Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for December 27, 2016

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 8 years ago

    Ennui among the grape-nuts. Did some fall on the floor?

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    bookworm0812  almost 8 years ago

    Ick. Grape-Nuts. How in the world did that cereal ever get a name like that, anyway? With a name like that, I’d expect it to have raisins in it.

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    3pibgorn9  almost 8 years ago

    Lots of grapes have seeds. Hard little buggers. Is a pretty weird name, alright. Where I live one used to be able to get an ice cream flavor called “Brown Bread” that had Grape-Nuts in it. That was the brown bread.

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    MHeath18 Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    On the bright side, it had sugar. Unless your dad hates sugar.

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    JDSmith82 Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Those grape nuts are rough!

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 8 years ago

    Perhaps they were eating flour dry.

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    Chris Sherlock  almost 8 years ago

    Euell Gibbons seemed to like them—or maybe he was acting.

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    BlueIris Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Perhaps I missed it in a previous strip, but — your dad calls you “Lucy”?

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    Bob Murphy Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Diets are almost here!!! Just few more days.

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    eekee57  3 months ago

    This is the first time I’ve heard what grape nuts taste like. Seedless grapes weren’t a thing when I was little, so I’ve bitten into my share of grape seeds. They have a nutty crunch, but they taste horrendous! Sort-of like brussels sprouts but… it’s hard to realise the taste of brussels sprouts actually has some good in it until you compare them to grape seeds. After that, I cannot imagine why anyone would name a food “grape nuts”!

    I can’t complain though. I’m British, I grew up with “toad” as an insult, toads in literature invariably described as ’orribly slimy, and then one day, I was introduced to a fine dish called “toad in the hole”! I chose something else from the cafeteria that day. ;)

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