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Cheese = Poison?[]
Cheese is not ordinarily thought of as a deadly weapon.
Also, it is true that "poison" could be drawn in a picture in the form of a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it.
But given that a very common method of killing rats and similar pests is the use of poisoned bait, and cheese is a popular form of bait for rodents, the wedge of cheese in Bang's word balloon listing methods of killing could be taken as standing for poison as a means of killing.
The wedge of cheese might also stand for one of many particularly stinky kinds of cheese that might be considered a weapon by themselves, and certainly one befitting a woman who enjoys making her victims suffer before killing them.
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Starving Hoboes?[]
While the word "tramp" has a sexual connotation, it also has an original meaning, of a poor person who wanders from one town to another. It seems not unreasonable that if a little girl heard her mother using that word in the former sense, she might take it as having the second meaning. Since poor people sometimes do not even have enough to eat, it is neither surprising nor surreal that a young girl might offer to share the food she happened to have on her with someone she has heard is an unfortunate.
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Or...the Foglios simply enjoy the flavor of cheese. YAY! CHEESE!--Bosda Di'Chi 12:52, April 22, 2010 (UTC)
| People who support this theory: | --Bosda Di'Chi 12:52, April 22, 2010 (UTC) |
Tweedle - Krosp - Cheese dip[]
At this late date, hopefully we can move this off the Mad page (and into a parenthetical remark?) soon, but assuming that the cat Tweedle is working on is to be (intentionally or not) a mate for Krosp, then according to the cheese theory, Tweedle throwing Krosp into the dip is foreshadowing.
| People who support this theory: | Zarchne (talk) 22:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC) |
Cheese Equals Witchcraft[]
In the past, Cheese was associated with Witchctaft. The 2nd-century diviner, Artemidorus, mentions “tyromancy” – cheese divination – as a method of discovering the future in his treatise Oneirocritica. It was also used in a ritual to determine who committed a crime. In The Odyssey, Circe turns Odysseus’ crew into animals by feeding them a magic potion mixed into a dish made of cheese, barley meal, honey and wine. Other examples exist.[1]
| People who support this theory: | Bosda Di'Chi (talk) 17:32, 2 February 2021 (UTC) |
- An additional Cheese/witchcraft citation-- https://www.saveur.com/culture/tyromancy-cheese-divination/
Bosda Di'Chi (talk) 01:28, 13 January 2024 (UTC)