Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for January 10, 2023

A fine mess Betty has created

Maybe he has a yearning for meandering duck!

Okay, I think I know where he’s headed. But if so, then he phrased it very badly yesterday.

Well, he’s not wrong. You don’t need to make unappealing food appealing when you have an abundance.

Gee,I thought Italy had PLENTY of food.

I’ve noticed that when you’re hungry everything usually tastes good.

No, no, you can’t do that! Your foot is meat… ☺

I was once told that Szechuan food is especially spicy because Szechuan Province is (or was) especially poor. Traders from Szechuan could generally only afford plain rice (no meat) when they traveled, so they carried little wooden fish with them. They’d put the fish on their rice and then load it up with spicy sauces (the plural for “spice” is inexplicably banned); when they went back on the road they put the wooden fish in their mouths and sucked out the flavor for hours afterwards.

(I don’t know if this is apocryphal, but it’s what I was told. I mean no disrespect.)

watch it Bub, Betty’s gone woke.

Bub, just bring your pimp hand out.