Grrl Power #1140 – Air (borne) Travel
I would say Anvil should have known better, but it’s been a while since Sydney did any spicy food shenanigans. A long while, come to think of it.
Sydney wasn’t going to drink it straight, either. If you missed it, Sydney is fumbling a granola bar in the second to last panel there. I mean, I don’t know who puts hot sauce on a granola bar, but I couldn’t think of anything else she might have to snack on in her pocket. She’s a vegetarian, one of those ones who will eat ethically sourced animal secondary products like dairy and eggs. She also eats fish… Basically she doesn’t eat red meat. Or white meat if it comes from a bird. Anyway, I only mention that because she wouldn’t have a slim jim or beef jerky in her snack options, and I could definitely see someone putting hot sauce on that.
She might have brought a few MREs with her… I don’t know if those break down well into “stick it in your pocket to snack on later” units. Vegetarian options in MREs are stuff like cheese tortellini or curry. Most protein bars would be comfortably vegetarian for her. I guess I could see putting hot sauce on a chocolate protein bar. Of course it depends on the hot sauce. Weak vinegary shit like tabasco would be awful, but you can get all kinds of flavors. Spicy honey, hot apple pie hot sauce (link), there’s one I got from the Hot Ones guys that has coffee and chocolate in it. It goes amazingly well on a burger. My point is, there might well be a hot sauce that is really good on a granola bar. Honestly the Hot Ones one I linked might work, even though I wouldn’t actually categorize it as actual hot sauce. Still good though.
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Now, that’s a spicy spit-take gag.
Not sure to diffuse that situation without making it worse.
Milk, and lots of it
I suppose a dilution, as a kind of diffusion, is nonetheless a solution, for this sort of effusion, though it may cause confusion, that requires absolution, from the institution, of our heroes’ collusion.
What a profusion of nouns
Milk doesn’t work for curing hot sauce burning. You need lemonade or something else acidic to counter the capsaicin oils. Milk does help with the inevitable heartburn, however. If you don’t mind the gas
My experience has taught me that sugar is good at combating “omfg mouth fire halp” effects.
Learned that as a kid, back in the 80’s from Martin Yan.
I’m a bit of a spice-eating maniac but I have friends who are definitely not, and we found something that lets them sometime try the food I eat and they don’t… well.. die from it. Apparently poprocks (the candy) used right after eating spicy foods) can quickly get rid of the pain, at least for the mouth. I have no idea why.
Since pop rocks are mostly sugar then I guess that might be at least partially the reason.
Flood the whole cabin in buttermilk. Only way to be sure.
“I understood that reference.”
– Steve Rogers
Propulsion diffusion an illusion! Metal Corrosion causes plane decommission for flask’s final destination.
After reading this, all I feel is confusion. :)
As far as I know, you’re not allowed to carry liquids onto a plane anymore, so this is suspicious to start with. Anvil should of known better, Sydney isn’t known to drink anything else!
From what I understand, you can bring up to 3.4 ounces of liquid in a sealed container on a plane. that can be anything from water to soda to cream to breast milk to custard, as long as it isn’t flammable. Liquids are defined as “anything that forms to fill the container by itself”. Hot sauce would fit that description.
I think that it clearly is flammable though. *Grin*
The real tragedy is how much of it she spilled though…
or possibly a cat.
Underrated comment
That’s a TSA thing, they ain’t in the states so there’s probably different rules.
Also, even in the US, the TSA rules only apply to commercial flights. If you charter a plane or have your own private plane, pretty much anything goes as far as boarding checks or in-cabin rules, the folks running the flight can draw up their own list of rules or make whatever exceptions they want.
The plane was in Senegal not the US
Should have guessed it was not exactly super powered when it come to Syd. I mean yes in a way it was because of her tolerance to high Scoville units. But not like her, Anvil and Dabs using their actual powers.
The funny thing is, I’ve known people who actually do drink hot sauce straight. One guy, for example, gets a handful of packets of their fire sauce whenever he gets something from Taco Bell and just tears the corner and sprays the stuff into his mouth. Like… I once saw him do that with ten packs straight in a row. (And then he added two more to his burrito before eating it.)
Meanwhile, my acid reflux was giving me chest pains just watching him.
Oh definitely, one of my nephews would sit at the computer playing a game and would keep a bottle of hot sauce on the desk. Every so often he would take a little nip.
