Grrl Power #336 – Mouth feel my wrath
Ok, now, before anyone wants to give Sydney a lecture on the minute difference between the term “texture” and “mouth feel” just be aware, she does not care and will hit you. Apologies to any foodies out there but to anyone who isn’t that into food, it’s kind of an obnoxious term. Obviously Sydney feels more strongly about it than most.
This page took far longer to write that you might guess, but it was because for a long time, there was a section of dialog with Sydney asking what meal this was, and Peggy explaining that Supers eat more than regular people, and also suggesting that since the amount of extra food they eat doesn’t come anywhere near explaining where they get the energy to fuel their powers, she thinks they just eat a lot cause they don’t have to worry about getting fat. I liked the exchange, but it didn’t really move the page along to where I wanted it, so eventually I cut it.
#makecomics: I don’t know why I like drawing them eating. For one thing, I find drawing people sitting is weirdly difficult, for some reason it makes me mess up the length of the torso, especially if there’s a table bisecting the view, but the worst part is all the junk on the table. Think about what’s on a table at an average restaurant. Usually multiple plates per person, silverware (forks are especially difficult to draw in perspective with the curvy neck and the flared bit before the prongs) cups or glasses, salt and pepper, sometimes other condiments. If drawing a cup or a plate doesn’t sound like a big deal, well, it really isn’t, until you have to do it in perspective, then the difficulty goes up a notch. Then there’s all the stuff on the plates. A fully stocked dinner table is actually one of the most fiddly sorts of things to draw short of something very precise and technical like a car with the hood up showing the engine and all the hoses and stuff. Drawing something like a warp engine might be challenging, but you can just make up what it looks like and no one can say you’re wrong. At least until the second time you have to draw it and then it has to match the first drawing, but everyone knows what a dinner table should look like.
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LOL these outbursts never seem to get old. And who ever says ‘mouth feel’ anyway. XD
Professional chefs and food critics. Most normal people use Texture.
i am not professional, but i would rather say “mouth feel”
it may also be that English is not my first language so i don’t know how to properly use textures, or that if i don’t know something someone else may also not know it for sure.
“texture” may be the proper word, mouth feel is more sure to convey the meaning.
that said, repeating it again and again like that…
Texture is different from mouth feel. Texture is resistance to chewing or the feeling of pressure against the tongue or teeth, while mouth feel is more about slipperiness or viscosity of the food itself.
A chef or food chemist won’t talk about “texture” when talking about the difference between butter in the dish or guar gum. They don’t necessarily have a different texture — both are soft, without any crunch — but butter is less viscous than guar gum and slipperier, which gives the food that “rich” flavor that only true fat can provide. It has to do with how fat coats a surface and resists being washed away, because oil and water don’t mix.
We’re wired to seek out salty, sweet, or fatty foods because fats and sugars have lots of energy in lean times, and salt is the electrolyte that we need to stay alive. We have an extra “sense” so to speak when “tasting” fats, more a sensation of how they coat the mouth and tongue, since flavor tends to be about substances dissolving against the tongue, or aromatically rising into the nose, and fats don’t do that well (again, oil and water). So we gauge the fattiness of a food by the sensation in the mouth that ISN’T taste…though fat tends to be found in foods that have the recently-discovered “umami” flavor that comes with the glutamic amino complex found in meat, and the part of the mouth that detects umami is more in the ROOF of the mouth than the tongue. Fats will coat the roof of the mouth and not wash away as easily, thus holding umami molecules there longer than less fatty foods.
So “mouth feel” and “texture” aren’t the same thing…but some people think “mouth feel” just sounds creepy, like they’re trying to be dirty but aren’t quite succeeding. Others just think it’s a pretentious, hiptstery sounding phrase invented just to sound snooty. The terms used to describe the subtle flavors of wine, coffee, or chocolate can sound just as pretentious, but to people with a sensitive palate, they’re very real components to flavor, and aren’t just trying to sound hip.
