Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for November 30, 2023

Death by Coconut…

About sixty million pounds of coconuts are harvested every year. There are a few documented cases of death by coconut falls, but less than one a year. Also, overindulgence in coconut water has been known to render an individual unconscious due to excessive potassium in the bloodstream… but there seems to be only one known case. More common, but still statistically rare, there are cases of bacterial infection from raw coconut water and from falling coconut palms.

Nancy, you’re shopping for coconuts, not bananas!!

Don’t get me wrong. I love Nancy Classics. But I think Aunt Fritzi should have said “please” in the first panel….

I don’t think you can thump a coconut like you do a watermelon.

A couple of times in Brazil I had the good fortune to find street vendors selling chilled coconuts still in the outer husk. You’d give them the equivalent of a couple of dollars and in return, the vendor would lop off the top of the coconut with a machete and give you a straw. The cold coconut milk was delicious. After you had consumed the milk, you could go back to the vendor who would remove the outer husk and split the coconut for you to allow you to eat the meat. Oh my was all of that good!

That pattern on Nancy’s coat must have taken some time to draw

And Fritzi assumed that Nancy knew what a good coconut would be like?

Do you squeeze a coconut to see if it’s ripe???

Nancy whataked you think s monkey would know a good coconut from a bad

Ok Nancy, stop monkeying around…..

This organ-grinder’s monkey is from Hawaii…

Ah the good old days, and the organ grinder and his monkey.