[0665] Luna Under Pressure
└ posted on Monday, 9 March 2015, by Novil
I make the bold prediction that some vegetarians will not like this strip.
- Sandra: So that you two have something decent to eat, Benjamin’s dad will drop off something from his butchery every day from now on.
- Luna: Wow, thank you.
- Benjamin: Are two pounds enough?
- Luna: Two pounds of meat every day? Isn’t that a bit too much?
- Benjamin: “A bit too much?”
- Luna: ?
- Benjamin: I must’ve misheard. Because only a g-o-d-d-a-m-n commie would complain about “too much” meat…!
- Luna: Uuuuhh… three pounds would be even better, of course.
- Benjamin: Goddamn right!
Yeah, never can have too much meat 🙂
Even if it is the strange pound (~453g): It sounds a *little* too much for a person every day 😛 .
Don’t worry . . . as a vegetarian myself, I chuckled.
Her next meal’s probably going to be a bit extravagant compared what she’s used to if she thinks 2# of meat is overkill.
Them damn commies wanting to take our meats away.
We will battle them off with MEAT!
Woo knows some critters that can help!
So Benjamin’s father is a butcher – well, that may explain his son’s fixation on chopped feet.
I feel like I should voice my distaste every time I hear communism be used as a derogatory term.
It’s not a stereotype you should encourage.
3 and a half pounds, nothing less!
I’d teabag an angry shark to have meat delivered to my house for free every G.O.D.D.A.M.N day for the rest of my life.
Haiiro wrote:
Considering it is coming from a ‘true blue’ American it is probably just the patriotic us vs. them mentality. Of course my question is, do people really still say that?
Filthy commies and their non-meat eating ways… @ Haiiro:
Nah, you’re misunderstanding. Its actually making fun of people who use ‘commie’ as a derogatory term for everything they dislike – not encouraging the discrimination of communists.
This vegetarian isn’t bothered by the meat in itself, but hates the thought of meat going to waste, particularly on a daily basis. If they can find a productive use for the excess, perhaps by passing it on to someone else in need, I withdraw all objections.
Comic 666 is next… I wonder what will happen?
I LIKE THIS BOY! Someone get him a steak. FAUST! Get the boy a steak.
@ The Director:
Any kind of steak? Because we have some left overs from Tripp and I think they should be gotten rid of.
@ Faust I:
No, Faust. You’re not feeding him chopped up assassins. Get him a mammoth one from the freezer, they’re starting to pile up.
@ DaB.:
Turn it into jerky, or give it to the local soup kitchen. I sure cannot eat that much in one day.
@ Leon_Skunk:
Hey it works on repelling Californians all the time. They smell meat cooking and they run screaming in another direction.
@ ShinyHappyGoth:
You should the waste that is served in public schools now. It is wasted before it is even thrown away.
Van wrote:
The second seems very appropriate seeing what situation Luna was in before. Just hope the sudden prosperity doesn’t go to her head.
I didn’t understand this strip, because I use the metric system. But, dem faces
Van wrote:
You’ve obviously never been in California on Memorial Day, the start of the Barbecue Season. 😀
Make jerky, Luna.
There are plenty of recipes for turning mounds of meat into savory treats, and these can be shared with your friends.
Perhaps someone should remind Benjamin that ADOLF HITLER was another famous vegetarian…
Benjamin: B-but he was a bigger anti-communist than Nixon, McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover combined… *cries*
>:=)>
epullay wrote:
Two pounds is just under one kilogram. That would have been far too much meat for me even before I became a vegetarian, even when split between two people.
@ Luke:
still makes me queezy to see.
Too much? There’s a monk out back with a ladder!
@ Van:
I know. When I was in high school, a lot of students would go across the street to Burger King at lunch (in violation of school rules) because the food at Burger King was cheaper, healthier and tasted better than what the cafeteria served.
@ UltimateIRS:
I see what you did there? If of course you paid nine silvers for a ham…
@ epullay:
2 pounds is about 1 Kg
and now i kinda want to know what dinners at Benjamin’s are like
I guess Ben’s not worried about having his feet chopped off with an axe anymore…
ShinyHappyGoth wrote:
The extra meat could also go towards inviting people over for dinner on a semi-regular basis, and become entrenched in the community in a good way!
@ Van:
Hey now, I’m from California… and a good porterhouse would NEVER scare me…. although a 72 oz steak in one sitting? fear and trepidation ensue….
Time for Yuna to learn to can.
@ Raen: Er… because Yuna’s going to come over to help with the canning, of course. Not because I got Luna’s name wrong.
Calm the hell down. I’m Texan and even I think that’s a bit much.
But I do need to bulk up…I should eat three pounds of meat a day. Or more. I’m really skinny.
Well she has reason to be a commie, she’s poor and struggling in school!
You know, I never thought about this, but Benjamin is the only one of Cloud’s male friends that wasn’t bullied by Ralph. Any chance there is a story arc between the two coming up?
OK, that guy’s just too creepy.
@ Heinfred:
“Never patronize a meat market with more entrances than exits.” 😉
@ Van:
There are some really, seemingly pointless and counterproductive restrictions on what you can donate.
@ Van:
Most of us run screaming towards a good barbecue, in my experience.
…damn it all, now I’m hungry. We just got this month’s box from our butcher, though… Time for MEAT!
@ Kaian:
Say, yes. I’ve had many friends like Benjamin who used it jokingly, usually with that same mock-seriousness. They grew out of it.
ShinyHappyGoth wrote:
This omnivore agrees completely. Jerky is great for supplementing school lunches or just snacking on (though I don’t reccomend something as rich as dried pork-heart sticks during intense experiences like a day of rainforest ziplining) and you can put nearly anything in soup. The ‘host dinners’ suggestion works well too. Fat and trimmings make excellent pet treats to reinforce command training, though it’s annoying when they sit & stare at you while you separate the meat, waiting for an order so they can start earning the discard bits. Some bones are brittle need to be pressurecooked before dogs can safely eat them, but then they make great chewy distractions from the inevitable loneliness of living with diurnal humans who go to work in the daytime.
@ Kaian:
Actually, now they use a more insidious term. They call you “racist” or “bigot”.
@ Walter Matera:
I have been, and some of them run screaming at the sight of meat. Of course, when they start throwing on Soybean patties, then it is just disgusting.
@ DLKmusic:
Good God, where the heck would you find that? That would make several meals by itself.
@ myth buster:
It has gotten worse now. I think it is only a matter of time before they make it mandatory for kids to get a feeding tube shoved up their noses, and only get their nutrition that way. Have you seen what the school lunches are like now?
I have the fortune to work at a public school.
Our cafeteria staff turn out miracles about five times a week.
I am in awe.
Don’t bite the hand that holds the cleaver.
@ vincentbanh:
Larisa’s visit to heaven (actually hell)
A Texan, a Russian and a New Yorker go into a restaurant for a lunch meeting.
Once they’re seated, the waiter comes up to them and says “Excuse me, gentlemen, but I’m afraid that due to a shortage, we will be unable to serve meat today.”
The Texan says: “I don’t understand. What’s a ‘shortage’?”
The Russian says: “I do not understand. What is ‘meat’?”
The New Yorker says: “I don’t understand. What’s ‘excuse me’?”
* ducks and runs for cover * 😀