Love panel 3! Dad and Wallace trying to gross out one another. Sterling would consider them amateurs! I shudder to think of all the things he has ingested and licked.
My older brother went clamming with a fellow when he was a pastor in Nova Scotia, and brought me and our younger brother along. The guy demonstrated this super-fresh technique and said something like the, the trick is to savor it for just a moment. My brother gave it a try, but as he was about to swallow he coughed it up again. “Guess I savored it a little too long!” I like to try new food and have had sashimi, but I wasn’t about to try that.
My father-in-law would do that with oysters. While fishing he’d sometimes accidentally hook a clump of oysters and bring them into the boat. He’s shuck and eat them on the spot. Kept a little bottle of Tabasco in his tackle box. But he never called it “kissing the ocean on the lips.” That’s pretty poetic!
Living in Nebraska we don’t get them fresh. But when on vacation on the coast, watch out! Our last trip to New England we were clammed out and lobster overloaded.
I went to college in Maine and grad school in RI—never got deep into clams, nor hockey for that matter. Too attached to VT’s cheese and skiing.
Our gross food habit may be dribbled congealed tree blood, known as maple sugar on snow. That and the abovementioned dried coagulated milkfat, and apple cider (you don’t look too closely at what falls into the press).
angelolady Premium Member about 2 months ago
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, no, not raw……!! (Give Seagull one)
saobadao about 2 months ago
Ate raw oysters once. What was I thinking. Never, ever again. Could I find a bathroom quick enough?! Barely!
Kenneth Berkun Premium Member about 2 months ago
Eating oysters is like eating the ocean.
KC135E/R BOOMER about 2 months ago
Fresh Raw Oysters…Yummy!
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member about 2 months ago
Yes, raw oysters. Like a gulp of seawater! Raw clams are good too, just very chewy.
pschearer Premium Member about 2 months ago
Little-necks are clams. Just sayin’.
Ida No about 2 months ago
Raising the bar by lowering it. Kids are just so amazing…
The Duke about 2 months ago
Needs a little Tabasco sauce.
crookedwolf Premium Member about 1 month ago
Wallace, why?!
gozirra2 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Love panel 3! Dad and Wallace trying to gross out one another. Sterling would consider them amateurs! I shudder to think of all the things he has ingested and licked.
DaBump Premium Member about 1 month ago
My older brother went clamming with a fellow when he was a pastor in Nova Scotia, and brought me and our younger brother along. The guy demonstrated this super-fresh technique and said something like the, the trick is to savor it for just a moment. My brother gave it a try, but as he was about to swallow he coughed it up again. “Guess I savored it a little too long!” I like to try new food and have had sashimi, but I wasn’t about to try that.
ronsal2 about 1 month ago
nah. They’re ok. Potter Pond flushes out daily……
jschumaker about 1 month ago
I like the elevated view of panel 3.
Fontessa about 1 month ago
My father-in-law would do that with oysters. While fishing he’d sometimes accidentally hook a clump of oysters and bring them into the boat. He’s shuck and eat them on the spot. Kept a little bottle of Tabasco in his tackle box. But he never called it “kissing the ocean on the lips.” That’s pretty poetic!
Killraven Premium Member about 1 month ago
And loving it!
rockyridge1977 about 1 month ago
……or the chewing gum stuck under the table!!!!
srandyt about 1 month ago
..sharing age-appropriate metaphors, family life!
oish about 1 month ago
Never saw raw clams used for sushi / sashimi – I’ll stick to steamed shellfish
raybarb44 about 1 month ago
Yeah, that rail thing gives me the creeps….
Durak Premium Member about 1 month ago
I can imagine Squanto teaching the Pilgrims how to do this and them saying, “You’re pulling my leg, right?”
ilovecomics*infinity about 1 month ago
I think this is the most divisive WTB strip in a while. And it’s about clams. I love this comic.
rhpii about 1 month ago
Living in Nebraska we don’t get them fresh. But when on vacation on the coast, watch out! Our last trip to New England we were clammed out and lobster overloaded.
goboboyd about 1 month ago
Not gonna even think about the water fountain in the hall.
coffeeturtle about 1 month ago
Kids: a/k/a Germ magnets
8^)
LJZ Premium Member about 1 month ago
I worked in a grocery store for many years. A favorite thing for 3 to 5 year olds was to lick the chrome railings dividing the checkstands!
angelolady Premium Member about 1 month ago
I just noticed “shuck” is a sound effect. Very cute.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 1 month ago
My favorite Aunt told me that she ate only one in her life, but she swallowed it three times.
I, on the other hand, chew before i swallow.
NWdryad about 1 month ago
If clams taste like school handrails, remind me never to eat one raw.
chromosome Premium Member about 1 month ago
I don’t have problems with other people liking and eating them, I just don’t want them… a texture thing. It feels like eating a giant booger.
Radioshack Premium Member about 1 month ago
Raw oysters … like hocking a loogie in reverse.
angelolady Premium Member about 1 month ago
I’ve never had so much fun getting grossed out!
beany54 about 1 month ago
No thank you!
JH&Cats about 1 month ago
I went to college in Maine and grad school in RI—never got deep into clams, nor hockey for that matter. Too attached to VT’s cheese and skiing.
Our gross food habit may be dribbled congealed tree blood, known as maple sugar on snow. That and the abovementioned dried coagulated milkfat, and apple cider (you don’t look too closely at what falls into the press).
prrdh about 1 month ago
“Every day in every day, I am getting grosser and grosser.”