Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 06, 2020

what idiots Leslie and Bets are here not knowing vegetables as well as real food

Don’t go there. ✨

A pickle?

I don’t get it

I’d rather read an Ann Eiffel arc than this current one. No one is that stupid. On the plus side, I posit that GnK’s positioning them to discover what good food really is. However, the voyage is painful for this reader.

Yesterday a lot of readers gave Les and Bets’ benefit of the doubt that maybe they were seeing exotic vegetables they had not encountered before. I think the benefit of the doubt just ran out.

Well, Bets never claimed to be a foodie. So many inappropriate jokes come to mind from the last panel.

Cucumber?

This is sadder than the time I had to explain the difference between iceberg lettuce and cabbage to a cashier at a grocery store.

I’m recalling the Produce Aisle scene from Animal House.

Gunther’s gonna come out and yell “Listen to you two! I can’t believe you got stoned again!”

I remember an article published pre-internet (sorry, no link) in which people in Glasgow were shown a head of lettuce and asked what it was. Nobody knew. There is no reason to believe they were ALL just trolling the people doing the study, which was in connection with research into the high heart disease rate in Scotland.

Okay – Leslie Knox will one day have heart disease.

Cat’s Bane!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vML9C3PZk

So, even though Les works in a restaurant, he pays no attention to what ends up on those plates he’s washing? With TJ in charge of food, there must be SOME veggies…

I see it. But I just can’t bring myself to type it! Maybe Airman will be along later. (DUCK!)

Seriously?! Egads…this is going to be a long week.

So they really went there. (Third panel) That is an Organic Lady’s Pleasant Module.

And Bets must have never had Chinese or she would have recognized a pea pod off hand. However a pea is the round beads inside a pea pod and unless she has shucked pea pods she probably doesn’t know that.

Greg is really stretching it in the last panel.

Most all that in the box might make a good soup except for the cucumber. That would be better in a good cucumber gazpacho.

Oh my.

This is the third week of “veggies are wonderful.” One week would have been OK but two weeks was driving it into the ditch but a third week …. this has got down right preachy. Also boring since nothing is happen bit people standing around talking. If we had cut to TJ cooking last week would have had some action going on. Like chopping veggies with or without losing a finger, tossing the skillet to mix the veggies with or without losing the load, Some lovely kitchen aid porn, and Tiffany flirting with her boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJzb0Rk6RU

Bets and Leslie bond over their vegetable ignorance. Watch out, Gun! In spite of her stunning figure, apparently Bets eats junk food!!

Never make eye contact when you are eating a banana!

Double entendre? Bleh. Another would be a banana. I remember in middle school when they used those fruits and put on suggestive expressions. We girls would roll up our eyes or say bleh.

Les two words have different spelling and meaning.

“Mine’s bigger.” -Otter, Animal House

Is Bets flirting with Les?

“Is Bets flirting with Les?” – if G&K go with character continuity, remember Les is the robo-date she ejected on. Said he was a liar.

Just about everyone else – I thought eggplant was the universal underground symbol for a Stephen Colbert joke – or was it James Corden? But I digress.

I agree with that person at the top of the page that posited that G&K have simply thrown out character continuity.

Bets this stupid is no match for Gunther. And that’s before we remind ourselves that Gunther is, among his multitude of talents, also a cook.

None of this makes any sense.

C’mon, this is a family strip. Seriously.

So in the last frame, Les was being a wise guy saying who would eat pee, and Bets replied with an enhanced hand gesture.

Ok, I was wrong y ezterday, Bets really is clueless when it comes to cooking. GUN! Get in here and for once you teach her a social skill.

Cucumber? Where do the batteries go in?

I think these two belong together.

Hey. Children are reading this strip.

I get so tired with impatient old farts whose projection is so bad they can only come up with tired old tired clichés. Jeez can’t y’all give it a break? I think this is kind of a generationally sly sarcastic send up of late Millennials (not Zoomers because Luann has been a teen-ager in Luannverse, so having her and her fellow characters being born in the early 80’s to the late 90’s fits with Millennials better than Z) who have been introduced to and are used to such processed, definitely not fresh veggies. I mean Bets with her OBVIOUS DOUBLE PENILE ENTENDRE joke about the cucumber and her comment about the deep-fried in panel 1, along with Mr, Cheez Whiz is so obvious. I don’t appreciate them being called idiots on veggie recognition by the way, what generation’s food delivery and marketing and educational system taught them this anyway? People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. One thing many Millennials and Zoomer are interested in environmentally cleaner solutions, contrary to our best/worst example (notice how many morbidly obese older people there is for example) so perhaps this portends some kind of vegan based marketing model. Who knows but generational “these kids today” projection can be aggravating, not sorry.

