About

Cats Can Have a Little Salami is an image macro series with captions indicating that it is safe to feed cats small amounts of salami as a snack. The images derives from a 2017 Google result for "can cats eat salami" and evolved into a wholesome phrase which rose to popularity in November 2019.

Origin

On July 6th, 2017, an article titled "Can My Cat Eat Salami?" was published on the website MeatMenStore.^[1] On February 28th, 2019, Redditor Marcushelbing posted a screenshot of the article's Google search result to r/meow_irl^[3] (show below).

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On April 30th, 2019, Redditor HeftyDMV posted a Tumblr interaction in which a cat is shown typing the question "can cats have a little salami?" to r/me_irl^[4] (shown below, left). The post received 40 points (94% upvoted) in six months. On November 11th, Redditor heheokaydude reposted the original MeatMenStore Google result again to r/blessedimages^[5] and accumulated over 1,100 points (99% upvoted) in six days. On November 13th, Twitter user @twitersgoodboy^[6] captions a Sopranos image "Cats can have a little salami" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 24,900 likes and 3,500 retweets in five days.

On November 15th, 2019, several image macros referencing cats eating salami were uploaded to Imgur (shown below).

That day, Redditor PutFartsInMyJars submitted a post asking about the memes to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[2] The next day, Cheezburger^[7] published a list of notable Cats Can Have a Little Salami memes.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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