Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 29, 2013
Transcript:
TJ: "Welcome to cafe TJ! Where the truck chuck doesn't suck!" TJ: "...Or somthin' still workin' on the slogan" Luann: "This is NICE, TJ" Delta: "How long have you been in business?" TJ: "What time is it now?" Luann: "Well, that means the food's fresh" Delta: "With the jokes were"
JayBluE over 11 years ago
The proof is in the pudding… and the French fries…..
oldcomicsfan over 11 years ago
Well….let’s see how well Mr Smooth Talker does in a Roach Coach…..
JayBluE over 11 years ago
…and the taco salad….
ShagsCA over 11 years ago
TJ’s Cafe — Where the Sleazy Comes Easy!
mrhappy4aa over 11 years ago
And away we goooo….TJ and the Roving Restaurant. TJ, maybe try “bad jokes but good eats” ??
LouEthelip over 11 years ago
When I was in the navy we had our own call for when a truck like T.J.’s came through it was
“Roach Coach making an approach!”
overtherainbow over 11 years ago
Annnnd…let the hating begin. I, for one, am glad for TJ and hope his venture succeeds. I =love= food truck food!
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“She’s at home with the runs…”^So that’s two things that’s now up and running….
TiffWHO over 11 years ago
You don’t have to cross the San Diego border crossing, TJ will come to you…
ILuvLu over 11 years ago
Cafe TJ is going to have GREAT food. It’s just that he forgot the licenses to run it.
JayBluE over 11 years ago
Brought to you, by…Farmer’s Bank and Trust… “Lettuce help your dough stay fresh and currant”…==Bond License Brokers…. “Our agents are ready to help you with your financial mission… we love red tape, more than you do….”==and by…A.H. Nold Ex-terminators…. “They wont be back”…“Our ’pest police have been raid-ing for over 20 years….”
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“Sounds pretty fishy to me…”^Honest! I learned about fish in school….
Scott Stevenson over 11 years ago
“TJ’s Longshot Cafe—if you’re expecting a good meal, it’s a long shot”…
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Delta’s metahumor rings true. Maybe Luann is eating to get over Quill’s departure?
Lyons Group, Inc. over 11 years ago
If you’re looking for jokes, see the posters at Endtown.
DaJellyBelly over 11 years ago
I think his slogan should be:
*"Welcome to TJ’s Cafe
The food here is always gourmet
They are a tasty delight
And the prices are right"*
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Here’s another one that is actually used on a food truck in Baltimore. (Except the truck is called the Gypsy Queen)
*"Welcome to TJ’s Cafe
Where you can eat your meat on the Street!"*
Detroit1967 over 11 years ago
Hope this arc with TJ will eventually lead to the return of Ann Eiffel.
imbaldeagle over 11 years ago
I can’t get excited about a couple weeks of TJ – the perpetual smarmy grin gets to me.
Ratbrat over 11 years ago
As I recall, TJ is an excellent cook. He might make a big success out of this business.
PMark over 11 years ago
Me, personally, I can’t wait to see if TJ can make a go of it. It’s about time the man grows up.
I’m also predicting Ann Eifel showing up anytime now.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 11 years ago
Need a “Slogan” Smiley?
How about: “WELCOME to Cafe TJ Where Convicted Felons Eat FREE!!!”
Or Maybe: “Welcome to Cafe (Hey! Where’s the CAT?) TJ!”
By the way. The First Lady sez We should be Eating Healthy.The Grinning One’s “Chuck” had better be Up to Standard or Delta’s liable to “Shift into Activist Mode.”
sbchamp over 11 years ago
‘Chuck Truck’?Howz ’bout Chuck Wagon?
Bandera_Ken over 11 years ago
“refered to it as the Chuck Truck.”.Who is Chuck?
Simon_Jester over 11 years ago
“At these prices, it BETTER be good.”
Uh-uh
“Come for the food, stay for the Pepto.”
Mmmm, nah.
“Today’s food with last week’s grease.”
Ahh, I don’t think so.
2Goldfish over 11 years ago
Proves Pitts isn’t in California… it would take six months of permits, fees, approvals and red tape to get that business going.
DTJB over 11 years ago
Time to BUY YO SELF A NEW WATCH!!!
meebles over 11 years ago
I’m interested in what kind of food TJ thinks people will buy from a food truck.
kicat over 11 years ago
Everyone’s predicting an Ann Eiffel comeback, but I’m going to go out on a limb by predicting a possible romance between TJ and Delta. You can see the way the strip is set up it could definitely lead to that. She would be perfect to get him on the right track, and it’s about time Delta has a relationship. Mr. Evans was hinting at that a little while ago :)
imbaldeagle over 11 years ago
Wait’ll Ox shows up. Do you take credit cards, TJ?
