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# Cathy Guisewite, Dairy Queen chocolate-dipped vanilla cone
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2019/08/cathy-guisewite-dairy-queen-chocolate-dipped-vanilla-cone/
- Published: 2019-08-01T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T19:52:45.000Z
- Description: Ack! Cathy Guisewite wrote and drew the Cathy comic strip, syndicated in newspapers across the US from 1976 to 2010. She got her start in a very unorthodox way, having never drawn a comic strip in her life, in a time when men dominated the Sunday morning funnies. You're going to want to hear this s
- Author: Rachel Belle
- Tags: Your Last Meal, #podcast, #delete-this-tag, #dovetail_884d7cde-f406-4e7b-8424-300eeab93235

Ack! Cathy Guisewite wrote and drew the Cathy comic strip, syndicated in newspapers across the US from 1976 to 2010\. She got her start in a very unorthodox way, having never drawn a comic strip in her life, in a time when men dominated the Sunday morning funnies. You're going to want to hear this story!  
  
If you've ever taped a Cathy comic to your fridge or cubicle, you know the character is obsessed with chocolate chocolate chocolate and is often seen in a department store dressing room, scrutinizing herself in a bathing suit. So Rachel Belle chats with psychologist and Non-Diet approach advocate, Louise Adams, about how today's trendy diets (intermittent fasting, Keto, Paleo) are just as kooky and harmful as the cabbage soup & grapefruit diets of years past.   
  
And summer just isn't the same without at least one cone topped with an ethereally creamy, mile-high swirl of soft serve. Dairy Queen has been in the cone biz since 1940 and its director of product development explains what makes soft serve different (ahem, better? \*cough\*) than hard packed ice cream.  
  
Cathy Guisewite's book, "[Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays From the Grown-Up Years](https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Things-That-Arent-Fault-ebook/dp/B078GDS2TL?ref=cascadepbs.org)" is out now!   
  
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