Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 27, 2015

Shame on you, Petey!

We’re learning even at the corn maze? I think Miss Bliss needs a time out.

Miss Bliss probably heard that devastating indictment of succotash from Petey back when he was in preschool! Timebinding!

My favorite bit of wisdom from this strip. And, Petey, I agree wholeheartedly!

To find your way out of any maze, simply place one hand on the wall of the maze and start walking not lifting your hand from the wall.You’ll do a lot of walking but you will come to the exit eventually. Works every time.

No not corn facts. Anything but corn facts. Give me the car facts.

Yes, there are thousands and thousands of uses for corn, all of which I will tell you about right now!

A good riddle to pose to little kids: If corn oil comes from squeezing corn, and olive oil comes from crushing olives, where does baby oil come from?

Everything has to be educational these days. Just plain fun is not allowed.

I grew to like peas and spinach, but lima beans and green beans are still (at 50+) a no-no. Broccoli: on the fence.

With a lot of foods that I didn’t like as a kid, I eventually learned that it was just a matter of how they were prepared. I never learned that with lima beans, though. But at least they weren’t actually disgusting.

“But at least they weren’t actually disgusting.”Yes they are!

as a retired educator, i love benji’s “uh-oh.”

Growing up during WWII, I learned to “like” what was put in front of me. Or else. I love broccoli – could eat it three times a day – but lima beans? Three times a year is sufficient. And then some.

Ugh! Succotash is just an abomination! I actually thought my mom invented it. She always threw all the left-overs together for the next days meal and called it goulash (should have been called ‘goul’-ash). Corn is not an improvement.

I’m with Alice & Petey on this one!

On the pro side: Baby lima beans, sauteed in butter or olive oil, with a little onion, garlic, freshly ground black pepper, and a pinch of salt, are delicious.

The only way I like lima beans is in casseroles (WELL-MADE casseroles.

I used to tell my little brother that guacamole was squished grasshoppers. :-P

Lima Beans: small, inedible, green pustules of paste promoted by sadistic dietitians.