Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 12, 2024

Les’ diet sounds pretty darn boring. I’ll take salads and thoroughly cooked meals, thank you very much!

And isn’t Ramen cooked? So WTH is he even talking about?? ;)

He just microwaved his food in panel 2.

Add water and microwave it

I see Leslie is getting his nutrition from the three essential food grounds — processed, ultra-processed and garbage,

Gunther will eventually graduate and move away?

“Ramen for lunch, and leftovers from work for dinner.” So, dinner is leftover ramen, or is he stealing other people’s lunches?

How is this arc going to get interesting?

Well on top of having ZERO ambition, Les is also apparently, a bit LAZY.

Yessiree, Bob.

A real “chick magnet,” Mr. Knox Is. ;-)

Les actually could cook. Too bad he doesn’t cook for himself. Cold be he isn’t being honest that that’s all he could afford on his dishwasher income. Most restaurants don’t hire full time employees as to avoid paying for their benefits. I imagine the DeGroots aren’t any different. If Gunther figures it out, he could point out he’d eat better meals if he moves up to cook or server. Or look for a different job.

I can empathize with Les—I hate to cook, also.

Is Gunther going to switch career directions from engineer to chef? That might be very interesting. Could we see him on the Food Channel in future?

I kinda like Les.

What happened to the carrots?? :0

Personally, I wouldn’t miss at all carrots on my chef’s salad.

These guys are certainly a 2024 version of Felix and Oscar….. Of course the original Odd Couple did not have Irma and Al keeping an eye on them…

So, if a box of cereal is $5 (last about a week), a gallon of milk $5, a pack of Ramen is $2, and left overs are free…then Les is spending about $24 a week on staple meals, or about $100 a month. Amazing he still has so much hair with that diet.

The “compare and contrast” here with Gunther and Les reminds me of Goofus and Gallant in Highlights for Children- really subtle.

A number of folks here over th last few days’ve said Les was a good cook. I guess bein able to heat up a cup of Slop Ramen passes as a cook nowadays. At least he didn’t start a grease fire..

First strip this week that Punk doesn’t appear in. I am dissapoint.

Guess which one’s colon is going to be in better shape as they get older.

On a side note: get rid of the plastic cutting board. Tiny particles get into your food. Wood or bamboo a better choice.

Les is living the classic life of a cynical and unambitious thirty-year-old bachelor, the problem is that probably he’s not even 20. Les is happy with what he has, but I hope that something happens that makes him want to change. Maybe something at The Fuse, or another fight with his mother, or the love for a girl.

That doesn’t sound healthy

Gunther is not your usual college eater. Fried food and burgers were our common fare when I was in college along with late night breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage and grits.

I’ll tell you something about Ramen noodles… They may make a decent soup base if you add meat and vegetables, but just by themselves, there is pretty much no nutrition…. Just a little bit of fat and a lot of sodium. It’s OK to eat for lunch, just don’t try to live off them. Back in college, there was a Chinese grad student who ate nothing but Ramen noodles for about two months. When he didn’t show up for class for an entire week, no one had seen him and he wasn’t answering his phone, the campus police entered his dorm room… The poor guy was laying in bed… stone-cold dead. He had died of starvation.

Maybe Les could use a cooking class.

Frankly, if I had to choose one of these guys to hang out with, it wouldn’t be uptight Gunther (and his mom).

My wife proudly said she came from 4 generations of women who don’t cook and she saw no reason to change. She has improved over the years. when we were first married she actually burned spaghetti. Lucky for her i like to cook. My father in law saw me as a kindred spirit

Baby carrots don’t have to be peeled, chief salads usually do not have carrots, Les use to be a waiter but switched with Tiffany who was the dishwasher in return for a share of the tips she earned.

And we know Punk didn’t eat them. So now we have a mystery on our hands.

These guys are like The Odd Couple.

Miss the point much, Les?

Once you get good at it, chopping things into tiny pieces is fun! The blood can be a pain to clean up, but… oh, you didn’t read that…

Leftovers from work should be fairly diverse and plentiful even if they effectively nearly all of it. That would still leave quite a bit for single person.

BTW, Les, what’s your mom up to these days? Isn’t it time for her to return? Long over due. The Count means… We ALL Ann❤️Eiffel, boy howdy!

I’m not as lazy as Les, but I am so tired of cooking. Fortunately, my dear husband took over cooking breakfast when he retired, and does a lot of the other meals, too.

I have never worn an apron in my life

“Odd Couple” vibe here.

see Les standing in front of the microwave. In his world, that is cooking

Tiresome?? Tiresome is a goody two shoes dweeb who likes to spew unsolicited criticisms. And since when does Gunther (the perfect little housewife) think he gets to be so judgmental? I’m glad Les is unfazed.

Gunther was always a major dork. Now he’s a prissy little a$$ that needs to be knocked off his high horse. I hope Les hides all his carrots. Maybe the celery too. And the spinach.

And Where Is Punk?!!

I’ve been told that store-bought ramen is loaded with sodium and really not good for you to eat on a regular basis. But people Les’s age aren’t particularly concerned about that anyway.

Less keep doing more of these 2guys and a lot less about Bernice

The love of food is enhanced when one loves the preparation too.

Les does have a point, even though I don’t agree with his meals.

Felix Unger and Oscar Madison have bene reincarnated as college agers

How long does it take before you become an expert dicer?

What’s the deal with Gunther ? You think he’s know something about Les by now.

Would someone explain why online recipes even give “Prep Times?” The only way I can get close to the time given is to assign my wife, two teenagers, three neighbors and the guy who lives in the vacant lot down the street chopping and assembly jobs.

Wake me up when the story gets going OK. ;-)

What is Les going to do when he wants to impress a woman? Offer her a choice of reheated meals from the Fuse?

Leslie Knox needs to met the Starr cousins?

Yeah, microwaving isn’t really cooking. It’s more like “heating”.

I don’t care for salads myself. And there are so many kinds of cereal that it doesn’t get too boring. I used to buy a smaller box (not those ‘family’ size monsters). It would last me a couple weeks, then I’d buy a different variety. Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum. Leftovers from work would be both varied and cheap. Ramen in also cheap and comes in lots of flavors. I think Les has it figured out.

Most of my salads are “kitchen sink” salads- whatever I have on hand that I think will taste good in it. I think I got this way of making salads from my dad. He made huge salads for his dinner 3-4 times a week, and put in weird stuff like Tofu, canned tuna (bleah!), garbanzo beans, etc.

Odd couple. I became a reasonably good cook as a bachelor, then when I got married I cooked less, but still cooked quite a bit. when the kids came and my wife and I both worked and had busy lives, I cooked quite often. Now, in old age, I don’t cook much, more because of being sick, or fatigued (I finally have an excuse for being lazy) but I still can microwave. Their different styles fit them, but in real life things can change.

Use a rice cooker: rice, frozen or fresh mixed vegies, chicken or beef broth instead of water. Nuke chicken bits fast an’ easy.

OK, but where’d the carrots go then? It’s just the two of them there. Did Irma raid her son’s fridge?

Les is funny.

So we got a week of the Odd Couple. Got it.

Where’s today’s comic? (Friday, Sept 13) Usually available by now.

The famous low protein, nutrient-free diet !

Leftovers from work? Whose???

And so, as the day passes wearily into history, we wonder who will win the maternity marathon: Toni and Brad, Kip and Steff, or Gunther and Bets?