The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for January 13, 2012

Like pigs at a trough.

Good Morning Everyone

That strip pasted on your refrigerator should make anyone want to diet!!

Com’mon in, Verl, you can watch us drool and slobber.

Good morning Watson and all the Crustwood denizens!

where’s all the garbage that falls around the plate edges? i’ve seen folks like this eat, and when they get up to snag more, the only clean spot on the table is where the dish was. ugh.

I’ll bet DAZZ eats like that during the day.

Mornin’ Marg, and DFO and Cap’n…. and um…. Watson Yurzz…..

and all the later Crustwoodians!

Am I my sister’s keeper? I guess Joy decided not.The happy face is not on Verl.

I guess she gets to watch them stuff the leftover leftovers back in the fridge when dinner is over — just enough for a snack later.

Cap’n, when I was a kid I was told to eat everything up because those starving kids in China would want it…that’s probably what the Pennys do.

I’d say but Mommy, they can have my stringbeans…. but it never worked.

And DFO — they don’t waste a morsel.

And you guys caught me yesterday. It was very very late when I posted, and I did indeed read it carelessly.

Burl bought 5 gallons but I was examining the gas pump, which looked like it said 5 dollars.

Meanwhile, I did write to Julie and ask about both the size of the images and the meaning of “tagback”….

Maybe she’ll let us know about either or both.

And has any body seen GymShoe?

He lives quite near Crustwood but he’s been missing….And just when Joy seems to be wearing a new green blouse with orange flowers!

Makes me think of the parents in Spirited Away.

I guess the Penny’s haven’t heard that they should leave the dinner table feeling hungry. By the looks of it, I’d say they’ve never been hungry.

Morning, All

Julie, I want to see some flashback type comics of these clowns when they were children or teens.

G’morning all! I slept a little late. @ Dr H, they probably got there gradually (the way Julie is showing Timmy, following eating habits of their parents). @Watson, not really. (especially as they obviously plan to refill those full plates AND finish off most of a whole cake and whole pie. My dessert after supper is my ration of organic dark chocolate. I only indulge sometimes at breakfast (had 2 ice cubes full of my eggnog icecream after breakfast yesterday). I made the icecream before Christmas, so I should be using it up.

OMG! Seeing the Pennys eat is like seeing one of those huge earth movers at oen pit mines in WY! The ones that a truck fits into the shovel part. Is Joy even using a fork or is she just rooting in the trough?

Good morning all. BTW, Dazz is going to outlive us all and look good doing it.

Maybe they will “let” Verl help with the dishes. It would be the neighborly thing to do after all.

@Susan, I’ll watch for Gymshoe on the other strips. This new blouse of Joys seems to have black flowers, but the other is truly iconic.

I wonder why Watson thinks that I overeat. Perhaps because I like to talk about food. I stopped being a serious cook for some years after my divorce (after being obliged to cook meals every day for that time). I always loved cooking for a banquet type dinner. Now my thing is conversion of recipes to healthier versions and finding ways to freeze portions.

Oops! Now I see Susan is correct! A new GBWOF (even though there is so much black that there is hardly room for the fill).

@Mikie, thanks! From your mouth etc.I am concerned that the Pennys seem to have a healthy green vegetable. Salad can’t be saved once it’s dressed, but I doubt that it is healthy spinich or kale. I like to cook my string beans or spinach just before eating as neither takes time and leftovers are not bad.

Did they raid the dumpster behind the local buffet?

(I think it’s called “The Feeding Trough Buffet”?)

Okay, great example of bad manners and inhospitality. But let me tell you, when we first moved into the this neighborhood the kids across the street were here everyday at suppertime. As much as they could eat, we learned rudeness fast.

Hi fellow Crustwoodians! I have been sick all week so I haven’t made any responces on here. Good to be back.

They shoud try the new Rush Limbaugh Diet. Eat all you want no liberal helpings!

Leaky, you have a vivid imagination When it comes to pseudonems.Morning all y’all,My conclusion is that Dazzel freezes her ice cream in a tray with individual portions like ice cubes.

Lets see besides the deserts we have the following at least Pork chops, 2/3 of a bowl of mashed potatoes, three vegtables, a Pan of garlic bread, beets, a pan of meat loaf, a bowl of salad, something in the crockpot, and I am guessing the whtie box with the spoon in it that is next to the crockpot is a box of lard or ice cream. I can’t guess what the dark stuff in the lower left corner is. There is enough there for a small dinner party and they can’t share with her sister. Piggy Piggy.

