Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 13, 2018

I can see Calvin as host of a survival show.

Way to go Mom.

Wait until Children Services hear of this.

Good old reverse psychology …

Calvin will grow up and have is own exotic cooking show.

Does this mean that Anthony Bourdain was the grown-up Calvin?

Tapeworm proglottids…

Dad usually tells Calvin these tall tales. Maybe he’s getting old. Lol

Sigh… just gotta love moms!

That brings back memories.

This looks like something Dad would do, not Mom. I’m surprised.

Calvin must get his sense of adventure from Mom. You wonder Dad bothered with her, if she can come up with a perfect Calvinesque response so fast.

Whatever works, Dad ☺

He would rather eat maggots than food; that is so like a six-year old boy!

In the 80’s whenever the kids asked what was for dinner, Dad always replied Bugs and Dirt. No matter what I made! (FYI broccoli stems standing upright in mashed potatoes made a lovely fairy land forest of trees – anything to make them eat veggies, right? ;)

Years later so,eone went and made it a candy treat, gummy worms and oreo cookie crumbs or something. Dad was ahead of his time lol!

Mom knows motivation

That get them to start eating them, so that by the time they find out what it really is, they already like it. Did the same thing with broccoli with my grandson(or did he do it to himself?), by calling it ‘trees for dinosaurs.’ It got to be so popular, that my grandson would ask for it in restaurants, AND using its correct name.

Think maggots are pretty much nutritionally equivalent to rice.

Okay to eat as long as they’re not wiggling around, ‘cause if they are, you’d have to squish them first… (Ewwww indeed)

I love him! This toon marks my day! So funny

Are they wriggling? They are best when they are wriggling – like gahhhckkk, they are best served fresh.

Seriously, what’s up with the ink these days?

My 9th grade science teacher (biology) was famous for a practical joke where he had a beaker of chocolate cooking in our classroom lab and he would dip ant heads in it. He had some on the side that he had “dipped before the class” and he would offer them to us to try them. Someone would and say that they tasted kind of like raisins, and of course it was revealed that the pre-cooked ants were really chocolate covered raisins. Everyone else would then eat some.

After that was done, some people would mention that the raisins were a little crunchy and our teacher, with a gleam in his eye, would say, “Umm, raisins aren’t crunchy”. The look on their faces was priceless.

Then we’d all wipe some chocolate on our lips and go out into the school and talk about how great the chocolate covered ants tasted.

You’d think Dad would be on board with this sort of thing.

And if he did travel more, the side benefit would be less chance of a sibling for Calvin.

My 6 year old grandson was really impressed by a kid who swallowed quarters on the school bus

I love this comic, but it’s #2 on my list of Mom’s innovative ways to get Calvin to eat. This may be my all time favorite C&H and I still laugh https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/08/14

What is it with kids and gruesomeness? They’re not interested in anything unless it crawls, slithers, or squishes………… (sigh)

I can see it now how to make a 6 year old boy eat is food.

I’ll bet his mom gets a call from the school or Defax.

got news for you all: lobsters, crabs, and shrimp are insects

Ahh—the [insert your favorite meal] of champions …

Made me laugh.

Nature or nurture, Dad. How did he get to be like this at such a young age?

Heck, I LOVE white rice!