Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 20, 2023

Calvin, cows taste better than Germans.

Why not Calvin? If you think about it, you’re committing cannibalism.

What would he say about a hot dog?…..

Gross, Mom

Will he go for Girl Scout cookies?

Soylent burger.

Calvin is woke

What are wieners made out of?

The name hamburger confused me as a kid, because I assumed that since cheeseburgers have cheese in them, hamburgers must be made of ham. But instead, they’re beef, and named after the city of Hamburg like Calvin mention.

So…should we rename them to beefburgers, or just drop the “burger” suffix for other types of sandwich?

Don’t have a cow, man.

Then starve!!!

i just recently stopped eating red meat. but i eat one of those vegetable based brands until i learn to make something myself.. i like the burger experience. The chomp into it. i think the one i like is Beyond Meat, legume (pea) based, and i use lots of soysauce and oil to get it to the meat side lol

Poor mom. She just can’t win…

Would you have been able to finish it if it was made from someone from Hamburg?

I grew up in Bloomsburg, Calvin. And salads were not especially liked.

Poor mom. She’ll look old before her time raising Calvin. Calvin would probably eat his burger if it were made out of people in Hamburg.

So Calvin would rather eat a human than a cow?

Venison is made out of people from Venice.

When JFK visited West Berlin he declared Ich bin ein Berliner which he thought meant “I am a Berliner” but actually meant “I am a jelly donut”. Somebody joked that it was a good thing he wasn’t visiting Hamburg.

According to etymonline.Com…

The meat product was so called by 1880 (as hamburg steak); if it was named for the German city no certain connection has ever been put forth, and there may not be one unless it be that Hamburg was a major port of departure for German immigrants to United States. An 1809 account of life and manners in Iceland says meat smoked in the chimney there is referred to as Hamburg beef.

I’m Icelandic, and I’ve never heard of that reference (it is, after all, over 200 years old, and not many houses have chimneys any more), but today, we call smoked pork loins “Hamburger loin”.

All the evidence shows consuming meat makes people gain weight and have increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Just the facts. You’re okay, Calvin. Meat is truly crap.

The look on mom’s face in Panel #1— I remember getting THAT look!

We were once invited to a friend’s home for Easter dinner where both lamb & ham were being served. I asked my daughters if they wanted to try lamb & they both did (I don’t like lamb, myself; I stuck with the ham). After they had some & liked it I asked them if they realized what it was & they did. That’s my little carnivores!

You know, Mom… Maybe if you’re less strict and stingy with Calvin and let him have fun like play video games, maybe he would not behave this way!

When I was Calvin’s age my folks called bacon tiger, because of the stripes. I suspect Hobbes may object to that.

Starve then you little cretin.

Yep, made from a cow, keep eating them, soon you’ll be saying moo!

Wonder what Cal would have done had she said it was from squashed spiders?

Actually it’s meat that came from that New Delhi.

Don’t have a cow, man!

I feel a vegetarian is in the making….

I’m with you, Calvin.

Calvin was OK with the hamburger when he thought it was made of people, but not when he learned it was made from cows.

The problem there Calvin is that cows eat grass. Technically, you’re a secondhand vegan. I can live with that.

Maybe he would prefer a nice Soylent Green Happy Meal.

It’s likely that cow is not gross enough for Calvin.However; just tell him the cows are from Hamburg.

And so begins Calvin’s life as a vegetarian

In general, once you see how any particular food is being made (or where it comes from), you’ll probably never want to eat it again.

Mom should have just gone with the flow and said of course it is, and that’s Frankfurters made from people from Frankfurt. Germans are nothing if not innovative.

You’re a true humanitarian, Calvin.

Reminds me of the strip wherein Mom presents stuffed bell peppers as monkey brains. Calvin was okay with that.

Her face in the first panel….

I thought Calvin already knew hamburgers were made from cows? And he has minimal fuss eating other meats, often imagining himself as a carnivorous dinosaur or other predator…

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If Calvin suddenly turns Vegan, Hobbs will eat his hamburger. He’s a carnivore.

Get this kid some Soylent Green!!!

This is the same kid who loves the idea of eating monkey heads.

… Let’s go exploring.

Future Vegan in the making. LOL…

but he wouldn’t mind eating someone from Hamburg? …got it.

Mom just go with what Calvin asks.

Next he’s going to ask where Frankfurters come from, and it isn’t the Rocky Horror Picture show

My brother once called cows ‘unprocessed steak’ in front of his daughter.