Pickles by Brian Crane for March 18, 2019

well, Nelson, who IS going to be responsible for your vegetables’ happiness?

I always hated that guilt trip bull cr@p. Also, don’t feed him vegetables you know he won’t like. I hate peas and cooked carrots. Too mushy and they taste disgusting.

Just finish your veal.

A trip to the trash can seems like a good alternative to the alimentary canal.

that was pretty lame I remember when I was a kid I did not have a choice ok wait I did have choice I could not talk back and eat them or talk back get smacked then eat them

He doesn’t want to eat his peas and carrots? Fine, just remember not to give in when he asks for a snack later on!

The vegan force is weak in this one …..

Sad for Nelson that his grandmother has to have this spelled out for her!

Well Opal, that reasoning didn’t work…Nelson is getting wise to your fairy tales.

Cut the kid some slack. Many people boil vegetables for as long as 20 or 30 minutes which results in mush without color, flavor, or nutrition. Vegetables cooked properly tend to have flavors almost everybody likes. See if people like raw vegetables (like carrots) and if they do it’s most likely that your cooking is the problem, not their taste buds. There’s easier ways to do things than to bully kids.

Is the cow happy you’re eating a hamburger? Would you be happy to be a feast for a cannibal ?

Nelson, it could be worse, broccoli or spinach!

And once again, some ditzy dame mistakes “edible” with “good to eat”…

I want you to eat every carrot and pea on your plate!

Compost, not garbage. C’mon Grams.

I’m sure those veggies were thrilled to be boiled or steamed, too.

The very first stupid comment overall started it. It’s just a comic strip after all!

I thought the guilt line was about the starving Armenian children.

Just never tell him to eat every carrot and pee on your plate.

Send them to the starving kids in India!

Oh, lonely peas

Can’t we have whirled peas ;)

It’s too late for the vegetables, they’ve already been tortured.

I was made to sit at the table until I’d eaten my vegetables…… I was still there at bedtime. Peas and carrots are best eaten raw.

Well your body won’t be happy without them.

Well at least she didn’t talk about the poor, starving children in a far away country!

“Send them to the starving children in (fill in the blank).”

The Jolly Green Giant !

If we didn’t eat them the first time. The next night they should up in a pot pie.

My solution as a kid was to secretly squash each pea to the underside of the table where they all stuck together in a pile. That way my plate looked like I had eaten all my peas! I didn’t have a problem eating carrots but I flatly refused to eat peas.