Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for April 16, 2023

Salads can be great with the right ingredients

And the Benchleysque wordplay continues…

Also, I thought “Foxtrot” had the copyright on “mother tries to get her family to eat healthier” routines.

I’ve heard that adding olive oil to kale makes it easier to slide it into the garbage can.

Toss out the kale, add some slices of avocado and hard boiled egg, chunks of cheese, ham, chicken, turkey and steak, grapes, and pecans, add a side of breadsticks, and you may have a meal.

He seems dazed by the revelation.

I DESPISE kale. May as well eat wet cardboard. lol

Anybody for potato-salad?

Yuk! I’ll go see if your dad will get the BBQ out. Hey Grandpa, what’s for supper!?

I can just see Ed looking at this and telling Pmm to make something with meat in. If we’re lucky, they’ll get into an argument.

But Batiuk won’t allow anything THAT interesting in this strip.

Hey, Jeffy! Your salad days are long gone. How about a nice bowl of prunes?

Leave out the kale and I’m your girl.

Get “baby” kale, leave out the beets, add Feta cheese, olive oil, a little candy-free trail mix and some whole-grain croutons and I’ll gladly eat it.

They’re about 40 years past their salad days. My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in bloodTo say as I said then!

I love a good salad but kale and beets just killed it.

The same apples to cartoons!

Shakespeare’s Cleopatra was apparently the first to refer to her salad days, “when [she] was green and cold,” i.e., too young to be swept away by sexual passion. Somehow it came to mean something completely different, as here.

“That’s enough for me, what are you going to eat?”

Where’s the beef?……

I just learned:

“Salad days” is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, chiefly in the United States, describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.

Dinner? You need a protein. And something bread-like. I assume there is a bit of oil in the dressing. It would be nice to have a couple different vegetables too, like tomato.

I thought “salad days” referred to our youth.

Haha! XD