Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 09, 2023

You should have seen the other things that were squeezed before the milk producing ones.

Is it afternoon yet?…..

Maybe try goat’s milk?

What’s especially weird is that there’s recent evidence humans started drinking cow milk BEFORE we evolved the ability to digest lactose.

Who was the first cow who wandered over to a human and offered milk?

I want to know the first person who milked an almond.

Weird !

For once Calvin makes a lot of sense. I prefer almond milk on my cereal.

Calvin is oblivious to the fact that people would have observed calves nursing essentially the same way human babies do, so people would have realized that the liquid that comes from cows would hardly be the “mysterious”, potentially dangerous/awful substance he implies.

i wasn’t there but i am betting that humans started borrowing a cup of milk from the Goats in order to feed their babies when mom’s milk wasn’t dropping.

How hungry was the first person who looked at a sea urchin and said, “Cool spines! Oooh, they’re toxic! You know I bet I could eat this!”

These are actually really interesting questions that Calvin is asking. Along with “who was the genius who invented sausages?” And “who invented string?”

In my opinion, string technology was more important than the wheel. Holds human life together. With string and knots, you can tie the goat skin round your waist and protect the essentials. You can tie your stone axe head onto the wooden handle, and then attach the whole thing to the string round your waist so your hands are free. Tie a big string to a log, and three or four blokes can concentrate their strength on one part of the log to move it. Then someone with an IQ of 180 will invent the bow.

I’m sorry, I get carried away. I’ll stop.

One of my FAVORITE C&Hs!

Looks like Calvin is partaking of his daily dose of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs.

Easy explanation actually: it was a dare.

I understand tigress milk is not good for humans, though, Calvin, in case you get any ideas of having some of Hobbs’ female friends over.

Honestly, I prefer almond milk nowadays.

I say the same thing about lobster. Think about how hungry the first guy to eat one must have been. “Look at this weird, ugly thing with the monster claws. I wonder how it would taste served boiled with some clarified butter to dip it in?” Don’t get me wrong, I love lobster – I live smack dab in the middle of lobster fishing central. We pack live lobsters and put pallets full of them on airplanes to ship all over the world.

I think this was the strip that Watterson himself included in his 10th anniversary book, where he said that he really had that thought: “Who was that guy?”

Something I’ve been wondering is what people would see if they could see Hobbes walking behind Calvin with his own bowl of cereal? Possibly, they would see Hobbes in Calvin’s arms and would only see Calvin’s bowl of cereal. But what would happen when Calvin and Hobbes were both at the table? Would they then see that Hobbes has his own bowl of cereal? As I said earlier, I agree with Calvin that some things do seem weirder the more that you think about them.

’Cause milking almonds is harder…….

Hobbes afraid Calvin is going to ask what comes out of a tiger if he tries to milk it?

As a human, I do not consume breast fluid from other species. If our bodies needed to drink milk we would never ween off of our mothers. Dairy consumption increases the risk of several chronic diseases. If you are interested in the science, go to:

https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=dairyhttps://switch4good.org/https://drmiltonmillsplantbasednation.com/

It’s your body and your choice. Do what you want but at least know the facts.

Interesting how Calvin can have deep thoughts at times…

Hmm, yeah.

I am with Hobbes in the last panel.

Yeah! Who goes around squeezing ‘things’ all the time?

As a teenager, I learned how to “moo” very convincingly. Excuse me while I let loose with a good one…

Calvin – the original vegan!

So what does Calvin think about eggs?

Because bull milk is too expensive?

Many things fall into that category.

I’m with Calvin on this one. We are the only species on earth that never gets Weaned off of milk. Think about it.

Until recently, most people spent most of their time trying to find enough Calories to survive.

Okay, now I can even think about cheese. Happy fricken Friday!

Well, I can think of other things I would rather drink the milk out of, but every time I try, I get slapped!

I have a couple of friends from Japan who still find it unbelievable that western people drink cow milk on such a regular basis.

Much of the society we enjoy (?) today was built on someone defying accepted norms and/or common sense and doing something icky and gross.

When Calvin asks a weird question that’s actually a good one for once

Ever tried to milk a pig?

But do you know?

I don’t blame you, Hobbs.

Yeah, and “drowning” cereal in sugar. Whose idea was that?

Yeah…. What about snails, too ??

The first guy needed it for his cereal, Calvin.

I’ve thought the same thing about the first person to eat kiwi fruit. Looks like a road apple.

People eat beef tongue! Ugh! I could never eat something that’s been in an animal’s mouth. Just fry me an egg.

Milking a cow and drinking the milk was an evolutionary step. The guy who tried to milk a bull didn’t pass on his genes.

Bananas were first eaten in puritan England. Think about that for a moment.

One of my favorites – had it clipped and posted at work for years!

Apparently cattle, sheep, and goats produce milk whose fat content is roughly similar to humans’ which is why we milk them and not other domesticated mammals like horses or pigs. And of the three, cows are by far the most productive.

Hobbes is right, and not just in this specific case. The earlier in the day it is, the less interest I have in talking with people.

Many a young lady has succumbed to that “I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of this when I squeeze it” notion.

When we were little, my sister refused to drink cow’s milk or eat butter but when we told her it was from a horse, she was okay with it.

We should be fed on mother’s milk alone. Keeping up the lactase allows us to enjoy other products made from cow and goat milk.

I too thought it was weird when I was a kid that people drank what I thought of as breast milk for calves. Later, when I learned they separated the calves from their mothers soon after birth I thought it was cruel.

This comic single handedly ruined milk for me.

I’ve seen Calvin’s quote from this particular strip a lot on websites over the years, but not actually attributed to this strip. It’s so commonplace that it’s hard to believe it actually originated here.

And who thought – Ahh, let it sour and curdle. And, I’ll help it along. Besides, I’ve got all this Cheese Cloth laying around.

I think the same thing about lobster …

And which was the first cow to let some human squeeze her teats?

When I was in my late teens and early ’20s my friends and I had this conversation about alcohol and a large number of other more or less naturally occurring drugs.

People with very little to eat will try most anything especially after observing other animals eating something.

You make us to think gross as well, Calvin.

What else would we drink besides cow’s milk?

One of my favorite quotes from “C&H” as well. Kinda makes you wonder about cows and milk, too, doesn’t it?

Made me laugh.

Actually an old David Brenner joke