Someone watches way too much iron chef… :)
Definition of Texture: the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
Definition of Mouth Feel: the texture of a substance as it is perceived in the mouth
https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mouthfeel
Just call it Texture dammit. Mouthfeel is what people who don’t have a normal vocabulary say.
Puh-leeze.
I watch way too much Good Eats. Iron Chef is just food porn.
Thank you for this intriguing bit of information. Highlighting the difference between ‘mouth feel’ and ‘texture’ was one thing, but the cherry on top was that the roof of the mouth houses a recently-uncovered flavor receptor zone, akin but different to the classic ones on the tongue.
either way “Mouth feel” isn’t the proper nor cultured set of words to use
the Proper and polite words to use are Texture, Viscosity, and Oiliness,
when describing non-flavour elements of the food being described.
Anyone who tries to say differently is an uncultured swine in the world of Gourmet.
and uncultured is what most hipsters are, they are peasants that pretend to have taste.
They have poor taste and a greasy mouth feel.
*shakes aboo* SAY TEXTURE YOU HIPSTER! SAY IT!
EVERY single Chef on food network and Cooking channel
Not really, no. There are a few who do, but to use just one example, the judges on Chopped (Food Network) never (or almost never) use “mouth feel”. 99% of the time it’s “this dish could have used one more textural element”.
I have never seen anyone on any of the Food Nework shows use ‘mouth feel.’ Plus I did some research on ‘mouth feel’ – it didnt exist until 1985 and is an ‘americanism’ which was probably used by people who did not know what the word ‘texture’ meant :)
Remember back when Sydney was just about to sign on with Archon and she spent a little time wondering if she had any “bad” powers? Like how Wolverine always seemed to get messed up because he knew he could take it?
I guess Achilles has now discovered the downside of his invulnerability.
Perhaps this helps explain why she was so willing to clobber him – because she knew he could take it. Not that this makes it right or anything, but maybe that’s what was going through her mind.
Given he’s an Adrenaline junkie of sorts, he probably ENJOYS a suprise punch to the head.
Especially if it comes from a source he’s never been punched by before.
I so agree with Sydney . Mouth feel makes punchies happen.
Invulnerable or not. Annoyed or not. I’m pretty sure just assaulting someone like that is still assault and not a good thing. Would she have stopped herself if it was anyone else? I’m not so sure, she hasn’t seen the type. I’m a bit more surprised they think they can change her and make her a decent arc officer. Also, hey might want to give her time with a psychiatrist.
It probably would have been more of a thwap than a full on monkey fist if it had been someone else.
Just thinking she doesn’t know Archilles well enough to get away with that or a Gibbs slap. Also, new to the military style organization and not getting extremely busted for assaulting/battering someone enough to knock them down…not likely.
Actually…. Assault is ‘a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause that bodily harm.’
Therefore Sydney is incapable of ever capable of committing an assault upon Achilles.
true, actually striking someone is Battery.
Would that still count if one of you is out of phase so no contact is made / can be made?
Like punching a ghost…
Nope. If there’s no physical touching, it’s not even a battery. :) Physical contact is an essential part of battery.
Although punching at an out-of-phase person would be an assault if the out-of-phase didn’t realize he or she could not be touched and was alarmed by the attempt to punch him or her… odd but true.
If the out-of-phase person thought there was a threat of physical harm, and it wasnt immediately apparent that the out-of-phase person was, in fact, out of phase, then there can still be an assault. There just can never be a battery. If the person knows that he or she is out of phase and cannot be touched, and/or it looks like he’s out-of-phase to the puncher or the puncher knows that the person is out-of-phase, then there can never be an assault OR a battery. :)
Funny little fact… if you punch someone (a normal person) when their back is turned to you, you are not guilty of the tort of assault, but are guilty of the tort of battery. If you punch at a person and your fist stops an inch from their face as you change your mind and you say ‘ehhh you’re not worth it’ … you are still guilty of the tort of assault, but not the tort of battery. :)
All I know is if the Battery isn’t touching the contacts nothing works.
