For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 03, 2017

The first and third C sound like they could go well together.

There’s a reason why the kids aren’t eating your food Elly and it involves that third C

Look at Annie, thinking she is schooling Elly on casseroles. Elly Patterson knows all about casseroles as food recyclers. She has been doing jokes on casseroles from the beginning of this comic strip.

As for Annie’s “company” suggestion, I am not buying that either. If anything, when I have company over, I have more leftovers than usual, not fewer.

John seems to be a little far into his marriage to Elly for the “casserole secret” to still be a secret. Even so, would just mentioning a casserole contains leftovers have so shocked John that he feels the need to share this with Steve by the fence and over a beverage and recommend that Steve never listen in to female conversation? They were not talking about female bodily functions, for Pete’s sake. Who would have thought John would be embarrassed by a casserole discussion?

Reminds me of advice given years ago: Girls, they say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but don’t waste your time trying to impress him with fancy French dishes. He can always get those in a restaurant. What he can’t get in a restaurant is a decent casserole

The next best things to casseroles are Crock Pot Dumps. My husband made a CPD one time, taking various different things from our cabinet. It wasn’t pretty, but it was tasty-good!

Perhap John would get along better with Ellie (and vice versa) if they actually did listen to each other.

She forgot soup.

Good old John, one sexist pig talking to another sexist pig about how worthless female conversation is. I’ll take talk of casseroles over male conversation which mostly consists of sports.

Congrats,you just made the most sexist comment of the year on this board! Does that make you a sexist pig?

…what is this leftover that you speak of?

There was a similar strip where Elly was talking to herself while cleaning out the refrigerator. She opens one container and says “That is spoiled” then another and says “Ugh, that smells like Michael’s room!” Elly then disposes of the rotten food and says “Even though this food is spoiled, I still feel guilty throwing it away…my mother would have made it into a casserole.”

Don’t they have a refrigerator? I put leftover food in it, and have it for lunch a day or two later. I always bring back at least half of my dinner when I eat out and have that for lunch for several days.