Pickles by Brian Crane for May 29, 2015

Er… have we even SEEN Earl cook?

Maybe Earl could do better. Decades of cooking and Opal doesn’t seem to learn.

To all the guys on here: Is that not the response you get when you criticize your wife’s cooking?

Opal knows she can’t make lentil soup so why doesn’t she take some advice and try it?

I would be doing a lot of eating out if that’s what I had to deal with. Fortunately, I can cook.

Know when to shut up.

During a cattle drive it was established that the last cowboy to complain about the cooking was cook until the next complainer took his place..Nobody would complain, no matter how bad..In desperation, the cook gathered up some of the abundant manure, cooked it to look like rolls or biscuits..One of the other cowboys bit in, tasted, stood up and declared.“This tastes like sheet.” (or something like that)Then be realized his peril of becoming the new cook and added,“Just the way I like it.” Then he took another bite and swallowed.

Never marry a woman who can’t cook. As the old saying goes, Looks don’t last; cookin’ do.

I like cooking. And I definitely wouldn’t mind being the only cook in the kitchen for while.

Most cooking is common sense I have no recipes in the house.99% of the time I eat home. I make home made egg noodles a Gnocchi from scratch.etc. BUT we all know Opal has no common sense.

My wife & I share the cooking… tho she doesn’t always eat the stuff I make, not sure why.

Typical female response.

I’m not a big fan of lentils, but I’ve had stovetop rice casseroles turn out like that. ;)

If I want good food, I learned long ago, I need to cook it myself.

This goes both ways. If you complain about how someone else is doing a task, you just volunteered to do it yourself. -Lots of my women friends complain about the way their husbands do household chores. Not surprisingly, a year or two later I will hear them complaining about how their husbands stopped doing chores. If these folks would stop micromanaging, they would find that their partners are more involved.

Call it Lentil Loaf and skip the soup expectations.No more problems.

Earl would probably forget to add the lentils and end up with ‘water soup’xxx

uh oh. the follow through on this won’t be pretty

I learned to cook early, I started by baking before I turned 11 and moved up to cooking breakfast when I was in Junior high and High School (both of my parents worked and left home before I got up for school so it was the only way I could have something besides cold cereal every morning). By the time I graduated from High School I was helping with dinner. When I left for college I knew how to cook and it came in handy when I got an on campus apartment. I was one of the few people in the apartments who knew how to cook, and later I found out that other people would go out of their way to walk past my apartment while I was cooking just to smell what I was making.

this strip is all about making Earl look stupid and ungrateful.

Opal is CORRECT! Let Earl do the cooking, if he thinks he can do better!