For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 02, 2024

Nice and interesting doesn’t mean tasty.

I already plan to get tacos tonight.

Cue the Jaws ominous music.

Is she smelling real food in the last panel?

Every time I used to pass a Subway restaurant, I’d get sick to my stomach from the smell.

So much for your theory, Moira!!

So she is either giving up the vegetarian crap or going to throw up at the smell of tex mex.

My wife and I were out and about one weekend running errands and whatnot when we decided to break for lunch. KFC sounded good so I pulled into their parking lot and as we got out of the car the unmistakable aroma of fresh made flour tortillas from the quaint little Mexican restaraunt across the street wafted our way, stopping us dead in our tracks! We looked toward the restaraunt, at each other, toward KFC and back toward the restaraunt. Yup! Went to the aforementioned quaint little Mexican restaraunt! Tortillas were good, the food was good, the margaritas even better! Tru story!

I’ll never forget our KFC being on Main Street and though there were many other restaurants and fast food places, that’s the one whose food you could smell down the street. I couldn’t pass by without salivating.

There went the veggie diet

Something doesn’t add up. The black haired lady asked Elly and Moira if they’d like to go out for lunch with her, but then Elly and Moira left without waiting for the black haired lady to go with them!

If that lady is the boss, guess who is going to be fired tomorrow!

Tex Mex every time.

“I smell cocaine!”

Haha, watch Elly break her vegetarian diet!

Elly? Fall!!

Elly is on the precipice of falling off the vegetarian diet kick with whatever the smell that wafted towards her in the last panel.

good

Elly should have just started with one night a week. Let the family get used to it…as well as their digestive systems.

Tex-Mex up in Canada?

You do something day after day that you despise you will basically be waiting for death. A day has to be enjoyable. You never hear a dying man talk about all the bad things in his life unless that man is on death row.

No one can resist the siren song of sizzling fajitas!

Just get a bean burrito and hope it doesn’t give you away

…and the next strip will have Ellie with tomato stains and sour cream down her shirt front. Maybe.

How do you spell chimichanga?

Uh-Huh… John’s weakness is fried chicken, and now we know Elle’s real test – Mexican food.

I doubt that they’re able to smell those odors during cold weather.

https://www.slowdown.Tv/article/the-sensory-hit-of-cold-weather-on-our-noses-explained

Just eat Vegetable Tempora / Pakora / Latkes / Crisps / Fries and lots of starchy vegetables drowning in olive oil (butter replacement).

Once you start gaining weight from eating vegetables they will once again become a side dish instead of the main course

She won’t give up, so she’ll have to try something new with the veggies. They all taste better with salt, for one.

And now comes the great fall.

I really don’t see what the big deal is. Surely the rules are different when it comes to eating at home versus eating out, or meals that he’s sharing with Elly versus meals that he’s not. If she were Jewish and he weren’t, would she feel he’d disrespected her beliefs by going out for a non-kosher lunch?

Ay, ay, ay, ay!

oh, I smell dee delicious Burrito.

I like big tasty burritos. I love them, I do.

I want a burrito,

I’ll buy them from you.

Well,Tex-mex DOES have beans in it…..

Tell April to bring her little red wagon,so Elly can fall off it

If handguns and tobacco were outlawed, why not unhealthy food as well?

The name of the country this strip is set in might as well be called Banada! :P

Back to the comic at hand: It looks like the vegan wagon has just hit a pothole, and Ellen is about to fall off.

That loud SNAP! was Ellie’s will power breaking.

Elly might be about to understand where John was coming from.

I can’t have dairy anymore and that killed it for me having Tex-mex anymore…sniff…sob!!!!

So you have to decide: Do you eat to live, or live to eat? I do the latter, and I’m 66.

Ellie’s weakness is TexMex?

OMG!!! Ellie decapitated a head of Broccoli, you fiend !!!

A Tex-Mex place is great for vegetarians! Lots of good options.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NICE VEGETARIAN MEAL, CRU-ELLY! Meals are supposed to be FLAVORFUL, and you never managed that even when your food had MEAT in it! By now, Liz is probably rubbing the fact that she’s making her own lunch in your face, and April is pleading to know what the hell you’re punishing her with lawn-clipping casserole for!

Again to play devil’s advocate; looking at all these past strips and think of all the things Elly did for her family; support John when he was in dental school, help out at the kids’ schools, drive them to swimming, et cetera.

Elly made so many sacrifices for her family, how hard is it for them to make one sacrifice for her?

Junk food is a more serious problem than many realize. Not only it is a strain on universal healthcare, it is an addiction:

*The relapse rate for unhealthy eating is 88%. The relapse rate for heroin is lower than that.

*In Canada during World War I, the sight of aristocrats trawling the ghetto for places that sold sugar was a common one.

*In Canada during World War II, sugar was rationed. One was entitled to two pounds per month if you could find any at all, which was rare. Gangsters put their bootlegging, narcotics and gunrunning rackets on hold to focus on sugar smuggling.

*In the United States, when state legislatures propose eliminating junk food and sugar in prisons and implementing balanced diets for inmates, such bills are almost always defeated. The few times they have passed it has resulted in riots. Riots Can you imagine that? Throw a man in prison and you take away his liquor, his sex life, his fashion sense, his fun, his politics and his right to travel. No riots (or comparatively few) over those deprivations. But take away his sweets, his pork puffs and his fried chicken…WATCH OUT!!

Two weeks is plenty of time to give it a go … Time to let go!

I don’t think they’re that interesting, Ellie. Try cooking something besides beans.

Canadian Tex-Mex? The mind reels.

Tex Mex? In Canada?

Tex – Mex in Ontario.

He and the kids never wanted it. Sad when someone decides what you want without asking.