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Culture Quickie

Culture Quickie Illustration " Culture Quickie" comic strip created by the renowned American cartoonist Basil Wolverton. The strip, which features the recurring character Curwood Crunch, Q.K. (Quaint Kid), offers absurd and humorous advice on manners. Content Summary The comic sarcastically addresses a "vital problem" bothering "every rube who is really re-fined": how to eat olives with a knife. The outrageous, multi-step solution involves: Driving nails through the olives. Magnetizing your knife. Sticking the nail-laden olives to the magnetized knife. Jabbing them into your mouth and spitting the nails onto the floor "just as you would fish bones!" Publication Information While the exact publication date and source of this specific page are not available in the search results, Basil Wolverton (1909–1978) was a prolific artist known for his signature "spaghetti-and-meatballs" style. His work appeared in various comics and magazines, including Mad magazine, during the mid-20th century.