Bets likes Deep Fried Batter foods. Battered Jalapeno peppers, deep fried zucchini sticks, etc.

So, I think I can say with some certainty now that Les and Bets are very stupid.

To borrow a phrase…..

“Oh, Myyyy”

Les brings up a point. People traditionally make fun of British food, saying it’s bland and tasteless. Actually, much of it is just fine, but the Brits seem to go out of their way to give their food names that sound revolting. “Bubble and squeak”? “Toad in the hole”? “Spotted dick”? “Mushy peas”?

(We may eat mushy peas here too, but at least we don’t go putting that name on the label in bold letters.)

Les is on the college dorm diet and Bets has been on dehydrated astronaut food and tablets.

Bets can handle economics, but she doesn’t know what a pea pod looks like?

I know they don’t like cooking but they’re adults, they can’t be so completely stupid that they don’t know what vegetables look like.

This is not the week for you two to be dumba**es

They are both clueless.

that’s the problem with the “newer” people in this world…

Seriously, Evanses??

Bets, you have a naughty look in eyes. Why not ask Gunthie what that is?

Larry the Cucumber’s uncle?

There is an ad on TV where the parents cook a healthy meal and the kids won’t eat it. The solution is to make them mac and cheese. Also I’ve read the number of colon cancers among younger people is increasing.

With age and learning to cook, I’ve completely lost my taste for processed and/or canned food. Though that was my go-to in my teens and twenties. It’s really pretty bland, but you don’t realize it if you don’t know anything else.

That looks like an overinflated pickle.

I’m now totally confused. Did all these people have personal chefs and billions of dollars to the point where they never set foot in a store? Even if you never gardened growing up. Everyone I knew understood what a vegetable is. Is Dez growing some kind of crazy hybrid garden so nothing looks like that it should? Les with all his experience working in and around the kitchens should know this. This whole thing is just confusing.

Are they truly that dumb when it comes to fresh food? No wonder our world is in chaos.

Damn. Betts is a freak!

Even though their first meeting was a disaster, it seems like Bets and Les have something in common. A very unhealthy diet based on processed foods and fried foods. I wonder if they have more in common. Oh no… I can actually start ship them together!!!

Will soon be in her nightstand.

My first thought on the fried vegetables was tempura maybe with a nice teriyaki chicken or maybe some fish, I guess we all take the deep fried reference based on our life experiences;-)

Those two are pathetic when it comes to fresh food.

Betts and Les are really that stupid?

This is why we need to know where our food comes from. For real.

is there something happening between the two of them???

I’ve forgotten – does Bets always wear Uhura-red tops?

uhhhhhhmmmmmmm….

Nuke the cuke! ;o}

Now I’m really curious about Bets’s family upbringing. Did her mother never cook anything from scratch?

Do we really have a generation out there that doesn’t know their Vegetables?

If they are truly this ignorant, then this suddenly becomes un-funny and moves into sad territory.

New best friend?

Now Greg is just playin’ with us in Panel 4!

The really sad thing about this strip is that there are way too many fools out there that share Les’s opinion about “real food” and even more that can’t recognize it in its natural state.

Then there’s also the ones that refuse to eat meat when they learn the ugly truth about how it gets on the shelves in that neat little package.

This is too stupid

So much work here to create a controversial scene. Just put Tiffany in the shower, a nice, hot, soapy shower.

Gunther will not share Bets’ opinion of what to eat.

From the book “Fun With Fruit”.

I find it hard to believe they can’t identify common vegetables. Along with numbers and letters, kindergarten and preschool usually shows/teaches vegetables, fruits and animals, etc. Guess they don’t frequent Subway or any restaurants. Hope Gunther or Irma gets there soon. This is just sad. :-/

I think this is about to get dirty.

