Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 17, 2021

Someone’s about to get a pot of decaf over the head,

I don’t believe Val would stoop down to decaf. I’m sure Joan is about to get smacked with regular coffee.

Customer: “I’ll have a double hit decaf with skim milk”Barista: “Ok, one ‘Why Bother’ coming right up!”

There is good fat and bad fat.

Justifiable Homicide Val…

Val is right, I stopped a lot, I do not drink coffee nor do I use creamer. My daughter’s man does if a creamer he is not sure of brings up, wow really thick, I almost double with milk. For me no egg yolks.

Nothing wrong with meat & fat, avoid seed oils & carbs! I got all my blood tests and weight normal this way!

For those of you under the age of 20, fat as a nutritional component was a big dieting bugaboo in the twentieth century, particularly in the 90’s, to the point of prompting the research and development of “fat-free fat”

We sincerely appreciate your heat felt criticism.

I believe the cartoon is aimed less at a “fat rant” and more on an overly opinionated friend. I have one who moves my furniture around because “it’s better if it were over here, not there.”

We have scones at our local coffee shop, which is surviving so far (outdoor seating in MD in winter is a tad iffy, but folks are doing it, and they do lots of carryout)

I read so much in the media about what “food” in general does to you, especially the particular “food” the writers didn’t like, that I finally did something about it.

I gave up reading the media.

You know Joan… maybe YOU should try the diet for YOURSELF and butt out of Val’s business. It doesn’t seem worth the coffee scalds

Muffins are 1/4 fat.

My older sister!

Would have stopped before mentioning coffee,,,,,,

I’m on Val’s side here!

No one gets between me and my coffee!! EVER!

well, this didn’t age well. Fat is NOT BAD!!!

Last person that “tried” to tell me how and what I should eat got their hand stuck to the table with my fork.

Fat you need it is fast carbohydrates she should be looking at. That is where your body converts it to fat if you don’t use it.

Please keep em coming !!

I don’t remember the older strips. Did they used to live together?

Well, Joan, she is about the same size as YOU. The rationale is you eat the same stuff as she does.

Women always get hung up on the word “fat!” Some fats are healthy. Some are needed. “Low Fat” does not mean healthy. My doctor told me if you don’t eat regular fats, your body craves it and stores more because it thinks it needs to.

Fats are fine. It’s the carbs that kill you.

Joan is even more annoying than her bratty kid. I don’t know what Wally sees in her.

Jan, your bio bit reminded me of my mother who was left with 4 and 9 year old sons when her husband divorced her. We had to move into her mother’s house where I lived until drafted into the Army. Mom worked hard to support us. $5 per month per child support from her ex rarely arrived. She never got alimony.

One of my sisters can be a buzzkill too.