With the shortening of words these days (Convo for conversation, fam for family, etc) I vote for 'gonzo beans. We can always make up our own words now! I was driving thru my hood (Silver Lake) in LA this week and spotted a very colorful man wearing weird clothes that actually worked for him. My first response was - Liza would draw that guy! I remember and love your Radicchio cartoon! PS - I, too, vote for Chickpeas!
I'm having so many chuckles and grins. Something is tickling my funny bone...or ribbing me? Please pass the gonzopeas and the radicchio dressing. Ahhh, words are such fun.
OK to hold your applause, but my wife Linda and I have been out of pocket for the last couple of weeks while we moved from a large house to a place less that half the size, only about 50 yards away. Don't ask!
Back to the subject at hand. I might be in the minority thinking fruits are funnier than vegetables, though both are full of potential. I've never had a persimmon, which is maybe why they seem more full of potential to me. I acknowledge that chickpeas are funny partly because it seems almost impossible that they have enough complexity to be worth contemplating. Of course the joke changes entirely if she's contemplating passion fruit. Has the desire for passion come down to this? Also changes if she's putting her study into banana peels, which I think are pretty universally funny. So is alfalfa.
Obviously I need to warm up more, as I missed spring training..
I will have to ponder whether fruit is funner than vegetables. I am not sure I agree, although persimmon is a very funny word. And yes, absolutely! the humor in the drawing is that she would spend an entire afternoon on chickpeas! But I think people do. Love the word alfalfa. And then there's alfalfa sprouts. Sprouts are funny, no matter what kind. But also what's funny is people's obsessions.....
You are positioned to bring down phony wellness. And the good news is it is FINALLY on the run. Smoking is coming back and people will stop obsessing about nutrition and fitness which are just covers for Gluttony & Sloth; the entire wellness biz is just a cover. Follow the money...
Chickpeas is funnier for me. Always creates the immediate impression of chicks as my mind quickly makes the adjustment to garbanzo beans. They never seem equal to my brain.
Chickpeas is funnier. I like that butter beans and Lima beans are the same thing but not depending on where you are… I like using the other intentionally wrong and getting weird looks from people trying to figure out what kind of bean I’m taking about. Also, not sure how it would translate, but pecan, pecan and pecan pie. 😂 It’ll always be the Billy Crystal “I’d like to partake of your pecan pie” in When Harry Met Sally that is my forever go-to.
I do like the idea of garbanzo beans if you brought the cans to life; gave them a personality that was at once funny and descriptive. I'd be curious to see what you came up with.
I love both of these cartoons! Anything food related is great to me, having spent a career in agricultural ecology (soil and water geek). I save your food cartoons. Some day I will ask permission to use them in my presentation slides. ‘Talks’ are always better with humor! How does that work, to get your permission or do I just have to credit you on the presentation ‘slide’. Ones particularly about organic food or naturally raised food or the many terms now out there would be the best! Make your next book about food cartoons, PLEASE! 🤣
Thank you, Urusula! Just contact me via email, and I'll give you persmission. I agree, talks are much better with humor. I use my cartoons every time I give a talk!
YES-- big article in the New York Times and elsewhere. Adult pacifiers are needed. Apparently, the real baby pacifiers are used at RAVES. But maybe the real estate crisis due to stupid Covid policies and Tech can be reversed if we have locations for smoking -- pot and cigarettes-- and pipes and cigars-- and conversation and beverages. A new biz model.
With the shortening of words these days (Convo for conversation, fam for family, etc) I vote for 'gonzo beans. We can always make up our own words now! I was driving thru my hood (Silver Lake) in LA this week and spotted a very colorful man wearing weird clothes that actually worked for him. My first response was - Liza would draw that guy! I remember and love your Radicchio cartoon! PS - I, too, vote for Chickpeas!
That's so great that my way of looking at things is now extended to you! Love it. Thank you!!
What if she were reading the paper and he wanted to fool around...with radicwhatever?
