Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 30, 2015

I prefer orange.

Purple? Calvin has an interest in purple plants?

I always loved Tootsie Pops, and no, I never could lick it all the way down to the center!

Blueberries!!

Mines been blue a lot recently. Blue Cherry Gatorade.

Most likely by the looks in panel one, it was a grape flavored Popsicle. I remember them well.

LX013,Don’t tell Calvin it’s blueberries! He won’t eat it because blueberries are very good for you.

Yup: Blue tongue from Lik-A-Maid (I think that’s how it’s spelled). An occasional treat on the way home from the afternoon of swimming. Riding bikes, a quick swing into the old drug store. Get across the tracks before the freight train came along.

And this my friends was the beginning of the one-eyed three-horned flying purple people eater.

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I’m eating a blueberry yoghurt right now, for part of my breakfast. :) Peace.

We gathered berries, wild Mustang grapes and hog plums. I helped Mother can (jar) them. Mom made cobblers and jams and jellies from them all year long. Sugar was expensive, so the making of sweets had to be spread out all year. We ate mulberries and crab apples straight off the tree, amid dire predictions that they were deadly poison. Mustang grape cuttings (seedlings) from North Texas were shipped to France in the 1880s, during the root blight epidemic that killed most French vines. Mustang grapes make the best grape jelly, ever.Sigh, I picked a capful of big, juicy, red ripe, plump hog plums the other day. I couldn’t get the teens next door to even taste them. I was standing on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington a few (many) years ago, picking crabapples off an ornamental crabapple tree and stuffing my face full. I don’t know how many people told me they were poison. That’s been 45 years ago. I expect them to kill me any minute. Speaking of poison foods, we canned (jarred) poke salad, aka poke salat, a Southern green leafed delicacy to, eat out of season. It is a well known fact that it is deadly poison.

Mother bought Kool-Aid and we made popsicles in ice trays, sticking toothpicks in the almost frozen slush. Grape was always our favorite. Until we moved on the mountain and the folks didn’t get electricity until I was gone from home.

Sorry about typos and stuff, the doctor gave me some really good sh…..er, uh, meds. Well, yes, I miss the 70s, why do you ask?

To view the following strips in the archive and help GoComics generate revenue, please click on the blue archive links below. To view the strips directly, click on the images below or stretch them.Here’s one from three summers earlier, back when Calvin was six years old:Calvin and Hobbes (September 4, 1992)Ziggy (January 31, 1995)

What a coincidence; last night my wife baked a blueberry pie. Although I did not sample the fresh baked delight, she did have a small slice just before we went to bed!

Now I understand why she stuck her tongue out at me as I was climbing into bed…

“Why is there no blue food? I can’t find blue food – I can’t find the flavor of blue! I mean, green is lime; yellow is lemon; orange is orange; red is cherry; what’s blue? There’s no blue! Oh, they say, “Blueberries!” Uh-uh; blue on the vine, purple on the plate. There’s no blue food! Where is the blue food? We want the blue food! Probably in stores immortality! They’re keeping it from us!"-George Carlin

My tongue is purple: it comes from drinking red wine!

Grape popsicles were the best!

No one ever ate the purple popsicles in our family. Orange was the favorite, then cherry.

A hamburger and grape soda. That’s summer. Yeah…

Yes, it looks like ice cream, when you look exactly!!

I used to love dying the colour of my tongue with lollies when I was a kidIt was mostly red.xxx

@LX013: If Calvin were to hug Hobbes, they would become very close friends, always sticking together.

My middle sister’s husband (old-school Texan) put so much sugar in the kool-ade that one time while he was whipping up a fresh batch, i quipped, “remember to put some water in that sugar..”

Another time, i asked him what flavor kool-ade he was making, and without missing a beat, he muttered, “red”.

I don’t know about a purple tongue and summer connection but summer’s not really summer unless there’s watermelon. And if you’re not getting seeds in your ears…you ain’t eatin" watermelon.

tongue …… and shirt, and fingers, and face, and arms up to the elbow.