Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 17, 2021

Looks like he ate the main course.

I’ve never eaten tapioca. Now, I have no desire to.

It’s just never safe eating with Calvin.

Not usual , there is another boy.

Who’d he throw the main course at?

Green tapioca?

Never seen green tapioca.

I’m with Calvin on this one. Tapioca IS gross

Green tapioca pudding???? Just how old is that batch anyway? And is it really tapioca pudding?

Just think of it as eating the brains of the slime creature.

I never took to tapioca. Vanilla pudding was always better.

Always enjoy Calvin’s space adventures and his very well reasoned assessments of food.

Green tapioca?? I’d feel the same way Calvin does!!

In fifty years I have never eaten tapioca pudding. The green color aside, maybe it’s because tapioca looks so unappealing. Like the cook was actually sick in the kitchen and is trying to recycle his vom .. his mess.

Drop your silver in my tapioca.

Help a poor boy fill his pretty dream.

Give me pennies, I’ll take anything.

Now watch while I play

With my green tapioca.

… I don’t know why, but I’m posting a lot this morning.

When I had school lunches in the late 50’s and early 60’s, they were always serving up tapioca and, another horror, sago. I used to try and drown the stuff with the strawberry jam that was there to be added. I don’t think you’re supposed to add as much as I did though. In fairness, they did a really good steak and kidney pudding.

“Life will, always find a way”

The horrors of Cafeteria fish sticks and the legendary “Meat Flavored Patties”

Green tapioca?

Die, vile glop!

I’ll take it, I love tapioca.

I went to Alice Birney Elementary in Fresno 1957-64 and never bought the school lunch. Lunch room was prison like-we had to walk in a line to the cafeteria, those who were buying lunch in front, followed by those with lunches from home, each class had its own table with the hot lunches already set out on the table, you sat down in the same order as the lunch line, there was NO talking allowed, those buying hot lunches HAD to clean their trays-you were dismissed by your teacher who would check to se if your tray was clean-attempting to sneak undesirable food out in your milk cartoon was a principal’s office offense. There was no checking those who brought their lunch.

I for one am glad to know that “Our hero always buckles up!” and dislikes green mush.

Lime Green Tapioca? It’s Soylent Green!

Green tapioca? What I’ve seen was always a deathly gray with translucent, frog-egg-like lumps.

Green tapioca?

Looks like something Klingons would eat

I have noticed that humans rarely eat things that can eat us first. Not never, but rarely.

I thought we were leading up to Mom’s brussel sprout casserole.

As with other irresistible delicacies I have to ask: Have any of the people who say they don’t like tapioca pudding actually tried it?

Brussels sprouts and other cruciform vegetables are well known to contain identifiable chemicals repellent to anyone whose taste buds can actually detect them. But is there any such ingredient in tapioca?

This is not to deny that Calvin’s school cafeteria might not have added something loathsome when they turned it green.

Jokes about school cafeteria food will never grow old.

Calvin’s right on this one, Susie. That is some rank looking tapioca and I know about pudding. When I am very old and in an assisted living center the employees will have an easy time with me if they follow this: “Just give him his daily pudding cup and set his music to 80’s metal/rock.”

It’s from a school cafeteria. Of course it’s green.

I’ve never had green tapioca. I’m with Calvin.

Seat bleats save lives but once in school cafeteria you are on your own.

Tapioca looks as appealing as cottage cheese. But I would rather eat tapioca than cottage cheese, which is a whole new level of disgusting.

The only tapioca pudding I recall consuming as a child was indeed green, because the pudding was pistachio-flavored. To my recollection it was delicious, but then I adore all pistachio-flavored desserts, from baklava to gelato…

Spaceman Spiff is becoming one of my favorites. If he could only avoid crashing all the time.

One little thing about Spaceman Spiff always gets me and that is the fact that the lenses in his eyewear change in every panel.. Watterson did not have to do this, but it makes the Spiff cartoons just that bit Spiffier.

So, Spaceman Spliff never wins, right?

Calvin will find any good food gross.

I like tapioca pudding.

OK, this really happened in the cafeteria of my Chatham Township grade school in 1943. My mother always put her home made soups in my Tom Mix Thermos jug. One day my mother made potato & onion soup with unpasteurized milk. It had a number of hours to ferment into a unique flavor before I uncorked it at a table with about 10 kids. Fumes from the open thermos made many gag or make retching sounds. Cafeteria monitor came over to check out the ruckus. When she smell the custom flavor wafting from my thermos I was sent to the Principal’s office. When I uncorked the bottle there I was told not to eat whatever it was. The unique odor did not go well with the AB Dick printing ink used.

Ha. The improv comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway” has a fun sequence involving the word “tapioca”. Go to YouTube and search “Whose Line tapioca”. (I’d post a link, but since GoComics doesn’t like those anymore … ) The clip is really good.

Suzy farted.

Tapioca is OK, but this has brought out a suppressed memory of the horrid rice pudding we had in grade school. It looked like Jello made with milk, with puddles that formed on top with something I was told was nutmeg floating around in the puddles. It tasted like chalk.

Did you know the man who invented tapioca pudding was trying to commit suicide? But, as it turned out, when you cook the stuff, it spoils the poison.

To me, it’s always looked like creamed frog eyes.

Tapioca aged to perfection..

Cafeteria food lacks the love of mothers. No wonder schools do not allow cafeterias in the primary section.

I think I would agree with him on tapioca…especially if it was that color of green.

Fish eyes in glue.

Who does like tapioca?