Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 30, 2023

WRONG! You are suppose to take off an even layer from top, so the peanut maintains a uniform texture.

I dare anyone to ask Calvin about jelly!

Diagonally, Calvin as in from top left to bottom right or from top right to bottom left?

i thought you dip the celery in the PB jar, but no double-dipping.

The Gods have been offended. Calvin and his mother are doomed.

He sure is a weird little kid.

“Why are the crusts still on the bread?”

Entitled, no?

I don’t think the chief is going to make the cut.

Calvin not only has a strong vocabulary, he has this savvy approach to nuances. Love the kid, Bill.

Well, triangles do taste better..

When I was a little boy, I insisted that my mom spread mustard on the bologna and not on the bread. To this day, I wonder why I did that.

And cut off the crust?

Shut up Calvin!!!!

“If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life” sounds like wisdom from the Old Master.

He’s sounding like Petey Otterloop now.

Diagonally? The only proper way to slice it is in a zigzag pattern.

I am a strong proponent of diagonal bread

You shouldn’t cut the bread at all, just fold it. When you cut it, all the flavor leaks out.

I remember trying to do that with the peanut butter as a kid!

Looks like both Calvin and I prefer smooth over crunchy.

My granddaughter insisted on no crusts, bread sliced diagonally, and the peanut butter spread on one piece of bread with the jelly spread on the other slice of bread. Not on the peanut butter. How do kids come up with this stuff? :-)

This is the sort of thing that actually makes me glad I live alone. I eat my peanut butter any d*** way I please.

Mom is on to something. Calvin can make his own sandwiches though under supervision…no telling what havoc he could wreak if he weren’t.

Some people feel very threatened when someone breaks with tradition.

“We’ve always done it this way.” Is a fairly decent impediment to progress.

Worked with a guy, once, who was upset to the point he would not eat his lunch because his wife had handed him their son’s lunch bag by mistake. Same contents, only difference was the P,B&J was cut wrong. The “adult” sandwich had to be cut diagonally and the kid’s rectangularly. Sooo many layers to unpack there.

Oy! And if you want the crusts cut off, do it yourself, Calvin!

So many signs of being nuero-divergent here.

@Sir Isaac. I trust that the other party to the “we” doesn’t eat peanut butter…or gets their own jar! ;-)

I try to do this with every jar of peanut butter now. Someone else inevitably ends up ruining it.

Obviously Calvin never saw peanut butter from the old days.

Ever try and stir natural peanut butter and not make a mess? Can’t be done.

Petey Otterloop would still find it unacceptable somehow.

Few things worse than diagonally-cut bread.

Most children just have bedtime rituals.

With five sibs, I ate what was set before me. A habit that served me will through school cafeterias, college and my naval service.

Calvin is becoming a Karen

He’d never have survived in our house. 5 kids; as soon as you could hold a knife, you made your own PB&J. Didn’t make it, didn’t eat.

Diagonally cut sandwiches just taste better.

and cut off the crust? and mom don’t forget the potato chips and bottle of JOLT cola!!!

Calvin missed the important point – did she cut off the top crust of the bread?

Cal is loony one minute, and detail oriented the next. A fractured mind at an early age.

In the first grade I asked my mom to make sure the jelly was always on top. . . .

Calvin’s borderlining on Howard Hughes territory. The next thing you know, he’ll be locking himself in a private room, wearing Kleenex boxes as shoes and looping the same short movie scene over and over again.

When he grows up hopefully he’ll never marry.

Wonder how he feels about a smidge of jelly mixed in the jar by someone who goes for jelly first.

This is, in adults, a sign of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If it’s limited to peanut butter (and tigers) I wouldn’t worry about it.

geez… and I thought I was CDO (that’s like OCD, but in the proper order)

That’s kind-of the way I eat ice cream from a container, because around the edges melts faster… ☺

This kid is lucky. When I was younger, I was lucky to have food period. A jar of peanut butter to me was like gold to a prospector.

I have never heard that technique of scooping peanut butter… but it sorta makes sense.

Cut it into a circular shape and serve sandwich medallions. Calvin would be impressed

Calvin, did you glue your eyes closed again?

When I first read this strip in the 90s I tried to do it his way for awhile. It was pretty impractical, the smooth top would usually collapse before too long.

At least this time she cut the sandwich diagonally, compared to this… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/24

Nobody understands the important foibles.

For a beggar he is awfully choosy.

Wow, never in a million years would I have put Calvin into the same camp as Petey Otterloop! But here they are, exhibiting the same exhibitions — or inhibitions.

Calvin has a place in government as the Beefing Bureaucrat!

Big words from a kid who literally doesn’t control anything in his own life :)

I remember mentioning to my Mother when I was about 9 that I wished she’d spread the jam to the ends of the bread. She handed me both jars and and bread … Yep, been making my own PB&Js ever since.

He is correct, is it scientifically proven when a sandwich is cut diagonally it tastes better

My mom would cut our sandwiches diagonally as a surprise now and then. she also would cut off the crust!