Correct.
Battery is the offensive touching by the assailant
Assault is the apprehension of the offensive touching by the victim
Masochism is the anticipation of the offensive touching by the victim
haha :) I got so into legal definitions I didnt notice the jokes.
Btw I just reread your post and just got the joke.
HAHA :)
“…if the out-of-phase didn’t realize he or she could not be touched and was alarmed…”
In that case, I’d say that it goes back to assault: it’s expressing the threat of being willing to commit bodily harm. If the target was unaware of being invulnerable to harm, then the threat alone was sufficient to generate the fear or apprehension from the threat.
Yep. I’m pretty sure that’s what I was saying :)
Correct! Striking someone is a battery, not an assault. But my correction was actually a lot more legalese than that. Sit back, kiddies, and let Pander the Lawyer regale you of boring tales of Torts 101 and Criminal Law 101 :)
The legal definition of battery is ‘the intentional harmful or offensive touching with a person or to something attached to the person’
Also, the legal definition of offensive touching means ‘a person making physical contact of another person with a member of one person’s body or any instrument, knowing that the person is thereby likely to cause offense or alarm to such other person.’
In most cases, what Sydney did would be considered a battery – but to Achilles, based on his nonchalant attitude about getting hit… there doesnt seem to be any offense or alarm to him – plus Sydney knows that it is unlikely to cause offense or alarm to him (so technically there’s no mens rea)
Supers seem to make all sorts of legal definitions obsolete, don’t they? :)
Actually, that was quite entertaining. Not something I’d have thought Torts and Criminal Law 101 was capable of being. Kudos to you, sir.
Breach of the Peace and/or Hostile Work Environment.
As Pander points out, it would generally be considered batter by the reasonable person standard. And it would be IF Achilles chose to press charges for it. After all, blowing cigarette smoke in someone’s face has been a battery case.
I love using real life legal definitions as applies to fictional characters :) :)
About your hand being hand-sized. Of course it is. That’s how you know it’s not your foot!
Unless you’re a chimp or other non- homo-sapien monkey. Then you foot may be hand sized. So if wouldn’t be clear that your hand was not your foot.
Or you just have really big hands and really small feet. It could happen.
Like those Chinese women with bound feet.
See, it’s funny because it’s horrible (at least to most westerners it is).
…It’s also horrible when those foot-bound Japanese women try to walk on feet that are so badly deformed.
https://www.myseveralworlds.com/2007/07/11/suffering-for-beauty-graphic-photos-of-chinese-footbinding/
Could you imagine trying to go about your normal day on THOSE feet?!
I’m fairly certain that the inability to walk is a large part of the appeal. It signifies wealth. In the dark old days, before motorized chairs, only a woman that was part of a rich/powerful family could have bound feet and survive. Laborers and farmers and other peasants could not have bound feet, because they needed to actually work for a living.
A friend of mine calls himself Triangle Man. Large head, broad shoulders (I think he takes a 54 jacket, narrow waist (34), tiny feet (size 7.5 shoes, if I remember correctly).
Well, the point being that I went to measure one hand with the other instead of just seeing how long one forearm was in comparison to the opposite hand. The second I placed one hand on the other I realized what I was doing was too dumb not to be shared.
Wouldn’t be at all dumb if you were a Fiddler Crab.
Humans are NOT perfectly symmetrical, and it’s entirely plausible that your two hands are not exactly the same size.
However, absent a known injury or deformity they are going to be close enough that DaveB could ignore the difference considering that he wasn’t exactly going after precise measurements.
Yeahh…except that your hand and your foot are probably close to the same length, measured from the wrist.
