Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 27, 2020

know of any succotash-making tribes whose children are picky about the lima beans?

Brilliant! She recognized the source of that comment.

That’s a little unfair, she could’ve gotten that off a bubble gum wrapper.

That’s true, and lima beans are disgusting. My mom tried to hide them in mashed potatoes. It didn’t work.

I’ve always thought of lima beans as a completely neutral food. Not good, not bad, just adding bulk to something with more flavor.

My mother didn’t force me to eat lima beans, worse she made me kale in the 1960’s.

My father-in-law used to say, “I dread succotash.” I don’t like that combo, either, but I do like lima beans. I learned to make them with a ham bone and a lot of onion and think they are are a wonderful supper.

Something I’ve never tried, I’ll have to look it up, the only time I’ve ever heard of it was being said by a certain cartoon feline…

I always knew that about lima beans but couldn’t articulate it until I was old enough to pass on them!

Lima beans are either too dry to swallow – or cooked until they’re too mushy to tolerate.

My mother-in-law is in her 5th or 6th childhood. Won’t eat any veg but green beans. Or tomatos. I almost fainted when she ate a salad the other night! I’ve been buying pasta sauce with hidden veggies, and she has no clue :) Oh carrots and celery but only if grated sigh

Ive never had problem with food, everyone seems so picky to me. If its good eat it and enjoy if not just eat it faster and get it over with, no big deal. I really eat anything no prob. Guess im just weird.

Hey, even her brother has to be right SOMEtimes.

What food is a corn maze if you cant run around willy nilly and get lost. To organized

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

Could the Uh-Oh Baby be lurking in the cornrows?

Succotash is the Native American word for “Who put these disgusting lima beans in with my corn?”

The teacher seems to know Petey.

I always felt sorry for succotash even though I didn’t know what it was. Just that some cartoon character always referred to it as suffering…

Love it.

It was Navy Beans at our house. Yuck.

The rule at our house was, if it is on the table, at least a spoon full had to be on the plate ad if it was on the plate you had to eat it. Of course, yucky food was never served so that was not a problem. My great-grandmother believed that you should serve parsnips at Thanksgiving. She did not like parsnips so the exception to ‘on the table, on the plate, and eat it’, was parsnips. In her mind she had served the parsnips and that was that. I never had parsnips until three years ago with other root vegetables. It was good. I learned that the longer parsnips stay in the ground over winter the sweeter they are. February-March are good digging months.

Stupid lima beans.

As kids we called Brussel sprouts monkey balls. Umm good.

Sounds plausible to me.

Lima beans are an food that is the victim of bad PR and not being cooked right. If done properly they are pretty good. Succotash is great with fried chicken for instance.

Nothing wrong with lima beans. But sufferin’ succotash, this is a job for Sylvester P. Pussycat!

Save the Blisshaven Six! Let Tweety Pie fly reconnaissance!

From a different strip, Alice also feels the word ‘succotash’ is one of those go-to-bed-without-dinner words. That sounds right.

Corn is what makes succotash suffer.