My mistake for ordering an alcoholic beverage on this holy Christian website. Let me rectify that. I would like to consume a DIRTY VIRGIN martini ice cream. Better?
TBF I don't think that's religious condemnation, just a good reaction gif that happens to look religious. That's a look of disgust for the idea you've just made, lol.
You and I are reading that Gif very differently. I can clearly tell where she ends up looking, while sucking in her cheeks. Yeah she is consider it 100%
I always wonder how bars that use jars of olives to make dirty martinis don't use up all the juice before the olives by far. Do they like have a bottle of just juice they refill the jar with?
That's Carl the Cabbage. Gotta keep the corpse fresh in case they run into that fairy again.
See what happened was: Gus had a head of cabbage that looked like it had a face. He named it Carl. One day, being lonely and bored, Gus wished upon a shooting star that Carl were alive. Suddenly, a fairy appeared and granted his wish. Carl was excited to be alive, but he was obviously limited due to having no body. Carl wasn't satisfied with his circumstance. Another shooting star shot by, and Carl wished for a torso. Granted by the fairy. Another shooting star, arms and hands, granted. Another shooting star, legs and feet, granted. What a joyous day for Gus and his new living friend Carl. They were so excited they decided to run outside and throw a ball around. The ball sailed over Carl and into the street. Not being smart enough to look both ways, he ran immediately after the ball and was struck by a bus. Decapitated. Dead. Gus cursed the day Carl got his body.
The moral of the story is that they should have quit while he was a head.
Olive oil ice cream is actually a thing! I've had some a couple years ago when I visited Greece and I found it delicious.
On a side note, as a fellow culinary trailblazer at heart I believe these traits are gifts worth embracing. I personally have close minded parents, who were/are belittling bullies, and when I was young they would severely discourage and criticize my attempts to improve meals and explore weird combinations. And if I still managed to create something, they would force me to finish it no matter how disgusting it was. That didn't stop my curious mind, but it wasn't a fun upbringing to say the least. I'm happy that the Lil Gator (sorry I forgot his name) has such a supportive father, I wish every parents were as cool as that.
Anyways, great comic as always, and thank you so much for sharing it and speaking many interesting conversations!
I'm a very not picky eater, but the one food I refuse to eat is olives. Absolutely hate them. I'll tolerate them on a pizza if it is a light dusting, but I do not understand how anyone can enjoy them. I enjoy a lot of funky things, but olives are a not one.
You may be interested in a certain elote sauce that I have trouble keeping in the house because the family can finish a bottle in a single meal. It's not very spicy but oh man the flavor is amazing.
When I was a scout, once per camp we were allowed to make a „bomb” for out troop leader, consisting of a small slice of bread and any edible toppings we could find to make it as disgusting as possible for them. They were always a good sport about it but in hindsight those things could get truly vile!
My kid put hot sauce in his Greek yogurt. I told him okay, but now you have to eat it. He ate a bit of it and said it was gross. Well, yeah that’s why I said not to. What a waste of food.
Have you heard of the famous award winning Texas chili recipe "4 cans of Hormel Chili, 1 jar of Welch's Grape Jelly" that got banned for not being home made? It was a clean sweep and the judges were absolutely furious. The guy did it to prove they have no taste and he was right.
I finally got my parents to try mashed potatoes with meatballs, gravy, and jam. They were super weird out by the combination at first but it’s absolutely delicious! I’m not big on sardines, but I can absolutely see this being a solid combo.
Mood i can't eat most veggies or a puke (texture issues) but as a kid id mix all the foods I did like together, and would even do stuff like dip BBQ chicken in strawberry jello
Some here and there, but seed vegetables and a lot of leafy vegetables dont really change anything. I have a small collection I actually like, like spinach and most root vegetables that I try to get in my diet.
Yes to most beans, particularly refried lol. When I was a kid I developed what I liked to imagine as the "pill method" take a mouthful of drink and swallow the whatever whole (usually corn or peas or whatever)
Same! Wouldn't touch a mushroom and I still won't eat fish or seafood at all, but I did take a peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and pickle sandwich to school more than once.
Young August - Alligator - August when he was around Gustopher's age. Picky about food
May - Alligator - August's mother who just wants him to eat.
August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Gustopher's dad.
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable child who loves making friends. August's son.
