For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 05, 2013

Shoe leather, John. It’s what’s for dessert when you’ve just stuck your foot into your mouth for the 4,836,371st time.

Except for the liver, everything else tastes delicious. I even don’t give a darn if shoe leather’s gonna be my dessert.

Well, I’m with you on the liver, temploSUD (I despise liver with every fiber of my being!). However, I don’t have a problem with spinach (I have always loved it), but creamed squash? Eww!

Well, It’s not like the cow’s been marinating itself at the bar every week or taking antipsychotics and benzos for a lifetime.

Liver has lots of iron and is one of the best foods for you. The secret is not to overcook it….a few minutes on each side is fine. Creamed squash? Again, spinach has lots of iron which is excellent for the blood. One thing to note…all these items are quite cheap…and it indicates that John’s salary is not enough to keep up with the cost of living.

I think Elly needs to take a cooking class – or at least watch Food Network – or was it even on then?

The heme iron in liver and red meat has actually turned out to be very bad for the heart. And the myth that spinach is rich in iron was caused by a clerical error when the clerk was recording the amount of iron, it has no more iron than any other leafy vegetable.

Beef or chicken?

All I know is that the Liver is a poison filter and can’t under stand why people would eat it.

My mom made me eat liver and lima beans before I could go trick or treat but when I threw up in the plate, she gave in.

Same here but since I hated spinach as well as liver I asked her to always make the two together so only one meal was a wash up, not two. To this day I will not touch either one. It may be rich in iron but I’ll find other ways to get iron.

my mom used to make smothered Liver and onions and we had to eat it, I don’t mind it but it has to have LOTS of gravy and onions to cover up the taste. The texture, well there is nothing that can help that. Back in the 60’s I was anemic and in addition to my iron pills the Dr. told me to eat Liver at least once a week, which I did but mostly I ate it alone, no one else would eat it.

Why are all the comic strip Moms such bad cooks?

Actually iron is good for women but not for men. It’s the problem it causes to the heart in men that’s bad. That’s why men are told to lower their intake of it.

Of course I never liked liver (Mom Did) but we use to get in the Liver pudding. It was like scrapple but had liver in it. That was quite good and I still eat it even since my mother’s death. It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch thing.

Only way liver is eatable is: for every half pound of liver, you cook a pound to a pound and a half of onions. Spinach isn’t bad, I’ve always loved it. Creamed squash, I’ve never heard of before to day. Baked squash is something different, it is best with brown sugar and butter, yum, yum!!!

Elly’s meal looks pretty good to me. As long as I don’t have to cook it or wash up the dishes afterward…

This cartoon makes me chuckle but it also reminds me that when I find myself in a similar situation to John’s, I should sincerely say to the cook, “Thanks very much for cooking a meal for me. I appreciate your kindness” and then do my best at eating the meal with respectful gratitude.

I love liver. When I was in the Army it was always easy to get an extra piece from someone who didn’t want theirs. Yummy.

I love fried liver and onions with poor mans gravy on it.

You can have liver very thinly sliced with carmelized onions but the veg has to be special and bright. Elly still holds to the 3 portion plate, if you have 1 spectacular veg it’s enough…maybe a small side salad.

I was the one kid out of seven who actually liked eating liver. We ate it perfectly cooked with bacon and sauteed onions. My mouth still waters today when I think about it. My mom was and still is a great cook.

@ sottwell. Liver and onions has been one of my favorite dishes since early childhood and I am a hale and hearty 71.. It was one of my mother’s favorites too and she lived to the ripe old age of 100.

I fondly remember the liver dish my father used to make.He would shave the beef liver and marinate it in red wine vinegar and garlic, The aroma of it frying in the pan made your taste buds water. He would serve it with the most buttery mashed potatoes and hot Italian bread. Unfortunately my children never took to the smell of it being cooked, so I rarely made it, which did not matter anyway because it was never as tasty as my father’s

The only liver I can tolerate is chicken livers!!!!!

She would have been happy with me as I would have eaten it all. I like those foods.

I like liver….

Around 65 years ago I found a neat recipe for liver in the Tallahassee Democrat that I enjoyed for several years till the kids came along and I developed a gout-like condition. Wonder of wonders, I just found it online. Prob. too much trouble for people to make nowadays, but good with mashed potatoes, etc., in its day:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19580403&id=eXNhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yooDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5635,149989

What amazes me is how similar steak is to liver… and the more expensive the steak, the more it resembles liver in both flavor and texture. I quite like liver, but I sure don’t like paying $25 a pound for it!

For once I’ll join the Elly-bashers — who feeds liver to a 3 year old? My mother tried it and I remembering giggling as I watched her pick it up off the floor where I flicked it off of my high-chair tray. It never crossed my lips. (In all fairness, the family doctor prescribed it).

That had better be a good desert!

Flour the Liver, and fry it. Make gravy from scratch and put the liver in the gravy. Cook rice and biscuits. My kids loved liver. They thought is was chicken. They didn’t need to know the truth. Now grown and have their own families, they cook liver that way. Their kids love it.

Well El, I am a liver lover, especially with onions and green peppers. I would eat your dinner because it is a protein balanced meal. Good work and give me two helpings of desert please.

creamed squash?