Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 16, 2010

I’d call that triple refined….

I’m one up on you, Tom, I’m a complete airhead - no dust in my mind!

I’ll bet there is a lot of dust, wait until it settles.

My thinking is refined like that too only its more like cobwebs.

If somebody blew in his left ear, would dust come out of his right ear?

Ah, Brownian Motion.

Better refined than crude.

I feel you, Tom.

My thinking has been blown to dust for years now.

I’ve been wondering whether I should gather as much of it as I can in a jar,

and try to preserve some memories.

Tom, that is an interesting theory to explain the incohesive nature of your thoughts. Just hold that thought….Oh damn, there it goes.

Meanwhile, Claude Clara and Cleo are making it cleat that they don’t get out of Cleveland much.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Really guys, ostriches? In Africa? And who eats wild cats?

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200316

Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria… Great stuff!

So the answer must be blowing in the wind.

Have it on the African Queen.

Hullo Cleoites….

Finally, in the middle of the night, GoComics must have decided that I’m cleared to visit this site…

including March 16th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.

Claude and Clara are obviously Clevelanders… or at least, not Californians…. scoffing at the idea of an African restaurant.

Around here, we embrace world cuisines….. I don’t even know what to tell a visitor looking for “regular American food” unless they mean a coffee shop or diner.

An “African” restaurant would probably have a more country-specific name…

We have some North African ones… such as Tigressy mentions… around here, including a decades old, famous Moroccan one in San Francisco… and in my city, a new Eritrean one.

But I can’t think of any jungle or rain forest food. No giraffe, though the Congo Pygmies and the Bushmen of the Kalahari hunted them with tiny weapons.

The meat of carnivores like big cats is reputed to taste “off” to humans.

We had one restaurant about 20 years ago, that featured jungle decor and some African game. I never ate there…but was taken for a drink or two in their fancy bar.

The dinner menu on the wall listed antelope and other hoofed mammals… and birds…. and I think crocodile!

Very expensive, and it went out of business. I think there was local distaste for big game hunting.

Another Clevelandish thing… Cleo’s joke about “dessert” doesn’t play well here…

In my Midwestern youth, “elephant ears” were pastries.

We call them “palmiers” here, sometimes “palm leaves” …

coiled puff pastry, sliced thin for baking… but elephant ears have been further flattened in sugar.

Actually, the Mexican bakery has those, and they’re called “orejas” … ears… but they’re not as sweet or buttery.

There’s another kind of “elephant ears” I’ve seen pictured as county fair food… a deep fried piece of dough… but we don’t have those, either.

Alternate Caption:

My thinking, muses Tom, is that Monday’s are Heliotrope Day at ᴄʟᴇᴏ & ᴄᴏ.

P.S. to @Nighthawks – notice how I didn’t use the word purplie?

Good morning ballardeers!

freakin’ snow showers here. I’m ready for spring.

Claude and Clara and Cleo are just kinda joking around….of course nobody eats cheetahs ( except lions)

, and ostrich is an actual dish and I just had Clara jokingly change chicken pot pie to ostrich pot pie….

I had a feeling that this would be controversial , but don’t blame Stel for my postings……

this is all me. Stel does the posters on Tuesdays and Thursdays

I don’t know if this will happen on Friday, but if Cleo gets the runs from those ears, let’s hope that it doesn’t fill up half the last panel.

Our router died Saturday afternoon, and after talking to tech support at the Internet place, we were welcome to come and pick up the new one right then. However, there was a blizzard going on so we weren’t going anywhere! So today we ventured out, and just got back, and everything is now honky dorey!

Egads! Now I know what Susan goes thru a whole bunch of the time

https://youtu.be/12DeNdF0KPA

I prefer Funnel Cake.