you’d remember Wimpy, a pop-culture icon from his 1931 introduction in Popeye comics well into the 1970s, when the animated cartoons were still a TV staple. A soft spoken poseur, Wimpy was perpetually impecunious but never quite penurious, pretentious but not quite insufferable and fed to a state of portliness but nonetheless constantly ravenous. For one menu item in particular.

“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday,” he’d promise Popeye (or anyone else), “for a hamburger today.”