No credit for Elly on the cooking. On the other hand, that’s a lot of steak for one grill, plus those steaks look pretty blackened and burnt. I would not want to eat a steak that looks like that. I am not sure Elly would want credit for this.
Notice that of all things people are eating in the second-to-last panel, no one has a piece of steak on their fork. Elly, herself, is drinking her barbecue wine and not touching the steak. If the cook won’t eat it, you know it’s bad.
The guy in the last panel who compliments John, when he is eating in the second-to-last panel, is chewing so hard that his moustache has started to slide off his face. That’s one tough steak. Notice he does not actually say that the food tasted good. He says, “Nobody cooks up a better barbecue than you!” That sounds like a backhanded compliment to me.
No credit for Elly on the cooking. On the other hand, that’s a lot of steak for one grill, plus those steaks look pretty blackened and burnt. I would not want to eat a steak that looks like that. I am not sure Elly would want credit for this.
Notice that of all things people are eating in the second-to-last panel, no one has a piece of steak on their fork. Elly, herself, is drinking her barbecue wine and not touching the steak. If the cook won’t eat it, you know it’s bad.
The guy in the last panel who compliments John, when he is eating in the second-to-last panel, is chewing so hard that his moustache has started to slide off his face. That’s one tough steak. Notice he does not actually say that the food tasted good. He says, “Nobody cooks up a better barbecue than you!” That sounds like a backhanded compliment to me.