Grrl Power #839 – Demographics and Dinner
There’s probably an upper limit to how good something can taste, right? I mean, electrochemically in your brain. Or maybe there’s an overload state, once your taste neurons are maxed out, the extra levels of “yum” get dumped on your oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin factories. But probably not. I don’t think it’s possible to taste something so good that you basically have a heroin stroke. I have no idea how taste works. Or heroin.
But those mushrooms are “bend your fork” good at least.
I always wondered if Colossus tasted things the same way in his metal form as his meatbag form. I’m pretty sure The Thing was drawn with a pink human tongue, (as often as he took one on the chin, it’s a wonder his tongue didn’t go flying off panel) but I’m also pretty sure Colossus’s tongue turned to metal.
Maxima’s tongue (and lips and eyes etc) aren’t standard human issue meat any more, but they function exactly as they should. It seems unlikely that there’s some sort of silicone life variant of a tongue that’s cobalt and titanium and is able to taste things exactly like a human tongue, so I’m thinking there’s some layer of translation going on. Like maybe her skimbiote (a slightly upsetting portmanteau I just coined) has a lookup table and when she eats salt, it’s like “oh, okay, stimulate these nodes in the brain that make her think it’s salt.”
Or, maybe everything tastes totally different to her, but her memories of what things taste like have been changed and she thinks everything tastes like it used to before she got her powers.
Carême (the restaurant they’re at) is one of those dining establishments where the average diner is going to drop $750-$2,000 a meal. If a guy shows up in a 2-piece, single breasted suit, they’re shown the door. Deus doesn’t always rock the vest, but he’s always been a double breasted jacket man. Plus, as previously stated, he owns the place. Maxima was right though, as long as she’s reasonably well dressed, they’re not going to turn her away.
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Honestly her tongue is barely a factor. Whatever is processing actual taste really only needs to handle 5-6 basic chemical signatures with very little subtlety—salty, sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and *maybe* fat.
Everything else is the sense of smell. Hold your nose and that mushroom is not going to be particularly delicious. So the hard part would be what the skimbiote does with the sense of smell.
Which come to think of it would basically require, for stuff to taste even remotely the same, that the skimbiote gives her a very similar sense of smell to a normal human, including in sensitivity. If your nose was more sensitive, the balance of smell-taste to tongue-taste the cook intended would be all wrong and stuff might well taste “off”—what was supposed to be a hint of subtle layered flavor would jump to the front and clash with the stronger seasonings. Or compounds we aren’t normally able to smell at all would suddenly be noticeable and ruin the whole dish.
I have virtually no sense of smell. Incidentally, I don’t consider mushrooms delicious. But I do consider them outright disgusting.
So, my guess is that smell sense is a bit overrated.
taste a strawberry while thinking of cherries. then hold your nose and do the same.
I was born with no sense of smell, and I have a rather acute sense of taste, to the point where I can sometimes tell you certain chemical ingredients of a food or oral product by taste. (Butane in the form of butanol, aspartame, certain sulfates, methyl or ethyl alcohols, neither of which should be in your food products, well, almost none of these should be in your food or oral products, but they are in things like breath fresheners and aspartame is used as a 0 calorie sweetener in a ton of stuff.)
It’s not a “I can pick out every spice used in this dish individually” level of acuteness, but that’s partially because I happily eat unseasoned, unspiced bland crap all the time just to save money so I have no frame of reference for what thyme oregano rosemary sage and whatnot taste like. At least have not had the opportunity to sample them individually or in dishes that heavily feature them. Regular salt and pepper, lemon juice, lemon pepper, garlic, garlic salt, variations on table salt, variations of sugar (cane, granulated, brown), those I know the taste of. I have some degree of accuracy between fish types, cod, salmon, herring, halibut, bass, bluegill, but I haven’t tasted several of those in decades at this point, so I doubt I’m as accurate as I used to be.
I can tell when venison sausage is cut with a cheaper meat to add some fat and longevity to it. But honestly every dear that my extended family(uncles) has ever hunted had its own slightly unique taste, or they changed preparation methods every year, either or.
Point being, I think somatosensory cortex linkage between scent and taste happens for people whose homunculus developed a larger olfactory area which ties in to scent as a sense-memory amplifier, and people attribute too much to it thinking that must be the natural state of things, when it only seems that way when perceived by a majority of people who’ve experienced development in that similar fashion.
