Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 20, 2019

Hmmmm….Janis is thinking of another kind of ‘taste’ than you are, Arlo.

For many people it’s not about the food, it’s who works to fix it & who cleans up.

By leaving out out, I think Janis wants Arlo to broaden his horizon. Trouble is, Arlo can’t see the horizon.

The places we go to to eat.

The places we go out to to eat.

(Don’t forget English is a Germanic language and you can use prepositions as you wish.)

Instead of “Auto-Correct”……It’s “Arlo-Correct by Janis”!

Thought provoking, at first I thought Janis was repeating Arlo. Rereading shows she is correcting him, but Arlo is grammatically correct, when you consider they are dressed up and they are out to eat.For myself, eating out twice in the same day is a good day, but a rare treat to get by Beth, my Janis, and the keeper of the budget. She is the only reason I have any money after raising fiftheen.

The places we go out for food to. The places we go out to, to eat. When we go out for food. The possibilities are endless; but, most of us would say exactly what Arlo said and the rest of us would agree and the conversation would go on as if nothing grammatically incorrect had happened! Ah, humans!

It’s still a commonly spoken mixed comparison, comparing food to places.

The food we cook at home tastes better than the food at places we go to eat.

At first I read this as Janis was commenting more on where they are eating, rather than the grammar. Eat at different places and perhaps find a better tasting repast.

Janis may be channeling the Grammar Nazi here or she may be wondering when it was that they last ate out!

What do you mean “we”?

she’s gettin’ bitchy in her old age.

I’m a fairly good cook, but I can’t agree. We go out to eat for specific foods that neither of us cares to make, like any recipe with more than 15 ingredients.

Not sure what places would taste like.

She is both criticizing his language and the place where they are eating.

I think it is mostly a critique of the places they have been going. There are only a handful of restaurants in the area that beat our home cooking (in my case that is really sad!) and those are fairly pricey. For travelers to Northern Arizona who are tempted to see the iconic “Standing on a Corner in Winslow Arizona” (you will be disappointed) be aware La Posada is only a couple of short blocks away. That renovated Harvey House hotel at the railroad station boasts the Turquoise Room, the best restaurant for hundreds of miles around.

And reasonably priced

Churchill probably never said this. Google “brians churchill prepositions” to find the results of my research.

oh the places you’ll go ….Dr Seuss….

The unstated question is why don’t they go to a more upscale restaurants?

JIMMY: SEE WHAT YOU STARTED!

I agree with the minority opinion. The “grammatical error” was probably an accidental oversight — the real punchline is “the food might taste better if we went to better restaurants…”

Oh good. A grammar lesson instead of a joke.

Little Davey says to his father, read me a bedtime story, but not Goodnight Moon. Davey goes upstairs, gets ready for bed. Dad comes up with Goodnight Moon in his hand. Davey looks at Dad and says “What did you bring the book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”. And that, people, is how you end a sentence with a preposition.

Whatever it is, Janis doesn’t look very happy.

My take on this is not going out to eat but where they go to eat.

This is old now, but hos statement is dumb… “The food” tastes better than “the places”??? What language is that?