I like hearing the praise, ‘big people’. It will get weird if Frazz’s speaker ends up becoming a aunt before thirteen(this girl might have a few sisters).
She may be right. I know I didn’t like them as a kid. Not even the little bite-size patio tomatoes. I still don’t care for them raw, but I can choke down a slice if I’m served it by somebody who invited me to dine with them.
Tomatoes are Not sticky.. but they are drippy if you eat them like an apple.. which I did when I was a kid and they were right out of a garden my mother planted.
I dunno: read this one plus yesterday’s strip, and you can easily get the impression of yet another one of those eight-year-olds who has judged the world, and found it lacking.
George Carlin would agree with the kid. Part of his joke/rant was something like “Have you ever looked inside a tomato? It looks like God isn’t finished with it yet.”
A buddy of mine, back 65 years ago, stole some cucumbers from a local garden. We climbed a very tall tree and, with my friend’s pocketknife, sliced it up and ate it. He had even brought a salt shaker. I have loved cucumbers ever since.
As an adult (going on half again as long as I was a kid now), I still don’t see the appeal in fresh tomatoes. Give me some nice, firm store-bought tomatoes, please.
GreasyOldTam 26 days ago
So, add their weight in sugar, and kids would be fine with tomatoes. Sounds about right.
The Premium Member 26 days ago
Okay, Grampa.
Chrisdiaz801 26 days ago
I like hearing the praise, ‘big people’. It will get weird if Frazz’s speaker ends up becoming a aunt before thirteen(this girl might have a few sisters).
ChristineFoxdale 26 days ago
She may be right. I know I didn’t like them as a kid. Not even the little bite-size patio tomatoes. I still don’t care for them raw, but I can choke down a slice if I’m served it by somebody who invited me to dine with them.
sbenton7684 26 days ago
Tomatoes are Not sticky.. but they are drippy if you eat them like an apple.. which I did when I was a kid and they were right out of a garden my mother planted.
Uncle Kenny 26 days ago
I did not like tomatoes when I was a child, but now I grow them. Or try to.
Ninette 26 days ago
If they had better music then they’d play better music. Where to find a songwriter?
Hidden-in-the-Trees Premium Member 26 days ago
Spoken like someone who has never had tomato marmalade. Yum!
steveh64 26 days ago
She goes on about tomatoes being soft, drippy and sticky, and then calls Frazz complainy? Pot, meet kettle.
JRobinson Premium Member 26 days ago
I dunno: read this one plus yesterday’s strip, and you can easily get the impression of yet another one of those eight-year-olds who has judged the world, and found it lacking.
Ignatz Premium Member 26 days ago
I liked tomatoes when I was a kid with a little mayonnaise spread on top.
Ceeg22 Premium Member 26 days ago
Nope,I agree with him
DiminishedFirst 26 days ago
George Carlin would agree with the kid. Part of his joke/rant was something like “Have you ever looked inside a tomato? It looks like God isn’t finished with it yet.”
HarryLime Premium Member 26 days ago
A buddy of mine, back 65 years ago, stole some cucumbers from a local garden. We climbed a very tall tree and, with my friend’s pocketknife, sliced it up and ate it. He had even brought a salt shaker. I have loved cucumbers ever since.
rshive 26 days ago
Tomato trucks typically don’t have music.
Serial Pedant 26 days ago
What do you have against "It’s a Small, Small World-besides nausea?
cabalonrye 26 days ago
I love good tomatoes, not the talteless thing full of water you buy at the supermarket but the sun ripe ones, full of taste.
Spiny Norman Premium Member 26 days ago
“I don’t like tomatoes, they look like they’re not done yet.”… George Carlin. I agree with George.
DKHenderson 26 days ago
I like tomato sauce, and ketchup, but not raw tomatoes. And yet, I can remember eating them as a child sprinkled with a little (OK, a lot) of sugar.
metagalaxy1970 26 days ago
Funny, when I was a kid in elementary school, I would have a bologna sandwich and a whole tomato. Every day. I was the “weird kid” because of it.
ChattyFran 26 days ago
I loved fresh tomatoes as a kid. Mom would pack smaller ones in my lunch with a little packet of salt, and I’d eat it like an apple.
Bilan 26 days ago
Maybe someone should create tomato ice cream
… or maybe not.
Slowly, he turned... 26 days ago
and he didn’t even mention repetitive!
Stephen Gilberg 26 days ago
Try a variety small enough to pop in your mouth.
LrdSlvrhnd 23 days ago
As an adult (going on half again as long as I was a kid now), I still don’t see the appeal in fresh tomatoes. Give me some nice, firm store-bought tomatoes, please.