Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 30, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    WRONG! You are suppose to take off an even layer from top, so the peanut maintains a uniform texture.

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    codycab  over 1 year ago

    I dare anyone to ask Calvin about jelly!

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    Diagonally, Calvin as in from top left to bottom right or from top right to bottom left?

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    i thought you dip the celery in the PB jar, but no double-dipping.

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    The Gods have been offended. Calvin and his mother are doomed.

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    Charliegirl Premium Member over 1 year ago

    He sure is a weird little kid.

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    Farside99  over 1 year ago

    “Why are the crusts still on the bread?”

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    BigDaveGlass  over 1 year ago

    Entitled, no?

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    The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I don’t think the chief is going to make the cut.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 1 year ago

    Calvin not only has a strong vocabulary, he has this savvy approach to nuances. Love the kid, Bill.

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    Schmoozr  over 1 year ago

    Well, triangles do taste better..

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    sargon1  over 1 year ago

    When I was a little boy, I insisted that my mom spread mustard on the bologna and not on the bread. To this day, I wonder why I did that.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And cut off the crust?

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    Judy Hendrickson [Unnamed Reader - 852856]  over 1 year ago

    Shut up Calvin!!!!

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    “If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life” sounds like wisdom from the Old Master.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 1 year ago

    He’s sounding like Petey Otterloop now.

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    Kaputnik  over 1 year ago

    Diagonally? The only proper way to slice it is in a zigzag pattern.

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    losflemings  over 1 year ago

    I am a strong proponent of diagonal bread

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    Purple People Eater  over 1 year ago

    You shouldn’t cut the bread at all, just fold it. When you cut it, all the flavor leaks out.

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    Ellen Smith-Susan Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I remember trying to do that with the peanut butter as a kid!

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    joegeethree  over 1 year ago

    Looks like both Calvin and I prefer smooth over crunchy.

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    JamieLee Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My granddaughter insisted on no crusts, bread sliced diagonally, and the peanut butter spread on one piece of bread with the jelly spread on the other slice of bread. Not on the peanut butter. How do kids come up with this stuff? :-)

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    hariseldon59  over 1 year ago

    This is the sort of thing that actually makes me glad I live alone. I eat my peanut butter any d*** way I please.

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    Just-me  over 1 year ago

    Mom is on to something. Calvin can make his own sandwiches though under supervision…no telling what havoc he could wreak if he weren’t.

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    dflak  over 1 year ago

    Some people feel very threatened when someone breaks with tradition.

    “We’ve always done it this way.” Is a fairly decent impediment to progress.

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    bbenoit  over 1 year ago

    Worked with a guy, once, who was upset to the point he would not eat his lunch because his wife had handed him their son’s lunch bag by mistake. Same contents, only difference was the P,B&J was cut wrong. The “adult” sandwich had to be cut diagonally and the kid’s rectangularly. Sooo many layers to unpack there.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    Oy! And if you want the crusts cut off, do it yourself, Calvin!

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    chuckcork1  over 1 year ago

    So many signs of being nuero-divergent here.

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    mrchongo  over 1 year ago

    @Sir Isaac. I trust that the other party to the “we” doesn’t eat peanut butter…or gets their own jar! ;-)

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    vehlers  over 1 year ago

    I try to do this with every jar of peanut butter now. Someone else inevitably ends up ruining it.

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    Redd Panda  over 1 year ago

    Obviously Calvin never saw peanut butter from the old days.

    Ever try and stir natural peanut butter and not make a mess? Can’t be done.

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    Droptma Styx  over 1 year ago

    Petey Otterloop would still find it unacceptable somehow.

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    rshive  over 1 year ago

    Few things worse than diagonally-cut bread.

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    uniquename  over 1 year ago

    Most children just have bedtime rituals.

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    david_42  over 1 year ago

    With five sibs, I ate what was set before me. A habit that served me will through school cafeterias, college and my naval service.

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    BearsDown Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Calvin is becoming a Karen

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    Jimmyk939  over 1 year ago

    He’d never have survived in our house. 5 kids; as soon as you could hold a knife, you made your own PB&J. Didn’t make it, didn’t eat.

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    Nicki's ZoMcYo  over 1 year ago

    Diagonally cut sandwiches just taste better.

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  over 1 year ago

    and cut off the crust? and mom don’t forget the potato chips and bottle of JOLT cola!!!

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    aerotica69  over 1 year ago

    Calvin missed the important point – did she cut off the top crust of the bread?

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    sandpiper  over 1 year ago

    Cal is loony one minute, and detail oriented the next. A fractured mind at an early age.

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    gregcomn  over 1 year ago

    In the first grade I asked my mom to make sure the jelly was always on top. . . .

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    minty_Joe  over 1 year ago

    Calvin’s borderlining on Howard Hughes territory. The next thing you know, he’ll be locking himself in a private room, wearing Kleenex boxes as shoes and looping the same short movie scene over and over again.

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    Emperor Rick  over 1 year ago

    When he grows up hopefully he’ll never marry.

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    donwestonmysteries  over 1 year ago

    Wonder how he feels about a smidge of jelly mixed in the jar by someone who goes for jelly first.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    This is, in adults, a sign of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If it’s limited to peanut butter (and tigers) I wouldn’t worry about it.

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    KEA  over 1 year ago

    geez… and I thought I was CDO (that’s like OCD, but in the proper order)

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    ChessPirate  over 1 year ago

    That’s kind-of the way I eat ice cream from a container, because around the edges melts faster… ☺

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    I'm Sad  over 1 year ago

    This kid is lucky. When I was younger, I was lucky to have food period. A jar of peanut butter to me was like gold to a prospector.

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    g04922  over 1 year ago

    I have never heard that technique of scooping peanut butter… but it sorta makes sense.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    Cut it into a circular shape and serve sandwich medallions. Calvin would be impressed

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    anomaly  over 1 year ago

    Calvin, did you glue your eyes closed again?

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    When I first read this strip in the 90s I tried to do it his way for awhile. It was pretty impractical, the smooth top would usually collapse before too long.

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    wiley207  over 1 year ago

    At least this time she cut the sandwich diagonally, compared to this… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/24

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Nobody understands the important foibles.

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    eced52  over 1 year ago

    For a beggar he is awfully choosy.

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    ekke  over 1 year ago

    Wow, never in a million years would I have put Calvin into the same camp as Petey Otterloop! But here they are, exhibiting the same exhibitions — or inhibitions.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Calvin has a place in government as the Beefing Bureaucrat!

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    HodgeElmwood  over 1 year ago

    Big words from a kid who literally doesn’t control anything in his own life :)

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    pamela welch Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I remember mentioning to my Mother when I was about 9 that I wished she’d spread the jam to the ends of the bread. She handed me both jars and and bread … Yep, been making my own PB&Js ever since.

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    Speedytortoise  over 1 year ago

    He is correct, is it scientifically proven when a sandwich is cut diagonally it tastes better

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    j.l.farmer  over 1 year ago

    My mom would cut our sandwiches diagonally as a surprise now and then. she also would cut off the crust!

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