Pickles by Brian Crane for October 30, 2023

Not on your life. But what if he doesn’t taste it? He’s had one way or another.

It’s probably toxic, too.

The only chance he has it to taste it and then say, “It’s really not bad!”

I used to have an aunt who would do that

I think she’s messing with him.

Women’s version of Men’s smell this

If you say it sucks Earl, you’re dead Earl. Say it’s tasty

A couple of years ago my wife decided to cook some chicken in her air fryer. It was the first time using it. As she was getting ready to “hit the start button” she looked at me and said, “If this does’nt work out there’s cans of soup in the pantry.” Ah yes. Plan B. Tru story!

The oldie goldie joke is that if a guy says “Hey, smell this” it’ll be terrible. But if a gal says it, it’ll smell nice — though probably in a way that most guys can’t tell apart from other nice smells.

This scene is familiar. Sometimes my husband will take something out of the refrigerator and ask me to smell it. I know better and tell him to just throw it away.

… said Lucrezia Borgia.

“Accidentally” spill it all on the floor and you’re off the hook.

She just wants a second opinion!

Where’s Mikey when you need him? … Let Mikey try it.

Oh boy! You can’t win…

The best way to get out of that one, if it really does taste bad, is to say, Opal, you are right, I agree with you 100%. Let’s go out tonight, and we can clean this up when we get home.

Yes, Earl…you get to be part of one of Opal’s experiments…

“Try it, You’ll Like it”! (So I tried it, thought I was going to die, took 2 Alka-Seltzers)!

In our house, if someone asked, “Does this smell bad to you?”, your opinion was already formed without smelling it.Another favorite: “Eat this; I’m just going to throw it out.”

He should just say, it tastes the same as usual….

Just say, “Needs more salt,” and walk away.

Sometimes I get the feeling she REALLY doesn’t LIKE him……

Ah the sharing principle. If it tastes good, say don’t tell. If bad then sharing is only fair thing.

RUN!! Earl.

Opal, after all of these years have you learned nothing about men. It’s not about bad tasting things it’s about smell. “This smells terrible! Dale, come here and take a whiff!”

You ever seen a car sitting at a red light, and there’s like, five guys in it? And all of a sudden all four windows go down and there’s four guys hangin’ out the car just cussing like crazy? And there’s one guy sitting in the middle in the back just laughing. You know why he’s laughing, he’s cashed in his courtesy sniff! And the only thing that could make him happier was had he been driving and in control of the window lock.

“OOUUU GROSS! Does this milk smell bad to you?”

Earl! DON’T do it,buddy! Don’t fall for her feminine wiles or you’ll end up tipped over again…..

Well, somebody has to, you wouldn’t want to make Roscoe sick!

“OH! Think someone is at the door.”

Dead man tasting.

Typical mean Opal.

“…. not fit fer man ner beast so it’s yers.”

It’s a wife’s trap, man!

This tastes like sh!t…………..but GOOD sh!t.

“No, really, try it. It reeks of botulism.”

Can’t say how much I love this!!!!

My grandpa once said to my gramma “ALMA, this stuff’ll kill ya! Here. Taste it”

Aw…how thoughtful to share!

Been there, tasted that.

Careful, Earl. She only pretended to taste it.

Really, Opal?

Misery loves company.

My Mom alsways brings up the time that she made fish for supper one night and it didn’t smell right to her but she put it on the table anyways, me an dmy sister don’t like fish so we were eating PB&J, amd Dad has a bite and said it was ok but as soon as she tasted it she said it was bad and to throw it out and she alwasys says that he about knocked her down to get to the garbabe can and make a can of soup. Of course, she does this when she is arguing with you because she has to bring up things that happened over 20 years ago, sister does same thing, when she is arguing.

My wife has actually done that to me with a straight face!