Just love these Depression Era cartoons! Hope TIIC resist the urge to try to change the pricing. Jeff – bring that Dollar’s worth of potatoes over to my house – I’ll take them all. Looks like the wheels of a Model T Ford – but they COULD also be buggy wheels and the boys are trying to peddle their fresh produce door to door in a horse-drawn cart.
Wow, does today’s strip bring back memories! The peddlers coming around to our neighborhood selling their fruits and vegetables. One would drive his very slow moving truck yelling CANTELOPE, CANTELOPE, STRAWBERRIES, CANTELOPE!. A time that will never return.
Reminds me of my (deceased) brother-in-law. He planted watermelon one year, but they grew so fast the side got scrubbed off as the vines drug them across the ground. A sow rooted around in one and had her piglets in there, It came to no good though as a seed fell and killed the whole litter.
Llewellenbruce over 10 years ago
She didn’t buy that for one minute.
Sherlock Watson over 10 years ago
It’s Jeff’s verbal fertilizer that makes the potatoes grow so fast.
jmcx4 over 10 years ago
Mutt an Jeff’s business is small potatoes compared to mid-west farmers.
Dkram over 10 years ago
We had a potato grower in our little valley, come the fall it was potato blossom time..\\//_
quartermain over 10 years ago
“Better luck next time.” You say potato and I say potado, you say tomato and I say Tomado—LOL
1MadHat Premium Member over 10 years ago
Blue strawberries in panel 1?
EstrelitaH over 10 years ago
Just love these Depression Era cartoons! Hope TIIC resist the urge to try to change the pricing. Jeff – bring that Dollar’s worth of potatoes over to my house – I’ll take them all. Looks like the wheels of a Model T Ford – but they COULD also be buggy wheels and the boys are trying to peddle their fresh produce door to door in a horse-drawn cart.
brklnbern over 10 years ago
What diff does that make, as long as the ones on the bottom aren’t bruised or rotten.
ssledge over 10 years ago
Wow, does today’s strip bring back memories! The peddlers coming around to our neighborhood selling their fruits and vegetables. One would drive his very slow moving truck yelling CANTELOPE, CANTELOPE, STRAWBERRIES, CANTELOPE!. A time that will never return.
Number Three over 10 years ago
Awwwww, Poor Jeff.
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Tin Can Twidget over 10 years ago
Reminds me of my (deceased) brother-in-law. He planted watermelon one year, but they grew so fast the side got scrubbed off as the vines drug them across the ground. A sow rooted around in one and had her piglets in there, It came to no good though as a seed fell and killed the whole litter.