Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 09, 2014

Mythbusters showed that double-dipping doesn’t add any significant numbers of bacteria than are already in the dip. Get over it, folks: we’re all surrounded.

Nice teeth, Verne.

RJ was getting passively aggressive with Verne and Verne went not so.

Raging Verne is awesome in panel 5

Costanza approves

@Becca – the concern is not for the number of microbes, but the type. Hepatitis A and bacterial meningitis (a horrific disease that can cause loss of limbs before death) are easily spread that way.

Something about people who are hypersensitive about these things. You just want to poke at them.

For those of you who learned table manners and general etiquette at fraternity keggers, and science aside: IT’S NOT POLITE!! IT’S INCONSIDERATE. IT’S IGNORANT, and your doom is that you will forever eat alone. If you’re very bad, your doom will be to eat forever with people whose table manners are even worse than yours.

It is not “old folksey” science. My children’s cousin died at the age of 10 from bacterial meningitis after sharing food & drink with a friend.

I’m amused at the punctuation for sound effects.