Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 07, 2013

what no eye of newt?

Boiling octopus is an incredibly vile smelling thing.

“But it’s all your favorite things!”

To start with Calvin does not like green yuck,but he surprises me about complaining what went into it.

My OHs response to anything with stems and leaves…

I prefer it breaded. You can tolerate anything when it’s breaded. Definitely, beer-battered…

Wanderful meal!!

I just made a big bowl of vanilla pudding, cool whip, fruit cocktail, mandarine oranges, mini marshmallows, pinapple, both cubed and crushed. All mixed with those tiny pasta balls and gave a bowl to the neighbors. Kids wouldn’t touch it because it was called Frog Eye Salad. Their lose, I loved it.

He and the Fox Trot kids should go in on a pizza.

Why are there four places set at the table? One for Hobbes?

Mom knows best, Calvin. Now eat your toxic octopus!

I love the visuals! You’d think that Mom was trying to poison everybody.

Gasoline? Isn’t Gasoline poisonous and cause cancer??

must be british food or that revolting thing called a haggis. or, it could be that gefilte fish. or, chitlins. or, goetta. or, the hangover food called a scotch egg.

I like when his mashed potatoes come alive & try to attack him

I had char-broiled octopus in Greece. It was delicious!

He needs to learn how to make his own food, I think.

He must have seen her add a vegetable.

I’ll bet Lio would lap it up.

For the frog -eye salad, I believe that the ‘pasta balls’ are called tapioca.never could stand that stuff.The marshmallows ruin it

Calamari! Yum!

Ha ha, shrunken heads aren’t Voodoo. Wondered if anyone else noticed it. There used to be a display case with real ones at the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, CA.

Years ago I had “Octopus cooked in it’s own ink” in Venice. I couldn’t actually read the menu but I was able to recognise that it was octopus of some sort. The table was set with a snow white table cloth and the dinner arrived on a white plate. A mound of something completely hidden by a black sauce. scraping the sauce aside with my fork I discovered cubes of white flesh. The cubes of octopus had a nutty flavor and I totally enjoyed the meal. The stark white and inky black of tablecloth, plate and food really added to the whole effect. Calvin, you should try it some time!

White paint! My favorite!!!

classic

Anytime my kids didn’t like what I had made, I told them they were too young to have it. For grown-ups only.

After a while, I guess they felt they were missing out on some good stuff, and would ask for a taste. Found out they liked whatever it was, so I lost all the good things I used to be able to eat myself, and had to share.

But now, they are not picky eaters at all. I guess I had the last laugh.

Mum, Don’t make him eat it, eh?LOL… I love the"screwed up in disgust" face in the last panel.xxx

I’m saving this recipe for Halloween!

Shriveled heads and octopus? I was sure Calvin would eat that!

Whenever my mother was tired of the “What’s for dinner?” question she’d tell me “Monkey tails.” Sometimes it was “kangaroo tails.” All looked like meatloaf to me. ;-)

mmm…. squid and shrunken head. my favorite

I love her expression, while doing her cooking. I’m lucky that my kids would eat almost anything.3 brothers each trying to get the best part or the most of it.

mmm, yummy weed killer :D

Is the octopus fresh? Otherwise, no way I’d eat that!

at least calvin is smart for once in his entire lifetime.

My Mom always gave me two choices for dinner. Take it or leave it.

But yet, he dives into boiled maggots? (Rice!)

I like my octopus pickled but often it’s hard getting it to drink enough.

Not true. I hear that some Norwegians moved to Louisiana, and cook a mean pan of Blackened Lutefisk!

WHAT!!! Calvin doesn’t like stewed monkey brains anymore?? Is the world coming to an end???

chemically processed food? gasoline in the kitchen? Only people who serf would eat lutefish?

This is like when my aunt made tilapia with fish eggs! Yuck!!!!!!

The jar of shrunken heads was a nice touch.