
If the first thing you thought of was poop…. Well — you’d be wrong!
The saying ‘doggy bag’ refers to a bag of leftover food that is given to a customer of a restaurant to take home after a meal. One supposes that the implication was that the scraps would go to the family dog. A deserving treat for having guarded the house so well… (But everyone knows that the food was mainly for the two-leggeds.)
Hhhmmnn.. I wonder if this particular dog saying first emerged around the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s…?
Bark in if you know.
Awoof! Archie
Posted 07 Jan 07
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