Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 05, 2020

It seems Jorge isn’t impressed with Carmen’s loophole.

thats and old tell, still true and still funny after all these years

MY money doesn’t say “chinkle chinkle”…it says “goodbye!” hoo hoo hoo

I love this old girl !

I wish all of us were so wise.

This was a Judge Ooka case.

Don’t know why Tia Carmen would put up with this rude dude. It’s either the best pan dulce in town or the only one.

Who the heck would charge a customer for smelling the goods?

Based on an old Chinese story, I think.

As for charging to smell things, I know some restaurants where you have to pay JUST FOR SITTING DOWN, so smelling the food there may be included.

The bakeries in NYC used to deliberately vent out towards the sidewalk to entice the customers in by the wonderful aromas of baked bread and pastries.

A very old Chinese fable. A poor man next door to a bakery would eat his rice when the owner of the bakery would take his sesame cakes out of the oven… the bakery owner took the man to court and the judge ordered the poor man to let the baker hear the sound of coins tinkling as they were dropped from the poor man’s hand to his other hand.

As noted above, there is also a Japanese version, featuring Judge Ooka. The book I remember (and still have) was published by Scholastic Books (original copyright 1961, 4th printing 1969), and the author was I.G. Edmonds.

Jorge must be New to the neighborhood to think he can get away with That attitude.