Cookie Jowls is known for his tough meatballs and rubbery steaks, so Beetle Bailey and his fellow disgusted soldiers would likely need forks and knives with exceptional utensile-strength when attempting to cut up said "non-tender" comestibles into bite-sized pieces.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.