Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 29, 2013

I spooned out the remaining batter in the pot, I liked this!!

Poison? Cool! Never had that before, eh, Calvin?

Maybe you’ll have a batter day tomorrow Calvin.

Cookie batter, hamburger with all the goodies in it before its cooked.You got to snitch that stuff with out Mom seeing you.My Dad taught my brothers and me how good a pinch of that tasted,we raised and butchered our own meat.

If you never ate any of the things that could kill you, you were never a kid. It must be tough growing up in a lysol society; you miss some of the best parts of childhood- sharing a soda, getting “licks” off an ice cream cone, all that stuff that boosts your immune system without shots or pills. I say let ’em eat icing.

5% of all eggs have salmonella, just like 5% of all condoms are ineffective. Who wants to take a chance?

Do you know anybody who knows anybody who says theyknow anybody that got sick eating cookie dough?

All these dangerous things. And to think that when we were kids we did just about all of them. Nobody ever suffered I’ll effects as far as I remember.

My old scoutmastr ate raw eggs after “cooking” them in the sun for two or three secomds. I used to eat raw hamburger too.

It’s been a while since I lived in the States, but overseas, and especially in Asia, raw eggs are served with everything. Even salads.

Hogwash! I remember when we could buy the most delicious Orange Julius in townwith a raw egg it. To this day I still eat the left over chocolate chip cookie batter. I’m still alive and kickin’ in my late 70’s.

Like when you found out how they make hot dogs, huh?

eweweew…….look poor Calvin’s

Beef tartare is this days realy dangerous to get salmonella poisoning!!

My eldest son once nearly died by an salmonella poisoning, it’s realy dangerous!!

This is true for a lot of things we used to do, now everything is bad for us.

Calvin- instead of despairing, go outside and drink from the garden hose.

When I was young, we ate the cookie dough, drank out of the garden hose, played with toy guns, rode bikes without helmets…etc. Never recall anyone getting sick, hurt, or killed doing our dangerous things.

Don’t despair Calvin…those will become nice, soft, WARM chocolate chip COOKIES! Yummers!

But why and how would Calvin know about nostalgia for childhood? This is one of those where the writer’s voice gags the character and takes over.

She shouldn’t be using eggs that contain salmonella anyway.

Use Eggbeaters—they are pastuerized.

but, cookie dough ice cream is so good. just like snickers ice cream, or klondike bars.

I never knew Calvin’s mother was one of those dreaded helicopter mothers! Surprised she lets him out of the house without a helmet and knee/elbow pads. EAT THE DARN STUFF…..IT’S GREAT!

If cookie dough had salmonella, I’d have been dead for years now. And a lot lighter.

I once ate a dead rat and never got sick. (Bill Cosby)

“For Batter or Worse”

I haven’t heard of an egg recall, in like forever, but ground beef recalls are fairly common. The only way anyone should ever consider eating uncooked hamburger, is if they ground it themselves, or know the butcher who did. E-coli, mad-cow, shigell, and listeria, are just some of the hazards of uncooked or undercooked ground beef. This is nothing to fool with.

I knew he looked familiar! This is Rocky as a kid!

Yeah, forgot to put on then lied about…

I make cookies with an egg substitute so yummy, I eat lots of batter without a 2nd thought.

Wonder if salmonella can get salmonella.

Your mom’s just looking out for you, Calvin.

i dunno, but i’m gonna LIVE before i die..

Good thing you asked first, Calvin!

But no need to have a face on as sour as a lemon in the last panel.

LOL xxx

I got salmonella from raw cookie dough when I was 11. It was horrid. It’s a real risk and not one anyone should take. It’s just not worth it.

and it’s fantastic with bread!!!

So, are chickens dirtier these days? Are their eggs?: We used to enjoy cookie batter and still do. We drank from the garden hose, rode bikes with out todays armor . So chicken eggs are suddenly germier than say 20 30 years ago?? Come on!!

BS, I’ve never gotten that.

A good mother allows her kids to lick the beaters.A really good mother unplugs the mixer first!

A relative made lemon icebox pie, did not cook. We all got sick!! Now we never eat anything she brings to our family parties.

My five children & I ate cookie batter constantly while they were young. Nobody ever got ill from it. It became a huge battle trying to keep them out of it! Today’s children are too protected sometimes. Isn’t that why they created antibiotics?

not as good as usuaul

Salmonella be damned, I’m eating the batter.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 10,000 eggs contain Salmonella. To me, that is an acceptable risk. I do insist that any batter be eaten within 1/2 hr of adding the eggs, as bacteria multiply rapidly at room temperature. Washing the eggs first would further reduce the risk.

I always heard that u got worms from the raw cookie dough.

I ate tons of cookie and cake batter and never got sick. My brother and I would split the left overs in the bowl and on the mixer blades.

Hard for this old ACOA to remember much of my childhood with any great fondness…..looking forward very much indeed to being home, really home, with Y’shua some day….

Salmonella my foot. I’m eating that cookie dough!

Salmonella from cookie dough and hamburger meat is very rare and usually just loose bowels. Now, getting E-coli from improperly butchered meat – from a butcher that does not want any waste is pretty bad. We eat rare beef quite around here, we rinse it off and only eay cuts of meat rather than hamburger. If you trust a butcher, you can have him make hamburger from chuck or a london broil, that is good hamburger.

There WAS an outbreak a number of years ago from a batch of commercial frozen dough. Made a fair number sick, and killed a couple of folks. The risk is probably a bit less with the home made stuff.

If raw cookie dough could kill you, no women would be alive today.

I like this I want more

I like this I want more

I think that is the reason so many people are sick now days. We keep every thing too neat and clean and have lost a lot of the built up immunity we have built up over the ages. Now it takes so little to makes us sick. I have been food poisoned more times than I can count from eating from sandwich trucks on job sites I have built up some what of an immunity to it. Once at the mill I worked at EVERY one that ate out of the sandwich machine but me was out the next day sick as a dog. I felt just fine. If something does break out the homeless man living in a cardboard box will be just fine when the rich penthouse man will be at death’s door.

It used to be safe to eat raw eggs when chickens roamed freely. Now they sit in boxes and poop on each others’ eggs — hence salmonella and other forms of food poisoning.

Salmonella should not even be an issue because our stomach is designed to kill this pathogen by nature. This pathogen and several others can only survive at a pH of very near to 7which is neutral. Our stomach is supposed to be at pH 2 or below. Because of poor diet and lack of HCL our gut pH gets to high. Often times this creates acid reflux resulting in the consumption of antacids, which in turn results in a stomach acid of apx. 7, which results in an environment that supports salmonella and other pathogens.

Who installs an oven in between a set of cabinets? That means there is no stove top to cook on.