Pickles by Brian Crane for June 21, 2016

carrots: good for the eyes

Call CPS Nelson!

Could be worse……. how about brussels sprout ice cream?

Lime jello w/ shredded carrots and diced celery , mmmmgood

DANG !!! Call CPS !!!!

Remove the celery and replace it with crushed pineapple and you have what we call Golden glow salad..\\//_

A little suffering is good for the soul.

Horse hooves with carrots. Yum.

Jello with shredded carrots – that’s borderline child abuse!

It’s even better with few raisins in it. Really, I like it.

Now that’s hardship! Especially the lime jello.

I know a kid who refuses to eat carrot cake because of the carrots. In my balance sheet the cake out weighs the carrots. The jello would have to be case by case judgement.

Ah yes, “Don’t get so busy giving your kids what you didn’t have that you forget to give them the good that you did have.”

The Suffering Bar is really low!

Jell-O with shredded carrots is a big LDS thing. I’ve long wondered when it would make an appearance in this strip.

That’s pretty bad.

You’re so lucky to have grandparents – what’s a little shredded carrots in Jello? You’ll long for those days of eating that Jello once Gramma is gone.

derdave969Second generation debunking. The Germans were quite aware of radar, they had it themselves. Theirs was extremely heavy and inefficient compared to the British centimetric form that took up little space in an aircraft. Even the early Battle of Britain towers were rarely attacked because they underestimated their value, and the British were determined to keep it that way.

What is it with parents or grandparents mixing vegetables in kids’ desserts? I would never do that. I would just let them eat dessert or vegetables separately. Not together.xxx

Night-Gaunt49 said, “Nelson is of the generation where they won’t have it better they run the risk of having less than their parents.”.So they keep saying, generation after generation after generation after generation after….Meanwhile,the air is cleaner than it used to be,the water is cleaner than it used to be,healthcare is better than it used to be,fatal diseases have been cured and others are in sight,solar energy is cheaper than ever,wind power is growing in use,slavery is nearly ended everywhere but Islamic countries,fracking has improved energy availability and allowed us to stop funding terrorists in distant lands via international petroleum purchases,President Obama is killing terrorists in distant lands ere they reach us,cars are safer and more efficient and will soon save tens of thousands of lives per year by us leaving the driving to them,the USSR is no longer holding the threat of total annihilation over our heads or stirring up hatred throughout the worldknowledge is increasing rapidly,the standards of living for billions of people are improving vastly,Nelson gets to eat carrot Jello. .Negativity is fun but seldom accurate.

Oh lord, do people still make that. Lime jello with carrot shreds was my incentive to leave home. My mother used to make the main meal on my older brother’s schedule, even though I paid the same room and board. One night I came home to find she’d stuck my supper plate in the oven to stay warm, lime jello salad and all. Everything swimming in green goo.That was the point at which I thought “Time to get my own place”.

@DavidHuieGreen: Good post. I myself get rather tired of “The older I get the better I/it was” rants. I LUV it right now. . .

I remember at some luncheon or other years ago, there were women from all over the United States, and we compared regional recipes of jello—as well as the regional “stigma” or lack thereof of jello. The Southerners said the jello was absolutely verboten at any kind of a “serious” meal, particularly one where company was invited. The Midwesterners claimed that jello was an accepted staple at either dinner or supper (or lunch and dinner). the Westerners put all sorts of unusual things in jello: bananas, nuts, whipped cream, puddings—which horrified both Midwesterners and Southerners. I don’t remember how the New Englanders felt about jello, but it didn’t come over on the Mayflower, so. . . .

I remember that stuff. Used to show up on my grade school hot lunch plate. Didn’t know that it still was around.

That yummy carrot cake frosting can go on BOTH my carrot cake AND my chocolate cake.

I feel your pain Nelson

Shredded carrots! When they bring you a salad with that garbage in it, tell them you didn’t order salad with carrots and to take it back and pick them out. Most won’t—but some actually do—and it serves the restaurant right for not spelling it out in the menu.