Basically, plug your nose and eat everything, and eventually you’ll be able to taste just fine even if you’re always stuffy/unable to smell, at least if you start early enough in life. Similarly it’s easier to appreciate a sense of hearing and touch, as well as develop and hone them, if you spend a lot of time with your eyes closed, or with your vision otherwise cut off.
I tend to agree with you, though I lost my sense of smell in my teens (accidentally sat in a cloud of ammonia vapor till I passed out and seared the nasal chemoreceptors in the nasal passages). I guess it isn’t REALLY gone; if it’s in my mouth or practically touching my nose it seems to work about the way I remember (it’s been over 50 years since the accident). It’s my understanding that anyone whose sense of taste isn’t enhanced by their sense of smell (however damaged or apparently missing) actually has damage to the area of the brain processing the sense, not the receptors.
Makes sense. As we may expect, the ‘smell receptors’, in the nose, are the same as in your throat for the ‘taste receptors’. But, weirdly, they are also in various other parts of the body, which have nothing to do with eating!
Evolutionarily it appears that their primary purpose was as a key part of the body’s immune system, to identify things which are not from the body. It just turned out that they could also be useful in identifying which are the nice things and which are the nasty things.
it probably also has an evolutionary advantage, for example if we find certain foods actually savory we are likely to eat them more, and if those foods provide certain advantages then the people that things said foods taste delicious are more likely to survive
for example spices are a defense mechanism plants use against insects they are basically venom for them it just doent affect us because we are soo much bigger than a bunch of ants or mosquitoes and it has been tested that they slow down at least partially the degradation of food like meat for example, so before fridges people specially in hotter climates probably used to bath their meat reserves in spices to keep the insects away, the people that liked the flavour did anyway those that find it disgusting probably didnt lasted long, it also helps that spices have
Eat an apple while having the smell of a lemon in your nose. Your brain will think you’re eating a lemon despite the fact that you just took a bite from an apple.
That whole smell is taste thing doesn’t work for me, either. Numerous times people do the blindfold and taste test apple and onion, and supposedly one can’t tell the difference, but I always can, and it isn’t just a texture thing. I am also allergic to onion, so it’s never been pleasant.
I don’t consider my sense of smell to be particularly strong or special, nor extra discriminatory, but my taste may be, at the very least I can always always tell if a soup or food item was prepared with onions of any kind, powdered, green, boiled into oblivion white onion in a dish, whatever. I can instantly tell.
Usually I can tell by scent, but a taste is always a giveaway.
I have no idea if it is merely because I am now extra-sensitive to onion due to my allergy or whatever, but that’s just how I am.
You probably have a less common gene allele for taste/smell, which is not fooled by that issue.
Well, if you are allergic to onions, that might play a small part in you being able to identify onions over apples
Try it with something your body DOESN’T scream at you for being around. This is not complicated. One example is not evidence of the entire solution!
for me the texture of mushrooms is the deal breaker. My mouth reports “dead rotting thing!” and I have to spit it out.
The “simple components of taste” meme is a myth. The chemoreceptors in the mouth and in the nose are basically the same. I have never understood where he idea that you can’t smell anything if your nose is clipped came from. It’s gotta be psychosomatic, some sort of reverse placebo. I have never lost my sense of smell, not even when I have had flu so bad it closed up my nose completely, not when I broke my nose twice a week apart, not ever. Unless there is a pressure point of some sort in the nostrils that I am missing? Doesn’t seem likely…
I have the ability to clench together some muscles in the back of my nose and cut off airflow through it. I don’t think anyone else does– this is way more comfortable, convenient, and effective at blocking smells than pinching your nose with your fingers or a clothespin, so I don’t see why anyone would ever do it that way if they could do it this way.
When I’m doing this, and therefore breathing entirely through my mouth, I cannot smell anything except on very rare (years apart) occasions where something (broccoli, for example, or skunk spray) winds up being smelled at partial strength through my mouth.
I have never, EVER, noticed a reduced ability to taste while doing this. And we had two very smelly dogs when I was a small child, so I have had plenty of opportunities to test this. One particular day in elementary school, though, my class experimented with how taste changes when smell is cut off, and my classmates and teacher did report reduced or different flavors to various extents.
You have never lost your sense of smell, I can cut mine off with less effort than it takes to lift my arm. My senses of smell and taste are not noticeably linked, but people I trust were amazed to find that theirs very strongly were. So– I think there’s much greater variation in how smell and taste work for different people than we generally believe.
