Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 15, 2022

I like my hamburgers sans ketchup too. Potato salad is a favorite picnic food, but I really like macaroni salad more.

Alice, how could you have eaten Petey’s Ham-bur-ger?

Well, just like in any marriage, incompatibility is a curse.

Definitely a potato theme going on here, and tell her to burger off! Although with your usual antics I’m guessing you will end up without a burger in the end……

Three times over, we see how mean Alice is, although not as nasty as Lucy of Peanuts.

Petey’s idea of nightmare food – potatoes smothered with mayonnaise with bits of onion and celery mixed in. He’d lose all his Picky Eater points if he ate that!

Nara’s mom made the potato salad. So at least Petey can rest assured that all the potatoes shaped like ducks were removed beforehand.

I’m with Kevin – Oh Boy! You can’t beat good potato salad. You can beat bad potato salad with a stick.

Petey you are my hero today! I’m with Petey on this one…and I’m not a picky eater of my own, or my mother’s, or my mother’s-in-law food…I love all of it.

Potato salad, yes, (but only if it was made by me, or one of the mothers, and now my daughter who follows our recipe to a T). I never eat potato salad at a buffet at someone’s home, or in a restaurant… Only very hot foods at those places. I got to a point in my life, that if I know that someone has a cat, we’ll only accept an invitation to a tea or a coffee at their home, and I always offer to bring a treat to go with.

Ketchup on hamburgers, no(!!!!), not ever(!!!!), and blekh(!!!!)…. Only mustard, or sliced pickled peppers or a spoonfull of sauerkraut, or all three. We go to community or church summer bbqs, because the giant bbq is rented and it starts out clean. We’ll avoid an invitation to someone’s backyard bbq invitation ever since I once saw a rat scurrying out of one when the guy opened the lid, in order to light the fire, and I saw how grimy and dirty was that grill. Another blech(!!!!)

Ooo, so close and yet so far. A picky eater has his pride, after all. Kevin won’t even notice Petey is gone, being distracted by the mountain of potato salad. Our hero seems to suffer indignities at every turn. Can’t a guy even get a non condiment hamburger with the bun on a separate plate around here? I hope the car is unlocked because I’m sensing the arrival of the dreaded bee.

Somebody yell “ On your marks, Get set, Go!” And maybe Dill will run away!

Poor Peter. His foods are touching.

Oh, Petey! I can’t believe you turned on Kevin that way! That’s 10 demerits!

There are days when Alice is just too irritating for words. This is one of them. Petey needs support, having lost his protégé, not a little sister being selfish and bratty….

I count 13 jokes in this strip. Bravo!