Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 17, 2012

That’s all that Madeline can handle…

I thought Mrs. Otterloop would be used to meltdowns in her family.

Check, please.

Stupid hamburger! Stupid jelly caddy! There’s just too much stupidity around, Madeline; calm yourself!

Don’t you hate it when you return to a place because of a dish you enjoyed, but it’s totally changed? My BF and I went back to the place on top the John Hancock and ordered their caviar appetizer that had been served with about 7 relishes (including zimbidium orchids) but the 2nd time it had hardly any, just the outrageous price was the same. From then on, we had it at home. I eventually skipped the chopped egg and flowers and changed chopped chives to chopped watercress stems (perfect texture and heat to have with caviar – and the sour cream held it all on the toast). I even bought 2 whole place settings of the Villeroy and Boch “Intarsia” that they used (I love the birds).

hheeeheee – stereotype city! or politically incorrect hill folk?

Mother gets to go first.

Should be an interesting trip home.

love it richard!

Those fancy toothpicks just aren’t the same as a plastic sword! PJ Piehole is going on the “cheap” these days!

Eww..the jelly caddy. I’m getting shivers from here just contemplating it. Sooooo gross..

I’m taking my nieces (7 and 9) for the holiday week— always a dining adventure. One doesn’t like hamburgers, the other doesn’t like hot dogs. Mac & cheese, once a staple, now a no-no. Ketchup: one, required, the other, prohibited. PB&J? No and no. Pizza? One picks off the pepperoni to eat, and the cheese to discard; the other is fine. So far.

My wife won’t go my route— choice of two: eat what I give you or go hungry. It worked for my mother.

Petey looks like he is about to have an existential crisis! He looks traumatized by the food on his plate.

I wonder what Petey ordered? Jelly seems pretty exotic for his tastes. Could cost him a few points in the Picky Eater rankings…

KJ: I need your help. What are ‘jelly caddies’? I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered them, but you sound like an expert I can trust.

What? No French Canadian meat pie? I’m not into that sweet stuff. Sorry. :-)

Like, where’s the beef?

What is in Canadian Meat Pie? I could be tempted, is it like Shephards Pie? You don’t like any pies, not Key Lime, or Blueberry, or Strawberry, not even Apple Pie ala Mode? Geez man!

Her steverino—I’m with your mother. Home is not a restaurant, and who has time to cook all the different choices.? I have 5 children, and if you were fussy and diidn’t want what I cooked, well, someone else was hungry and took it. That sure solved the fussy eater syndrome.

PETEY! Take a deep breath… Now again…