Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 08, 1963
December 07, 1963
December 09, 1963
Transcript:
Lucy holds a box of chocolates and says, "Hey! You want a piece of candy?"<BR><BR> Linus says, "Chocolates, eh? How nice . . . Let's see now . . . I must make sure I don't get one with coconut in it . . . I can't stand coconut . . . Let's see now . . . Hmmm . . ."<BR><BR> Linus says, "That one looks like a cream, but you never know . . . That one could be a caramel . . . There's no divinity, is there? That one is probably coconut . . ."<BR><BR> Lucy rolls her eyes as Linus says, "The light colored ones are usually good although the dark colored ones are sometimes creams . . . I don't know about those square ones . . . I wonder if . . ."<BR><BR> Lucy screams, "Take one!" Linus flips over backwards.<BR><BR> Linus crawls over to the box and picks a chocolate.<BR><BR> Linus makes a face and exclaims, "Coconut!"<BR><BR>
I still don’t understand after 45 years of reading these strips, what’s so bad about coconut that every character in this strip hates it? I personally like the taste of coconut, although I rarely eat it, or any chocolates…but if I ate a coconut flavoured…well anything…I certainly would not mind.