Go ahead. Laugh. You know you want to.

Manhattan local news site DNAinfo spotted this goat dining with a couple at Famous Famiglia's pizza parlor.

Correspondent Leslie Albrecht gathered customer's reactions:

“Get out of here. That’s insane,” said Ed Sullivan, 37, a construction worker from Long Island. “It’s not sanitary — well — I guess it depends on the goat."

Read the full story here.

Update:

The goat is apparently a minor Passaic, NJ celebrity named Cocoa, whose companion Cyrus Fakroddin occasionally takes her for a trip to the big city.

This advertisement for lactose-free dairy products from Arla is built on a grain of truth. Apparently, like our web editor Eilis, hedgehogs are lactose intolerant. It's debatable whether they'd actually enjoy a "really cheesy cheese pizza," though. I'm thinking grubs. Bugs and grubs.

While most folks are on the long holiday, we're on a conference call talking about the summer issue. Sometimes magazine work can be a grind.

Time for a goat massage:

Brought to you by the fine folks at Becky's Homestead.

The folks at Coombe Castle are really very romantic—you can tell by their advertising. Now they've done gone and put up some instructions for making your own bouquet of cheese roses, cut from their passionately-tinted port-infused Windsor Red cheese.

Obviously, the striking creamy white and red marbling made Windsor Red stand out for a Valentine's Day spread; however, its firm, smooth but pliable texture was perfect for sculpting romance!

A red rose symbolizes passion, of course, but for more Platonic relationships, a yellow cheese-rose of friendship would certainly be welcome. But be careful when selecting your material: an orange cheddar flower would symbolize passion and desire. For nachos, perhaps?

Ladies and gentlemen, this month's toast of the Internet, Champis, the sheep herding dwarf rabbit. Chapis lives at Gardsbacken farm (?) perhaps in Sweden. Swedish readers, check out their blog and tell me what the heck else is going on.

The folks at Pastoral have a little DIY project in case anyone has a spare boule of Mimolette lying around. The Mim-o-lantern is the unofficial mascot of Scary Dairy!

This creature was invented by former Pastoral manager Greg Ellis and its creation was caught on video! This is no hoax, folks. Check out the video! Happy Halloween!

For a somewhat more, ah, intense cheesehead masterpiece, we also present this bleeding cheeseskull via Not Martha for your delectation. Warning: it's gross.

Good Evening! It's time again for culture's annual Scary Dairy contest.

The rules are simple: spin a spooky cheese-centric tale of terror in the comment thread below. 500 words or less, please. The best tale will win a bag of cheesy Halloween tricks & treats. We will pick a winner Nov. 4.

Need inspiration? Check out last year's blood curdling tales of ghostly milk murders, evil sheep, dairy zombies, and of course, the horrifying Stuff-like cheese of last year's winning entry: here, here, here, and here, and then post your own below!

Another recent photo find, this time from the Museum of Food Anomalies:

According to the accompanying text, "Rick sliced into a block of cheese to find the first-ever sighting of a possible descendant of the "Man in the Moon.'"

Came across this today via boingboing.net, which should tell you everything you need to know. Lunchtime trickster Insanewich has a couple items that every hip 'n happening cheese blogger has on his or her desk: