Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 02, 2024

The broccoli can sit tight, but the cows can’t milk themselves.

Broccoli farmers are lucky to bring that wonderful veggie to the table!

and their namesake will soon give us the next 007!

Hope it’s Colin Farrel but Idris Elba would also be way kewl!!

in foil, with butter, 17 minutes indirect heat. You’re welcome.

We have our Labor Day on May 1st. And it’s not a holiday, just a normal working day if it falls on a weekday.

I haven’t tried grilling broccoli but I think it could be done.

A little surprised that this strip doesn’t reference Labor. It’s kind of a big deal.

The best Broccoli is the one that produced the 007 movies…

Ever notice that the price of groceries keeps going up but more and more family farms are going out of business? Ever wonder why? The answer’s in the middle, the people between the farmers and you, who are raising retail prices (what you pay) to whatever the market will bear while holding wholesale costs (what they give to farmers) as low as possible. The nice phrase for it is “profit motive”, which sounds so much more benign than “greed”.

Farmers really need to unionize, but they’re too dang independent.

Kid, if you ever get a whiff of chitterlings cooking, you’ll think broccoli is strawberries and cream.

We lived in the corner of my grandparents’ truck farm. My dad, a construction worker, had Labor Day off — which meant he spent 3 days helping his parents on the farm.

Once again:

Place broccoli on two-by-four, bake for one hour at 350 degrees, remove from oven, discard broccoli, eat the two-by-four.

Someone please explain to the young lady what so very few remember: Labor Day is a holiday in honor of organized labor!

So, celebrate by joining a union (or at least buy a Teamster dinner.)

Every job I have had is in the service industry. I have never once had a holiday off. In fact when the restaurants I worked for would close for Christmas it was actually a bad thing since there was not any concept of paid time off. It didn’t affect me, but others whose only income was from the 40 hours work week dropped down to 32. Coming at a time when there are other expenses (if one did celebrate the holiday) added to the loss.

I lived in Germany for years back in the ’80s. A friend of mine was a local and she told me about their maternity leave. They got 2 years! off. Here in the states we would be fired for taking the day off. The politicians always talk about third world nations without having a clue that many of those “sh*thole nations” have better health care and protections than we do.

I don’t know, I know people who grill broccoli in their kabobs.

More bad assumptions. Did you know that most farmers have large machines to do the work? And what the machines can’t do, migrant labor can. And those farmers out in their fields doing all that work – exactly how are they smelling food on grills miles and miles away? Geez, kid – learn how to use Google.

Any farm with cattle has to supply the input and somehow remove the output. There is nothing quite like a wagon load of well rotted manure passing by to make you wish you could shut off your sense of smell for a few minutes.

I grew up on a farm, and there are very few days off, except when it rains, and then there is stuff to do inside. Growing up I worked more Thanksgivings than not but it was with my family and Mom always made a great dinner. Who could ask for more than that.

You can grill pretty much all veggies – a roasted corn-on-the-cob with butter and salt is a great part of any barbecue or a roasted bell pepper, as are potatoes and eggplant – and onions, of course. The list goes on not only with plants, but also with mushrooms, with bread, or fish, and seafood, even some insects prepared right are delicious.