Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for December 02, 2024

Someone has to eat it. But maybe not the same person who ate the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and second to the last empanada.

Baldo is not overweight?

Wasn’t that made of Playdoh?

Ah… back to this tired old joke.

New rule… you never get to eat any of the last 3 empanadas until you have put the next batch in the oven.

We’ve defaulted to the “last empanada “ joke drawer again.

Young blood burns calories……..

I think your father wanted that last empanada.

It looked all lonely there by itself in the box.

Now it’s not all alone — with other items in Baldo’s stomach.

When we were teenagers, my little brother when he started his growth spurt to 6’1" and his buddy doing the same growing to 6"2" would wipe out all the milk and bread in the house in one sitting, then go to the other house and do the same. My mom and his buddy’s mom complained to each other they couldn’t keep up with the two boys. When mom stopped making whole wheat bread (she had a wheat grinder) and started buying white bread from the stores, my brother complained it didn’t fill him up as much as the whole wheat bread. So she went back to making whole wheat bread. Of course both guys were “extremely” physically active playing football, hiking in the nearby hills, biking everywhere until they both were old enough to drive. Sort of explains the bottomless pit those two guys had.

Baldo is still growing.