Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for December 17, 2021
Transcript:
Nancy: Can I have grapefruit for breakfast, Aunt Fritzi? Aunt Fritzi: We haven't any---You'll have to eat prunes. Nancy: Oh, dear---My whole day is spoiled when I don't have grapefruit. Aunt Fritzi: What on earth are you doing? Nancy: Pretending that I'm eating grapefruit.
monkeysky over 2 years ago
I’ve got a major grudge against grapefruit.
For one thing, they taste like poison. I’ve never heard of another fruit traditionally eaten by dumping sugar on top of it.
For another, the name. Not only is a grape already a fruit, I can’t think of a fruit more different from grapes (small, sweet, green or purple, smooth, grows on vines) than the so-called “grapefruit” (big, bitter, yellow and orange, bumpy, grow on trees).
The only thing they have in common is that grapefruit also (sorta) grow in clusters, but that’s like renaming crocodiles “dog-animals” because they also have four legs and a tail.
cubswin2016 over 2 years ago
Grapefruit is way too sour for me.
Technicholls over 2 years ago
The prunes will keep her ‘moving’
Rick Parkhurst Premium Member over 2 years ago
I wish I could still find the white kind, fruit or juice, the red is too sweet.
Jethro Flatline Premium Member over 2 years ago
Does Nancy like to get in that daily BM first thing before school or something?
WLG12037 over 2 years ago
Panel #2: Nancy looks like she was weaned on a grapefruit.
gigagrouch over 2 years ago
i remember Edith Bunker apologising to Archie for not getting his usual brand of prune juice and saying, “But it tastes the same.”
“I don’t drink it for the flavor!”
bobfjr over 2 years ago
Now how did she get that juice out of those prunes???
Susan00100 over 2 years ago
Enough prunes and Nancy can make her permanent residence the bathroom!!
billyk75 over 2 years ago
Let’s hope there’s plenty of toilet paper.
gzitver over 2 years ago
What’s with the period after “that” in the last panel?
gzitver over 2 years ago
“We haven’t any.” Aunt Fritzi speaks a correct but rather old-fashioned form of English— even for the 1950s.
brklnbern over 2 years ago
In essence getting only the bad part and inflicting it herself.
Kip Williams over 2 years ago
CONTENT WARNING: Nancy shoots herself in the face while wincing over some prunes.