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   serenasakitty said, 3 months ago

   Isn’t that the truth!!

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   Kis said, 3 months ago

   Lizzie’s enjoying the food…

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   SchmoozeMinkey said, 3 months ago

   No, Liz, it’s when you don’t know what’s IN it!

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   somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

   Lizzie just fell off her chair !!

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   Anysia said, 3 months ago

   Oh, this is so very true!

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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   Yuck! check out the guy in the background making the food…

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   burgundytoo said, 3 months ago

   You gotta love the flies buzzing around the cook.

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   Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

   That’s an argument most men never understand. I know a man who said he doesn’t care where he eats, at a restaurant, at home, as long as he gets to eat. I told him it sure makes a difference to his wife.

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   Susan001 said, 3 months ago

   What’s that cook doing in the second panel? it looks like he’s picking his nose!

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    howtheduck said, 3 months ago

    If I understand this strip correctly, John has taken Elly intentionally to eat at a place where he expects Elly will not like the food. Then he is surprised / disappointed she likes the food. That’s so nice of him.

    Then Elly explains she likes the food because it is better than her own cooking. Just how bad is her cooking?

    Also, John appears not to know the meaning of the word “rotgut”, a word I normally associate with alcohol. The sacrifices we make for alliteration.

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    algurka said, 3 months ago

    Maybe “roadside rotgut” is a Canadian expression, eh?

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    Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

    Well … “rotgut” is cheap, hard liqour designed to get you trashed fast.
    In this case, perhaps the condiments have fermented? The burger isn’t cooked all the way through? The Tomatoes have e coli or botulism?

    My mentor’s wife doesn’t understand why I love her home cooked meals better then what I can cook LMAO

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    Coffee-Turtle said, 3 months ago

    Hey, that cook is the same guy in my old school’s cafeteria!

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    Dry said, 3 months ago

    howtheduck, Elly didn’t say she didn’t like her cooking. Planning meals everyday and then cooking them takes time and effort. I’d sooner eat someone elses’ cooking, too, because I didn’t have to spend the time doing it myself, and I ‘m a good cook.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    that is a really big thing, john taking the family out for a meal, but why hotdogs? i mean there are better places than that,

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    Hoomi said, 3 months ago

    Remember; they’re on their way back from camping, possibly along some rather remote roads. Canada is a large area with a population less than that of California, so it’s quite possible this burger dump is the only place to eat for a long distance. John may not have taken the family someplace like this purposely; they may have just had to choose between it and listening to hungry kids complain for a couple more hours.

    (The cook appears to me to be picking his teeth in the second panel, Susan.)

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    ponygirl95 said, 3 months ago

    In the last strip they were packing up camp in the rain. This has to be on the way home, in which case fast food is all they are fit for, if I remember how dirty my kids got camping! I never looked my best either. Nice restaurants loose their appeal when I feel like I have to hide to avoid looks from others if I am not appropriately groomed, not to mention the kids. Jon’s comments may just be by way of apology that he isn’t taking them someplace nice. He also may be picky, my own dad hates fast food. In-N-Out Burger (So. California and the west) was the only one he would take us to and then not often.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    They act like they have never eaten hamburgers and hot dogs before this. They must have had a few H & H meals while camping.

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    fbjsr said, 3 months ago

    I take this as another dig at Jon. Apparently he never does any cooking at home and expects the food to magicly appear on the table everynight. Oh, and in the second pannel the cook is tasting the food with the same spoon he is sturring it and serving it with.

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    Comic-Nut said, 3 months ago

    summerdog; there is a difference between eating home-cooked hamburgers and hotdogs, and roadside bought ones.
    Also, anyone ever watched Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food network. Oh, now there is some awesome food. After watching any episode, all I want to do is go on a long road trip to go eat at any of the places featured in the show.

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    ursen1 said, 3 months ago

    It can’t be as bad as Hillbilly Hotdogs in LeSage, WV. I am pretty eclectic in where I can eat, but that is even beyond me. Thier idea of atmosphere gives all West Virginians a really bad name. It defines a bad roadside stand.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    fbjsr, naw, the cook is picking his teeth. That’s a spatula for flipping burgers in his hand, not a spoon.

    That said….who thinks that Lizzie fell out of her seat and the hotdog went flying, or do you think that she’s just tossing the dog for fun?

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    jmworacle said, 3 months ago

    Well said……..

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    kab2rb said, 3 months ago

    Liz is just playing with her food. The guy looks like he is picking his teeth. I think Jon just feels guilty about the place.
    I can’t blame Elly for a change of pace for cooking.
    But when my husband grills chicken with the spices it puts a lot of places to shame.

