Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 14, 2024

Food, the master ingredient, for family gatherings.

Smart.

Memories of the 1970’s. “Get a bucket of chicken! A bucket of fun! Goodbye ho hum!” KFC

Baldo is so responsible at work and so goofy at home. The teenage boy dichotomy.

Well, it’s a start — just put down the phone when it arrives.

The family that eats together, meets together.

Cell phones and other electronic devices are banned from our table during meals. The teenage grandkids are down with it, it’s their parents that have to be occasionally reminded of the rule.

Well, I guess that’s one way to do it.

Family pizza now come with buffalo wings, cinnamon sugar bread sticks, and assorted dipping sauces.

When I was a kid, on weekends that my dad was off work, we would get a Chef Boyardee pizza kit and make pizza and popcorn, then play a board game.

When I was a kid, on weekends if my dad didn’t have to work, we’d get a Chef Boyardee pizza kit and have pizza and popcorn then play board games.

Well, it’s a start, at least they’ll all be eating together, as a family…

Tomorrow: a guest artist.

It’s a start.

Isn’t Papa washing dishes? Isn’t that done after dinner? He didn’t get enough to eat????