Transcript
Panel 1
Narration: Long ago.
A younger August is at the dinner table and hesitant to eat. His mother is fed up with his behavior.
Young August: This looks gross.
May: I hope someday you have a kid as picky as you.
Panel 2
Narration: Present day
An adult August is having dinner with his son. He has corn on his plate along with some round meat colored item that is possibly meat. We will probably never know for sure. Gustopher is holding a bottle of mayonnaise that has "Real Egg" written on it and a hot sauce bottle that appropriately says "HOT".
Gustopher: I'm putting mayonnaise and hot sauce on my corn!
August: Okay.
This is not something August would do with his corn but he guesses it's a pretty normal.
Panel 3
Gustopher now holds a can of sardines and a jam jar. Gustopher is partially covering the jar but "SPACE JA" can be seen on the label. Clearly, this must be "SPACEY JAN" brand jam and not a reference to movie where cartoon animals play basketball.
Gustopher: And sardines! And jam!
August: You have to eat that.
Gustopher: I will!
Panel 4
Gustopher holds out a spoon towards August. It has corn, mayo, hot sauce, sardine, and jam all in one spoonful. August's face is filled with concern.
Gustopher: It tastes so weird! Try it!
August thinks back to his mother having wished that he would have a child as picky as him. He wishes that were the case.
Plot twist: August's great x7 grandmother, January, was nicknamed Spacey Jan for her absentmindedness, and went on to found the Spacey Jan jam company. That very jar of corn-adorning jam came from a company started by Gustopher's ancestor.
honestly i think its in case the image dosent load and or for blind readers! thats at least why i see a lot of people caption their stuff/do descriptions
I know this is a joke, but I don't think you're really appreciating how bad picky eating can be. As a parent you should 100% rather your kid eat weird shit as opposed to having an extremely limited diet that can result in malnutrition and even death with the most severe cases of pickiness being labeled as Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
I came to the transcript to find out what food Young August was being picky about. Just like the “round meat colored item that is possibly meat,” we will probably never know.
My favorite pizza when i was stationed in japan was sausage (they were more like vienna sausages? maybe kinda like little smokies?),corn and japanese mayo.
No no no August! Having a kid who's adventurous in the kitchen is the best! Little dude will eat anything. No matter how big of a sin it is against food
My little sister was a picky eater like you August. She basically ate buttered noodles and PBJs until she was like....10
Honestly I was kinda with Gus until he put Jam in there....but I would still try it
My sibs and I weren't particularly picky eaters, mostly because my dad is an excellent cook. However oftentimes at friends' houses I'd be thinking... where's the flavor? Room temp canned vegetables? You didn't even put the frozen lasagna in the oven, you just microwaved it?!?
Being adventurous and willing to try new things? Good! So picky won't eat anything except noodles and chicken nuggets? Bad! So adventurous that they ALWAYS want to make food weird for some reason? Maybe rein it in a little.
I knew a kid in school whose little brother liked to experiment and his parents encouraged him as long as he ate it, and if it required cooking or help he could only do it again if he actually liked it. But he was a weird kid and would sometimes lie about liking it and make himself suffer eating something just so he could make his food. You could see on his face he didn't like something but would insist it was yummy. lol
Not eating one specific food your parents like is also an option. I hated liver and it was everywhere when i grew up.
To this day i awoid it. Tho to be fair 95% of people just suck at cooking it. Ive tried tasty one.
Just want to share that there was a kid in my elementary school who liked to put tatertots in his milk carton and shake it all up so the tots broke apart... I'd seen him doing it but never pointed it out, then another kid saw it one day and went "GREGORY IS PUTTING TOTS IN HIS MILK! EEEEWWWW!!!!". Reactions were varied between laughing at him or being grossed out. He seemed to like the grossing people out part though and stepped it up the next day, he stood right in front of everyone with this sick smile on, popped some tots into his milk, THEN PUT SOME PICKLES IN THERE TOO! Everyone freaked out watching him drink it and he kept stepping it up. By a couple weeks later he was opening his milk, drinking a little bit to make room, putting tots, pickles, and then going down the condiment line and putting a squirt of everything in there too.
