IT’S JUNE! SAY CHEESE!
Every month I run a voting incentive, and every month fans have one question on their minds: “IS IT CHEESECAKE?” If that’s your question, then this is your month! Vote for Puck on TWC! See cheesecake! GUARANTEED!
As for this comic…
There’s a ‘Medieval Faire’ area of Canada’s Funderland. This background is not directly based off any real section in the park, but it’s a close approximation of the faux medieval feel that pervades the whole zone. And no, there isn’t actually a store there called ‘Ye Olde Funnel Cakes’, but there really should be.
By the way, the June bug referred to here is a North American variety of scarab of the genus Phyllophaga. They’re large, ugly, and I’m confident that they would taste bad. They’re also very, very crunchy. I’m actually not confident a small baby without teeth could successfully crunch one, but I’ve never been a stickler for realism, have I?
eww, junebugs taste NASTY. But, sometimes the only way to learn to not eat something is to, well eat it.
Exactly. And I’m pretty sure they’re high in both fiber and protein, so they’re not ALL bad.
All insects are high in protein and depending on how well it has been eating, it can be high in fats. Dietary fiber only comes from plants.
Those crunchy shells aren’t considered dietary fiber? Well, I’ll be danged. They looked like straight-up roughage to me.
Chitin is actually a complex sugar like cellulose. The human body can’t actually break down and digest cellulose, so I’m guessing chitin would likewise pass through the body undigested.
I THOUGHT SO!!!!!
A genuine discussion on eating BUGS.
Only in Puck.
Now let’s talk eating GRASS. That’s something cats know about.
Place some in front of Daphne and we may be able to confirm, or disprove an origin story.
She’s not a cat! NOT A CAT! I … don’t think she’s a cat. She’s always seemed a little more canine to my mind, but I guess it’s up to interpretation. Her nose, though, it ain’t that little cat triangle nose, so I’d say dog, if anything.
I could take the Gecko’s word for it, but I’d rather just sniff her butt for confirmation.
In my Social Circles that is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
It wouldn’t matter too much, but dogs eat grass too, they do it to force themselves to throw up when they can’t do it otherwise but feel they need to.
Any plot device, however implausible, that gets Daphne to eat grass would be delightful.
Maybe if Colin had shared less quality time and more quality funnel cake, Miranda might not have had to scavenge for herself.
Oh well, it prepares her for life in Canada’s post apocalyptic future.
How can sharing quality funnel cake NOT be considered quality time?
For that matter, how can sharing POOR quality funnel cake not be considered quality time?
I love the word ‘quality’ in that sense, because it really doesn’t tell you what sort of quality it is.
There are no funnel cakes in the future. Only psychotic Aussies and killer robots. At least that’s what many movies have shown me.
How about having Colin fight off the old 1 Illyria who shows up and tries to kidnap Miranda.
You are what you eat…hopefully that isn’t genetic or else Miranda would become a sugar freak or a caffeine head…
I think, given the people she’s surrounded by, Miranda’s chances of becoming a sugar freak caffeine head are 123%.
Miranda is starting to show personality, albeit the kind of personality that doesn’t freak out over a bug but rather wants to find out what it tastes like (which might not be related to hunger so much as the likelihood that she has not yet learned to look but not taste new things.)
If this holds, when she’s older, expect hilarity.
There is this whole phase of childhood where everything gets explored with the mouth. Some theories say that this is an instinctual way of training the immune system as to what pathogens are in the environment without actually becoming sick (most of the time). All mammals go through this phase, but primates (and raccoons) move on to start using their hands, and not just to bring more things to the mouth for sampling.
They try to eat everything. It’s a harrowing time, especially with the many choking hazards that seem to be everywhere. But hey, that’s part of the sport of parenting! Stop them before they die! One, two, three, GO!
This will hold. My experience from babies is that there is zero personality (beyond ‘fussy’ or ‘calm’) before the four month point, little dribs and drabs of personality from four to eight months, and then between eight and twelve months, almost every element of their personality suddenly leaps forward in stark relief. Like her mother, Miranda is bound to be a character.
So how old *is* Miranda now?
Never mind. Should have read the rest of the comments before posting.
” I’m actually not confident a small baby without teeth could successfully crunch one, but I’ve never been a stickler for realism, have I?”
In Puck comics? Not really. Which is part of the reason why it’s awesome.
As for her eating a June bug… She’s a baby. I’m not even *almost* surprised that she did.
Colin not stopping her is (in my opinion) probably the ‘right’ choice (as otherwise, odds are, she’d just scream/cry – I mean, more than what babies NORMALLY do).
