For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 10, 2022

know of anyone who really grills in the rain?

The weather forecast is a griller’s friend.

I cooked it, you better eat it!

There’s an oven in the house, doofus!

I like the way the artist wrote “RAW” in there, so you know it is not an already-cooked dinner.

It’s impossible to grill with are’s in the rain

I see this from both ends, but I’m moreso on John’s side, if I’m making you food…you are going to eat it.

My Dad used to grill in the rain. Every Sunday of the summer.

Isn’t April too young to be eating chicken yet??

Is John so dumb that he can’t roast a chicken in an indoor oven??

Before I grill, I always check the weather radar. If we’re going to get that massive amount of rain, I skip the grilling…. Either cook something inside or get carryout.

No sympathy for John. Dude, there is a perfectly good kitchen stove and plenty of pots and pans. You chose …poorly.

I haven’t mastered how to properly grill chicken. For me – I can’t balance how to get the inside to match the outside. Black on the outside and/or raw on the inside.

I do. That is part of the adventure.

This looks like something that really happened in Lynn’s family.

Have microwave ovens been invented yet? Can’ get wet using those.

Obviously he does?

Poor baby. Had to cook one night. No salad or sides?

The first two panels are not in the paper, and they are the ones that make this joke work!

I suppose, if he looked more closely, there is a cooked chicken stew, or casserole in the fridge too, that only needs warming up.

I bet this raw chicken is getting defrosted for another meal…

I did that once we already had grill going before rain came, almost done when rain started.

Thank goodness for rain in the comics! This desert rat appreciates it <3

Why did he have to barbeque the chicken? He could have just as easily put it in the oven…

I’ve done it many times

I was expecting the punchline to be Elly coming home, after dinner, asking how the chicken dish she pre-cooked for them was!

We do.

I had a neighbor who grilled in the rain. He even wore a raincoat.

Jon wasn’t expecting it to rain!

I’m totally amazed how argumentative people got about how, when, where, which, what kind of…OMG, I just flashed to HS English class. Any who, So much animosity about cooking food! People, it all just makes a terd! (the things ya gotta do to get past the nannies) Besides if it takes 3 times longer to make it than to eat it…it ain’t worth it. Please chillax.

She probably meant some already cooked.