This just in…

Reader Jim C. of Chez Jim notes that dog biscuits go back at least as far as 1623 in Spain. Evidently, “pan de perro” was referenced in a play by Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare and one of the great luminaries of Spanish Golden Age literature. Who knew dog biscuits had a literary pedigree? I smell a doctoral thesis in this somewhere…

UPDATE: Jim now says that the term “dog bread” dates back to the Romans. Who knew?