Toss out the kale, add some slices of avocado and hard boiled egg, chunks of cheese, ham, chicken, turkey and steak, grapes, and pecans, add a side of breadsticks, and you may have a meal.
Shakespeare’s Cleopatra was apparently the first to refer to her salad days, “when [she] was green and cold,” i.e., too young to be swept away by sexual passion. Somehow it came to mean something completely different, as here.
“Salad days” is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, chiefly in the United States, describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.
Dinner? You need a protein. And something bread-like. I assume there is a bit of oil in the dressing. It would be nice to have a couple different vegetables too, like tomato.
benjnavarro28 about 1 year ago
Salads can be great with the right ingredients
J.J. O'Malley about 1 year ago
And the Benchleysque wordplay continues…
Also, I thought “Foxtrot” had the copyright on “mother tries to get her family to eat healthier” routines.
Fritzsch about 1 year ago
I’ve heard that adding olive oil to kale makes it easier to slide it into the garbage can.
Sue Ellen about 1 year ago
Toss out the kale, add some slices of avocado and hard boiled egg, chunks of cheese, ham, chicken, turkey and steak, grapes, and pecans, add a side of breadsticks, and you may have a meal.
The Reader Premium Member about 1 year ago
He seems dazed by the revelation.
DawnQuinn1 about 1 year ago
I DESPISE kale. May as well eat wet cardboard. lol
littlejohn Premium Member about 1 year ago
Anybody for potato-salad?
Blu Bunny about 1 year ago
Yuk! I’ll go see if your dad will get the BBQ out. Hey Grandpa, what’s for supper!?
dputhoff62 about 1 year ago
I can just see Ed looking at this and telling Pmm to make something with meat in. If we’re lucky, they’ll get into an argument.
But Batiuk won’t allow anything THAT interesting in this strip.
ladykat about 1 year ago
Leave out the kale and I’m your girl.
chromosome Premium Member about 1 year ago
Get “baby” kale, leave out the beets, add Feta cheese, olive oil, a little candy-free trail mix and some whole-grain croutons and I’ll gladly eat it.
pategar about 1 year ago
They’re about 40 years past their salad days. My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in bloodTo say as I said then!
Carl Premium Member about 1 year ago
I love a good salad but kale and beets just killed it.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 year ago
The same apples to cartoons!
Jefano Premium Member about 1 year ago
Shakespeare’s Cleopatra was apparently the first to refer to her salad days, “when [she] was green and cold,” i.e., too young to be swept away by sexual passion. Somehow it came to mean something completely different, as here.
Robert Miller Premium Member about 1 year ago
“That’s enough for me, what are you going to eat?”
raybarb44 about 1 year ago
Where’s the beef?……
The Orange Mailman about 1 year ago
I just learned:
“Salad days” is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, chiefly in the United States, describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.
buflogal! about 1 year ago
Dinner? You need a protein. And something bread-like. I assume there is a bit of oil in the dressing. It would be nice to have a couple different vegetables too, like tomato.
Dorothy Ownbey Premium Member about 1 year ago
I thought “salad days” referred to our youth.
ToneeRhianRose about 1 year ago
Haha! XD