Cathy and The Family Circus: I like Bobby Flay's pomegranite glaze with goat cheese stuffing!

Here we see contrasting views of old people. In Cathy, old people are depicted as having given in completely to the consumer culture of cooking shows and processed foods, leading Cathy of all people--that archetype of the female, baby boomer consumption machine--to get nostalgic for the good old days when people made their meals with their hands.

Meanwhile, in The Family Circus, old people are shown to live up to Cathy's ideal, as Grandma makes a pumpkin pie from scratch, smiling pitifully at Dolly's idiotic nattering about the instant desserts she takes for granted.

Given that The Family Circus largely exists to massage old people's egos, it's not hard to guess which of these comics is presenting a more realistic view of the modern geriatric cook.