The Rarebit Fiend gorges on Welsh rarebit at a restaurant. The sandwich is served with a cheese sauce similar to Welsh rarebit and french fries. Welsh rarebit blended with tomato (or tomato soup) makes a "blushing bunny". Examples include a beef Manhattan, a hot chicken sandwich in Canada, or Welsh rarebit. Though cheese sauces vary by chef, it is generally derived from Welsh rarebit. The title is a takeoff on "Welsh rarebit", which is also known as "Welsh rabbit". The word "rarebit" has no other use than in Welsh rabbit. Art Spiegelman paid parodic homage to "Rarebit Fiend" in his 1974 strip "Real Dream". R. Paul painted a number of pulp magazine covers influenced by "Rarebit Fiend". "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" was McCay's longest running comic strip. Though frequent in "Rarebit Fiend", this self-referentiality does not appear in McCay's other strips. "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" initial run continued until 1911. The Checker books reprinted all but about 300 of the known "Rarebit Fiend" strips. From 1923 to 1925 McCay revived the strip under the title "Rarebit Reveries".