Traditional Cooking Gifts

Homemade Jam.

"Welcome to the Short Staffed Cafe serving food like your grandma cooked. Is your grandma busy? We really need a cook."

'I told you I only cook with my mother's Italian spices. She just left Naples and should be here with them in about eight hours.'

"Fine! Tell Tia Carmen the truth, tell her you don't like her stew! But be prepared to live with the consequences, young man."

Night of the Latkes

"O young, naive one...you must know the golden rule of the kitchen. To avoid the mother of all disrespects...never criticize the cooking of a family elder."

Full English Breakfast.

"Charming, absolutely charming."

"I bet you can't name one person who makes a better lengua casserole than me!"

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

"You betrayed her trust. You added spices to her soup. In Tia Carmen's eyes, you are an irresponsible youngster...and I don't blame her for doing this."

'Grandma makes everything from scratch! Why don't you ever buy any scratch?'

Keyboard in Front of a Organ

'I googled it Mom. There's no such thing as McLiver and onions.'

"The social conservative in me tells me to pay for dinner, but the fiscal conservative thinks we should split it."

Woman protesting to Free-Kirk pastor about a church organ

Happy St Pancakes Day!

'The King replaced me with easy listening!'

"Baldo, I don't like you eating that nasty food!"

Winery: Employees Must Wash Feet Before Returning to Work.

'A wee bowl of porridge can set you up for the day!'

"It's steak and chips, it is what the ploughman had for lunch!"

'Do you have any Cheese and Pickle?

Shaker Timeouts

"Sorry, I double-booked. This wouldn't happen if I had a computer - but they insist we do everything by hand."

'Here's trouble, it's the militant wing of the Philatelic Society!'

'Every traditional country kitchen needs an aga like this... It's perfect for keeping the microwave in.'

"I resolve to cook more traditional meals like my lengua casserole and pig's feet stew!"

"It seems an ungrateful and disrespectful monster has taken over Baldo's brain."

'One SHISH-KA-BOB TO GO!'

Andy is visited by the Ghost of Thanksgiving Future.

A Sweeping Reform.

A comic strip shows a man watching TV when a hat blows in through an open window and lands on his head. When a woman enters the room the man stands up and tips his hat to her before they both sit down and watch TV.