Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 21, 2010

Get ‘im, Alice! I’ll hold him, you slap him.

Petey is too funny. GM Margueritem.

Yo, Rodney!

These two are way too much! Great strip.

Don’t worry, Petey, you’ve got my vote. Even my brother, who I always considered one of the pickiest eaters around, isn’t as picky as you are.

Doesn’t Picky Petey still have a long way to go from where he was the last time to #1? As I recall there were still about 900 picky eaters ahead of him.

Why are so many people up, reading & commenting on comics, so early on a Sunday morning ??

We need lives !!!

we NEED to know the Picky Eater roster.

Petey keeps excellent records.

My sister re-labeled me a ‘Food Wimp’ rather than picky eater when I was a kid.

Funny thing is, the Cul de Sac-a-day calendar is also on Petey’s picky eating, and all I can say is what self-respecting picky eater eats blue cheese & mushrooms?! (Petey’s explanation for Nonlegastreaux’s longevity.)

Petey, I’d like you to meet my cat.

I SO love this strip <3

I read them every morning with my grapefuit;-)

My idea of “picky” is removing the artichokes from a double-whammy supreme pizza.

I am the antithesis of Petey. I wouldn’t mind a nice foie gras right now.

cleokaya I share your sentiments.

Petey’s joining the Youth International Party?

I refer to them as food bigots.

There’s more to the Picky Eater rankings than complication, Petey, although I know that’s your strength. Inconvenience of the demaded food is taken into account, too. Which is pickier, refusing to eat a sandwich with mayonnaise, or insisting that the crusts be cut off? It’s simple enough to make a sandwich without mayo to begin with, but removing the crusts requires extra effort by the sandwichmaker, and therefore might get an award of Style Points. (Scraping the mayo OFF the sandwich is of course not an option, and a request that the sandwich be re-made might be refused.)

Crackers are uncomplicated, but they’re readily available. Establish almost-unreasonable expectations, such as glumly stating a preference for the unsalted crackers from a specialty store on the other side of town, where the proprietors don’t speak English.

From “Cartoon Advice to Graduates”, from R. Thompson’s Richard’s Poor Almanac:

Silly Rabbit (General Mills): “Choose for yourself one unattainable food group, whether it is Road Runners, Wabbits, Tweetie Birds, Picnic Baskets, Lucky Charms or Trix, and pursue it with all the misguided singlemindedness you possess.”

Agreed, fritzoid. My younger sister always insisted on plain hamburgers at McDonald’s, so we got delayed 10 minutes while they made her a new one.

Gotta love that guy’s name – Nonlegatereaux! And Petey, you’ve got a ways to go to be #1 picky eater, but you’re young – you might make it yet.

oops – left out a letter in that last comment and added one where it didn’t belong. Should be Nonlegastreaux … not sure what Nonlegatereaux would mean…

oops – left out a letter in that last comment and added one where it didn’t belong. Should be Nonlegastreaux … not sure what Nonlegatereaux would mean…

My crackers can go with my peanut butter OR my cheese. Not peanut butter and cheese together, though… That would be wrong.

Nonlegastreaux’s #1 position might have been retained, or even strengthened, without hurting his great-granddaughter’s feelings. Had he separated a bite-sized piece from the eclair (with a knife and fork), licked off the chocolate glaze, sucked out the creme filling, and discarded the pastry portion, I (were I one of the judges) would have countered whatever he lost in Purity with a sizeable award based on Finesse.

Totally, Fritzoid, to-tal-ly!

But did Jules swallow it? He may have spit it out after his great granddaughter turned her back. Reminds me of the MacDonald’s slogan on all their restaurants; “Over _ billion served.” Yes, but how many were actually eaten and enjoyed? How many were bought, tasted, and then tossed in the trash?

algurka i know what you mean