“Fire” sauce at Taco Bell is one of those SERIOUS cases of false advertising. When I was building my heat tolerance, that stuff was one of the first to become ketchup.
So, no, that does not count.
Lemon concentrate, straight, is my periodic summer treat. Then I water it down for everyone else’s lemonade.
That stuff at Taco Bell isn’t hot sauce. I have no idea why they put those words on the packets, but you can drink it the same way you drink Orange Juice.
Meat is mammal; poultry and fish are different species/food group with different characteristics.
Looking forward to learning more about the orbs, like their clever power source, advancement tree, origins…etc.
Carry on.
Meat is also a generic term for the flesh of any animal and of nuts, and also is a term for the heart of an abstract matter.
Meat, using the limited marketing definition that distinguishes it from poultry and seafood, can also be from a reptile or amphibian.
the meat of the matter is meat is edible matter, as is actually not limited to being mammalian as much as it is being the main ‘flesh’ of something.
(a beefsteak tomato is ‘meaty’, fish and poultry are meat,, etc.)
Coconut meat is the edible white flesh lining inside of a coconut. :)
There are fish in the sea more closely related to us than to other fish in the sea… so…
What? Second page of comments *already??*
Is that appropriate air travel attire Kenya?
Also….
Pre-takeoff I hope!!
So THAT’S where $5,000 in cleaning supplies went!
She’s lucky she didn’t have to pay for the entire plane!
What? Anvil is supposed to wear a bhurka or some full-body shit?
And yes, the tires are down, so at best taxiing, but the stewardess is still in the aisle so probably prior to that
Its a good thing superwomen don’t have to hide themselves.
I have a shirt that says ‘Keep staring – I might do a trick.’ :)
The zoological term for land vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians) is tetrapod (for four feet). So I guess Sydney is an atetrapodian (doesn’t eat tetrapods)?
Birds have four feet? o_O
“Goes about on four legs, or has wings”
Oh, a griffon.
The weird things those animals do with feet on that planet…
Wings on birds or bats are modified forelegs, so yes, technically they have four legs and fly with the front ones.
A wing is just a foot with pretentions.
Your comment makes me think of a severely imbred person with webbed toes so pronounced they can fly with them.
Then thinking of that made me remember there’s actually a fossil of a bird that used its back legs as wings instead of its front.
Hotsauce on a granola bar? Well, not exactly “Hot” but there is tabasco chocolate. There are also spicier variants. Kind bars also have some chili pepper bars mixed with other stuff like chocolate, nuts, fruit, etc. I could see Sydney having a can of mace (pretty much spray-on hot sauce!) or maybe a little squirt bottle of Carolina Reaper infused syrup.
I think the main problem with hot sauce on a granola bar is that most hot sauces are 90% vinegar, and vinegar doesn’t go with a lot of things. I’ve found one locally produced hot sauce I really like, which has zero vinegar in it – it’s Carolina reapers, mixed with a slurry of puree’d ginger and pineapple, with a few preservatives to keep it shelf stable. Tastes amazing, and super hot, without being a suffocating wall of vinegar.
If it uses more fruits and no vinegar, it’s a chutney sauce,.
Can confirm, but some of my favorite spicy sauces are chutneys, so… *smile-shrug*
…once upon a time, I was a cabbie. I used to stop in at this little hole-in-the-wall India place for lunch twice a week. $12 for all-you-can-eat tandoori chicken, saag paneer, naan, two different types of vegetable curry, and your choice of homemade tomato soup with chunks of paneer, or a lentil and onion soup.
They made a mango chutney, and a tamarind sauce, which I would mix to have with my chicken & naan. Absolutely out of this friggin world. That & couple bottle of Golden Eagle, and I could wrestle a bear. The old man & his wife did all the cooking, while their sons handled customers & served. The laughed when they heard me say that.
Of COURSE Sydney has a flask if hot sauce with her
Heh, even Sydney got pink eye :P
Her eyes aren’t any safer from hot sauce than anyone else’s eyes. You might recall that on one of the early pages (page 118), Sydney had to go to the infirmary after accidentally hitting her eye with one of the noodles that she was happily eating.
Of COURSE Sydney keeps hot sauce in a hip flask.What if she has to eat somewhere that only serves unspicy food?
in Sydney’s mind that’s most restaurants.
