Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 21, 2020

Celery raw develops the jaw But celery stewed is more quietly chewed Ogden Nash (I think)

I’ve eaten tongue, but couldn’t get over the idea that it was tasting me back.

She must’ve missed the arugula.

Head cheese. Just saying.

He (she?) obviously never heard of putting peanut butter on the celery.

I was once in a grocery store that catered to Koreans in the Philadelphia suburbs. The horses hooves grossed me out.

I find celery to be not just pleasant but critical for some things. Without celery, how would you make Waldorf salad? Tuna salad? Étouffée?

Celery is a most hideous thing, closely followed by the egregious cilantro!

Good thing they skipped the head cheese.

Our Nahunta pork store sells pig faces.

Green peppers are gross; and red or yellow aren’t much better

I hated celery as a kid. Now I love it, raw or cooked.

Try badly prepared sprouts or broccoli.

Some celery can be gross. Got to watch the bagged stuff.

Celery… dental floss embedded in vegetable matter…

I love beef tongue on seeded rye bread with a schmear of horseradish mustard, yummy!

As a kid in Chibougamau I remember one Fall morning an elderly native man walking up to our door and asking my Mom if he could have the moose tongue from the trophy head my Dad had on the hood of our 1960 Dodge Polara (I know it’s gross, but these were other times). My mother said sure. So I went with the old fellow to check it out. He opened the mouth, took a sniff, tilted the head sideways and cut the tongue out like he’d done it hundreds of times.

Kale salad trumps all.

only thing about celery i hate are the strings of it getting caught between your teeth.

When I was a kid on grocery shopping day, my brother and I would go to the meat counter and check out the gross things people would eat. For me it was a toss up (pun intended) between the kidneys and the calf brains…

I have the most neutral possible opinion of celery.

The first time that I ever saw a whole beef tongue was in the refrigerated display case at Hal’s Deli in Ithaca NY back in 1971. I immediately resolved never to order that, ever! The Reuben sandwich, on the other hand, heaven! RIP – Hal and Sandy.

I so agree! Celery is gross and totally disgusting. I have tried to eat it, but just can’t get it down.