Human body is weird like that; stuff comes in proportion. People can be measured in “heads”. Your head is 1 head tall. It’s 1 head from your chin to your nipples. It’s 1 head from your nipples to your belly button. It’s 1 head from your belly button to the base of your groin. It’s 1 head from your groin to your knees. It’s 2 heads from your knees to your ankles. Most people are about 8 heads tall. Obviously that only really applies to adults, and for some of the squishier bits, being really fat can throw the measurement off. Peter Dinklage is only about 4 heads tall. If you’re tempted to check this at home, remember when measuring your head to measure your head, not your face. Your face is much smaller than your head (your eyes are in the middle of your head, but towards the top of your face).
Your feet are generally 1 head long, as are your hands, forearms, and upper arms.
Sorry, 2 heads from knees to the ground, not the ankles. Stupid no edit button!
The division in 8 heads is a drawing tool both for ease and stylization. The actual proportions for an occidental adult male is 7 heads and a half in average. It varies with gender, ethnicity and age.
Mouth feel and texture are different, yes, but I think Achilles actually does mean “texture” here.
No, no, pretty sure he means ‘slap me around the head’.
I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: mouthfeel is for masticators.
Tee hee.
(p.s. Apologies if someone else has made that joke already, poor phone internet on the U-bahn won’t let me open previous comments pages)
Nope, you were the first with that one. You winz an internet! YAY!
Ooh cool! Toss it this way…
*reverently passes the internet to darksea*
Just be careful not to break it, and return it to the top of Big Ben, when you are done. Remember the Elders of the Internet will be watching you!
Done!
I stuck it ontop of the belltower though, rather than on top of Big Ben itself. They were ringing so the bell was swinging and I thought the intenret might fall and get broke. Next person that needs it, will have to climb up the outside of the belltower though :D
(oh, i forgot i changed my tag the other day. problem with using to many blinky devices to play on the internet…)
I never heard anyone say ‘mouth feel’ before. Then again I tend to only associate with people who arent total portlandia level hipster idiots, apparently :)
I’ve used it, but then against cooking is a hobby of mine, and also I live in an adult family home where that can be important. I think I ran across the concept of mouth feel when a friend of mine told me he didn’t like a rice dish I made, even though I knew he liked the individual components.
I get the funny but she’s overreacting too much to everything, she needs to tone it down, otherwise she’ll lose all her likeability. As it is, I don’t know how she’s not been fired.
Maybe before she started running her own business, she DID get fired a lot, hence the need to work for herself. Part of working for yourself is that you get to call the boss an asshole without getting fired.
I meant from the squad, who were already concerned about her lack of self-control – discharged would be better maybe? Isn’t she meant to make corporal in a matter of months? Seems she’s starting from waaay back in the pack
I’ve worked with two tiny women who were slightly hyper. They were always punching the guys. We always let them because a) it didn’t hurt & 2) they were cute. People frequently let cuties get away with stuff ugly people couldn’t.
Of course, they never knocked anybody onto the floor, but none of us had super-powers either.
That’s how we girls tell the slow-witted guys that we LIKE them! How the hell else are we gonna get them to chase us around the schoolyard? It’d be creepy and way to revealing to just SAY “hey, chase me around, I like the attention”.
BAD THINGS (…continued)
China occupying Tibet
HaremGetting beaten up by girlsGOOD THINGS (… continued)
Liquid thorium reactors
Chocolate
Getting beaten up by girls
Liquid thorium reactors – GOOD THINGS.
Yes.
Sir, if ever a dog runs for presidency, you’ll have my vote.
A forearm is one and a half hands long, typically. And an upper arm is a bit over one hand. I once saw an entire body diagrammed in hand lengths, it was helpful.
You mean Morph? Think of him like Mr. Fantastic or Plastic Man
*looks at paw*
*feels sad*
*measures height in paws*
*wags tail happily*
If you were a horse, you’d still need to use hands to measure your height…Even though horses don’t have hands either.
Go figure.
Don’t feel too bad. I don’t have any meters on me, either. If I need meters, I have to buy one at radio shack or go to England.
Well….I wonder if Sydney has the same “problem” that I know, that I myself and others share, people using words they think mean something and using them as if they are correctly used, yet they are not, they are speaking gibberish and at best confuse the whole thing they are trying to say.
