Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 02, 2018

Too bad it wasn’t tuna casserole. Calvin could have given it to Hobbes.

An Oscar nomination, to be sure.

And you thought Gordon Ramsay was hyper critical.

If he lives long enough to grow up, I hope he has lots of children just like him!

Just pretend that those chunks of hamburger are bbq-ed worms.

“I’m eating a cow? I don’t think I can finish this.”

It isn’t often you see the word “puke” in a comic strip!

Keep it Kido and you just might find that mom turns YOU into hamburger

I had sort of the opposite experience as a kid. My aunt had made salad with our dinner, and I said “hey, this is good, what is it?” She told me it was raw spinach, at which I responded “ew, this is gross!”

He chews the scenery way more than he chews his food.

Calvin don’t be so fussy : all is mixed in the stomach

Mum you have the patience of a Saint..

hahahaaha, “Somebody puked on mine” is an all-time gross-out Calvin remark. The kind of stuff you can’t even say to parents NOW. Watterson said he always got complaints when Calvin said gross things like this, but it’s so accurate to how kids talk when they want to be rebellious.

It must be the sauce. Or the peas, mushrooms, or mooshy carrots.

Our problem is three kids wanting three different things to eat. I’ll tell them that our kitchen is not a restaurant and if they don’t want what I give them that they can eat boogers.

Maybe Mom could just give Calvin bowls of chocolate covered sugar bombs for lunch and diner, as well as breakfast?

First two panels made me laugh (again). Classic.

Everyone’s a critic.

Yet another guy who can’t admit when he’s wrong. Or ask for directions. :)

“The secret is to suppress the gag reflex”XD

It’s either that or frozen 1950s chicken-pot-pie.

“Hoopa”?

What a hoot it would be to live under the same roof as a kid who actually spoke and acted this way. I’d be on the floor constantly rolling in gales of laughter.

Back in the ’40’s, my sis and I absolutely refused to eat parsnips, cooked, boiled or in any other form. One day, Ma made “a special dessert” that looked like a custard pie and so we et it and called it good and wanted more. All said and done, she told us that it was “parsnip pie” almost, but not quite making us hurl, but lesson learned. http://www.foodgal.com/2010/11/parsnip-pie-please/

In Calvin’s defense, Mom does serve some nasty-looking meals! I certainly hope they taste better than they look!

Tell Calvin it’s monkey guts – then he’ll like it!

Hey, I have a beef with it, too!

This is why kids should eat by themselves at the kid table. Poor mom shouldn’t have her dinner ruined by this brat. I’d feed him PB sandwiches or hot dogs for every meal.

If I had ever said that to my Mom I suspect the consequences would have been dire.

I love all the colors his face turns here.

In typical fashion I threw a fit the first time I had to eat pizza. Of course, it was delicious and things were great from there on out. But that’s just the way I was as a stupid kid.

Even my mom, who won’t tolerate any form of criticism, always said Calvin’s mom’s cooking looks pretty bad….although maybe we’re seeing it through his eyes?

It is funny—-my husband Jason was like this according to his mother, but now that I do the cooking—he eats it all and loves it all.

Told my mother-in-law “perhaps it is just the way it is prepared now.” She laughed, saying “Well, you are the better cook!”