So one thing I realized in making Dana a reincarnated Humanimal is that on Mizzer while primarily meant to be a continuation of America since on Earth all the countries got subsumed into a one world feudalism government but because quite a few of the Neo-Hippies were original hippies from the 60s who survived the Great Dying (Must be all those 'all natural herbal remedies') so on Mizzer there was also a lot of idolizing of both British and French culture as the Height of Civilazation, so with some of her Humanimal Self being 'awakened' by the brain enhancing medicine that's probobly a factor if not the only factor in why she's so attracted to Glass Joe.

When their entrees arrived, Dana's mouth watered as she smelled the cassoulet, she tried her best not to inhale her food, but quickly she couldn't stop her spoon from moving as she quickly devoured her meal...For most of her life her favorite food had been burgers and while she could cook a pretty mean burger, she hadn't been able to cook during most of her wanderings and when she could eat prepared food she was dependant on fast food burgers more often than not, many a meal had been donations from sympathetic fast food workers and she had devoured more Big Macs then she cared to admit...But now trying this cassoulet she was thinking this might be her new favorite food...

So enraptured by the flavor she could stop herself and began licking the last of the drippings from the bowl, however when she opened her eyes and saw Glass Joe's eyes wide with shock she quickly stopped with a blush quickly spreding under her black furred cheeks if you knew what to look for.

"I'm sorry..." Dana said quietly "...You must think I'm absolutely disgusting..."

But while Joe was amazed, he didn't feel disgust at what he saw, he felt tender sympathy. He didn't think she suffered a lapse into animal instinct, what he saw was a person who devoured their food like it might run away from them as the learned habits of someone who had experienced true hunger and had at times when they had found food may have been chased away from their meal...In the interviews of Mutants who had been escaped experiments the boxers had seen on TV a lot of them had a similar pattern, after escaping the lab many of them dug through the trash for food before quickly realizing they had to retreat to the wilderness and learn to hunt or gather wild food.

While Joe had never been exactly starving from sheer destitution, there had been a few times early in his career when because he was nursing serious injuries he hadn't been able to pick up groceries for himself so while never quite as bad as what the Poor Mutants must have gone through he understood the meaning of such hunger.

"It's all right..." He said softly "...I understand...You must have had a hard life..." Seeing his words weren't helping by her expression she was probably thinking he was just saying those things to be nice, Joe quickly thought of something else "...As you've just seen, I have my own lapses in table etiquette with eating a whole baguette with my hands!"

And with that Dana began to laugh, Joe laughed with her

"It's a habit I had as a child that I've refused to give up..." He chuckled "...But I've realized that in this day and age most people are content to mind their own business provided you're not doing something absolutely perverse, this isn't the Victorian era most people are live and let live."

But it seemed Joe spoke a bit too soon as soon as he said that some thuggish looking men, approached.

"Well well...What do we have here?" One of the men sneered "Looks like Glass Joe's really gone to the dogs!"

Joe bristled, he looked at their faces, to see if these were two of the three bullies he beat up, but no, these seemed to be entirly different people, I guess that shows with the beating he gave those three thugs they weren't going to come back again.

"Woof, woof!" The other one mocked "Hey Glass Joe! Isn't a Doberman more Von Kaiser's kind of dog? Shouldn't you be going out with a Poodle?"

Joe really didn't even think of Dana's status as a Germen breed he just thought of her an American like so many European diaspora who came to America and became so mixed in the melting pot that they have no sense of Europen indenity they are just througoughly American 'mutts' the American Mutant Animals also seemed to have that feel, weather they were creatures Native to North America or Creatures you would see on an African Safari being raised by American culture really made them feel like another addition to the American melting pot.

But Dana wrinkled her nose and bared her fangs just ever so slightly "And just who are you exactly to say who can date whom?" She asked in her sultry voice "Are you the kind who would say humans of different nationalities can't date?"

Having basically thrown out just how un P.C. That would be in this day and age if they were taunting two humans, and the fact that since they were taunting Glass Joe in broad daylight during the lunch hour the other diners were glaring at them, the two bullies quickly scurried away.

The fact that many Mutants dig through the trash for food like stray animals really brings to mind this recent discovery called Shinbone Alley basically the Cats before Cats or the Cats of the 50s that got an animated adatation in the 70s but anyway brings to mind a line from the song 'True Romace' of 'A fish head fliched from a garbage can or a milk bottle raisded at dawn is better than safety or slavery to folks who cuddle and fawn' The song will play a more prominent role in a later story