Not-So-Hot Dog

It's not an exaggeration so say that nothing says New York City like a dirty water street hot dog, and here's a few stories of vendors who have tried to hang in there through COVID:

I wish it gets better this summer. I wish. But I don’t think so. If New York opens, the tourists are going to come. But New York is still closed. They open and close. I wish, I wish, because if this year is like last year I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die. It was too much — the rent, the kids.

I’ve been working five days a week. Between 10 and 12 hours a day. It’s the same as before the pandemic. But business? It’s  not the same. I pray the summer will be better. I don’t want free money from the government. I want to work to get money.

This is bad, that’s about it. There are no tourists around here. Only locals. Of course, most of the customers are usually tourists. But they’re all locals now. I don’t know how much I’m selling. I never counted hot dogs before or after.

There’s no money out here. No money out there, my friend. Not enough money to even pay my rent or pay anybody. We decided we gotta stay alive and stay busy. We’re not sitting at home.

No, ain’t nobody did business last summer. Everything was closed, from March all the way to the end of the year. Am I hopeful about this summer? Everyone has faith and hope in believing that it’s going to get better. That’s all we can do. You’ve just got to wait and see what happens. There have been no good days as of yet. Hopefully someday.

TBH I'm amazed that ANY of them have survived at all after this past year, and I'm rotting like hell for all of them to come roaring back soon.

Hey, lets turn these frown upside down with an Xmastime classic!

There is nothing about this strip that makes any fucking sense.

1) Why is the plate upside down?
2) Jon Arbuckle lives in the Midwest, and yet he hasn't dumped a bunch of fucking ketchup on his hot dog?
3) Who the fuck bites into the middle of a hot dog like that? Is this because he apparently closes his eyes when he's about to bite into food? How many times does this dumb motherfucker accidentally bite his own hand?
4) Did Jim Davis chuckle like a 12 year-old when he got away with "who greased my wiener"?
5) Why would a cat who is used to eating lasagna and is repulsed at the thought of eating a mouse be so excited to eat a hot dog that's been "greased"? Wtf?
6) If Garfield had access to the hot dog to cover it in grease, why didn't he just eat the fucking thing then?