That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 24, 2021

The most unappetizing food setting ever.

♪♫"Creme tangerine and montelimar

A ginger sling with a pineapple heart

A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news

But you’ll have to have them all pulled out

After the Savoy truffle

Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart

I feel your taste all the time we’re apart

Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues

But you’ll have to have them all pulled out

After the Savoy truffle…."♪♫

Yum!

—Beatles, “Savoy Truffle”

If you don’t eat yer meat, how can’t you have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?

The debate over sweet potato with or without marshmallow continues.

lisette sulks in front of the tv because she really really wanted to order chinese tonight…

“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.”

What is this painting about ?/ The ladies have fallen out/ over whether or not/ to sprinkle a shot/ of Scotch over sauerkraut.

O.K. Heidi, at the sound of the bell, turn around to face the camera. You will have thirty seconds to point to as many misplaced items as you can find in your opponent’s table setting. Each correct answer is worth 1000 Euros, and if you can find them all before the buzzer sounds you will be declared the winner here on Pointers and Setters !

I’m sorry about my Gordon Ramsey imitation at your cooking; it just slipped out.

The episode of “Roseanne” where Becky refuses to help out at the diner.

Jane couldn’t even sit near the table or look at her sister after Martha passed such horrendous gas.

I TOLD you that I’m gluten-free and low-fat, so what do you do? Serve bread and butter for lunch!

“I’m sorry, Marie, it’s not personal – but I just can’t eat something called ‘Spotted Dick’! “

That is Priceless has always been fun. / Even this week, when they’ve been re-run. / But, last night, did I cheat, / checking which might repeat / from past years? (It’s my least favorite one!) /// It provides no good options for mirth, / Of creative ideas, I’ve a dearth. / Is the painting just bad? / Enigmatic and sad? / And on Friday ! Dear Melch — why on earth?

“I wish we had a third roommate so I could tell them to tell you that I’m not talking to you.”

Having become accustomed to being stood up, Hannah and her sister knew never to order before their dates arrived to pay – or as usually happened -didn’t arrive.

Post-impressionist work leaves us cold/ but to own a Bonnard is like gold/ it can lie in your vault/ with Cezanne and Roualt/ and, if needed, for millions be sold.///Unlike your RollsRoyce or your yacht/ or that silly old Rolex you’ve got/ a canvas like this/(though we boo and we hiss)/ for some reason depreciates not…

“Hmm, salad fork on the outside, or soup spoon, um, damn, why can’t they just use the same one for everything? The head housekeeper is gonna have our ass if we get it wrong.”

My original response:

“So, you don’t like the pie?”

Before Dinner: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Before-dinner-1924.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting. The second References entry has the strip coloration image, as well as an English audio describing this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2014/09/masterpiece-1075.html 

I have added a comment there (already approved by Mr. Melcher) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Friday repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/09/24?comments=visible 

has the first time this was used here (the 20 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, but perhaps the text remains informative).

At our restaurant here in Caracas, / other diners will frequently mock us. / We like music with meals, / but that blond lady feels, / that the tableware needs no maracas.

Peeking out from behind the turned chair, / I discern a small dog standing there. / Does he plead with sad eye / for a piece of meat pie? / (It’s so blurry, it could be eclair.)

As Newark erupts in flames behind her, Griselda contemplates her beau, Johnny “Two Pies” Solonzano, may be very late for dinner, if he comes at all.

The food is ready. We’re starving. But we have to sit here and watch it get cold because the artist wants to paint a scene called Before Dinner. Damn Frenchman.

“A diller a dollar, the cable installer never shows up on time.

“Bribing with flatware and hot pies won’t change that, be the pies even key lime.”

One of those rare artists who do Still Life Paintings with people.

“For my next trick I shall whip away the tablecloth…………………oh, keerrraaaaaache.”

the gals are waiting for the guys to finish watching football ,hopefully before the food gets cold.

Regardez la table d’hote/ of which all the critics have wrote/ that the bat is sublime-/ but if you have the time/ be certain to sample the goat !

After they tipped the lady leaning out of the boat into the water and left her there; they agreed not to say anything.

They knew that if they even looked at each other, they would “spill the beans”.

Uber eats can never find our house!

Dinner is ready and now you tell me you forgot to mail the invitations.