Especially on the internet, there are so many people that just sprout out words, and get annoyed when you correct them, as if you are the one ruining this whole, because ‘everyone’ knows exactly what they mean.
You are attempting to communicate! Not just spew out words! There are actual words for what you want to say!
*grumblemumble* Sydney! punch the internet!
So, I’m guessing this would be appropriate here? That said, I know what you mean…
Very so much so.
I am guilty of learning words through reading, then using them in conversation.
A good example of this is the word debris, which I pronounce exactly like it’s spelled. I never researched where it came from or how to pronounce it, it’s six simple letters… Who could get that wrong?
On a related note. What’s with the whole silent consonant thing in French? Aren’t they aware ‘Les Misérables’ has more than one ‘s’ in it?
(Not sure if it’s good or bad that I never took French.)
In my case it is not so much how people pronounce words, but use words that make no sense.
Like calling something that clearly took effort and skill “lazy”
You don’t like whatever it is? fine, say that, but calling someone who’s put effort and time into creating something lazy, especially if it is something you cannot do yourself? lazy?
Just hits a nerve.
Heh, yeah, I’ve been known to mispronounce words to the point of not being understood because I had read them but never heard them spoken. (Okay, so I can only recall it being to the point of not being understood once.)
I know it’s been shown a dozen times already, but it’s about now that I realized that the lighthook’s knot reminds of Marsupilami’s tail knot: https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/77/450542-batem_marsupilami.jpg.
Ah, so Achilles has 7 “X” under his boot, some of them grouped in a “5X” way as in XXXXX porn
to make sure conspiracy theorists get the hint.
I guess he can take that sort of thing 2 levels of OWWW higher, LOL.
(or maybe boots are just like that — re-lol)
Almost the same https://www.bayareakicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/81yaF7mnHBL._AA1500_.jpg
Another boot, not quite the same.
https://40.media.tumblr.com/85a8c80a82e527410c478afdee922f04/tumblr_mjt5b9eczn1rq0kfwo1_1280.jpg
Wow. There’s even *wear* on that tread. Damn, DaveB, you are amazing with the details.
“…and I get to see the ceiling!”
That line made me laugh out loud!
Okay, that “Moving” graphic? I can’t help but feel that the purple one with the eyepatch is a nod to Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury (psst, the eyepatch is on the other eye!) and Mace Windu (purple lightsaber for the win!)…but I’m sure that’s just me seeing magnificent geekery in the shape of passing summer clouds…
He he. I had probably noticed the eye-patch, but it just did not sink in. Love it! And really want a complete set of Grrl Power emotions now! All we need to do is have them embedded in the site, and we can link them (it will not work with externally hosted pictures).
I think that is one of my favourite pictures of Sydney!
It appears that Peggy’s “common sense” superpower has been bought using flaw points from “difficult subordinates.”
Well having ‘alliy group: national super hero organisation’, and ‘patrons: strongest super hero in the world and the United States government’, must have absolutely cost her an arm and a leg!
Errm. Actually, Dabbler was the one who had to offset the cost with an arm. And an eye. But she does have a few more powers to buy too.
Just a leg, I think. And didn’t Dabbler only pay a hand for her powers? She was probably built on more points…or was the GM’s sweetie’s character, either way.
Interesting that you show Sydney using a wheelbarrow to move, because I did that about 25 years ago, when I was moving to a new place about six blocks away and didn’t have a car.
Ooh, torc spotted in panel 1! Although we have heard much of them, I cannot recall having spotted one before.
That is not to say that they have not been in evidence mind. I have a pretty low spot check.
I like Mr Amorphous’s choker. It is much better than Achilles’s girlie choker. :)
I kind of like Achilles’s choker.
Seems odd that Morph is using one of the ‘neck too big for a fancy choker’ choker when he can adjust his neck to any size he wants
It turns to be handy if he needs to change against his will, like for battle needs.