Ok. Now it’s getting weird. LOL

Put the peas in a YouTube video and call it a podcast…

Uh oh…its goodbye Gunther. lol

wow, you’d think a couple of young adults would at least RECOGNIZE raw food, even if they don’t know how to prepare it themselves.

“Nuke” is an inaccurate word. A microwave oven electromagnetic radiation, not nuclear. “Radar” would be more accurate.

Based on this, perhaps “Love Glove” wasn’t accidental.

Yikes!

Does Evans really have that low of an opinion of young adults? I would say that the current generation of 18-24 year-olds are way more educated on healthy options than the previous several generations. My grandparents wouldn’t have known what an avocado is, or kale chips, falafel, kombucha, quinoa, chia seeds, etc. Sure, characters like Les exist, but someone like Bets wouldn’t be feeding herself with microwaved junk.

This is ridiculous. No one is this stupid.

Phallic.

I’m not getting this arc at all. Dez worked her butt off to grow fresh, organic veggies. It kinda made sense for her to give some of it to TJ. He’d know how to prepare the veggies (and what they are!) but why the heck would TJ give the produce to Les, the person least likely to appreciate it? I’m surprised that Les didn’t just dump the fruits of Dez’s hard work in the garbage can or the compost bin. “Don’t know what this junk is, not gonna eat it”.

Gee whiz, TJ, if you were going to hand over the veggies to some random person, why not Luann? She could give E-Z stew another try, and this time, using a lower grade and fattier cut of meat, and ensuring that the shaker lid on the pepper is screwed on correctly. Luann could at least try to make something delicious out of the veggies (which probably would taste great in a stew!)

But Les? Pearls before swine!

Cooking for yourself can be a very life-affirming and delicious pasttime. You can control portions and seasonings exactly to your taste. You can make enough to freeze various dishes and not have to cook for a week. Even rice keeps well, if frozen. It is a survival skill and makes your home a more pleasant place to be than impersonal, neon-lit, fast food joints.

Is Les trying to hide his culinary interests from Bets? Because none of this conversation between the two makes any sense.

Artificial cheese dip and chips and “real” food from cans or a box, and he isn’t overweight?

If Gunter doesn’t use the veggies….Irma will use them. We have not had an ‘Irma family night meal’ for a while. Might be fun.

How do they keep that figure if that’s what they think food is?

Since when is Bets as dumb as Les?

It’s sad that millennials don’t know what fresh fruits and vegetables are.

That took a sudden dirty turn

I can’t believe neither one of them has never seen a Pea Pod or a Cucumber.

The Pea Pod would have been Cooked, of course, but they are very common in Chinese food.

And, every woman knows at least a few verses of the song: “Cucumbers are better than Men”.

Her “Green Gunther”?

R.I.P. Eddie van Halen … one mean guitar player. Taught us all a few tricks.

At least it wasn’t an eggplant

Either she and Gunther are still platonic, or he’s hung like a hamster…

Let’s hope these two dullards never pro-create, for reasons other than the obivious…

Ah, to quote the great Jack Palance… “City folk…”

Uh Oh… this could go in some, uh, unsavory directions…

So pee and cucumber. Glad it isn’t bent..

not going there

Just ridiculous. My 8 year old son knows what vegetables are. You do learn about them in school. The Evanses have sunk low.

It’s what you make of it, Bets….

My parents had a large garden (over an acre) and canned everything we didn’t eat right out of the field. So I know a lot of vegetables by sight. But there are lots of people who didn’t have the spare land to farm or didn’t have the time to prepare meals from scratch. I’m thinking particularly of a single mother trying to raise a family. Since she has to work all day at one or two jobs to make ends met it is likely that her kids were feed cereal for breakfast, peanut butter adn jelly sandwiches for lunch and frozen pizza for supper — because the mother never had the time or energy to cook from scratch. So kids growing up in that environment who have little experience with vegetables fresh out of the garden.

Two peas in a pod, they are…

Hello, indeed…

It’s an emoji. No, wait, that’s an eggplant.

To not scare the cat

My cousins came for a visit and they were made lunch, consisting of a sandwich and split pea soup. The person who made the soup said “here, have some pea soup, it’s made from my own peas!” meaning that they had gone out to the garden, harvested said peas and made soup. For some reason my young cousins didn’t want to eat theirs…LOL!

Don’t set it down near the cat!

Um HELLO?? thats a pickle and cucumber