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    Awesumcstrips said, 3 months ago

    Hear… Hear..

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    in Canada (northern ontario, especially) it’s the chip wagons that people look for (roadside french fries vendors). there’s also a place on hwy 11 up towards the Muskokas which used to be famous for the quality of their burgers, though i’ve heard it’s gone way downhill from what it used to be when iwas in my 20’s and 30’s (and going that way on a regular basis). they had to buy and install a pedestrian bridge to keep people travelling southbound from trying to cross a divided, controlled access highway (kind of like crossing a busy interstate).

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    Mmmmmm chip wagon chips. They were a rare treat when we went camping/cottaging.

    I agree that John did not take Elly to a bad place on purpose (I really hope the cook isn’t picking his nose), it was likely the only joint around when they all got hungry.

    And yes, everything tastes better when someone else makes it. My hubby can make me a cup of tea with the same kettle, same tea, same pot, same milk, same mug, and it will still taste better than when I make it.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

    Lizzie should munch and chew the hotdog weiner instead of play and throw the weiner up the air. Sheeshhhh!

    somebodyshort said, about 9 hours ago

    Lizzie just fell off her chair !!

    She didn’t fall off her chair. She throws the hotdog weiner up the air.

    Susan, LOLs! Looks like he picks his nose but he just picks the toothpick on his teeth. :-D

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    I watch the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” hosted by and staring Guy Fieri every Monday evening at 9:00 Central Time.

    But, Guy has NEVER gone to any eating place that could literally be called a “dive.”

    He makes me think of the Robert who used to be the living-on-premises maintenance man where I used to live. But, Guy has a better personality and he doesn’t appear to be judgmental either.

    A few years ago the owners of the Route 66 Harley Davidson dealership here in Tulsa built an old fashioned diner next door on its property and it is called “The 5 and Diner.” It looks like a 1950s diner and the waitresses wear the “poodle skirts” with black and white saddle shoes. The food is great and the service is perfect.

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    Shikamoo said, 3 months ago

    @ Macushlalondra I hear you sister. Men sometimes think they have a right to be served food.

    Women consider it a priviledge and a treat- even burgers at a greasy spoon!

    Although, if John objects to the fare, tell him to stop trying to save money!

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    BlitzMcD said, 3 months ago

    It tastes good until you look at the sodium and fat content in the menu. Then it loses its appeal faster than you can say, “another visit to the doctor”……

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    reese828 said, 3 months ago

    My husband understood the concept of food someone else makes tasting better. He wasn’t much of a cook, but sometimes he’d make breakfast or lunch as he knew that it gave me a break. I loved having the chance to eat something someone else had made. Of course, the flip side was that then I had to clean up! (He usually cleaned up - at least loading/unloading the dishwasher.) Restaurants are pure heaven to me, and I’d eat out constantly if it were affordable.

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    OpenWings said, 3 months ago

    I think the guy in panel 2 is a different guy to the one shown in panels 1 and 3. I think the guy in panel 2 is the owner of the burger joint, and the cook from panel 1 is happy until the owner comes and sniffs around what he’s doing (panel 2), then the cook seems unhappy if you look at his frown in panel 3, a frown which didn’t seem to be on his face in panel 1.

    …..is everyone confused now? ;-) Cheers!

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    kab2rb said, 3 months ago

    Now days I can’t eat at those places too much fat. I want no surgery have to watch intake.

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    lildude77504 said, 3 months ago

    Wow, seems to me that most guys like burgers. John seems like a little bit of a fuddy duddy. Granted, there are some burgers that aren’t that good, but if you go to the right place, it can be pretty good. I wonder if John likes fast food places or not.

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    lildude77504 said, 3 months ago

    Then again, I’m 58, single guy. I’m not married, no wife, no kids. Never been married. So I can’t really relate to a family like this. Yes, I do some cooking at home, but I don’t have a problem eating out. Like a burger joint. But I don’t do that all that often and the burgers have to be good. Typical single guy. Do some cooking, pop something into the microwave, eat out time to time.

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    NancyPelosi said, 3 months ago

    So many people are clueless on this one! It’s clear it’s not just some “fast food” restaurant, but “roadside rotgut” says a very low quality place- greasy & cheap. And it’s because they’re on their way home from camping and probably have little choice where to go- it’s not some urban area packed full of restaurant choices.

    The point is, Elly is loving the food- despite it being absolute garbage, which shows how much she appreciates not having to cook a meal.