It would have been less conspicuous if that happened during their in flight meal… Anvil could still have been mistaken the content of her flask as alcohol. But as other pointed out – nowadays there should have been no way to get a liquid on board. And I would suspect that sauce can reasonably be classified as chemical weapon anyway.
These folks are supers, and celebrities, and probably had some kind of diplo involvement, and they are the folks that END terrorists, so it’s not unreasonable for them to NOT have gone through scanners in a little country glad for their help on the way to US where they are already personally registered as lethal weapons.
That being said, Kenya was asking if it was good, which would have immediately been followed by a sniff to see what kind of liquor it was. She would have gotten a nose full of vinegar, not a throat full of hot sauce.
Senegal does not have the TSA and likely is not enforcing TSA-style rules.
Fun fact. Using a bit of hot sauce, or chili powder in making hot cocoa makes the flavor more rich and deeper.
Also, with vegan snacks. Honied fruits or fig newtons would do well too.
Honey isn’t technically Vegan.
Sydney should need a permit to carry that stuff around.
Wow! She is so hot!
In more than one way.
That’s a TSA requirement for American planes, and it would only apply to commercial airlines, and this is likely a private government aircraft.
I thought that at first, but Sydney talks about how she refers to the orbs “in public”, so apparently they are flying commercial. Seems risky. At least they’re in first class.
That’s an interesting vulnerability in Anvil’s otherwise lack thereof.
An MRE has packets. One main meal, a snack, sides, each in a different little foil container. (In Flights and C-Rats has actual tin cans, which I kinda miss, but MRE food is better overall.) So, yea, i can totally see a small bar of something from an MRE in your pocket suitable for adding some flavor. Not ghost pepper sauce, but perhaps a drop of cayenne pepper sauce.
Holy fuck Dave, this page should come with a content warning – CHOKING AND SPITTING HAZARD: DO NOT READ WHILE DRINKING OR EATING ANYTHING.
Anvil would have liked such a warning on that bottle too.
anvil would of liked any warning on the flask
Most granola bars wouldn’t really absorb hot sauce well; the stuff that holds them together would get in the way. Some cereal bars and many snack bars/cakes, however, made of more absorbent stuff, and I can totally see Sydney putting hot sauce on a Nutri-Grain bar or a Twinkie. Heck, I could see her injecting it into a Twinkie with a syringe, if she could actually get the necessary kit on the plane. (Are government-sponsored supers considered Air Marshalls any time they’re on a commercial flight they way certain federal agents are?)
She REALLY failed that Reason feat to actually think Sydney would be carrying around liquor with her particularly for the ‘well it’s a flask it must be booze’ mindset she went with. I mean it’s Sydney after all NEVER assume any kind of normality out of her.
I still think we’re gonna find out that leveling up charges the orbs. Normally that’s not a problem since using up a lot of their power tends to be in pretty extreme circumstances (like with the Cthulhu-titans) but this time she ended up burning a ton of power on something pretty mundane (even if it was a clever solution to a problem.)
I figure at some point she’s going to be backed into a corner and have to come up with something pretty clutch despite being underpowered, and then she’ll be back in the black!
Orbs Fully recharged. They Are All spicy meatballs!
This one hit my funny bone REALLY hard…
i put sriracha on chocolate all the time. its tasty. ^^;;
I think they’re gonna be walking home then.
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe anything Sidney would consider to be “hot sauce” could be safely contained in a metal container.
I worked at a Red Gold factory for a while, they had to use specially coated cans to store the bloody mary mix in, If for no other reason was to keep the metal from dissolving into to the bloody mary mix! Granted that was probably a stainless steel flash, but yes not a good idea.
I think the term for Sydney’s diet is pescetarian. Which is kinda like a vegetarian, but they also eat seafood.
Pesco-vegetarian, I think?
Also will eat cruelty-free eggs & dairy.
Yeah, she mentioned that back when she mentioned that during the pre-Rumble meal
I like how she copped to just not wanted to eat anything cute.
I immediately jumped back to a Dennis Leary routine.
what if the orbs are charged by spicy food?
At last Checkov’s granola bar (the one from her utility belt)makes it’s appearance ;)
It was established early on that Sydney can only get so far away from the orbs before they drag her back
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-27-the-calorie-denial-force-field/
I noticed Sydney’s eyes in panel 6, I believe she just got pepper-sprayed along with everyone else on that side of the plane! No doubt they had to turn around and make an emergency landing after that!! If it got to either pilot that’s VERY bad.
