Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 04, 2012

Follow the yellow brick road flo.

It’s the coast. Everything is SUPPOSED to smell like dead fish…

Two possible flaws in Flo’s argument: (a) the fan isn’t turned on; (b) the fan, when on, is turning in the wrong direction.

As my mama use to say: “If a diner smells like dead fish//Don’t order the sushi.” she also said: “If your girlfriend smells like dead fish//keep your gun in the holster.” Words to live by.

And that’ll take her to the general vicinity of your nose, Eddy.

If you knew sushi like I know sushi . . . .

Technically, “sushi” means “rice”. Not all sushi servings include raw fish, cooked eel or fish eggs. Take the cucumber roll, for instance. On the other hand, “sashimi” specifically refers to thin slices of raw fish. If there s rice, it’s served on the side. Living in Japan, I’ve had to eat sushi on occasion (usually as part of a New Year’s Eve celebration), and there are about 8-10 kinds that I really like. My favorite is the chicken egg omelet slice. Cocktail shrimp sushi is good too, if there’s a little wasabi under it.

Don’t make any drastic moves yet, Flo. Try this first. Take the chili and the baked beans off the menu.

Flies? in Maine, in January??? She’s got more than food cooking there…anyone who eats raw meat of any kind, should study basic Parasitology and get to poke through some pretty hideous case studies, and deserves what they get (or gets them).

Flo should change the name of her place to “The Old Farts Inn”

Sometimes the nose – knows!!

Yeah, that’s it, Flo. Insult your current, loyal customers. It worked soooooooo well for Netflix! :-P

Offshore Flo complaining about the fisherman in her harbor restuarant? Shes right,someone needs to make a change.

Cat’s are very sensitive to bad smells, and this place meets the cat’s approval. "nuff said!

Goals of new business plan#1. Keep old customers. (Both of them that pay cash)#2. Get new Customers.#3. Keep #2 from meeting #1 less #2 walks out.Possible options1.Drive-through window and call it “Go with the Flo”2.Drive in service eat in car and call it “Flo’s Park ’n Eat”3.Separate dinning rooms and call it “Flo’s Jim Crow’s Diner”

Up there, if those are all comercial fishermen, that aroma that you smell is the smell of…..MONEY!

Flo could merge with Roz over at the Shoe comic.

On the one hand, a competent restaurant should be able to bring you what you ask for. On the other, there is no safety advantage to ordering a steak (or other piece of whole, vs. ground meat) well done unless you like it that way. The e.coli bacteria that have become such an issue are deposited on the outside of a piece of meat during sloppy processing at the slaughterhouse. As long as the outside of a whole cut of meat is properly cooked, the inside can still be pink or even red and cool without danger. About the only way for contamination to get into the middle of a steak is for the animal to have been really, really sick… and in that case, it’s unlikely that even well-well-well-done cooking would break down the accumulated toxins..Ground meat, in which anything on the surface is thoroughly mixed into the interior, is another matter. I don’t get a rare hamburger unless I know really well where that ground beef came from.

Congress?

Maybe I resemble and smell like that, or am sensitive for other reasons, but I don’t see much fun in a strip that’s going to be about hurting somebody’s feelings.

You’re not good enough, get out of here…you were good enough for a long time, but now, I’m making changes. And moving on, I suppose. Flo IS a woman, after all.

And maybe Eddie IS unlovable, but he was pretty much cared for up to now. Bingo, now he’s the bad guy.Maybe i need another cup of coffee. But I’ll make my own, Flo. And not at your place. You’ll get paid and I won’t be back.

They’re so cute when they are clueless.

The e.coli problem is usually with ground meat. a steak should be rinsed and then seasoned, to sear to the taste in. You can see a steak, there is no intestines or organ meat with it, so it should be fine, even if it wasn’t rinsed clean, the heat of searing the outside of the meat would sterilize any bacteria.

Have hear regular patrons ever heard the terms “laundry” and “shower?” Would any of them recognize a bar of soap?

Ah, rednecks at a cafe.