Pancake bride

Why pancakes? When I was thinking of the original idea I had to think of something inanimate that the man could make a girlfriend from.
Pancakes are sweet and easy to make and I originally thought that it would need to be something someone skint could make at home. As the idea for the story developed it became more logical to have a mail order pancake bride, like people buy mail order wives over the internet, as this cut out a lot of animation.

She also had to be made out of something edible so that the dog can eat her at the end and re-establish the balance in his relationship with Jerome, because really the story is about the relationship between man and dog.