Site Mascot

It struck me this morning that this site is in desperate need of a mascot. So I'll be trolling the intertubes over the next few days, trying to find one. Here's a likely candidate: Cutty, the French Pig. The text reads "One eats with pleasure . . . and without getting tired (bored, probably, in this sense). Auvergne sausages -- Absolutely pure food. The good sausages of the Prodigious Pig!" This is, first of all, evidence that it's not only the American advertisers who can put it on with a shovel. And obviously, watching a smiling quisling cut itself up to encourage you to eat its innards is, well, either disturbing or mouth-watering. And defiant of gravity. Why this pig's torso doesn't just flop over is a real noodle-scratcher.

I'm not making fun of the French -- I lived in France for two years, oui. Nor am I going to turn this into an anti-meat screed, since I've eaten a few pigs myself. And snails. Mussels. Frog legs. Horse. Horse is tasty. Mussels are fine in paella, not necessarily on their own. Frogs legs less so, and snails, well, if you like pencil erasers dipped in butter and garlic. . .

Another mascot contender just might be "Wake Up Cat," as detailed in this video:

The video, at first, may not appear to be all that funny. But you have to watch it in context, i.e., three children under the age of eight giggling their heads off as the cat does its thing. Priceless.