Doggie Bags

Subject: Doggie Bags
From: GUEST,Augie Doggie
Date: 22 May 01 - 03:39 PM

When you Mudactters visit a restaurant and cannot finish the meal, do you take the leftovers home in a doggie bag?

And do you actually give the leftovers to your doggies? Or do you eat them yourself?

On behalf of Doggie Daddy, I am

Augie Doggie

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: MMario
Date: 22 May 01 - 03:43 PM

depends on the restaurant and the meal. "Doggie bags" now tend to be boxes of some sort now anyway...

A restaurant I go to in the summer serves such large portions that virtually everyone walks out with leftovers - my friends and I often swap so that for lunch the next day you have something different then you had for dinner the night before.

certain things I will have packed up and they would go to the dog - appropriate bones f'rinstance - but usually it's for human consumption.

though given our dogs propensity for grabbing stuff off the table - it may end up in his belly anyway. youdon't argue with a 130 lb malamute once he has the stuff!

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 May 01 - 03:45 PM

Mmmmmmm... Midnight snack... or breakfast!

:-P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I love left-overs....

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: Melani
Date: 22 May 01 - 03:52 PM

I generally eat them myself, especially since I no longer have a dog, and the rats don't eat more than a bite between them. By the way, Augie Doggie, I had a terrier with the same name.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: GUEST,Kim C too lazy to reset cookie
Date: 22 May 01 - 04:02 PM

Rib bones go home to the dogs, and sometimes steak scraps. Leftovers suitable for human consumption always go home with us. We paid for 'em, after all.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: lady penelope
Date: 22 May 01 - 04:08 PM

When the cats go out and earn some money then they can go buy food at a restaurant! This is merry England where the potions are not that big, so the question of a doggy bag rarely comes up. Mostly Parker ends up looking at what I got and asks if I'm done with it.

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 22 May 01 - 05:48 PM

This turned into a rather interesting experiment in canine intelligence. Sure we do 'doggie bags,' more often styro boxes. When it's the dogs' turn, our terrier mix Annie rapidly learned to anchor the box with one foot in the open lid; our lovable but challenged retreiver has never caught on to this, and simply scoots the box until it travels the length of the room and lodges in a corner. There is also a definite "to die for" threshold, below which they will share from the same dish but above which any attempt by one to move over to the other's dish leads to growling or even the occasional snap. Final amusing point is things they find "inedible" are left behind, but only after being licked very, very clean. Mushrooms, avocados and raisins head the "reject" list.

CC

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: mousethief
Date: 22 May 01 - 05:50 PM

I actually got a doggie bag at a restaurant recently. One of those foil-and-paper things with a picture of a dog on it. I wonder if these are making a comeback or the restaurant just had an old supply?

Anyway I ate the stuff myself; I have no dog.

Alex

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 May 01 - 05:56 PM

BS would have been a nice thing to put in front of the title of this thread. Just a reminder.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 May 01 - 06:28 PM

I'm with ya on this one! I pay for it, I eat it. Besides, the only "human" food my dogs get is their bedtime treat--slice of apple or piece of carrot. Human food is not very good for doggy digestive systems.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: ddw
Date: 22 May 01 - 07:49 PM

Of course I take it home, but not for the dog. That bugger already eats better than I do a lot of the time. About half the family saves all meat leftovers, cuts them up and freezes them for him. He has bags of stuff in the freezer all the time.

But never bones! A vet friend of mine told me years ago that the canine part of his practise would be cut in half if people stopped giving their pets bones of any kind. He said it's a myth that they can digest them. They just grind them up and swallow them. The bits do for their digestive tracts about what bits of glass would.

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 23 May 01 - 05:54 AM

Yeah, kat, when I saw the thread title I thought Doggie Bags was an old blues singer I hadn't heard of!
Appearing tonight: Doggie Bag and the Duffels featuring their hit single "Pooper scooper blues" b/w "They Tore My lamp-post Down".
RtS ("I ain't gonna feed you (doggie bags) no more")

Subject: RE: Doggie Bags
From: GUEST,UB Dan
Date: 23 May 01 - 08:42 AM

A newer practice is for the server to bring the box to your table and package the leftovers in front of you. This avoids any worries about getting back the leftovers from the wrong table or any accidental soiling of the food. If it is packaged in front of me I will eat it, otherwise I still say thank you but I throw it away.