Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 27, 2021

Yummy.

So, Grandma’s not so much a cook as she is a chemist?

Love that road tar.

Petey, the veracious teller of truths…

I am told…though I never did it…that at one time kids would pry a hunk of road tar out of the road and chew it if they couldn’t have/get/buy gum. True? False? Enlighten me, my friends!

Alice was sold at the word “cookies.”

Alice and Calvin would get along.

You may as well chew on a brick.

And today, playing the role of Greek Chorus, it’s Petey Otterloop. Let’s hear it for him, folks!

There’s a street in Ft. Lauderdale, FL called “Sample Road”. Perhaps Grandma took a piece out of that to make the cookies. I mean, the name tells you what to do.

I love a chewy cookie, but glue and road tar are a bit much.

I’m curious as to “Grandma sent them over”. FedEx? UPS?

lmao

Fruitcake is the only pseudo-food that has a Group all to itself.

fruitcakes are great if served warm

What!! They don’t love my fruitcakes!

I only eat those kind of cookies if they’re made with Elmer’s. I’m a chewy cookie snob.

Is it Petey being picky or are the cookies really too inedible? I like soft cookies better than crunchy cookies so chewy might be OK.

Madeline took off for something porcelain, before they begin to set.

Molasses, glue and road tar: Ick. What kind of fiend would put molasses in cookies?

Petey’s picky food rating has to take a beating from just looking at them!

One year my great grandma made a cake. No one finished their cake, but I thought it was good and had a second piece. I was told later that the cake had meal worms in it that had infested the flour. I still haven’t forgiven them for not stopping me from eating it.

That is the side effect of baking with hard cooked eggs that are peeled by throwing them at cars!

Petey can pave his next diorama with them.

Try a bite or two, Alice. Then let’s see what you have to say, if indeed you can say anyting. Didn’t you see Mom’s face in panel 2?