Oh No! Now I have that song stuck in my head! Ooooh it’s a snaaaaake, Oooooh it’s a snaaaaake!
I won’t make it worse.
I promise.
I Dungeon Master promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
You must be a great Dungeon Master because I failed my perception check.
https://reppeat.com/watch/?v=fTZnuKpMYUM
There’s always more memes.
If there aren’t, then we make more!
what the hell did i just watch?
Damn you now Badger badger badger , mushroom mushroom,Badger badger badger , mushroom mushroom,Badger badger badger , Argh a snake a snake a snake is stuck in my head…
Side note many years a go I showed that to a buddy and he sings the inverse mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom, badger badger, mushroom mushroom mushroom when out looking for mushrooms
Narwal Song?
That one? https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/narwhals
That’s the one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiqRBacDvOo :P
Ah, the elder meme. Truly, it is peanut butter jelly time.
I’m not gonna say I did a spit-take when I read the reference to the badger video… only because I was not drinking at the time.
Speaking of, does anyone remember Magical Trevor?
Oh man, the original Magical Trevor song got stuck in my head for, like, a year
Never heard it. I give you my solemn oath as a DM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3-hk-pXsM
You are truly a great and powerful DM!
Also, the Narwhals song
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc
I was expecting that to be Magical Trevor again. I can’t believe you didn’t troll me after the other two!
Feel my power!
How about the Kenya song?
Anvil, Anvil, Anvil, “nose boop”, Anvil, Anvil, Anvil …
That the one?
Aaand, now I can’t get “nose boop, NOSE BOOP!” out of my head.
Alien aphrodisiac that not only increases libido but enhances taste cooked into the food?
:D Lrrr thought it was a salad topping.
Most aphrodisiacs are either vasodilators, addrenaline stimulators or both. Both have the side-effect of an elevated heart rate, which tricks the brain into heightening one’s sense of excitement. Depending on the specifics of the food, that could definitely impact the dining experience.
This one is finely ground Tribble. With the hairs plucked out, first of course.
The “isn’t it though?” makes me think there’s something IN the mushroom… She likely can’t be poisoned, but can she be bugged via food? That’s about the only thing I can think of.
Also… did he order her food for her? It seems very unMaxima like to just eat something a man ordered for her to eat without consulting her. She seems the type to be “I didn’t order this, let me see the menu”.
I doubt it. It looks like he only had the stuffed mushroom appetizer brought out while he waited for her to arrive, then offered her one.
Unless this is his checkmate move in people-chess, it’s probably a bad idea to tamper with Maxima’s food in any way. Tampering/poisoning/bugging would be done to obtain some effect, and ARC has the resources to discover anything he’s done. Pissed-off wouldn’t begin to describe how she would take such a violation. Her demonstrated power levels are enough to wipe his entire country off the map in seconds (not that she would inflict civilian casualties) – he literally could not find a deep enough hole to hide in.
Echoing what Tahnru said, I can sum up the idea of what amounts to a scheme to poison one of the most famous people in the world who is known to be visiting you, is the most powerful person in the world, and has the backing of an entire government including a multitude of supers:
(Very very VERY heavily sarcastically) “…BRILLIANT idea.” (/very very very heavy sarcasm)
Basically, it would be a Very Bad Idea to feed Maxima any kind of mind or body-altering substance without her explicit knowledge before-hand, so it’s basically assured the mushroom is just a mushroom, nothing sinister about it.
Well I said I don’t think it’s poison because I don’t think he can, and I think he knows that he can’t… But just the whole “isn’t it though?” seems to be telegraphing something not entirely above board about the stuffed mushroom.
More likely “isn’t it though” is cut from the same cloth as “I thought you’d like them” or “I know. That’s why I ordered them”.
Trying to pull a major breach of trust over on Maxima would be phenomenally stupid on his part. The downsides from being caught simply outstrip the potential upside of doing so. Moreover it’s probable that simply getting Maxima to dine with him in itself a good outcome for him. It predictably results in people talking about why Maxima and Deus were meeting, which in turn ends up adding weight to his claims on Macroeconomics and likely kicks off the rumor mill about whether or not Gatlyn is selling Super Services. Plus, you know, showing one of the most eligible bachelorettes on the planet (whom he may or may not be romantically interested in) a good time.
“And that’s when I got the brilliant idea… to fake my own death!
Honestly, I just love how Deus effortlessly pushes her buttons without even trying and I have the feeling that he’s not trying at all!
