Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for December 17, 2021

I’ve got a major grudge against grapefruit.

For one thing, they taste like poison. I’ve never heard of another fruit traditionally eaten by dumping sugar on top of it.

For another, the name. Not only is a grape already a fruit, I can’t think of a fruit more different from grapes (small, sweet, green or purple, smooth, grows on vines) than the so-called “grapefruit” (big, bitter, yellow and orange, bumpy, grow on trees).

The only thing they have in common is that grapefruit also (sorta) grow in clusters, but that’s like renaming crocodiles “dog-animals” because they also have four legs and a tail.

Grapefruit is way too sour for me.

The prunes will keep her ‘moving’

I wish I could still find the white kind, fruit or juice, the red is too sweet.

Does Nancy like to get in that daily BM first thing before school or something?

Panel #2: Nancy looks like she was weaned on a grapefruit.

i remember Edith Bunker apologising to Archie for not getting his usual brand of prune juice and saying, “But it tastes the same.”

“I don’t drink it for the flavor!”

Now how did she get that juice out of those prunes???

Enough prunes and Nancy can make her permanent residence the bathroom!!

Let’s hope there’s plenty of toilet paper.

What’s with the period after “that” in the last panel?

“We haven’t any.” Aunt Fritzi speaks a correct but rather old-fashioned form of English— even for the 1950s.

In essence getting only the bad part and inflicting it herself.

CONTENT WARNING: Nancy shoots herself in the face while wincing over some prunes.