First occurrence of Super Hiro “torc”
First (obvious) occurrence of Amorphous “torc” (there were two previous but very small)
Thanks.
Looks good here though.
I laughed. :)
And while I might not react as strongly as Sydney, I definitely sympathise with her position.
I think what bugs me the most is that he wasnt even talking to sydney, she was at another table entirely, and she was the only one bothered by mouth feel being used, amorphus and heatwave seemed amused, or at least not bothered. So she interjected herself in a conversation that had nothing to do with her using a weapon capable of flinging cars around and started hollering. Though it was amusing when she managed to trigger achilles and amorphus into getting out of control enough for peggy to drag them ALL out.
One of the challenges writing the page was I would have liked to have both conversations running concurrently, and Sydney getting increasingly irritated with him – hence the initial dialog between Peggy and Sydney which I later cut. The problem is I think that would work well enough if it was a TV show or movie, but having to read multiple layered conversations staggered in different balloons wouldn’t flow as well.
It has worked well in at least one movie, ‘Almost An Angel’. The semi conscious patient was hearing part of a conversation, addressed to or about him, overlaid with a TV program. Which made it sound like God was speaking to him and telling him that he was being returned to life, to have a second chance, to do good with his life.
Spoiler.
Which turned out to be true.
Poor fellow couldn’t fly, and thought he was bullet proof.
Never found out if he was bullet proof.
Spoiler. *
He was sixteen-wheeler proof. Bullets would have gone through him just as easily. But he was not sent back to have an easy time. He was there to better himself and the world. Knowing he was bullet proof would have made the latter easier, but might have prevented the former.
* Yea, I know it is an old film, but if anybody has not seen it, it will have stood the test of time, and I do not want to ruin it for them, should they get the chance to see it.
Personally, I was hoping the first time Sydney used her orbs on Achilles (which we all knew would happen), it would give him a nasty surprise–the first pain he’s felt in almost 20 years. Think about, Achilles can’t be hurt by any known substance or process, but the orbs are most certainly NOT a known substance or process…it would have been a golden opportunity to take him down a peg or two.
Ah well, as the good folks at TV Tropes would say: Jossed.
Bleh, sydney doesnt need even more reasons to be special. I admit on its own the idea is interesting and would pass the fridge logic test, at least, once it gets spelled out a bit more. “After extensive testing we found this uses oppositanium to run, meaning it will always be strong against whatever its used on.” Or whatever justification it got. But along with everything else she has going for her, the last thing she needs is to have her orbs allow her to bypass invulnerability.
True. Which is why I’m not too disappointed that Dave didn’t go that way. It was just an interesting idea I’d been batting around for a few weeks.
Meanwhile in the Batcave:
Batman: Achilles must have a weakness. I will find it.
Alfred: You can build a device to spy on another universe, but I can’t get a raise?
Guys, remember that Sydney is on her cycle and thus her temper may be on a shorter leash.
Scariest thing in this world has to be a PMS’n Super. (didn’t that happen in a few other Super webcomics too?) –
Scarier even? A group of women supers on the same cycle… That’s why supers like Achilles exist. he’s their natural target or the world would burn. It’s also why he never has to buy his own beer at a bar. The men know and are thankful. :D
That makes a remarkable amount of sense. I’m glad I’m an Alien robot, I won’t PMS…
…Wait, it’s not the males that PMS, only females? My bad. Achilles, keep up the good work…
Actually you can. America has legislation, which prohibits this. For instance it is why Arnold Schwarzenegger was never President. But (unless the small print has been changed and nobody told me) aliens, animals and robots are all eligible to become a member of parliament.
So just set up your own political party, get elected of leader of that, and win a general election, and you too can be Prime Minister!
O.o
Got a strange feeling that Achilles is a total M. He lets himself get hit, blasted and thrown around allot with no ill will what so ever to whoever is doing it. It also be a intrusting paradox. A man who’s a M but has the super ability to never get hurt whatsoever.
How can he enjoy pain he doesn’t feel?