When you get high enough in the culinary food chain, restaurants start providing a ton of things as ‘part of the experience’. The mushrooms probably come with the table.
I’m sure they clean them more often than that!
Wait does Archon mess dress have both a waistcoat *and* a cummerbund? Something seems wrong with this
Shh, don’t let Deus find out that cummerbund is actually Mr Amorphous, acting as chaperone!
A belt and suspenders
oh my, that outfit must be a hell to button/unbutton… well, not for maxima, but surely for most people.
I personally am not a fan of mushrooms but I still eat them, now curious about the taste this dish have.
Heh, that one is easy, try Navy enlisted Dress blues… 13+ buttons in the trousers…
https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/uniformcomponents/Pages/3501_92.aspx
With the additional trick that the 13 buttons are all non-functional.
Yet you must always make sure they’re properly buttoned. (I still have mine…)
I’m just gonna leave this here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d595WKX0q1M
It is interesting how a TV series with a repetitive formula, focussed around fighting by cookery, can be entertaining.
What is that tie knot?
Trinity knot. It’s kinda Deus’ thing.
I really like the Trinity, it’s not as hard to tie as it looks and because it’s all done with the small end, it’s really easy to get it the right length.
It is customary to wear it to Grrl Power conventions.
I’ve always been partial to the double Windsor, though you need a silk tie to have it look its best.
I may be remembering the explanation slightly askew, but basically when Colossus triggers his transformation he is shunting all of his organic matter into an alternate dimension & replacing it with a roughly-equivalent amount of organic metal from said dimension (I say roughly equivalent because he is taller & obviously heaver in steel form than he is in squishy form).
When he’s metal, he has no organs. No stomach. So he can’t eat in that form. It’s never expressly said, but I’d assume that he has no taste buds in that state either. What’s the point in tasting something that you can’t swallow?
Then again, he has no nerves, but he can still feel pain (specifically electricity), so m’eh.
Comic physics are weird.
Unless they’ve retconned it he swaps out the carbon in his body for osmium, transforming into osmium steel. He still has the same organs but they kind of are in stasis and not much use until he transforms back. If he’s injured to his organs before transforming he’s still injured similarly after transforming (as seen during the Brood arc where he’d been stabbed previously through the chest by a Brood and his exertions to repair their ship resulted in him aggravating his injuries and passing out). So he does have organs but they mostly aren’t an issue. Of course while people are thinking about how can he smell and does he or can he eat in organic steel form they tend to not ask ‘how does he see when his eyeballs including corneas are steel and therefor light shouldn’t get through.’
Now I have the “Save the Badgers” version stuck in my head cause of the King of the Hawkmen! That version done by Weebls. Go see it. Fookin’ Rawks.
Yes, posted it on the first page, you are welcome :D
Keep the badgers aliiive!
“There’s probably an upper limit to how good something can taste, right? I mean, electrochemically in your brain.” I suppose too much opium or cocaine in your food could stop your breathing or your heart. But until that point, you’d be craving more.
There is a substance which is so sweet that it is deadly poison to humans.
Probably doggies too. :-(
I think I’m going to make some grilled portobello mushrooms, stuffed with goat cheese and crushed walnut pieces sprinkled ontop.
My recipe:
Glass custard cup
Plastic wrap
1 portabello
some unsalted butter
some brown sugar
Put the mushroom in the cup and put in a little butter and sprinkle brown sugar. Poke a hole or two in the plastic wrap with a fork. Nuke it for a bit (forgot how long haven’t done it in awhile so just pay attention) and you’ve just about steamed a mushroom… but the steam is made of caramel.
So was the food spiked or laced with something or not.
Definitely not. Feeding a spiked/laced substance to the most-powerful super in existence that is a world-renown celebrity, has the backing of the entire US Government including other superpowered individuals, and who is known to be paying you a visit?
Not a good idea.
Even more important, from Deus’s point of view, is that Archon is a very lucrative customer of his, supplying their high technology goods. He is not going to endanger that. Plus it would not fit his character. He documents his conquests, and cheating would impair his enjoyment. If Deus were to decide to lose the equivalent to the Archon contract, it would be spent in a way that got Maxima to voluntarily capitulate to his advances. He did as much with Sciona.
Two questions… 1) since when is Max left handed?
