- Isabella: Today’s National Italian Food Day. Dad always prepares something special for it.
- Larisa: I, too, brought something special to celebrate the day.
- Isabella: Really, like what?
- Larisa: A fabulous dish that brings together tradition and innovation in a truly unique way!
- Larisa: Hawaiian spaghetti!
- Sandra: I don’t think I can be your friend anymore.
- Larisa: Best served lukewarm!
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I don’t see pineapple slices in that mess but it, apparently, is a real thing.
So what did Isabella do that required such an extreme level of revenge?
It doesn’t sound that bad, until the last panel.
I’d like to remind everyone that Italy is in possession of a few nukes on loan from the US.
There are several different recipes for Hawaiian spaghetti. From One Pot Pasta, to one from Domino’s Pizza that’s made with canned pasta.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/13/dominos-launches-revolting-hawaiian-spaghetti-pizza/
Isabella must be too pure a diner to be able to handle sitting next to Larissa. -Oh, that explains it! Thanks be to character tags. Isabella is the girl from http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2017/04/13/0877-under-a-killer-balloon-gone-girl-page-6/
Well, that was it. Sandra and Woo has managed to go without much of a controversy up to now, but after this page? We’re cancelling you, sorry. This is way too over the top, there can be no forgiveness for showing such disgusting filth in a child-friendly comics.
i love larisa!👍😆😸
Now I want to try those spaghetti. Well, I have have fish with pineapple curry later today, so that is something, at least.
Also, do not be so squeamish. Everything is fair game in the kitchen.
@ erejnion:
Please do not joke about cancel culture. It can be exceptionally toxic over the littlest of stuff.
So, spaghetti with spam and pineapples, then?
@ AnotherBear:
What makes you think this is revenge? I mean, Larisa is going to hell’s management team when she dies. Maybe she’s just practicing.
Novil, can you please make up your mind on whether you’re going to tag her as just “Isabella” or as “Isabella Casale”? Most of her appearances are under the latter tag, and searching the former does not turn up any of the strips that use the latter.
I’d just been wondering when next we would get a Larisa strip, and then this popped up! Since this is going to be the last strip before Christmas, I’m going to assume it is a Christmas present, and how wonder it is! (For us readers, that is. Isabella’s stomach and sensibilities… not so much)
So this is basically Isabella’s official debut in the current continuity, as she was only appear in “Under A Killer Balloon” universe before. And yet, she retain her characteristic of disliking “hawaiian” food.
Apparently Wally isn’t the only one who loves to spaghettify things!
Chew! Chew! All aboard the pineapple express!
How bad can it be? Why such overreaction?
@ PS2kid:
I don’t think it’s so much a dislike of Hawaiian food. It’s making transforming Italian food into a monstrosity.
Hawaiian spaghetti? I don’t think it’s a real thing.
I just did a web search on it and not one of the resulting recipes used Spam.
I was prepared for the pineapple, but soy sauce and canned beef gravy did me in.
@ AnotherBear:
It’s not revenge, good Bear. Click on the girl’s name and look at the killer balloon for the next two strips.
Living in Sri Lanka, where they really had a pineapple problem, it was very difficult to order a Hawaiian and not lose your grip on sanity.
I tried it with Pizza Hut, doing an online order, they then rang me up 15 minutes later to confirm I wanted the pineapple on the pizza, until that confirmation was given, the order was not considered placed. [WTF?]
I asked why they needed to do this given that pineapple is the defining characteristic of a Hawaiian, the response was ‘some people don’t like pineapple’.
When I asked did they do just a ham pizza though, they said no they didn’t!
Logic was abandoned somewhere in that conversation…and I ordered Domino’s instead.
I was onboard until the last panel. Italian is almost always better hot.
Is her name Isabelle, or Isabella? You have two different tags for her name!
@ TimesNewLogan:
Scratch that, eyes are playing tricks on me. But you do have two tags for Isabella, one with her first name, and one with her full name.
What’s wrong with Isabella?
Sudden onset of food poisoning?
Flu?
Gurgly stomach?
Surely it can’t be Larisa’s food
@ Patrick Ohm:
No… you don’t, trust me on this…
Larissa just loves being an asshole to anyone.
…Any rare earths in there?
Sound good. https://www.food.com/recipe/hawaiian-spaghetti-218162
Ouch, no! Horror stories continues! Please, Novil, stop it! I don’t like horrors! 🙁
Partially, but not fully convinced about “best” served lukewarm. It definitely sounds more than adequate. Lukewarm food has the distinct advantage over hot food of not having the capacity to scald your tongue and mouth.
I bet it would go well with (lukewarm) poutine, too. Mixing together is optional.
Freezer wrote:
Don’t forget the anchovies!
Shoudn’t there be tags for food, Italian, Hawaiian and spaghetti?
There’s a special place in hell for whoever invented this dish…
National Italian Food Day is February 13th according to Google. Christmas Adam would be a horrible day to celebrate anything (except finishing travel and/or gift purchasing)
As an Italian, I’m obligated to point out that that “dish”, if it actually exists, qualifies as a hate crime.
Ananas on Pizza is very common in germany. No questions asked ever.
But…. A friend of mine spreads Nutella ™ on his bread and then tops it with salami. Thats kind of beyond me. I do understand Cheese with mustard or jam, i heard of Fish with jam, but that was totally off.
Calde wrote:
I think even Kevin doesn’t approve of this.
Arent wrote:
Huh? Wait, did Novil change the name of the devil to Willy? I though Kevin was nice…
how…….EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Hawaiian” Pizza is completely acceptable in Oz, but pasta with pineapple is just wrong.
Lol local takeaway here has jist stated selling haiwian pasta and burgers. As you can guess they just plonked ham and pimple in spaghetti Bolognese and ham and pinaple in a burger eith a beef patty egg and bacon
When I was in Italy a few years ago the only restaurants were either Italian (in all its regional varieties) and Chinese. Apparently those were the only cuisines considered edible.
Best served lukewarm because unless most forms of revenge it can’t be served either cold or piping hot.
@ Syaoran:
I take you’re American. Because as an Italian, an actual Italian from Italy raised in Italy with Italian citizenship, I find this strip hilarious.
@ Paolo Pedroni:
Namely the board of directors…
Merry Christmas!!
Can’t you just seen the girls, especially Larisa, dressing up in a special costume for their boyfriend?
@ Enrico Panaccio:
I think they are trying to continue my joke about cancel culture by cancelling cancel culture.
M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !