Editors of syndicated comic strips see a lot of comic strips. It is almost impossible for a cartoonist to make them laugh or take particular note at all beyond spelling, rudimentary punctuation and “Does it contain anything dirty,” intentional or otherwise. Therefore, it was a rare occasion indeed when my long-suffering editor Reed Jackson dropped me an email in 2009 about this holiday Arlo & Janis, saying, “This is exactly what’s going to be happening at my house over the coming days,” or something to that effect. I still remember!
52 responses to “The Crusty Baker”
I still remember my first Thanksgiving on the road. I stopped for lunch at a Flying J in Kansas City, MO, where they had the full turkey with the traditional side dishes for half price. I spent more on the long distance call home than what I saved on the meal.
I have been baking some lately. I bake JUST like Janis.
So you were looking in your editor’s windows too! Maybe the highest complement that we can give a cartoonist is that they captured what is going on in our lives.
I recall Thanksgiving 1976 when I was in the Navy. We were at sea, but of course they served a full traditional dinner. Unfortunately, they called us by divisions to avoid crowding and my dinner time coincided with a mandatory meeting called by our (censored) officer. Miss dinner or miss mandatory meeting? You got it, no Thanksgiving dinner that year. Next year I was out and had dinner at home, with family.
This is why God created bakeries.
What is Janis cussing about? Did she nick her finger with the edge-trimming knife? I wouldn’t think an injury should gladden Arlo.
I am still off Hotmail, as mentioned in previous cartoon page. Are any of you having problems? If not, I am amazed.
Maybe they will have better luck in 2019.
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Peace,
cx-p: No problems with Hotmail here
I still remember the look on a friend’s face many years ago when he related what he got when accidentally typed “hotmale.com” instead of “hotmail.com”. At least that was his story, and he was sticking to it.
Thanks for the reply, RA. I, too, am now back on Hotmail.com . It was close to 24 hours since I was last allowed in.
I doubt she’s nicked her finger with that knife; I’d expect that she was using a normal table knife. I know from experience that bakers often use a plastic scraper to trim pie crusts. Maybe she brushed against the inside of the oven door and burned herself?
That does sound more likely.
Or maybe she just trimmed away too much of the crust? Not an injury to her, but to her pride and concentration on her work?
Like the time Jackie talks about when she managed to free a fancy dessert from a pan only to slide it off the counter into the cat litter pan?
WIting for butter to soften so I can whip up chocolate chip cookies . It is all ready to start. BIg counter blender. Pecans chopped and dark chocolate chips.
The other big disaster was my blue merle collie who ate entire side off a triple layer iced German chocolate sheet cake.
I don’t blame the dog. German chocolate is my favorite cake, with caramel a very close second. Mom made the German chocolate cakes, the other I had to get in bakeries.
Even funnier was the time Janis got loaded making rum cakes.
By the way, rum cakes, made during the fall and winter holidays for friends, are about the only form of baking I do. Except for beer bread. And bread pudding with whiskey sauce. Humm. I’m seeing a pattern there.
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Dubious Theory of the Day: Calories consumed by Janis will be offset by the calories consumed by Arlo.
Resting up a bit. Going in to make finger sandwiches. Ghost made last batch.
Maybe Janis was making finger pie?
Ladyfingers?
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Through baking for the dsy. Ended up eating large cereal bowl of crispy broken chocolate chip cookies that stuck to pan.
Odd breakfast.
Jackie, I hope that dog only ate the frosting, not the cake itself; chocolate is very toxic to dogs, even though they love the flavor. And, be careful with onions too, as they can make both dogs and cats sick.
She licked the pecan coconut caramel frosting off the entire side! She did not touch the cake.
I refrosted cake and served it to the Sigma Nu fraternity in college.
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