2) In panel 8, Max is holding her fork the way I do (pinned between the thumb and middle finger, steadied by pressure from the index finger) but in panel 10 both of them are holding it between the middle joints of the index and middle fingers and supported by their thumbs (as if it were a cigarette). This means that instead of eating normally, they are having to turn their fists toward their faces to put things into their mouths. Why? It’s really awkward…
While I typically use my fork in my dominant hand, most people do not. Especially if they foresee the possible need for a knife.
I don’t know about the USA, but certainly in Britain it’s customary for the fork to be in the left hand and the knife (if any) in the right. Especially in formal situations such as this.
how DARE you AWAKEN HIM! now i have punish you lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlyFc79BUE
Finally a good video I can fall asleep to, that guarantees happy dreams. I’ll just right click and select ‘loop’.
Max could throw Duse off his game easy if she decides that Sydney would love a mushroom and called her to join them.
That is against the Geneva Convention! Sydney would insist on a custom spicy version, which would constitute deploying a weapon of mass destruction in a civilian area.
Skimbiote – a symbiotic life form that is concentrated in the dermis layers of the host.
In Maxima’s case, her skimbiote processes the raw energies of space-time and reinforces itself and its host to the highest degree possible. As such, it is likely an artificial life-form, designed to transform the host into an ultimate warrior. Without any (known) compulsion acting on her, Maxima is free to act as she chooses, which suggests the skimbiote was designed solely as a transformative agent to create ‘super-soldiers’. There is a good possibility the skimbiote can be triggered to replicate (possibly at the death of the host), making original manufacture every time it is needed unnecessary. Origin and how the skimbiote ‘seed’ came to Earth: unknown – for now.
So is it just me, or does Deus look EXCEPTIONALLY smug in the panels where his teeth are showing on this page?
A question to the Author (about Superpowers):
Could Heatwave or some other pyrokientics, sterilize their hands by using their powers?
Although you addressed the question to the author, I believe we already have enough canon information on this to be able to say, yes. Most natural supers (and specifically including Heatwave) are immune to unpleasant side effects of their own powers. In essence they work the way they are intended to, and ancillary super effects counter harmful reactions which may otherwise affect the user due to the normal laws of physics.
For instance Anvil unleashing her ‘nose boop’ and smashing a villain backwards like he had been hit by a 16 wheeler at top speed, should have had an equal and opposite reaction doing the same to her. Yet she did not even rock back or have to brace herself.
Heatwave is unharmed by the heat she generates. As the heat can be sufficient to melt metal, it is easily enough to sterilise all microbes which can be destroyed by heat (there are a few extremophiles which may survive, but they are not an issue under most circumstances – although the super genre can exploit such loopholes).
The one caveat being that if the author has a specific mechanism in mind for how Heatwave is immune to her own heat, which happens to be problematic. For instance if she has a field that surrounds both herself and her clothing (similar to Maxima’s force field like effect), then stuff living on her and her clothing will also gain protection from that.
And even then, in this setting, we know that supers can learn how to fine tune their super powers, so can override issues like that, with sufficient training and practice.
How well something tastes is all about endorphins.
Get something the body needs for instant gratification/survival (aka sweet/sugar) = Happy Endorphins.
Get something that the body detects is bad/poison (aka spicy) = ‘heal the ouchie’ endorphins.
Either way, the more endorphins your body releases in response to what you eat, the better you think something tastes.
I think spicy is in a different category to bad, as humans do not typically get an endorphin rush from rotten food or poo. I think the spicy and nice brain pathways are adjacent to one another though, so extra spicy can jump lanes.
“Heal the ouchie” endorphins come from overcoming a life or death situation. They can be triggered by many things, including skydiving, hypoxia and particularly excessive amounts of pain. They are not triggered by things that either have a more delayed and drawn out effect on the body or can easily be dealt with in other ways (most people will struggle to swallow the foul things that you suggest).
The sensation of spiciness is an artificial triggering of our temperature response and, while that can be a mild and pleasing added sensation in a meal, it can also be pure pain and that can definitely set off the above. It’s just a lot harder to trigger that extreme reaction than you might think and not worth the suffering involved.
I like my spice at what is, for my body, a sensible level.
And yet they have booths. And have seated the owner and his guest in one…
I don’t recall there being a booth at any single one of the few high end dining places I’ve been to. But maybe I just don’t spend enough time spending far more for a meal than it could possibly be worth. And yes, I do occasionally make stuffed mushrooms, and they are fantastic.
I worked at one decades ago, for a time, and half booths for six people, three in a rounded half circle section and up to three more in chairs around the other half of the large table.
