awwwww!! This strip fills me with so much nostalgia! My Daddy used to surprise us with donuts, Mexican pasties called empanadas, little gingerbreads in the shape of pigs, sugar buns, etc. They were the highlight of the day. ❤️

Donut eats too much sugary stuff. It too bad for health and well beings.

And instead of doughnut holes, you can order a box of kitty beans!

The kitties as doughnuts! <3

I would eat them up yummy lol!

What a sweet man!

I want to try mochi donuts. Bet they’re light and chewy. Ideally, they’d also be jelly=filled.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Katsu-San: This has been a most excellent visit. Thank you for hosting us in your wonderful country.

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: We are equally pleased that you were able to visit with us.

Elvis-Anum: I, too am most pleased with this visit.

Katsu-San: That is a most rare compliment from a Meese. We must have a rematch for Hounds and Jackals.

Elvis-Anum: I hope that will be in the near future.

Thomios: And now, the Royal Kitchen Staff wishes to present you with some treats to take with you on your return journey.

Itame-San: We have made baked sweet dough with a variety of toppings and flavors.

Lupinium: I think I’ll just do a quick thwump. As a farewell.

Puckmosis: Lupinium, do not!

Elvis-Anum: I just have to lick the icing on this pastry.

Beatrixia: Elvis, do not!

Itame-San: I shall call these pastries do not! I will always remember this journey.

All: Fair winds and a following sea!

OMfreakingG those kitty donuts! I squee’d so hard I woke the neigbours.

No, Goldie. It should be – “Elvis, GO!”

Lupin toe beans!

I know I say this a lot but a mug with the last panel on it really would be perfect to drink our morning coffee from. ☺

I’ll take the curly one, Puck. Or a cake donut, please, thanks.

And now I want donuts. Luckily the place near me does online ordering.

I am guessing “covered with glue” is a glazed donut. Which now that I think about it, most of them have that thinned out, dipped in Elmer’s glue that dried look to them! I think spiky donuts are my favorite, if that is the toasted coconut. As a kid, I loved dusty donuts. Now, not so much.

OT:

MUST GO GET DONUTS!

Since Elvis is off-panel, we will have to guess if he managed to lick the doughnut clean before the Man caught him. Cute nicknames, though!

The strip is adorable even though I’m not really a fan of doughnuts. I mean, if someone brings a box to the office, I’ll eat one (assuming I can score either a chocolate coated or maple flavored one) but I’d never go out and buy them. And I have to say that after all the hype I heard about Krispy Kreme before we got one here in our city, I finally got one and I wasn’t impressed at all. They’re really not any better or worse than any other doughnut I’ve had. I think they’re perfectly ordinary. If I’m going to have a pastry of this type I prefer chocolate eclairs or cream puffs.

Now I want doughnuts, but I can’t afford them right now.

Unfortunatly no doughnuts for me. But back in the day I agree Krispy Kreme was like swallowing a ball of lead

As the big pink house is in Rhode Island I think we can presume those are Dunkin :)

I love it!!!

Doughnuts! Oh, doughnuts! Fried circles of yum.

You food that I simply adore.

You’re sure not nutritious, but you’re so delicious

I’m always left wishing for more.

I love you with frosting or covered in sprinkles.

I swoon for you, sweet, sugar raised!

When you’re filled with jelly, you warm up my belly…

While still leaving room for a glazed.

I’ll dip you in coffee or dunk you in milk.

I’ll eat you for breakfast or brunch.

I get so impassioned for simple old-fashioned

That sometimes I make them my lunch.

Doughnuts! Oh, doughnuts! Definers of yum.

You perfect fried circles of dough.

Although you’re caloric, you leave me euphoric…

So give me a dozen to go!

Dang, now I want to go back to the store and get some more donuts!

It’s cute but some people just aren’t good with names. :)

So which one is glazed? The one “covered in glue?”