That’s his problem. He enjoys pain, but he can’t feel it. Hence the paradox.
Ahh. Poor Achilles. Suffering a case of “blue receptors” for all this time. : (
Adrenaline looses out when you can safely leap off a 200 story building into a pit of spikes, where a super-Ebola bomb is about to explode.
Unexpected changes in his bodies orientation may be as close as Achillees gets to atruely exciting physical event (PMS linked events in/near supers bedrooms not withstanding)
And why exactly is Achilles and Amorphus being taken outside? They did nothing wrong whatsoever and were just minding there own business small talking about food when some spazzed out psycho decides to throw a light hook because she all of a sudden doesn’t like his choice of words. I mean after all Achillies is the wounded(And I use that term really loosely here.) party in this.
I swear I can’t wait for the day that freekazoid’s spicy dining catches up with her and she literally dies from her own farts.
Peggy realized Achilles is egging Sydney on with the final, “mouth feel,” and may think that Amorphous intentionally helped Achilles set that comment up via the, “grit,” remark.
Egging nothing. Don’t forget that Achilles really is that absent minded so he likely just forgot. And the only thing Amorphous is guilty of is trying to keep his friend from eating floor food, and being totally discussing.
Not even Sydney is that forgetful after getting smacked outside the head
Wouldn’t be so much ‘egging’ ‘Les on as the start of a brawl (if ‘Les continues to struggle, and Morph continues to attempt to restrain him, what do you think will happen? specially if Heatwave get hits in the scuffle?)
Sydney may not be that forgetful but there is a good chance Achilles is, the guy screams dumb blond.
As for the chance of a fight there is no way it would have gone that far. And besides Achilles was just understanding Amorphous’s point before Super spaz blew her top again.
Achillees put extra emphasis on the words ,mouth feel’ in his last comment. He’s actively contributing to this.
Rough housing in the mess
For a while Sydney reminded me of an old friend. Now she is eerily reminding me of my ex fiancee…
I thought mouthfeel was one word, and something entirely different from texture. But I agree that it is a word that probably would never be used in a conversation. Except by researchers or snobs or research snobs or snob researchers.
omg. Now i ship Sydney and Achiless even more.
I mean, look, they are so cute together!!!
Heh heh, loving this page (shoulda had ‘Les a little more crosseyed in panel two though :p)
Good to see Heatwave again, but she looks scared of ‘Les and his talking (or maybe she is still a little weak from losing a toe and leaning on Morph for physical, not emotional, support… nah, totally scared of the burger talk :D)
i live in Portland and I have never heard anyone say “mouth feel”
Food is measured in the following way “texture, flavour, sweetness, vibrance, and if you are a chef that bakes sole bread moh factor.”
+1
Any yumminess. It is important that the other factors all combine together well. It is possible to have high scores in all of them, yet for there to still be a problem. For instance the wrong temperature or an excess of ebola can simply ruin a meal!
“I’m actually with Sydney on this one, Hit him HIT HIM HARDER!” You know mouth feel is just his way right? “Shut your trap or your mouth will feel my fist.”
Feel free, the guy is completely invulnerable so you might have a better chance hitting a brick wall.
I laughed. Hard. And loved it.
glad the site is back! and hopefully, this time for good. or at least until you decide to move again, but hopefully not any time soon.
on another note, those 2’s “who is who” is lacking collars.
and we are leading by around 3.5 votes on TWC.
That’s because those images were taking from their first appearance, after ‘pretending’ to rob the bank as a publicity stunt cooked up by Ari to wind up Maxi (and, if you look closerer, Sydney isn’t wearing a choker either o_O)
indeed she isn’t… but she still has a collar on the top right corner of her who is who…
i do not mean the photo. it should be added after the name.
Oh, righty-o then, understand you now :D
I would just like to say that ‘Portlandia-level hipster dipshit’ made me laugh hysterically for a solid two minutes. And is still making me chuckle.
