Eating a bug while cycling is gross. Getting one stuck in your helmet is annoying. Getting a stinging bug stuck in your helmet, no fun at all. Swallowing a stinging insect… gotta be the worst.
Seems, like the kid, everyone wants the easy way – everything done for him/her. Guess that’s why the term YOLO has become a signature for recent generations.
When our middle son worked at Boy Scout camp, there was counselor in the Nature department who taught Wilderness Survival; he told me loved the job because for the rest of his life, he could under “job duties” on his résumé “eating bugs”.
Not sure which words in my original post were banned by GoComics it included cooking methods. Fry, roast, saute, marinate, toast. ……and now separated into two posts the words are all acceptable.
I will grant that seedless grapes are better, and that the seeds taste rather weird, but you would think that a kid would consider their possibilities as projectiles. On a semi-related note, Pasquale over at “Rose is Rose” once taught his mother to make a sandwich with peanut butter and fresh red grapes instead of jelly.
Frazz was once talking to a kid at lunchtime about packaged, processed foods, and the kid asked him about the heavily packaged item he was eating. Frazz said, “It’s a banana, and now you’re scaring me.”
That’s one reason why I rode with a full-face bicycle helmet, to strain out the bugs. The other reason is was was unsure about the medical profession’s ability to put my face back together /twice/ after I got killed in 2001 (v. long story).
diazch408 about 1 month ago
I didn’t like seeded grapes period, even as a grown-up!
C about 1 month ago
Poor snowflake
Bilan about 1 month ago
Grape juice, bug juice. Both of them should be aged.
Rocky939 about 1 month ago
Beetlejuice
Kroykali about 1 month ago
A free meal while you ride. What’s wrong with that?
TheWildSow about 1 month ago
Red grapes are delicious (much better than boring dry Oreos, if you ask me.) But yeah, get the seedless ones!
DiminishedFirst about 1 month ago
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cervelo about 1 month ago
Eating a bug while cycling is gross. Getting one stuck in your helmet is annoying. Getting a stinging bug stuck in your helmet, no fun at all. Swallowing a stinging insect… gotta be the worst.
sandpiper about 1 month ago
Seems, like the kid, everyone wants the easy way – everything done for him/her. Guess that’s why the term YOLO has become a signature for recent generations.
grocks about 1 month ago
Love Frazz’s response in the last panel.
bittenbyknittin about 1 month ago
I accidentally ate maggots when they got into the saltines. They don’t taste very good.
christineracine77 about 1 month ago
The seeds do kinda taste like when a mosquito lands on your tongue . . .
Bill The Nuke about 1 month ago
I ride motorcycles and more than once had a bee or wasp get caught in my shirt. Ouch!
rshive about 1 month ago
Best to ride on high, bug-free plains.
Cozmik Cowboy about 1 month ago
When our middle son worked at Boy Scout camp, there was counselor in the Nature department who taught Wilderness Survival; he told me loved the job because for the rest of his life, he could under “job duties” on his résumé “eating bugs”.
lagoulou about 1 month ago
Green, seedless grapes, cold from the fridge…the best!
rasputin's horoscope about 1 month ago
Bugs-the reason why smarter motorcyclists wear full-face helmets.
KennethPrice2 about 1 month ago
In my bicycling experience the bug gos straight down your throat, so there is no tasting, just coughing.
Thehag about 1 month ago
Low in cholesterol, high in protein, cicadas can be cooked many ways but a bit bland so add flavorings. Even dip ’em in chocolate.
Thehag about 1 month ago
Not sure which words in my original post were banned by GoComics it included cooking methods. Fry, roast, saute, marinate, toast. ……and now separated into two posts the words are all acceptable.
DKHenderson about 1 month ago
I will grant that seedless grapes are better, and that the seeds taste rather weird, but you would think that a kid would consider their possibilities as projectiles. On a semi-related note, Pasquale over at “Rose is Rose” once taught his mother to make a sandwich with peanut butter and fresh red grapes instead of jelly.
DKHenderson about 1 month ago
Frazz was once talking to a kid at lunchtime about packaged, processed foods, and the kid asked him about the heavily packaged item he was eating. Frazz said, “It’s a banana, and now you’re scaring me.”
Durandal_1707 about 1 month ago
Y’all are on crack. Concord grapes with the seeds are drastically tastier than the boring seedless kind.
oakie817 about 1 month ago
the guy that had the food show where he ate strange stuff once tried scorpions and said they taste just like lobster
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 month ago
Zen Question of the Day: How do seedless grapes propagate?
unfair.de about 1 month ago
Depends on the bug. There are a lot different tastes, like with meat, too. Some bugs do taste like grape seeds.
Opus the Poet about 1 month ago
That’s one reason why I rode with a full-face bicycle helmet, to strain out the bugs. The other reason is was was unsure about the medical profession’s ability to put my face back together /twice/ after I got killed in 2001 (v. long story).