Babysitting a kid that starts screaming in a park is… Not easy, I’ve come to realize (took care of my niece the other day and went with her to a local park; she tripped and started crying so people started staring at me as if I had insulted their ancestors while I tried cheering her up…)
There is never so humbling or trying a position as being in a public place with a screaming, wailing child. You feel the icy judgement of a thousand eyes on you. It’s best avoided by carrying around donuts and candy to throw at children when they start up.
To be fair, June bugs be delicious.
They might be, but I don’t think I could rightly deal with the carapace.
Colin is an awesome father as evidenced by the fact he didnt smother the funnel cake in powdered sugar. He obviously cares about his childs nonexistent teeth
Nah, the powdered sugar is there. It’s just too hard to visually represent. Don’t give the man too much credit.
Well, we don’t actually see him giving her any of his funnel cake.
We don’t. Maybe if he were more generous, he wouldn’t have forced his daughter to take matters into her own hands.
I always thought Miranda favored Puck more than Colin…it’s the ears. (Won’t know from appearance till the kid is older.)
She’s bound to be a reasonable cross between the two, though only time will tell.
how can ‘reason’ be connected to her parents?
It can’t, I guess.
I’m hoping that Miranda makes something of herself.
I think a baby Miranda’s age (?nine months?) could crunch a May beetle or a Junebug. Their jaws are pretty powerful, just ask any nursing mother (of which I am not one and the line after that one)
I’m not sure how old Miranda is right now. I think we can keep that an approximation. But yeah, I’ve heard they can really chomp at any age. Poor mothers.
Funnel cakes? God, I managed for twenty five years NOT to eat poutine…These are “Cakes” that are pretty close to crêpes suzette… Cripe, Suzette! I’ll stick with Suzette’s famous “hump, slump, bump and plump” shot:
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2015/04/flotus-frock-evolution-a-correspondents-dinner-retrospective-3001220.html
Junebugs – beetles – spiders – moths – butterflys… if it moves they eats 😛 speaking as the oldest of several children and watched several siblings down the odd insect I gotta tell ya – my mom freaking out every time was ALWAYS funny 😛 though by the last kid she mostly just hung her head in exhaustion – scooped up baby and proceeded to dose baby with the magical fluid that is Listerine lol
Dosing with Listerine? Ugh! That sounds nastier than eating bugs!
I’m curious about the kind of life Miranda is going to live.
As a father, I can tell you, if it moves, your kid will eat it. If it don’t move, your kid will eat it. Basically, if it exists, your kid will eat it, and if it don’t exist, if the child is smart enough, he will create it or will it into existence for the sole purpose of eating it.
Wife: OH MY GOD!! OUR CHILD IS EATING MILKWEED!!
Me: Meh. He’ll only eat a bite or two before he figures out it tastes like sh!t and/or gets sick. He’ll learn. Best way to teach him is to warn him, then let him make his mistakes.
Wife: ARE YOU F**KING CRAZY?!
Me: Yeah. Certified and everything… I thought you knew this?
With all substances that are not lethally poisonous or choking hazards, I think your approach may be the best. The world abounds in terrible flavor. Babies need to experience that firsthand.
Just as a side note, Baby’s first experience with Dave’s Insanity ™ Sauce shows this isn’t *always* the best approach.
How about Miranda the vampire slayer as a Puck vote incentive.
That baby’s getting big FAST!
Babies age at inconsistent rates in comics. I had to sort of get out of the ‘baby is in the newborn does nothing phase’, because that went on for a while.
Can’t wait till Miranda gets to be three. Cuteness overload! 😀
She’ll probably get there. In, like, fifteen years.
Must’ve been the pretty green shell that made it appetizing to her?
We used to tie a string to those things as kids 😀
Tying a string to a June bug would require way too much fine motor control, I think. Still, I take your word for it.
lol Oh yeah, we did it. My childhood friend seemed to have mastered it.
I on the other hand was more hit or miss…
That’s nothing. Born in South Africa and spending my first four years there, I ate worse bugs. You know these huge centipedes Shongololos? Well I can’t remember it but my mother told me, she caught me eating one of those. And that despite I was very picky with every other kind of “human” food.
That’s … horrifying. Like, pure nightmare-inducing horror. We have no such giant bugs up here, but I look at them through the glass at zoos and think “I am never, ever going anywhere where there are giant centipedes. Ever.” And you ate one. Eeeeeeeeagh.
Well that’s the same reaction I had when the story was told to me.
When she was a baby, my sister ate a ladybug. It became part of our family lore. 🙂
Good protein there.