Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for September 18, 2024

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, no, not raw……!! (Give Seagull one)

Ate raw oysters once. What was I thinking. Never, ever again. Could I find a bathroom quick enough?! Barely!

Eating oysters is like eating the ocean.

Fresh Raw Oysters…Yummy!

Yes, raw oysters. Like a gulp of seawater! Raw clams are good too, just very chewy.

Little-necks are clams. Just sayin’.

Raising the bar by lowering it. Kids are just so amazing…

Needs a little Tabasco sauce.

Wallace, why?!

Love panel 3! Dad and Wallace trying to gross out one another. Sterling would consider them amateurs! I shudder to think of all the things he has ingested and licked.

My older brother went clamming with a fellow when he was a pastor in Nova Scotia, and brought me and our younger brother along. The guy demonstrated this super-fresh technique and said something like the, the trick is to savor it for just a moment. My brother gave it a try, but as he was about to swallow he coughed it up again. “Guess I savored it a little too long!” I like to try new food and have had sashimi, but I wasn’t about to try that.

nah. They’re ok. Potter Pond flushes out daily……

I like the elevated view of panel 3.

My father-in-law would do that with oysters. While fishing he’d sometimes accidentally hook a clump of oysters and bring them into the boat. He’s shuck and eat them on the spot. Kept a little bottle of Tabasco in his tackle box. But he never called it “kissing the ocean on the lips.” That’s pretty poetic!

And loving it!

……or the chewing gum stuck under the table!!!!

..sharing age-appropriate metaphors, family life!

Never saw raw clams used for sushi / sashimi – I’ll stick to steamed shellfish

Yeah, that rail thing gives me the creeps….

I can imagine Squanto teaching the Pilgrims how to do this and them saying, “You’re pulling my leg, right?”

I think this is the most divisive WTB strip in a while. And it’s about clams. I love this comic.

Living in Nebraska we don’t get them fresh. But when on vacation on the coast, watch out! Our last trip to New England we were clammed out and lobster overloaded.

Not gonna even think about the water fountain in the hall.

Kids: a/k/a Germ magnets

8^)

I worked in a grocery store for many years. A favorite thing for 3 to 5 year olds was to lick the chrome railings dividing the checkstands!

I just noticed “shuck” is a sound effect. Very cute.

My favorite Aunt told me that she ate only one in her life, but she swallowed it three times.

I, on the other hand, chew before i swallow.

If clams taste like school handrails, remind me never to eat one raw.

I don’t have problems with other people liking and eating them, I just don’t want them… a texture thing. It feels like eating a giant booger.

Raw oysters … like hocking a loogie in reverse.

I’ve never had so much fun getting grossed out!

No thank you!

I went to college in Maine and grad school in RI—never got deep into clams, nor hockey for that matter. Too attached to VT’s cheese and skiing.

Our gross food habit may be dribbled congealed tree blood, known as maple sugar on snow. That and the abovementioned dried coagulated milkfat, and apple cider (you don’t look too closely at what falls into the press).