I like hearing the praise, ‘big people’. It will get weird if Frazz’s speaker ends up becoming a aunt before thirteen(this girl might have a few sisters).
She may be right. I know I didn’t like them as a kid. Not even the little bite-size patio tomatoes. I still don’t care for them raw, but I can choke down a slice if I’m served it by somebody who invited me to dine with them.
Tomatoes are Not sticky.. but they are drippy if you eat them like an apple.. which I did when I was a kid and they were right out of a garden my mother planted.
I dunno: read this one plus yesterday’s strip, and you can easily get the impression of yet another one of those eight-year-olds who has judged the world, and found it lacking.
George Carlin would agree with the kid. Part of his joke/rant was something like “Have you ever looked inside a tomato? It looks like God isn’t finished with it yet.”
A buddy of mine, back 65 years ago, stole some cucumbers from a local garden. We climbed a very tall tree and, with my friend’s pocketknife, sliced it up and ate it. He had even brought a salt shaker. I have loved cucumbers ever since.
As an adult (going on half again as long as I was a kid now), I still don’t see the appeal in fresh tomatoes. Give me some nice, firm store-bought tomatoes, please.
GreasyOldTam 2 months ago
So, add their weight in sugar, and kids would be fine with tomatoes. Sounds about right.
The Premium Member 2 months ago
Okay, Grampa.
Chrisdiaz801 2 months ago
I like hearing the praise, ‘big people’. It will get weird if Frazz’s speaker ends up becoming a aunt before thirteen(this girl might have a few sisters).
ChristineFoxdale 2 months ago
She may be right. I know I didn’t like them as a kid. Not even the little bite-size patio tomatoes. I still don’t care for them raw, but I can choke down a slice if I’m served it by somebody who invited me to dine with them.
sbenton7684 2 months ago
Tomatoes are Not sticky.. but they are drippy if you eat them like an apple.. which I did when I was a kid and they were right out of a garden my mother planted.
Uncle Kenny 2 months ago
I did not like tomatoes when I was a child, but now I grow them. Or try to.
Ninette 2 months ago
If they had better music then they’d play better music. Where to find a songwriter?
Hidden-in-the-Trees Premium Member 2 months ago
Spoken like someone who has never had tomato marmalade. Yum!
steveh64 2 months ago
She goes on about tomatoes being soft, drippy and sticky, and then calls Frazz complainy? Pot, meet kettle.
JRobinson Premium Member 2 months ago
I dunno: read this one plus yesterday’s strip, and you can easily get the impression of yet another one of those eight-year-olds who has judged the world, and found it lacking.
Ignatz Premium Member 2 months ago
I liked tomatoes when I was a kid with a little mayonnaise spread on top.
Ceeg22 Premium Member 2 months ago
Nope,I agree with him
DiminishedFirst 2 months ago
George Carlin would agree with the kid. Part of his joke/rant was something like “Have you ever looked inside a tomato? It looks like God isn’t finished with it yet.”
HarryLime Premium Member 2 months ago
A buddy of mine, back 65 years ago, stole some cucumbers from a local garden. We climbed a very tall tree and, with my friend’s pocketknife, sliced it up and ate it. He had even brought a salt shaker. I have loved cucumbers ever since.
rshive 2 months ago
Tomato trucks typically don’t have music.
Serial Pedant 2 months ago
What do you have against "It’s a Small, Small World-besides nausea?
cabalonrye 2 months ago
I love good tomatoes, not the talteless thing full of water you buy at the supermarket but the sun ripe ones, full of taste.
Spiny Norman Premium Member 2 months ago
“I don’t like tomatoes, they look like they’re not done yet.”… George Carlin. I agree with George.
DKHenderson 2 months ago
I like tomato sauce, and ketchup, but not raw tomatoes. And yet, I can remember eating them as a child sprinkled with a little (OK, a lot) of sugar.
metagalaxy1970 2 months ago
Funny, when I was a kid in elementary school, I would have a bologna sandwich and a whole tomato. Every day. I was the “weird kid” because of it.
ChattyFran 2 months ago
I loved fresh tomatoes as a kid. Mom would pack smaller ones in my lunch with a little packet of salt, and I’d eat it like an apple.
Bilan 2 months ago
Maybe someone should create tomato ice cream
… or maybe not.
Slowly, he turned... 2 months ago
and he didn’t even mention repetitive!
Stephen Gilberg 2 months ago
Try a variety small enough to pop in your mouth.
LrdSlvrhnd 2 months ago
As an adult (going on half again as long as I was a kid now), I still don’t see the appeal in fresh tomatoes. Give me some nice, firm store-bought tomatoes, please.