Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 31, 2015

I don’t know what it means, but it’s the yeast he cold do….

Maybe she could use it as a rolling pin.

Janis is so kneady.

Love the Confederate Battle Flag avatar!

As Doctor Smith’s French cousin might say… oh, le pain!

Anyone displaying a Nazi flag?

Janis needs a lesson on how to make it rise.

Mix the yeast with 1 cup of warm water and a teaspoon of sugar. If it foams, it’s good, and just add it to the flour. If not, toss it.

Excellent observation. Ageism, racism, and sexism are deeply embedded in our cultures. It’s supposed to be funny when someone on the oppressed end of the -ism receives some payback.

I meant gives, not receives. Ooops.

One can only hope for Arlo’s sake that the baking yeast is the only yeast problem that Janis has.

I agree with you in the general sense of what you are saying, but in this case Janis just knocked Arlo with a dense loaf of bread. The pain signs are for pure comedic purpose (and I agree the taste is questionable), as she can obviously make her point without causing real pain. That is very, very different from “slapping the snot out of” someone, regardless of their sex.  In other words: this strip is in no way even close to Maggie beating up Jiggs with a rolling pin in Bringing Up Father.

I tried making bread from scratch….they could’ve been used as boat anchors.

Aromatic door stop….

Well, I agree with John Smith, and beg to disagree with the dissenters. I was going to say the same thing as he did, but always feel like a big old brunt when I don’t go along with the “It’s only a comic, haw, haw, haw” crowd. I also don’t like how Opal can push over Earl’s easy chair while he’s in it, but not vice versa. Or the greeting cards that slam men. Men have their faults, but I don’t feel that this excuses such bias.

Yeast is tricky. The stuff has to be fresh (read the date on the package!) and the water temp has to be just so. I’ve had her exact same experience, in part because I trusted a bread making machine to do the work for me.

I believe he has slapped her behind on occasion . . .

The excellent thing about baking bread is that, even when you mess up, it still tastes good.

I don’t believe it was appropriate for Janis to hit Arlo. Just isn’t. That’s why you have language. Use it. Show how hard it is in many different ways.

If Janis starts having yeast problems poor Arlo won’t get bread or bred.

We got sandwichs on hard-rolls at an Italian deli. The rolls were super hard. you’d think they were stale. But that’s the way they are.

Maybe you’re killing the yeast, Janis.

i didn’t think that a yeast infection smelled good

I “had” a bread making machine. Had is the operative word here. At any rate, a rolling pin was softer than that bread was. Dropped it on the floor to see if it would bounce. Now I have cracked floor tiles. LOL

What’s happening with the son and his family? I have even forgotten his name.

Musty RangerThey are both anti-American. Might as well toss the hammer and sickle in there too, although that may have been stolen from the Socialists like the fist salute, Internationale, and “socialist” as used only in the old Soviet bloc, USA, and branch-plant Canadians.

She’s probably just baking French bread…

The immature among us can make something “dirty” out of any comic strip subject, right ralphyork666?

.You just like to see women abused..Never dare anyone to do something you don’t want done.

.Or maybe you didn’t.