@ Patrick – The Anagram Server indicates that the answer must be “Love“, because if it isn’t that, it would have to be a (fairly unpalatable) “Vole“.
P.S. @ Shrug – Thanks for the reminder. I knew I had already seen a squid joke this week, but could not remember the source. How silly of me not to go straight to the place with a resident penguin.
There is a brand of frozen bowl meals called “Evol”.
@Kilby – The Anagram Server is one of my go-to sites! Try converting Holiday Fruitcake into A Clarified Hot Yuk without it!
I could be wrong, but to be an anagram doesn’t the output have to be interpretable?
I figure “ovel” meant to be “love” was a sort of additional meta-joke.
I agree that the last ingredient of Anagraham Crackers was included as a nod to the slogan “baked with love”.
I see it as a sort of Easter egg for those who go on to read the label and not just the items in the speech bubble and the product name.
Quoth Mitch4: There is a brand of frozen bowl meals called “Evol”.
Frozen haggis?
Oh, bowl, not bowel…!
Brilliantly funny set for me; tops most Sunday LOLs. I scrolled down slowly on the calamari panel and when I finally revealed the caption, my whole body lit up. (, being extra primed for it by the recent goings-on in the news).
Regarding the semi-synchronicity of Squid Pro Quo, perhaps Boston Legal S2E25 has been rerun recently?
I remember in the news fairly recently, some product really did include “Love” in their ingredient list. The FDA came after them because chemical tests could detect no actual love in the product.
As long as we‘ve gotten to the end of the ingredients, I have a minor “kvetch” about the nutritional guide: why didn‘t he anagr(ah)am everything, instead of just the “ragus“? The others could have been changed, too: “Lac, Trop, Barc, Brief, & Odiums“.
I wondered the same.
I was a bit confused by “ragus” in both its occurrences, since Ragu is a brand name for a bottled pasta sauce, which in turn probably is based in the noun “ragout”. But I ignored it after seeing the anagraham.
@Mitch: Ragù is just Italian for sauce. Well, properly a meat based sauce for pasta. And it is etymologically related to ragout. But the truth is that the brand name is actually about as generic as you can get.
Thanks, DemetriosX! I’m not really a fan of that brand, though I confess to usually starting my red sauce with a bottled product, then adding fresh sausage say, and a bunch of vegetables before simmering a while.
And I suppose Ragus do contain Sugars ;)
I have to admit that the anagraham crackers sound disgusting — more sugar than flour, more salt than egg? I’m hoping that Scott Hilburn isn’t aware that ingredients are listed in descending order of volume, because otherwise, he’s got a real strange idea of what food is…
@ ianosmond – I totally agree with you about the salt, but the relative amounts are listed by weight, not volume, and the sugar could easily outweigh the flour.
” I’m hoping that Scott Hilburn isn’t aware that ingredients are listed in descending order of volume”
Anagrams involve altering the default order of things. So your assumption that the ingredients are in order is at best suspect.
My youngest was dating a young man with the last name Graham. His sister’s name? Anna. We had fun naming their potential future children. Theodore. Candace. Telly (my hubby is Greek), Monica…. :-)
Comics I Don't Understand 
Nope, I didn’t submit any of these.
Or am I, like Cynthia’s grandfather, forgetting things . . . ?
Bat cop, bat cop, what’cha gonna do?
Anabatpists …
Yevoy!
Ovel?
BLOOM COUNTY 2019 used a “squid pro quo” pun just a few days ago, as part of a somewhat disjointed storyline:
https://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2019/10/05
https://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2019/10/09
@ Patrick – The Anagram Server indicates that the answer must be “Love“, because if it isn’t that, it would have to be a (fairly unpalatable) “Vole“.
P.S. @ Shrug – Thanks for the reminder. I knew I had already seen a squid joke this week, but could not remember the source. How silly of me not to go straight to the place with a resident penguin.
There is a brand of frozen bowl meals called “Evol”.
@Kilby – The Anagram Server is one of my go-to sites! Try converting Holiday Fruitcake into A Clarified Hot Yuk without it!
I could be wrong, but to be an anagram doesn’t the output have to be interpretable?
I figure “ovel” meant to be “love” was a sort of additional meta-joke.
I agree that the last ingredient of Anagraham Crackers was included as a nod to the slogan “baked with love”.
I see it as a sort of Easter egg for those who go on to read the label and not just the items in the speech bubble and the product name.
Quoth Mitch4: There is a brand of frozen bowl meals called “Evol”.
Frozen haggis?
Oh, bowl, not bowel…!
Brilliantly funny set for me; tops most Sunday LOLs. I scrolled down slowly on the calamari panel and when I finally revealed the caption, my whole body lit up. (, being extra primed for it by the recent goings-on in the news).
Regarding the semi-synchronicity of Squid Pro Quo, perhaps Boston Legal S2E25 has been rerun recently?
I remember in the news fairly recently, some product really did include “Love” in their ingredient list. The FDA came after them because chemical tests could detect no actual love in the product.
Prof. Google’s Magic Search Engine tells me it was 2 years ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/04/fda-rebukes-bakery-for-claiming-love-as-an-ingredient-in-granola/
As long as we‘ve gotten to the end of the ingredients, I have a minor “kvetch” about the nutritional guide: why didn‘t he anagr(ah)am everything, instead of just the “ragus“? The others could have been changed, too: “Lac, Trop, Barc, Brief, & Odiums“.
I wondered the same.
I was a bit confused by “ragus” in both its occurrences, since Ragu is a brand name for a bottled pasta sauce, which in turn probably is based in the noun “ragout”. But I ignored it after seeing the anagraham.
@Mitch: Ragù is just Italian for sauce. Well, properly a meat based sauce for pasta. And it is etymologically related to ragout. But the truth is that the brand name is actually about as generic as you can get.
Thanks, DemetriosX! I’m not really a fan of that brand, though I confess to usually starting my red sauce with a bottled product, then adding fresh sausage say, and a bunch of vegetables before simmering a while.
And I suppose Ragus do contain Sugars ;)
I have to admit that the anagraham crackers sound disgusting — more sugar than flour, more salt than egg? I’m hoping that Scott Hilburn isn’t aware that ingredients are listed in descending order of volume, because otherwise, he’s got a real strange idea of what food is…
@ ianosmond – I totally agree with you about the salt, but the relative amounts are listed by weight, not volume, and the sugar could easily outweigh the flour.
” I’m hoping that Scott Hilburn isn’t aware that ingredients are listed in descending order of volume”
Anagrams involve altering the default order of things. So your assumption that the ingredients are in order is at best suspect.
My youngest was dating a young man with the last name Graham. His sister’s name? Anna. We had fun naming their potential future children. Theodore. Candace. Telly (my hubby is Greek), Monica…. :-)
I haven’t heard of any Monicas going by “Monna”.