Pondering Blondie

Panels from Blondie, 2013-09-08.

This isn't the full strip, but the rest of it wasn't really relevant to what I wanted to talk about, which is the amount of pizza being ordered here. This is Dagwood we're talking about. He considers a 12" sub a light pre-lunch snack. You're telling me he's going to be happy with a quarter of one large pizza for dinner? Two slices?

Even for the rest of the family that's a pretty light meal. That looks like a pretty big pizza, maybe 18", but even so that's a meal for three people, not four. And again, one of those four is Dagwood. He'd eat that whole pizza by himself. And two of the others are teenagers. As Zits never fails to inform us, teenagers eat a lot.

Plus, I think it's fairly safe to say that Dagwood is the sort of man who would definitely prefer to order too much pizza so that he can get some out of the fridge for breakfast. Honestly, I can't see the Bumsteads ordering fewer than three pizzas for dinner. This scenario is just preposterous.