Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 03, 2019

You should try the maple!

Virgil Partch; Proprietor

Did you have some chips?

Well, they don’t really eat wood, do they?

But in an hour they’ll be pining for more.

Beavers don’t eat wood.

Wait until the see Bamboo Palace Buffet.

And toothpick appetizers were a nice touch, after you got all the gunk off of ’em.

Apparently the children weren’t enough.

I reheated food from our favorite Chinese restaurant the other day. It had two different kinds of fried rice, plus 4 servings of steamed rice, with parts of some other meals thrown in. I called it “More Rice than you Can Shake a Chopstick At.”