Prickly City by Scott Stantis for December 07, 2021

I ate an apple, but not a bee, at Applebee’s.

Careful or she’ll call you a boomer.

“Maybe those Millennials will stop voting Republican and watching Faux News. It’s all your fault . .” – revised caption by a boomer. You’re welcome.

Republicans always point the finger to those who are not doing exactly what the republicans are doing!

I can do without Applebee’s.

I have not read the stuff about what millennials are doing. Should there be any concern considering their attention span?

Avocados? I thought that they were big on Guac.

A little embarrassed at missing the 2018 copyright yesterday, but Left Field is Stantis’s strong suit these days. Millennials are over, we’re ragging on Gen-Z now.

Applebee’s? “Your neighborhood bar and grill” that’s as far from a neighborhood bar and grill as you can possibly get?

Sometimes the millennials are right. They’re also killing Campbell’s Soup. They tasted one spoonful and said, “This is s**t. You eat this?”

I’m Gen X (born in 1969). For the record, I think that all store-bough mayo tastes bad (freshly made is very different and tasty), never liked fabric softener, don’t get how Applebees stays in business, and haven’t eaten cereal since college. So you can blame me too. I do like avocados. And bar soap.

“And in fact, you’re not a millennnial either. You’re an aging white guy who, for some reason, puts his opinions in the mouth of a little brown girl. Have you ever considered how weird that is?”

Be careful what you ask for. Texans invited Californians to come to their state, they got:

Elon Musk, boy we fooled them on that one, BTW we don’t want him back.

Their Biscuits & Gravy is being replaced by Avocado Toast.

Their Lone Star Beer is being replaced by Chardonnay.

Their Cowboy Boots is being replaced by Birkenstock’s.

Their Governor Abbott may be replaced by Beto O’ Rourke.

All Y’ All have fun now, remember you asked for it.

Just a note. Today is Dec 7. “The day that will live in infamy” and the US entering WWII-which actually started in 1939- The only comic I have read today that is taking note of the day is Red and Rover. Not even Beatle Bailey did anything. I am somewhat surprised that not a single editorial cartoon I read mentioned it. Sad.

The Tulsa World did take note, from the editorial cartoon-one of the best I have ever seen-to several articles in the first section

Mayonnaise, fabric softener, and bar soap are alive?

It’s all Biden’s fault. /s

Ya know, all this ink about millennials doing this and boomers doing that is just trivial hooey designed to stoke trivial “culture wars.” Fugeddaboutit; it isn’t significant and matters not.

So, this is why avocado sales have been through the roof in the last five years? And why Applebee’s keeps building new restaurants? And fabric softenre and bar soap and cereal are all very much still alive and enthusiastically marketed?

I am really puzzled what Stantis’ point is.

Funny spending time on junk culture.

As much as I’ve my own issues with millennials – this sort of thing I find annoying, if the product can’t find a way to be appealing to customers then it probably means it deserves what it gets.