In my are we have Mud Pies, Long Johns and Sugar twists. Al of them the dough is deep fried. Mud pies are round with cinnamon in the dough. Covered with chocolate frosting. Long Johns are rectangular and covered with white frosting. And the twists are long strips of dough twisted together then rolled in sugar after frying. My fave are the mud pies.

Bear sign!

Off-Topic

Crazy kitty !

AAwww the best box of donuts ever!!!

I didn’t think cats are responsive to sweetness. Maybe there’s enough fatty matter in the icing to get them going, but in my experience with “iced” doughnuts is that the icing isn’t very fatty, either. Certainly not buttery.

I don’t know if my fuzzy butts like donuts because I don’t buy them. His Majesty does love Ensure though. Whenever I crack open a bottle I have to put a few drops in the lid for him or he’ll try to steal the entire bottle from me. Flavor doesn’t matter he just wants Ensure. If I don’t drink it quick I end up fighting for it.

they look so cute in the donut box

sorry need to rant….I received my Sunday STL Post Dispatch and can’t believe how Lee Enterprises destroyed the comic page. (Several of us have discussed this in earlier arcs.) I AM SO DISAPPOINTED. They removed most of the good comics, and to make you feel like you are getting more they printed the comes extra large. Argyle Sweater, a one panel comic stretches the width of the page! They inserted other comics I’ve never even heard of and they are not very good. They did remove BCN which is just downright wrong. Sorry for the rant. I hope everyone has a great day today.

Georgia, these look suspiciously like the frosting-laden sugar bombs known as Allie’s Donuts.

Annie Lane’s advice column included this today:

“At a Loss” by Peggy Ankerman

My kitty crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

I have his picture on my fridge.

No more dirt upon his paws

No devastation from his claws

My eyes and nose shall run no more,

and no more furballs on the floor.

The litter box is thrown away.

There are no cat food bills to pay.

Why do I grieve at kitty’s end?

The precious cat was my best friend.

They’ll end up becoming anthoer coffee shop.

Oh! Pucky’s chart of the kitties as donuts is soooo cute!

The cinnamon roll is the King/Queen of Donuts. The twist is the Princess/Prince. Then there’s the Tiger Tail. There was a donut shop in Berkeley called King Pin Donuts that made a raised chocolate like nothing I’ve seen elsewhere. It had a pronounced chocolate flavor that was as good or better than the frosting. Sadly it’s gone after a stellar 30 plus year run.

I’m relieved once again. My neighbors’ Tuxedo was outside this morning. On the other cat’s porch. The other cat didn’t seem to want to share and was out in the yard.

I’m not reading 273 comments to find out, but as I recall there were comments last week about standardized daily comics. Today I found the Sunday ones have been too. I lost one that isn’t online but for now it’s in another paper that so far hasn’t gone through this.

I am utterly, thoroughly, and completely charmed by this strip! ♡

Does anybody remember the short story about Homer Price and ""The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey? It was in Worlds of Adventure, a 7th grade reading anthology. It’s also in a short story collection Homer Price(Homer Price #1) by Robert McCloskey

It’s about one of those robot doughnut makers you used to find at lunch counters in dime stores like McCrory’s. Somehow, a diamond bracelet gets cooked into one of the doughnuts. Here’s how the machine worked:

“Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, “start”. Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget turned it over and the other side would cook. Then another automatic gadget gave the doughnut a little push and it rolled neatly down a little chute, all ready to eat.”

― Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

I bought my last Post-Dispatch until this travesty Lee Enterprises has created is reversed. Even in their Sunday comics, no BCN, no Mutts, Mark Trail, Other Coast, Ziggy, Non Sequitur, Zits, all odf them are gone. The paper is getting lots of negative letters, but I doubt they will do any good. 2 other nearby papers are also owned by Lee Enterprises and their comics have all changed now too. This means WAR!!

Aww doughnut kitties!

Surrealism in Modern Life Dept:

https://twitter.com/cat_auras/status/1571403231804137472/photo/1

The cats as donuts—lol, cute =)

Wholesome.