Finally, in the middle of the night, GoComics must have decided that I’m cleared to visit this site…
including March 16th 2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.
Claude and Clara are obviously Clevelanders… or at least, not Californians…. scoffing at the idea of an African restaurant.
Around here, we embrace world cuisines….. I don’t even know what to tell a visitor looking for “regular American food” unless they mean a coffee shop or diner.
An “African” restaurant would probably have a more country-specific name…
We have some North African ones… such as Tigressy mentions… around here, including a decades old, famous Moroccan one in San Francisco… and in my city, a new Eritrean one.
But I can’t think of any jungle or rain forest food. No giraffe, though the Congo Pygmies and the Bushmen of the Kalahari hunted them with tiny weapons.
The meat of carnivores like big cats is reputed to taste “off” to humans.
We had one restaurant about 20 years ago, that featured jungle decor and some African game. I never ate there…but was taken for a drink or two in their fancy bar.
The dinner menu on the wall listed antelope and other hoofed mammals… and birds…. and I think crocodile!
Very expensive, and it went out of business. I think there was local distaste for big game hunting.
Another Clevelandish thing… Cleo’s joke about “dessert” doesn’t play well here…
In my Midwestern youth, “elephant ears” were pastries.
We call them “palmiers” here, sometimes “palm leaves” …
coiled puff pastry, sliced thin for baking… but elephant ears have been further flattened in sugar.
Actually, the Mexican bakery has those, and they’re called “orejas” … ears… but they’re not as sweet or buttery.
There’s another kind of “elephant ears” I’ve seen pictured as county fair food… a deep fried piece of dough… but we don’t have those, either.
Our router died Saturday afternoon, and after talking to tech support at the Internet place, we were welcome to come and pick up the new one right then. However, there was a blizzard going on so we weren’t going anywhere! So today we ventured out, and just got back, and everything is now honky dorey!
Egads! Now I know what Susan goes thru a whole bunch of the time
margueritem over 14 years ago
I’d call that triple refined….
ejcapulet over 14 years ago
I’m one up on you, Tom, I’m a complete airhead - no dust in my mind!
grapfhics over 14 years ago
I’ll bet there is a lot of dust, wait until it settles.
skipping over 14 years ago
My thinking is refined like that too only its more like cobwebs.
jo_c_fus over 14 years ago
If somebody blew in his left ear, would dust come out of his right ear?
evak423 over 14 years ago
Ah, Brownian Motion.
Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Better refined than crude.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 4 years ago
I feel you, Tom.
My thinking has been blown to dust for years now.
I’ve been wondering whether I should gather as much of it as I can in a jar,
and try to preserve some memories.
DennisinSeattle over 4 years ago
Tom, that is an interesting theory to explain the incohesive nature of your thoughts. Just hold that thought….Oh damn, there it goes.
DennisinSeattle over 4 years ago
Meanwhile, Claude Clara and Cleo are making it cleat that they don’t get out of Cleveland much.
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy
DennisinSeattle over 4 years ago
Really guys, ostriches? In Africa? And who eats wild cats?
Tigressy over 4 years ago
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200316
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria… Great stuff!
GROG Premium Member over 4 years ago
So the answer must be blowing in the wind.
GROG Premium Member over 4 years ago
Have it on the African Queen.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 4 years ago
Hullo Cleoites….
Finally, in the middle of the night, GoComics must have decided that I’m cleared to visit this site…
including March 16th 2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.
Claude and Clara are obviously Clevelanders… or at least, not Californians…. scoffing at the idea of an African restaurant.
Around here, we embrace world cuisines….. I don’t even know what to tell a visitor looking for “regular American food” unless they mean a coffee shop or diner.
An “African” restaurant would probably have a more country-specific name…
We have some North African ones… such as Tigressy mentions… around here, including a decades old, famous Moroccan one in San Francisco… and in my city, a new Eritrean one.
But I can’t think of any jungle or rain forest food. No giraffe, though the Congo Pygmies and the Bushmen of the Kalahari hunted them with tiny weapons.
The meat of carnivores like big cats is reputed to taste “off” to humans.
We had one restaurant about 20 years ago, that featured jungle decor and some African game. I never ate there…but was taken for a drink or two in their fancy bar.
The dinner menu on the wall listed antelope and other hoofed mammals… and birds…. and I think crocodile!
Very expensive, and it went out of business. I think there was local distaste for big game hunting.
Another Clevelandish thing… Cleo’s joke about “dessert” doesn’t play well here…
In my Midwestern youth, “elephant ears” were pastries.
We call them “palmiers” here, sometimes “palm leaves” …
coiled puff pastry, sliced thin for baking… but elephant ears have been further flattened in sugar.
Actually, the Mexican bakery has those, and they’re called “orejas” … ears… but they’re not as sweet or buttery.
There’s another kind of “elephant ears” I’ve seen pictured as county fair food… a deep fried piece of dough… but we don’t have those, either.
Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member over 4 years ago
Alternate Caption:
My thinking, muses Tom, is that Monday’s are Heliotrope Day at ᴄʟᴇᴏ & ᴄᴏ.
P.S. to @Nighthawks – notice how I didn’t use the word purplie?
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
Good morning ballardeers!
freakin’ snow showers here. I’m ready for spring.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 4 years ago
Claude and Clara and Cleo are just kinda joking around….of course nobody eats cheetahs ( except lions)
, and ostrich is an actual dish and I just had Clara jokingly change chicken pot pie to ostrich pot pie….
I had a feeling that this would be controversial , but don’t blame Stel for my postings……
this is all me. Stel does the posters on Tuesdays and Thursdays
katina.cooper over 4 years ago
I don’t know if this will happen on Friday, but if Cleo gets the runs from those ears, let’s hope that it doesn’t fill up half the last panel.
MontanaLady over 4 years ago
Our router died Saturday afternoon, and after talking to tech support at the Internet place, we were welcome to come and pick up the new one right then. However, there was a blizzard going on so we weren’t going anywhere! So today we ventured out, and just got back, and everything is now honky dorey!
Egads! Now I know what Susan goes thru a whole bunch of the time
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 4 years ago
https://youtu.be/12DeNdF0KPA
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 4 years ago
I prefer Funnel Cake.