Chana Fisher over 11 years ago
remember the bakery truck that use to drive around the neighborhoods. as a little girl I remember the drawers pulled out and the smell of fresh doughnuts right there. Great memories. It will be fun to see how TJ grows here
whiteaj over 11 years ago
Luann is looking more perky all the time.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 11 years ago
“I assume since we don’t see Bernice here, she was either (a) not brave enough to try TJ’s food or (b) not stupid enough to try TJ’s food.”-or © meeting them there but running late because she had to help a little old lady across the street
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 11 years ago
“unless Ann E does show up, hard to see where this week’s drama will come from.”-You know, Ann COULD have gotten a job for the health department, should be qualified and it would give her a chance to abuse her governmental power.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 11 years ago
“TJ is not wearing his watch. It must have fallen in one of the burritos.”-A POTENTIAL PRIZE IN EVERY MEAL
Argy.Bargy2 over 11 years ago
Geez, let’s hope. Who needs an arc where everyone lands in the emergency room because TJ cooked food in a sewer….
Argy.Bargy2 over 11 years ago
Second track of your three track mind
Argy.Bargy2 over 11 years ago
Blech….you are worse than Levi….
Argy.Bargy2 over 11 years ago
That’s not what Gunther and Rosa’s characters would like to see
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“I’ve never tried to consume a truck. Probably lots of iron in them…”^And so full of grease….
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“I’ve never tried to consume a truck. Probably lots of iron in them…”^And can be considered fast food….
SideshowStarlet over 11 years ago
I’m barely here, so I’d probably qualify as an objective outsider. I’d say Track 3 is something along the lines of “Bernice is hot.” But no judgement :)
JayBluE over 11 years ago
And in addition to your response to Adran Snare , It’s also interesting to note how at one time people changed the name of sauerkraut to “liberty cabbage” and frankfurters to the also then popular term “hot dogs” during WWI…… the whole “name change thing” has usually been a “merry go round that people seem to ride for awhile”, but then “the ride has it’s eventual end” (with the rare exception of the term hot dogs)……==Also of note, how “French’s” mustard reacted to not changing their name, saying that the brand was derived from a family name…. and also how “quietly” some of the menus got changed back, again…
Corey Karvonen-Lee Premium Member over 11 years ago
Oh come on people. Everyone loves his food. So why wouldn’t his truck food be just as good. OMG, I’m now talking like TJ actually exists.
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“Softserve Schmoftserve—-gimme some real ICE CREAM !!”^To quote a Skynyrd title, “You’ve got that right”! Lol!==Although I have found that at “Golden Corral” and similar buffet style places, they have some nice chocolate “soft serve”, along with some other options to “jazz it up”….
TheDOCTOR over 11 years ago
Why isn’t Luann wearing her little BOOMERANG Necklace?! Is it just an error, I hope I hope.
imbaldeagle over 11 years ago
Regardless of how Luann lost the boomerang necklace, it’ll be back. After all, it IS a boomerang.
boldyuma over 11 years ago
Just don’t order the John Holmes burrito grande..
swami mommy over 11 years ago
Finally! Hope the quill saga is over for awhile.
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“I never called them “freedom fries,” I thought the practice to be ridiculous, not to mention knee-jerk”^That’s the thought that I had, too! And to top it all off (please pardon the pun), it seems silly to change the name like that, when it’s not going to change the food and certainly not it’s taste, either…. and like you originally said, the naming origin doesn’t even have anything to do with any political anything…..==That’s why I wanted to join my response as a further point along with yours, to go along with your response to AdrianSnare ….
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“or it may simply be discretely under her bodice next to her heart”^This is also a definite possibility, as others have also suggested…. but the one thing with this is someone may say that the “necklace line” to show it being worn wasn’t drawn around her neck…
JayBluE over 11 years ago
To be honest, my thought in this is what JPuzzleWhiz said, that even in comic strips, /they aren’t going to wear it/ 24/7/365-6…. and whether they do or not, is not always an indication of what’s going on in their heart or mind, even a comic strip one… ==But it reminds me of one of those “continuity” things that they have to deal with in TV shows… they actually have a person whose job it is, to make sure that if they are “eating dinner” with their left hand instead of right, that each subsequent shot in that scene has to match up… or if they are written as being supposed to do or wear a certain thing as part of their character, that in later episodes, those “fine details” are observed (though there seem to be plenty of shows where they must not have paid attention to it that day)…..
JayBluE over 11 years ago
Lol! Yeah, that’d be pretty tough..
JayBluE over 11 years ago
Forgot to mention that he’s posted remarks on his FB page how there are many people who “point out” different things… I think he just takes it all in stride, though he’s also mentioned some examples of things that he has remarked having overlooked….
ORMouseworks over 11 years ago
I guess we’ll not be reading the adventures of Tiff out in the “real world” of modeling anytime soon… TJ’s OK, but he’s not my favorite character. This food cart adventure would be interesting if Ann is now in the Health Dept. and is scheming on how to invalidate TJ’s license. One thing, though, he is a good cook so his business should be picking up. He’s probably near a place where other food carts are allowed to be.
ORMouseworks over 11 years ago
Yeah…
JayBluE over 11 years ago
“Naw. She pawned it for the soda”^Or if might have been recalled by the company in China that made that Aussie trinket… yup….recalled like a boomerang…..
JayBluE over 11 years ago
Well, the “Camp Drama” arc slowed to a complete stop after picking up a little pace… will this arc crawl at first, and then pick up to a “dramatic” pace?…