One more lightning posting for today (I have a big stock of birthday-present postings to get to, but not today, not today): today’s Zippy strip, in which our Pinhead judges the current crop of Ho Hos:
(#1) I would have expected this cartoon on April 1, along with the famous pickle-harvest tv spot; but then this is harvest time, when we bring the crops in
These Ho Ho cylinders appear to be about six inches in diameter but to come in lengths of several feet, so we might want to speculate about what sort of plant they come from; they look like the logs of small trees, suitable for sawing into shorter lengths, as Zippy does here.
Perhaps these are dwarf variants of the giants of the Hostess Snack Forest that Zippy raved about in an earlier posting: from my 6/10/16 posting “Ho Ho trees, Ho Ho logs”:
(#2) [This] Zippy takes us to the Hostess Snack Forest, where we can stand in awe of the giant chocolate cylinders filled with white creamy delight
This posting has the skinny on Hostess Ho Hos, one of the basic foods in the Zippyverse.


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