Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 19, 2024

As a child I liked stuffed green bell peppers. But I didn’t eat the pepper. Now I’ll eat what ever is cooked!

Didn’t Calvin’s mother tell him they were stewed monkey brains? I wonder how that would work with real kids?

Sickest I’ve ever been from restaurant food was a LONG time ago in Albuquerque when I ordered a chile relleno and was served a bell pepper stuffed with mexican style dirty rice, all smothered with straight-out-of-the-can tomato soup. I never did like stuffed peppers (though I love chiles rellenos) and that just made it final. I’ve never eaten another.

DOODLY – SQUAT?

You can have your peppers, thank you.

What you can eat can be used against you in mom’s court.

Mom is the judge of what can and will be eaten in her kitchen.

A well-made stuffed pepper is a delight and I’ll hear no further slander! #harumph

But what are they stuffed with?

Strange, I dislike stuffed pepper, but like chile Rellenos.

If it weren’t for CWD there would be plenty of Doodleys to go around

I think i prefer the term, diddly ! :-)

I hate bell pepper, especially the green ones

People who aren’t good at hunting are called “Vegans”.

I believe I would have used the word DIDDLY instead of DOODLY but still. A GREAT KOMIK

Her mom is not wrong. But being a prosperous civilization does give us a lot of choice about what we eat. I just ate some almonds and they are not native to anyplace near me.

Mom is correct.

When my mother quit hr job to go back to school we started eating stuffed peppers. We also had pancakes for dinner occasionally. I rather liked them both. Lima beans, however, were a matter.

Amen kid.

I love stuffed bell peppers, but my s.o. doesn’t like them. I don’t feel like making on just for myself, so it’s been a while.

Nobody should have to eat stuffed peppers!

Well, that’s one theory, anyway.

There is a difference between “getting” to eat what we want and “being able to” eat what we want.

Mom’s right kid.

I’m all for letting a kid to decide what she wants to eat if she doesn’t like something she shouldn’t have to, from personal experience, being forced to eat food I couldn’t chew or that made me sick when I was a kid.

The ability to curl your tongue is genetically determined, like whether your taste buds can detect bitterness. Some kids can do it, but their moms can’t, which is why, when the kids complain that her cooking tastes awful, she takes a taste and says “There’s nothing wrong with this. Eat what’s put before you.”

Stuffed peppers were so easy to hunt or trap back then. But now they’ve become an endangered species and the only way you get them now is commercially.

Telling kids “It’s really an adult taste” makes them insist on eating it.

I think the Chinese are the pros at being omnivores (sea cucumbers, anybody?). I wonder whether there’s anything they won’t eat…