Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for May 20, 2024

Sage words of advice I’ll treasure… along with my 78 shellac recording of Never Hit Your Grandma with a Shovel by Spike Jones and the City Slickers.

I thought they called her Mom.

Don’t eat any raw cookie dough! Especially if there’s egg in it.

She already looks like she’s suffering from food poisoning.

Finally, Mother is back after a few days absent!

I used to eat raw cookie dough when I was a kid, decades ago, and never had any problems. Guess it was ‘cause it was just mixed up and the bacyteria hadn’t set in yet.

I remember a “Calvin and Hobbes” comic where Calvin asks his mom if he could try some raw cookie dough, but she dissuaded him from it under the claim that it has raw eggs in it and raw eggs contain salmonella. Then again, she probably told him that to keep him from having any, since we all know that Mom never lets Calvin have cookies anyway.

There was a video clip a week before last Sunday on America’s Funniest Home Videos where a dog ate some pizza dough while it was unattended. Guess that pooch couldn’t wait for the topping and the cooking.

She’s fine.

I’ve eaten raw cookie dough since I was a child 70 years ago. Still do, and I have never gotten sick from it. (I’m one of the healthiest people I know.) I much prefer the raw dough to the baked cookie.

Never ate the stuff (yucky), much preferred the baked cookie (YUM).

Excuse me, but isn’t all cookie dough raw? When cooked, it’s cookies.

That last date was not successful.

She won’t be doing well for long if she eats raw cookie dough.

Good advice, Attila. Keep your friends out of Goose’s bad mood.

never developed a taste for that… I always liked it best when it was baked!