![[0635] Hearty Dinner](/comics/2014-11-20-0635-hearty-dinner.png "[0635] Hearty Dinner")
- Grandmother: Dinner is ready!
- Grandfather: Ahh, there’s nothing better after a hard day of field work than…
- Grandfather: … a wood-grilled sturgeon with braised pork cheeks, chilled cranberry beans, and brown butter-tomato vinaigrette.
- Cloud: Your family is weird.
- Sandra: Not as weird as yours.
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Sounds good.
I’m glad Woo holds his pinkie up. Manners.
I don’t get it. Why is this strange?
She’s totally right too.
@ Anime fan:
It’s weird to cloud. Also, who has everything that clean?
Anime fan wrote:
I guess it’s weird because from the setting you’d expect them to get some kind of “simple farmers meal”, but instead they’re having a fancy dinner?
You don’t talk smack about good food, Cloud
Weird indeed. The selection and arrangement of the cutlery… what were they thinking…?
>:=)>
Sandra’s got a point there, Cloud. At least no one in her family uses Princess Mononoke figurines as an energy source for their nuclear fission doohickey.
I think my family falls in between their weirdness. What? You want an example? When my uncle was in middle school, he had long hair. The principal told him, “if you come to school with that hair, you’d better be wearing a dress.” You can all guess what he was wearing the next day. They are pretty weird but also pretty awesome.
City booooooy City Booooooooooooooy!
That’s the problem.
“Not as weird as yours.” Ohh, BURN!!!!!!!!
I Love how Woo gets his own seat! He may be just a racoon (as far as anyone besides Sandra knows), but he’s clearly one of the family. 🙂
Pretty awesome how they can still have a 5 Star-class meal at home while selling to many first class restaurants.
@ Jumtrev:
If you ask me, I think Larisa out does em both. Judging from last weeks comic. If Larissa can do that then God knows what her parents can do. Or did.
Yum yum…. sounds like a meal fit for a king!
@ DestinyofAwe:
Agreed!
@ SmartAlec105:
That seriously made me chuckle in real life. 😀
Well great, now I’m hungry again.
@ SmartAlec105:
Dude, I love your uncle’s moxie. That made my day.
“…braised pork cheeks…,” eh?
Take away the fancy descriptions, and every bit of this is pure redneck cookin’.
They might live like they’re poor, but they still eat rich.
@ Tucci78:
I’m pretty sure the “Wood Grilled Sturgeon” isn’t in any way a “Redneck” item.
And neither are the Braised Pork Cheeks.
Rednects cook the pork cheeks with rice and black eyed peas…
Nothin like a nice pot of Hoppin’ John.
My front yard looks like that and that’s the way I eat. Not weird, sophisticated.
I think this comic doesn’t really have non-weird families… And comparing weirdness is weird…
@ Anime fan:
it’s weird because normally, the stereotype is that people who work on the farm it relatively simply meals (like ribs, corn, and mashed potatoes, for example), while her grandparents are eating things normally eaten by those who would not be working a farm.
This seems like a weak reason to call someone weird. Especially coming from Cloud.
Most impressive, your uncle!
DestinyofAwe wrote:
“Fusion”, not “Fission” One makes hydrogen and helium, the other destroys everything.
And the menu sounds delicious to me.
^ How to get people back into farming.
Orlah Ehontas wrote:
Yes Fusion and Fission are both delicious. Muhahahaha! ): D
Want to take a bet on that Sandra, you have a talking pet raccoon !
Tbh farmer foods can be pretty satisfying on itself. Imagine sitting on an open gazebo and eating boiled corns while enjoying the farm view.
Lucario wrote:
Actually, farms are really, really expensive. You have to be fairly wealthy to maintain one.
@ Blitzkrieg1701:
Always hungry, all the time.
@ Trimutius:
Normalcy doesn’t really exist. Even if you can set parameters for it, anyone who fit them all would be unusual for doing so, and, as such, considered weird. Sanity is for the weak anyway.
@ Disloyal Subject:
If everyone is unusual, what is the norm?
@ BarGamer:
The norm is that there is no norm. owo
Anime fan wrote:
That is my question as well. That sounds like a wonderful meal to me.
Orlah Ehontas wrote:
“Fusion”, not “Fission” One makes hydrogen and helium, the other destroys everything.
And the menu sounds delicious to me.
Fusion makes hydrogen into helium AND destroys everything. We have yet to figure how to make a fusion reaction without it being a thermonuclear detonation.
Fission is what runs our ‘nuclear’ reactors (both commercially and military)
Nothing weird except the vinegarette…the rest used to be rather common in the areas that had sturgeon. It’s not unusual for people to keep traditions…pork cheek is poor peoples food.
For a moment there, I didn’t notice that this meal was unusual for a rural-middle-class family.
Nice. My family can’t really compete in terms of weirdness. Now, ABRASIVENESS, that’s another story. That’s why the only family I need is my girlfriend.
Orlah Ehontas wrote:
Also, the latter is mounted as a weapon on a fighter craft with a cloaking device.
when will woo go back into the forest?
Alex wrote:
When butterfly has her kits. 😉
Ah–Fine dining for a raccoon.
Ah weirdness and normality are all relative anyway. XD
Boy, when THOSE two get married I can just see ALL KINDS of FUN with the In-Laws.
Burmese Freedom Fighter Mother-In-Law
Mad Scientist Sister-In-Law
Freelancer Father-In-Law
Gourmet Back to the Land Ganparents-in-Law
Artist Father-in-Law
and a bunch of Talking Racoons
I see Materiel for YEARS!
@ Trimutius:
To paraphrase a certain Pixar villain: “If everyone is weird, then no one is weird.”
@ Anime fan:
A hard day’s work on the farm, followed by a dinner some snopbs would be envious of… mood clashes.
also, wonder how hard it was for Woo not to say “Quite” there!
@ coolclaytony:
It is these days, sturgeon is heavily over fished…pork cheek isn’t uncommon and is one of the treats eaten shortly after you butcher a hog. Much like ox tail mmm, love some braised ox tail in tomatoes.
How come the kids get wine but the raccoon gets tea?