I'm having so many chuckles and grins. Something is tickling my funny bone...or ribbing me? Please pass the gonzopeas and the radicchio dressing. Ahhh, words are such fun.
OK to hold your applause, but my wife Linda and I have been out of pocket for the last couple of weeks while we moved from a large house to a place less that half the size, only about 50 yards away. Don't ask!
Back to the subject at hand. I might be in the minority thinking fruits are funnier than vegetables, though both are full of potential. I've never had a persimmon, which is maybe why they seem more full of potential to me. I acknowledge that chickpeas are funny partly because it seems almost impossible that they have enough complexity to be worth contemplating. Of course the joke changes entirely if she's contemplating passion fruit. Has the desire for passion come down to this? Also changes if she's putting her study into banana peels, which I think are pretty universally funny. So is alfalfa.
Obviously I need to warm up more, as I missed spring training..
Hope the move went well! You were both missed!
I will have to ponder whether fruit is funner than vegetables. I am not sure I agree, although persimmon is a very funny word. And yes, absolutely! the humor in the drawing is that she would spend an entire afternoon on chickpeas! But I think people do. Love the word alfalfa. And then there's alfalfa sprouts. Sprouts are funny, no matter what kind. But also what's funny is people's obsessions.....
You are positioned to bring down phony wellness. And the good news is it is FINALLY on the run. Smoking is coming back and people will stop obsessing about nutrition and fitness which are just covers for Gluttony & Sloth; the entire wellness biz is just a cover. Follow the money...
Is it on the run? And that's kinda shocking that smoking is coming back, yikes!
Don’t forget rutabagas!!
oh right!! Great word.
Chickpeas is funnier for me. Always creates the immediate impression of chicks as my mind quickly makes the adjustment to garbanzo beans. They never seem equal to my brain.
I know, right? Odd that it has two names...
So spending an afternoon in an effort to understand them feels like something worth doing ( in a funny way.
Yes on the fooling around cartoon.
For the second cartoon above:
She: “I’m think about fooling around with Radicchio.”
He: “That wouldn’t be radioacchtive, would it?”
Radicchio suggest another funny word, chicory which rhymes with hickory dickory (Mother Goose).
Chickpeas is funnier. I like that butter beans and Lima beans are the same thing but not depending on where you are… I like using the other intentionally wrong and getting weird looks from people trying to figure out what kind of bean I’m taking about. Also, not sure how it would translate, but pecan, pecan and pecan pie. 😂 It’ll always be the Billy Crystal “I’d like to partake of your pecan pie” in When Harry Met Sally that is my forever go-to.
I had forgotten that pecan line, how great. And beans are so confusing! There are so many differnt kinds and different names. I need a PhD in beans.
Crap!!! Now you got me singing “beans, beans…” from the Witch’s Rap in “Into The Woods” … that is gonna bang around my head all day!!! 😂😂 https://youtu.be/-tXTiPyOCgk?si=HSUMc_fpcMjzpQa9
I do like the idea of garbanzo beans if you brought the cans to life; gave them a personality that was at once funny and descriptive. I'd be curious to see what you came up with.
I love both of these cartoons! Anything food related is great to me, having spent a career in agricultural ecology (soil and water geek). I save your food cartoons. Some day I will ask permission to use them in my presentation slides. ‘Talks’ are always better with humor! How does that work, to get your permission or do I just have to credit you on the presentation ‘slide’. Ones particularly about organic food or naturally raised food or the many terms now out there would be the best! Make your next book about food cartoons, PLEASE! 🤣
Thank you, Urusula! Just contact me via email, and I'll give you persmission. I agree, talks are much better with humor. I use my cartoons every time I give a talk!
YES-- big article in the New York Times and elsewhere. Adult pacifiers are needed. Apparently, the real baby pacifiers are used at RAVES. But maybe the real estate crisis due to stupid Covid policies and Tech can be reversed if we have locations for smoking -- pot and cigarettes-- and pipes and cigars-- and conversation and beverages. A new biz model.