The way those two eat, how is it they even have leftovers?

Dear Leaky, Rusty et al. I love to tell stories. Here’s a story about repetition and variety; variety within repetition and repetition within variety. (Sort of a Phillip Glass thing.)Symphonies have different movements; andante, allegro, etc. Each repeats and develops several themes and brings them all together at the finale. Concertos have a cadenza to allow the performer to show off. But each cadenza, even for the greatest virtuoso, has a beginning and an end. Operas have several acts, as do plays. (One-act operas and plays are so rare as to be famous for that fact.) Formal dinners have soup, fish, entree, salad, piece de resistance and dessert.Too much repetition, even with variety, can be too much. A formal dinner with only soup, even if there are 12 different soups, will be a disaster. PG is only one of a very few that can carry off endless repetition, and even then most people cannot take an everyday diet of PG.But the writer of Ecclesiastes said it best in 3:1-8.

I guess they have never figured out what a napkin is for. Do they even HAVE any napkins? When they’re finished, I hope they wash their faces and hands before doing the dishes and putting the clean ones away!

@ Mikie, I’m inbetween them in Phoenix area. I don’t remember just all the ingredients of my icecream, but I know I used minimal sweetners with real egg yolk and heavy cream seasoned with fresh ground nutmeg and some rum for flavor (the alcohol remaining after over a month frozen is no prob). I have lots of stuff and love to prepare for a party, tho’ I generally try to be healthy I can do dishes to please as long as I don’t wind up with leftovers of something I don’t like. I DID realize that Watson was leaky after all his variations. Susan knows my phone # and name (but never joined me on FB). I’m open to a little gathering and have space, though I’m not a neat housekeeper (always have many projects of various hobbies).

And Junebug is correct. One or 2 icecubes is sufficient icecream for a portion (and it melts fast enough to be yummy right away). I have one of those machines with a cylinder that stores in the freezer first. I have only tried 2 of my own recipies with full cream and low sugar so far (and won’t make more until I clean out my desserts – slow because I try to eat few of those. (I do NOT eat like the Pennys or have my face covered with food as they do) ;-P

I’ve no idea what part of the country Marge lives and had to Google the Bible verse (I did not bring mine or any of my religious paintings when I moved), but as it was also a popular song…

Mikie doesn’t like us, sniff…. :’-(

Marg, I know that Mikie and Leaky like us; they just don’t know where we reside.

And Susan is a darlin girl; she wouldn’t leave us out.

Great, Marge lives just a short drive north of me (I often go around there in the summer). My group camps in an area across from Munds Park and I’ve often stayed at the motel there.

I’d like to see a suggested menu (but I’ve never done Cagun so if it includes that, hope it is simple and healthy).

Yes, Marge but I pass the road to Prescott (thinking of Sedona) on the way there- just shows how little I drive (and why gas cost is not major to me). I just looked up that film and see why it relates to Pharm. The parents of a young girl go with her to an old amusement park and are changed to pigs and it has other demons etc (a little like many Halloween episodes of Simpsons) and even the chili hallucinations that Homer once had ;-) I’ve not seen many classical Japenese films but ALL of the Simpsons.

Whoa — cool! A party!

Aw…. Mikie….. I had no idea.

Actually we have a great group here and I wish we all COULD get together.

I’m not really in a financial position for hotels and such …. sigh….but Amtrak is pretty cheap,

Dazz is right about one thing (thanks): I wouldn’t leave anybody out.

Meanwhile I’ll be out of town till Sunday or Monday evening.

May not have computer access but I hope so.

And Dave, I didn’t ask about you cos you sometimes don’t post here for a week anyway so I didn’t worry (sorry)…. but GymShoe is here almost every day and now he’s missing.

Some people get banned by becoming invisible except on their profiles, as recently happened to Dogsniff (who doesn’t post here on TDS.)but that’s not very likely with GymShoe.

So I checked HIS profile and he posted on another strip 4 days ago, but here it’s been longer.

Susan, hotels are out for me right now too (most of my SCA friends are campers) but as a lone female who is very allergic to bugs- not me. I have plenty of space but most of us are past the sleeping bag age (tho I can sleep fine on a single flat Aerobed and have one). My guest room has a double futon with a 9" thick mattress.

Just about 8 and I wanted to finish watching Project Runway Allstars from last night.