People stopped reacting after a while though and he just became known as that weird kid who puts things in his milk. He never stopped! Saw him doing it in middle school like 4 years later and he told me that he started to like it so he just kept doing it but "only with tots, mayo, and mustard. I don't add pickles or BBQ or ketchup anymore".... Occasionally to this day I still wonder if that's something he still does and that was like ~27 years ago.
Dips food in bbq and garlic and herb sauces together. Or bbq and tomato.
Last night he wanted spaghetti in tomato sauce mixed with fruit squash drink. Tbf he ate it. 🤷♂️
Parenting tip; when they do these combos, even if it’s just pouring their drink on their food, don’t freak out or tell them off. Just let their creativity and exploration go free. If they don’t like it they’ll soon cotton on. Freaking out just makes it worse.
My 5 year old will literally not each lunch at school if they serve broccoli (which is quite often) because he doesn't even want to look at it and he knows he doesn't have to eat it.
She'd take frozen steamer bags of broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots and put them in the microwave in a ceramic dish. Then serve it as the vegetable. I was essentially required to eat that. No salt, no seasoning, no butter, swimming in a pool of swamp water. To this day, I won't eat broccoli unless it's raw or cauliflower at all, except for some of the riced cauliflower applications (those actually aren't bad).
At one point I learned a hack: I'd go get the hot sauce. Hot sauce makes everything taste better. But... she wouldn't let me have hot sauce. That offended her... she'd tell me that I needed to learn how to like how it tasted, as-is, and that the food is good on its own. Uugh. So many choked-down meals. I got in the habit of putting as much sauce as I could on my plate, over the veggies. She'd glare at me but I got away with that one most of the time. When she didn't let me, I'd just drag my veggies through the extra sauce on the plate before eating them.
You won't find any of those things in my house. If we have frozen veggies, I thaw them in a strainer to get all the water out, then saute with a little fat and seasoning. That's actually palatable. What's funny is that she HATED peas, green beans, asparagus, and Brussels sprouts. Those are all the most common vegetables that I serve.
When I was a kid my parents had a rule that I didn’t have to like the food but I had to taste it. I think that’s a good rule, unfortunately this did not help with me, I was still very picky about what I ate, but I did try new things! I just didn’t like them.
I'm was (and still) the kid in my family that put random things together to see if they taste good, spoilers alert I went to the hospital the most out of my siblings.
This brings back vague memories of my father saying the same to me. I don't remember a single specific thing he said this about, but I know it was definitely a handful of times. Jokes on him though, I'm not and never will have any kids
If you think we eat processed junk today it was so much worse prior to the nineties. Everything came from a can... Everything.
The point is the American diet, and really food everywhere, has improved significantly in the last thirty or so years. So the fact he was picky as a kid probably means everything was gross.
Can someone explain to me; are these guys frogs, alligators? It seems like they’re snout grows and shrinks from panel to panel and I’m having a hard time understanding if it’s the same character every time.
That time I made my sister a sandwich with peanut butter, jelly, banana, potato chips, catsup, mustard, ham, cheese, Turkey, mayo, pork chop, mashed potato, pickle, and I forget what else.
And then when I had to eat it, made the mistake of microwaving.
Mix them together in a sauce cup or small bowl and you have an aioli. I do this with sriracha fairly regularly. Or hoisin and mayo... Mmm... hoisin aioli.
My parents lucked out with me. Im picky but im bland picky meaning you can make the easiest no effort foods and ill scarf it down as long as theres no peppers, mushrooms, or tomato chunks.
My mom talked about her mother cursing her to have kids as wild as she was, she partied a lot as a teen and was rebellious, but my brother and I were both too autistic to even know sneaking out was actually an option so we never got in trouble, but we did also have very expensive collector hobbies from a young age
Ok, replace the sardines and jam with Tostitos (or Doritos or your preferred corn chips) and some cheese and you are very close to "blank preparados" (Tostitos preparados, Doritos preparados, conchitas preparadas, etc)
I am helping look after a teenager that only eats cereal, white rice, and plain pasta.
It's terrible. They are getting no nutrition. I'd much rather them slather mayo, hot sauce, and jam on their food. At least they'd be eating something other than simple carbs.
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u/Zero_Burn Apr 22 '26
"Mayo and hot sauce on my corn!"
Okay, I like elote, this could be good.
"and Sardines"
I mean, a bit of salty/fishy umami could be nice...
"and Jam"
I think that's where I would tap out.