I wonder what Achilles thinks of absurdly spicy food? Can he even feel the pain that causes normal people? I demand a chilli-eat-off between Sydney and Achilles! :D
Seconded.
Where Floor Food is concerned, the 30 Second Rule applies. If it’s on the floor for 30 seconds or less, it’s okay to eat it. Said rule does not apply in diners, fast food joints or homes where cats and/or dogs are present.
Mythbusters covered the Five Second Rule – https://mythbustersresults.com/episode39 . They found that 5 seconds made no real differance to the amount of bacteria that dropped food colects.
I never thought of the ‘5 second rule’ as a hard and fast guideline. It’s not like 4.9 seconds OK, 5.0 seconds POISON!
It’s just to restrict floor food to items that you actually saw drop, not wandering into a room and finding food of unknown provenance that’s been there for who knows how long. Like the time I was cleaning out the fridge thoroughly and found a package of cheese that had slipped down under all the shelves that had an expiration date six years ago.
That said, if I drop a tylenol, or something on the bathroom floor, that’s a 0 second rule there. Especially since the catbox is also in that bathroom.
Darn, if Mythbusters covered it, I guess that it must be true. Just so long as you do not mind your food covered in fecal bacteria. The conclusion of tests by the University of London concluded that even the 0 second rule fails.
Do note that the film clip only demonstrates typical results, to carry the message. It does not properly detail the control studies etc.
Mind you I do not mind a nice bunch of bacteria on my food. Extra calories. And helps build up my immunities.
Not too keen if it is fluffy mind. Or if things start scuttling around on it. Makes it much harder to keep it in the mouth.
^^ This. As the late George Carlin pointed out, that’s what you have an immune system for. And it needs practice. I’m not sure I could find the link again, but I know there’s at least one study that directly links over-protective parents (the kind who use antibacterial wipes on everything several times per day) and an increased risk of allergies in children.
Often thought that last myself. Allergies, in a very broad sense, are the result of over-active immune systems, and many people refuse to give immune systems proper exercise. Kids, by natural inclination, tend to get dirty. Accept it.
I’m worried that eventually it’s going to result in people being born with not just MCSS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome), but TCSS (Total Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome)… that is, they will be allergic to just about everything.
I think we pretty much both agree that we need to stop being so over-protective of our children. Not only is the overuse of antibacterial wipes directly linked to the incidence of allergies, but the overuse of antibacterial agents in general is directly responsible for the rise of resistant bacterial strains like MRSA.
I actually was in hospital (visiting a friend) when I heard a woman demanding the doctor prescribe antibiotics for viral pneumonia. So I stuck my head in the room and said, “Ma’am, didn’t you hear what the doctor just said? It is viral pneumonia. He’s too polite to tell you that antibiotics won’t do jack shit. All they can do is control the symptoms and let your immune system do the rest of the work.”
From what I heard later, she went to several other doctors to try to get antibiotics. Every single one of them stood their ground, and before she could find a doctor who would prescribe antibiotics, her immune system had already taken care of it. “What do you need antibiotics for? You’re perfectly healthy!”
That last doctor was the clever one. What you did not get to hear about was the notation in the corner of the prescription. “SPWL”
What I really liked about George Carlin is that he was a dirty, old man…And PROUD OF IT!
:D
“Portlandia level hipster dipshit” is a term that needs to enter the public lexicon on a widespread basis.
Eh, I’m not sure “texture” has a place. Mouthfeel is an aggressively overencompassing term (AIUI it even technically includes taste and heat), but if you’re going to be more specific why not cut out all the middlemen and just talk about the crunch?
Because texture doesn’t just include crunch, any more than mouthfeel does.
Because no matter how hard she squeezes, with the tentacle, his bones just wont go ‘crunch’.
Amorphous be like, “What? What did I do in this sequence to deserve being grouped in here?”
I think it’s a basic principle of military discipline.
Essentially, when an officer is annoyed with more than one person at once, the standard procedure is to spread it around with a great big shovel rather than single people out.