The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 19, 2023

It’s like when you try to give the pills to your pet.

I used to cheat all the time smashing veggies into food for my boys.

Why did she have to tell him? Now he’ll be suspicious of every dish.

As a child, I saw a vegetable once. It was all green and scary looking.

“I want you kids to eat every bean and pea on your plate!”

You do what you got to do even if it means cheating.

isn’t that what casseroles were invented for?

Good Southern goulash got this and that and some of everything and extra beef. Delicious.

I never got all this vegetable hate.

Double surprise, it was vegan chicken.

Sign of the time. I noticed that today’s burger joints aren’t just bothering to smash in veggies into chickens, they are actually smashing veggies into hamburgers and making them actually look like they were real beef burgers without any real beef in them and calling them green burgers!

I’m reminded of a line from the TV show Coach, “my favorite! Meat and potatoes and no vegetables”

next time, if he likes it… don’t tell him what’s in it. something we’ve done to the youngest of the household.

might be almost as good as stewed monkey heads

Parents have been known to do that, Wilberforce. Other adults cheat, too.

As a kid, I never minded most vegetables or fruits. I was not and still am not a big fan of kidney beans or radishes as they taste bitter to me. Cabbage in the form of sauerkraut isn’t high on my list either.

I love beef stew!

Lesson learned – Mom has a few tricks up her sleeve! Love Brutus’s side eye in the last panel. He won’t intervene.

Brutus was also fooled!

My refrigerator has a “crisper” drawer. I use it to store my veggies ’til they rot.

What are you complaining about? You got something to complain about!

o_0

All they had to do was bury them in cheese for me.

That is the way to go- – even now. Don’t like vegs too much undecorated.

Our youngest only ate at the tavern my wife owned from the time she was about 9 until she went off to college(burgers and fries, no veggies) now her son is 7 and he hates veggies. Wife and I just sit back and quietly giggle.

Another sad lesson in life for the boy.It’s OK for parents to cheat when it comes to parenting. You also, learned that you can camouflage bad food in good food. You just failed your picky eater test…..

I don’t know about my brothers and sisters but my mother never had to worry about me eating my vegetables. We lived on a farm until I was 13 and I always loved the fresh vegetables from the garden during the summer and the homemade frozen vegetables for the rest of the year, and I still love them fifty years later, especially the “odd” ones like brussels sprouts and asparagus.

Loved it Chip, totally tight, nowhere to go except, did Wilberforce lick his plate clean?…

What’s the dessert Gladys, Wilberforce earned it?…

Finally Wilber wasn’t force to eat veggies…

Brutus, you must like Gladys’ new recipe, you sit there silent and idle, contented full tummy…

The green rectangles on left and right lower are left over from St. Patrick’s day, and now they do like chairs…

OMG, even Wilberforce liked it…

every time the topic of how much folks hate veggies comes up i smile to remember how we’d sit around the dinner table arguing over who’d get the last of the salad…

As a kid raw carrots, celery, and occasionally fresh peas were about the only vegetables I’d eat. Corn and potatoes were okay because you could smother them in butter. It was only after I was on my own that I learned how to make other veggies in ways I liked.

That’s okay, he cheated by feeding it to the dog under the table.