Boise Ed submitted this Cornered panel, commenting: “What a great put-down!“
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P.S. A German flasher would hope she says: “That’s gross!“
P.P.S. To which he would then reply: “Dankeschön!“
F.Y.I.: Is everyone is already prepared for the upcoming holiday(s)?
How to tell a fruit from a vegetable:
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Your attitude towards caramelizing may depend on whether you’re the one who does the dishes. Similarly with dishes such as tahdig, “a beautiful, pan-fried Persian rice that is fluffy and buttery on the inside with a perfectly golden crust, which is the layer at the bottom of the pot.” — if you make it right. The first few times might not produce “a perfectly golden crust”.
And we couldn’t leave without a couple of nods to autumn.
The character in the leaf pile is Wallace’s mom:
This one’s from 1962, when leaf burning was still a tradition:
Comics I Don't Understand 
And what is the red guy, after the grapes and orange? Is it an apple (as the tiny stem and leaf may be conventionally suggesting), or is it a tomato (as the dimpled bottom may suggest), a tomato ready to be counted with the fruits?
And is it the same individual item or at least same kind, in the intro panel?
And to finish with the group on the Left, I guess the green pear-shaped one must be a pear, but what is the rather smaller orange one? Another citrus, like clementine or bergamot? Don’t say peach, the size and shape don’t go, even if that may be the color.
I think the little orange thing may be a kumquat.
I thought “today’s” Edge City, though a pretty simple dramatic-irony gag, was nicely done and earned a LOL.
Checking the supermarket web page, the big orange pumpkins are $3.99. Small variety ones are $1.99. Pie pumpkins are $0.99.
Bergamots are yellow when ripe. One thing I knew from a video or something is that many of the images shown on the web for the fruit are actually of the kaffir lime. Bergamots are smooth, not knobby. Also, the word is from Italian, not French, so it is not berg-a-moe, but berg-a-mot.
I’m a little uncertain about the Rhymes With Orange strip in general. Is the boutique important to what the fruit gathering is protesting? Or do they just not like vegetables in general and this is a place where they know they would be? And of course, both an eggplant and a cucumber would technically be fruits as well.
Hmm. I had put an image link into the bergamot post, but it didn’t render. I think I didn’t hit the return arrow for the link box. Here it is.
I’ve got loads of stuff scented or flavored as bergamot. (Almost as much as lavender.) And yes, that pronunciation was sorted out for me by an English linguist on YouTube, with the same bottom line as Brian gives.
(And it goes without saying, the first syllable is close to bairg and not burg )
Brian in STL: And bergamot is not the same as a sour orange, despite whatever page you found that image on seems to think. It’s believed to be a cross between a sour orange and some other citrus.
Which leads me to ask: how many folks know that pretty well all the citrus we buy are hybrids? I was surprised to learn this relatively recently. Not just specifically bred species, but cross-species hybrids!
That was Wikipedia, which says in the text:
Genetic research into the ancestral origins of extant citrus cultivars found bergamot orange to be a probable hybrid of lemon (itself a hybrid between bitter orange and citron[3][4]) and bitter orange.