It was also often used for groups of seven with two smaller children, trapping the youngest children inside the booth section.
Other than that, nope. no booths in real high end restaurants that I’ve seen. I do suppose those which are also nightlife and or partially nightclubs for the wealthy, and therefore adult only in the evenings, may have booth seating.
Honestly, I thought that might be a bit weird, but booths are easier to draw than chairs. :)
LOL. I wonder if TV Tropes has anything approximating ‘Rule of “Meh, it was easier.”‘
Why? You can just communicate the idea yourself.
Given that Deus is the owner, probably he prefers booths and decided to have some put in.
All I can say about sense of taste is… be careful what you eat while on chemotherapy. One side effect many people face (I didn’t even finish the first day before it hit) is loss of almost all or all taste. I had made tuna fish sandwiches as a snack to take with. Not enough dill relish… what I put in my mouth that day was just a mushy gross pile with zero taste.
I could taste things that had salt (to an extent) Doritos became one of my favorite chips to munch on.
An insta-packet of kool-aid (premixed packed you dump in a 9 oz bottle of water) tasted like very mild sugar water.
The pizza a friend brought in was good, probably would have been better with taste though.
I did win a few bets with spicy/sour foods though :) like putting 10 lemon warheads in my mouth and not making a face.
Even after you lose taste, when they flush the port, they put saline and something else through it. You can taste it. Even though it’s not going in your mouth. I had to chew a few pieces of cinnamon gum when I was done for the day to try and offset it as they began flushing.
I hope you made a good recovery.
Next year should be my last CT scan and blood draw. You aren’t considered “Cancer Free” till you go 5 years with nothing found. Recovery from chemo and the involved surgeries went well…
It was the blood clot they discovered after that was the problem. I would take doing a year or two of chemo over blood clot treatment and life time of blood thinners.
People’s responses to chemo are massively varied, even within my own extended family, and cancer treatments change rapidly with new research. Your experience will not be universal but is certainly interesting to know about and worth being aware of as a possibility.
Got a quick question about Maxima-is she “solid” in the sense that her body is made of the same material that forms her outer armor/skin layer, or is she still “squishy human” or just “not as tough” underneath her skinbiote?
Vehemence gave her a bloody nose and she had been injured off-scene in the past while on tour.
He broke her nose, and her resetting it broke a previously undamaged part of the parking lot :P
You sure about her being injured while on tour? Thought it was simply she met Pegs in the hospital, Pegs definitely injured (after the chopper fell on her), Maxi could have simply been visiting the injured troops
True. That said though she has fought somebody on Dabbler’s level of power, or more. Which I doubt was easy, so injury is still a strong reason for having been in there.
Thought that happened after her tour was up
“Peggy was deployed in Iraq at the same time as Maxima, and they met in the incident that cost Peggy her leg. Maxima was injured soon after and they spent some time in recovery together and became friends.” source: Peggy’s Bio. Pretty sure it was shown or mentioned as well at some point.
Yeah, meant to say broke her nose then she broke it again… typing on a phone is difficult sometimes.
She has also made comment(s) about other things but they were when she set her attributes to def so they didn’t do any damage to her but they did “Hurt” like when she commented on her jacket getting toasted and it actually hurt a little bit from the explodey-bolo attack.
I love mushrooms… but can’t stand the taste/texture of most greens or sauerkraut. Interesting how everyone has different tastes.
Trinity knot on Deus’s tie! Nice!
The “isn’t it though” is probably more about that mushroom appetizer costing more than most full three course meals than any tampering. This is a pragmatic super rich manipulator type character, he would probably consider the very idea of using any kind of chemical additive to be an implication of failure on his part. So probably just the most amazingly tasty mushroom ever cooked. You’d be amazed by how much you can accomplish just with good cooking.
ah, a classic meme. well done.
She doesn’t look like she’s chewing in the second-last panel. There needs to be some indication of motion in her face.
Not necessarily. In fact, in context, i took it as the stunned moment, after chewing, when she realised how delicious it was.
The “munch” sound effects are in that panel. That implies she’s chewing in that panel. If she’s not supposed to be chewing in that panel, the sound effects shouldn’t be there.
Umm
I can blind taste the difference between most sodas
Won a free t-shirt because I knew the difference between coke and Pepsi when I was a teen
Both are yuck though
Give me a dr pepper (I’ll settle for a Mr pibb) every time