Pickles by Brian Crane for January 25, 2020

Not even…. Ovaltine???

my maternal grandparents’ favorite fast food when the older grandchildren came over was homemade hamburgers (I never had much of that opportunity because I didn’t live in Arizona like most of th’extended family)

So true!

Hummm … Pooch Café covered the same dog subject .. Eating! Earl even then you had Chips in a bag :-)

The original “sliders.”

They had fast food back then, but probably not in the “locale” where Earl was…http://www.oldest.org/food/fast-food-chains/

I get the gobble and gulp, but that snorf one is new to me! Is the the sound made for that millisecond when the dog attempts to breathe while eating?

In the 1950s food had to be prepared from scratch and tasted so much better than the junk today.

The first time my FIL went to that new place called Burger King, he asked for a Whooper.

Manners Big Boy, Kenny Kings….

There was a little fast food 60 years ago, but I don’t think it was as loaded with laboratory chemicals as all our food is today.

Gawd, remember when ya hadda cook things in an OVEN??? However, I remember when the first McDonald’s opened in San Jose: I was in college and could get an entire meal for a buck! Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. . .yeah, yeah, yeah. . .

Roscoes got it

Raisins – natures fast food.

Poptarts and Ovaltine nor raw egg milkshakes are ‘fast food’. Fast food is offered from a limited menu, cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order, and usually available for take away, though seating may be provided.Now granted we’re talking cartoon time here but I don’t know when Gramps was a kid because the first fast food restaurant in the US was White Castle from about the 1920s. Krystals in 1932. Big Boy restaurants in 1936 (as Bob’s Pantry). The first drive-through dated to Red’s Giant Hamburg in 1947. McDonald’s as we know it was from 1948. So maybe he didn’t get out much but fast food isn’t a recent development and did indeed exist in the “Good Old Days”.

No fast food in Chatham NJ in 1941. But eventually when traveling there was a Howard Johnson’s, not fast, but good food & service!

I didn’t eat so called fast food until my mom and I finally went to a McDonald’s one day. I was 16 at the time. She got food poisoning and we didn’t go to a fast food place again for a long time! I think that’s why I’m healthier at 73. I’ve had home cooking for so long!

Of course we didn’t have fast food growing up. We were vegetarians so the food never moved quickly. Only carnivores ate fast food, assuming they could catch it.

Grandpa forgets how fast those rabbits or chickens could run. Heck, even Bessie the cow ran pretty fast when you tried to milk her.

I like the way Nelson imitates Earl by standing with his hands in his pockets.

I’ve got a lab. This cartoon must be about him.

“When I was young, we didn’t have fast food, we only had food that was slow enough for us to catch.”

I liked Sandy’s in Oklahoma which had no special sauce and where your dad could convince them to give me a plain cheeseburger. Outside of Tulsa though, either he or the fast food people had less patience. When we moved to Michigan, our small town had its first McDonald’s in 1954 but most people went to the A&W which was staffed by high schoolers and run by the coach. I still have a couple of mugs.

Like me, they have to eat the main course fast in time for dessert.

The man that began fast food in Canada was Nat Bailey, his truck was a 1918 Model T, which he transformed into a travelling lunch counter to serve hungry sightseers at Vancouver’s Lookout Point. Nat’s energy & passion for service set the stage for the first White Spot drive-in, which he opened in 1928 on Granville Street at 67th Avenue in Vancouver.

A&W opened in 1958 in Winnipeg. Way before McDonalds.

I’m 70 and we had fast food when I was a kid — White Castle, Sandee’s, Burger Chef, BBF (Burger Boy Food-o-rama). White Castle was even around when my mother was a kid. How old is Earl supposed to be anyway?

Mine was Jack In the Box tacos when I was a teen. At 70, they still are.