They never took off
Well, now we understand a little better why Sydney’s voicemail meandered so much. It wasn’t (just) her meds wearing off, she was also dealing with fresh mental (and possibly eye) trauma .
Boobs is a plural and should have the grammatical case change. Precedes is what a thing does, precede is what things do. It should either be s singular, such as cleavage, or the case should be different. Possibly with another plural word for reputation… Is that an actual shirt? Because I’m annoyed at whoever designed it either way.
The power of boobage would compel many readers to fully ignore plurals and cases. It’s just a shirt that requires the owner to have nice ones.
I know three people who carry those hip flasks around, at least from time to time. Oddly, none of the three use them for booze (they fit very neatly into normal size pockets, as water bottles generally do not).
I wonder if the changing times are disassembling the premise this gag is built on? Like, “What do you keep in it?” is now a pretty valid question and not asking what’s in it is presuming too much.
Yeah, I didn’t think Sydney was much of a drinker. Not that she doesn’t mind you, just that I don’t see her drinking outside of social settings or maybe the occasional glass of wine.
What would a drunk Sydney even look like? I mean, Alcohol is a depressant so it would reek havoc (and release the dogs of war) on the ADHD brain.
I don’t know how I would even behave because I don’t know how my “non-neurotypical” brain would behave and never want to take the risk. I like what little control I have. lol
That is not only a health hazard to her but everybody in her general vicinity. Given how spicy Sidney likes it getting a droplet in your eyes might be like getting peppersprayed.
Those small bags of chips make good travel snacks and you can put all the hot sauce you want on em. But damn anvil just pepper sprayed the entire plane, is that a felony?
This little vignette has been rattling around in my head all day. Only way to get it out is to share it…
Math: Ooohhoohoohoo the GIRLS are back!! The girls are backthegirlsareback heehheheheee!
Heatwave *leaning against wall, to Mr. A* Whaddya think?
Mr. A *also leaning*: Hrm… popcorn?
HW: The cheesy kind?
MrA: On it. *stretches arms into kitchen*
*Math assumes optimal ogling position as Team Secret Lair Assault enters the building*
Math: Max, perfect as ever… Varia’s got an interesting texture, nice… now, THAT’s a new smudge…. Oooh, wet t-shi *URK*!
*freezes up as Chimyriad walks in, looks up at him and SMILES*
Chi: Hey, loverboy!! Were you WAITING for me?? *oozes up to the landing next to him*
Math: Nonononopenopenope no nono not again notEVERagain…
Chi: What? YOU were the one who said sex with a shapeshifter could be fun! And it WAS!
Math: The shapes, can’t unsee them! The movements, can’t unFEEL them!! Nonono you… you MONSTER…
Chi: Hey, you want another go? I promise, no more than two tentacles this time! Okay, MAYBE three for that one part…
*Math flees, screaming wordlessly, with Chi in hot pursuit. Smash cut to HW and Mr.A, watching and eating popcorn*
Heatwave: *suddenly frowns, glances at Mr.A* You… don’t DO tentacles… right?
Mr.A: *glances back, grins* Only the one, babe.
HW *confused*: Only the…? OH! *blushes, grins* Okay, that one’s all right.
What? He doesn’t tentacle his fingers?
This is both epic and hilarious, but…. (‘=/
“*Math flees, screaming wordlessly, with Chi in hot pursuit.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPSK8fnRqU
Oh, hey there Rape Skunk.
(in case anyone hasnt checked the link, Bharda is not calling ME a rape skunk – she is referring to Pepe LePew from the youtube video, who is indeed a skunk that does not understand the word ‘No.’)
This’ll help your funny bone.
https://i0.wp.com/amultiverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-08-15-The-Rehabilitation-of-Pepe-Le-Pew.jpg?fit=3840%2C5636
I wonder if people would really care about not being in Space Jam 2 to their agent though, given it’s … yknow… Space Jam 2…. :) but that comic was very funny, yes. :)
Like someone else we know in this webic
Saw that one coming. :D
Having that stuff aerosol from Anvil has got to be terrible for the nearby folks. Way back in the past, I worked at a pizza place and someone dropped a red pepper flakes. We had to close while it settled. And that wasn’t even that hot of something….