Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 12, 2023

A friend made a loaf of — accidentally — unleavened bread. We nailed it to a tree in coastal Oregon (a rain forest). It lasted for more than a few years: NOTHING would eat it, not even mold.

Put the dry part in the micro wave!!

Works wonders!

Does it turn rock hard half way through the intestines? Asking for a friend.

When life hands you stale baguettes, make croutons!

Caulfield obviously has run out of things to do this summer and is desperate for company, but he is never seen with other students or his parents.

Don’t think either one of them means the other one. But, I get his gist.

“Carpe diem” is Latin for “Day of the fish.”

In France, a three day old baguette is considered a weapon.

Baked twice a day. Best consumed the same. At least the stuff in France. I haven’t found the country of Latin to verify how they do it. (yuk)

This strip is getting stale. How about some humor?

Don’t know and don’t care

Baguette? Next day? I’m sorry, that does not compute.

I mean, we are talking about one of those loaves of bread that loses half its mass on the way home from the store, right?

Carpe Panis?

They probably go stale so quickly because every comic has one of them sticking out of the top of a paper shopping bag.

More ‘carpe panem’ than ‘carpe diem’.

A perfect description of that store made bread that smells heavenly then turns to cardboard within hours.

That day-old baguette is pain perdu. The French use it to make what the English call French Toast.

Who can resist eating a whole baguette in a day? Americans are so strange.

Seize the bread?

Same deal with bagels. On Day 2 you could mount them on the axles of tiny racing cars, and they’d be good for a year.