The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day by John "Scully" Scully for March 14, 2022

Blintzes

 An old Jew is walking home from work and passes a fancy restaurant. He looks in the window and sees rich people talking and laughing as they eat delicious cheese blintzes.

The old man is inspired: “blintzes for dinner!” and continues his long walk home. When he gets home, he announced to his wife as he closed the door behind him and threw his coat over a chair, “I’ve been thinking, do you think you could make me blintzes? I would really like some blintzes.”

“Of course dear,” she answered. “I’ll try my best.”

So she took out her old cookbook and opened it up to “Blintzes”. “Aha!” She happily exclaimed. “Here they are… blintzes!”

Two cups of flour, a cup of water… “it says we need cream cheese. We don’t have cream cheese,” she said sadly. “Listen, you know what? Forget the cheese,” consoled her husband.

“Look here” she called out again. “It says we need walnuts, honey and raisins!” “Forget that stuff, too,” he advised. “Oh you are such a good husband! But, what’s this? What about cinnamon and brown sugar,” she read out from the book. “Not necessary!” he decreed. “Just please start cooking already, I’m really hungry.”

So she ceremoniously lit the oven, mixed the flour and water, rolled it into cigar shapes put them in to bake and in just minutes there they were, sitting on a plate before a very happy husband, napkin tucked into his collar.

His knife and fork immediately went to work and within seconds he was actually doing it! He was eating blintzes just like the rich guys in their fancy restaurant.

She watched him proudly as he slowly swallowed. After several seconds of complete silence she couldn’t resist. “Nu, what do you think? Do you like it?”

“You know,” said the husband. “I don’t understand what those rich people see in blintzes.”