For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 30, 2024

Well, don’t force your whole family to go vegan without any input from them and then act all betrayed. Christ.

You stopped for KFC!

Lord, Elly. Do you know there are women who douse themselves in strong perfumes and these perfume scents get on everything? John has some patients who are women. Relax.

Face the facts Ellie, those bean meals are just not getting it for the rest of the family.

I like vegetables……as long as they are flavored with meat!

So he had a hamburger. Nobody likes your diet. Elly.

As long as it doesn’t smell like beans!

Been there done that

That’s why I leave off the onions, and have a drink to clear my palate, eat using the wrapper, and use plenty of napkins = No crime! And remember, APC, always pay cash. No debit card paper trail to rat you out.

Hamburger?

“Hmmm… I haven’t encountered this smell since college…. I know this smell…John, you smell like strippers!!”

Oh for pity’s sake, Ellie.

Why did he wear his lab coat home?

Went out for “lunch”, roast beef sandwich…..

He can’t eat meat during lunch?

It’s amazing how fast food smells when you haven’t had it for awhile. Sometimes a student will bring his lunch to eat while he studies in the student lounge near our office door. When you step into the hall, you can smell the fries all the way down the hall. It’s not really a pleasant smell.

I remember years ago going with my then teenage daughter to see the movie Memoirs of a Geisha (great book) and there’s a scene where the madam can smell that the young lady has been with a guy….my daughter asked what she smelled and I told her it was the guy’s cologne….whew, that was a quick save.

What do you think he ate – a burger (beef, not vegan, of course)?

He stopped and ate something on the way home. Burgers ? Pizza? KFC ? which would leave the most tell-tell smell ?

A lot of vegans/vegetarians went pescetarian it is better for brains.

Smells like… hamburgers!

Ah yes, the unmistakable smell of nice fresh, properly cooked meat, be it beef, pork, or fowl will give one away every time.

Ooooh that smell / Can’t you smell that smell / Ooooh that smell / The smell of death surrounds you

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Good job, Elly. Elly is concerned about the “big picture”. She knows that there are interminable wait times because Canadian hospitals are full of unhealthy people who didn’t take care of themselves. It would be for “greater good” if Canada prohibits fast food joints and starts dictating what people can and can’t eat just like Elly is doing with her family. Good job Elly for making sure that John is not going to sponge off OHIP.

That’s what you get for forcing the family to go vegetarian.

The blood hound is on the trail of the scent!!!

Healthy meals are not only good for you, John, they are the reason why Elly doesn’t look like Lizzo.

One of those new double big mac’s with the 4 burger patties.

What? Why? When? Where? Who? How?

What is this smell? Why does it smell this way? When did this happen? Where were you? Who were you with? How can you explain this?

Yeah I went and had a burger. Live with it.

He must have stopped off at the burger barn for lunch. Did he sneak one for April and Liz?

Ah ha! The smell of Burger King Whopper!

I’m the “blood hound” in the family and can identify a lot of odors, some good, some bad. My wife doesn’t share this “gift” and can’t smell some odors I detect. I think that she’s had a lot of sinus problems in the past.

I think that Vegans delude themselves into believing that their lifestyle will extend their lives. I’m not arguing about eating healthy food to live longer but it’s more about genetics than greens. Let’s face it. Some people can eat and drink whatever they want and live to be a hundred. I doubt that I will, BUT, eating a healthy diet along with exercise will make your older years more enjoyable, not riddled with preventable chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, COPD, lung cancer, etc. My mother first lost her teeth, then her lung and finally her heart to smoking. She was an RN who, when pleaded with to give it up, refused to quit until just a year or so before she passed away. When the doctor told her she had only six months to live if she didn’t stop smoking did she quit.

Wait until she finds strange hairs on his coat

McDonalds Fries? Whopper? It’s something NOT vegan! LOL!

Another woman’s perfume? A cigarette? Nope – a steak!

Mmmm…Burgers.

It’s the French Lady at the office next door.

BARBECUE SAUCE!! The dreaded barbecue sauce odor!!

Well, when Elly was young she’d smell for other women’s perfume—so maybe this is progress

“Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted With a Big Mac on my breath Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders With a face as white as death I’m afraid someday they’ll find me Just stretched out on my bed With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips And a Ding Dong by my head”

Andy (the mother in Foxtrot) has been trying to feed her family delicious vegetarian meals for years. Same problem, everyone sneaks junk food daily.

She over doing it…….a lot!!!

Bacon double cheeseburger—ummmmm!

This could be a strip idea…

Elly walks in on John wolfing down a burger

Elly: Well, what do you know? Cheating again, I see.

John: Ummpph. ummph, AUGH!

Elly: Goodness John, you can’t even eat right?

John: Unk, ummph, it is not that….Elly, I am having a heart attack!!!

No more baby talk for April! She’s getting big ❤️

Hope he enjoyed that steak or whatever else he stuffed his face with today — Good for him!

She went completely vegetarian just a few weeks ago, and she can’t quite identify the scent of meat? Yeah, right. Sure. Give it up, Elly. Go back to serving proper food.

Ellie needs to eat some meat.

LOL sorry my lunch is none of your business.