Lying Low 2015-04-16

[TazManiac]

Other than Jessie da Feesh and Coffee-boi's reaction with the horns, I don't recall anyone actually 'commenting'...

edit- of course there is stuff like Tumbleyweed espousing on how cuddly a movie-watching partner Atsali was, after 'da change'...

[Atomic]

Enough with the veggie comments. Just leaf it alone already.

Drop a bottle of Vegemite into the jar.

Lettuce have some fun, this kind of humor cannot be beet!

High-tails it for the Farmer's Market; the jar, hungry it is.

Just parsnip out the things you don't like.

[Thor]

I'm curious on how Atsali and Nadette's friendship/relationship is doing after all this time. Nadette got her heart broken during Winter Break, and now it's Spring Break. 3 months later and the results are ???

For that matter, it's also been about 3 months since Atsali and Goat-Boy's "date". WTF happened? Nothing worth writing about?

[AnotherFairportfan]

I'm curious on how Atsali and Nadette's friendship/relationship is doing after all this time. Nadette got her heart broken during Winter Break, and now it's Spring Break. 3 months later and the results are ???

For that matter, it's also been about 3 months since Atsali and Goat-Boy's "date". WTF happened? Nothing worth writing about?

You're assuming that Wapsi Time is one-to-one with real (hah) time.

If this were a Marvel comic, this would have started as Winter Break, the story would have flowed smoothly and continuously, and now, two days of adventure later, it would be the end of Spring Break.

I think Paul is handling time the same way - the story's own chronology is pretty much continuous, while the setting matches the real world. Marvel stories have been known to cycle through more than a year in setting whil taking just a few days in internal chronology.

[Dr. Otter]

I quite enjoy them when lightly sauteed or roasted with garlic-infused olive oil (which is how one of the cafes at work occasionally serves them).

My wife has the best recipe for Brussels Sprouts I've tasted. Boil them for 10 minutes, no longer. While they're boiling, toast white sesame seeds in a dry frying pan. When browned to your liking, add extra virgin olive oil and ground cumin. Drain the sprouts well and toss with the sesame seed mix. Serve hot immediately. It will convert all but the most intractable sproutiphobe.

[Dave]

I quite enjoy them when lightly sauteed or roasted with garlic-infused olive oil (which is how one of the cafes at work occasionally serves them).

My wife has the best recipe for Brussels Sprouts I've tasted. Boil them for 10 minutes, no longer. While they're boiling, toast white sesame seeds in a dry frying pan. When browned to your liking, add extra virgin olive oil and ground cumin. Drain the sprouts well and toss with the sesame seed mix. Serve hot immediately. It will convert all but the most intractable sproutiphobe.

Yum... I love toasted sesame, olive oil, and comino (might even briefly toast the cumin along with the sesame). I'll have to try this out!

[MerchManDan]

Oh hey Cricket, I didn't see you there.

Anyway, Brussels Sprouts: I like 'em. Mom would steam them until they were nice 'n' soft; quarter them, add butter & ground black pepper, enjoy. Same with cabbage, except she'd chop the head into ~1 inch slices. Nothing better than a big slab o'cabbage on your plate.

[oldmanmickey]

I quite enjoy them when lightly sauteed or roasted with garlic-infused olive oil (which is how one of the cafes at work occasionally serves them).

My wife has the best recipe for Brussels Sprouts I've tasted. Boil them for 10 minutes, no longer. While they're boiling, toast white sesame seeds in a dry frying pan. When browned to your liking, add extra virgin olive oil and ground cumin. Drain the sprouts well and toss with the sesame seed mix. Serve hot immediately. It will convert all but the most intractable sproutiphobe.

Yum... I love toasted sesame, olive oil, and comino (might even briefly toast the cumin along with the sesame). I'll have to try this out!

gotta steal this one to, sounds good. Paul may need to add a cooks corner if we keep this up.

[Typeminer]

Lettuce have some fun, this kind of humor cannot be beet!

High-tails it for the Farmer's Market. . . .

Beets, don't fail me now!

[Dr. Otter]

Yum... I love toasted sesame, olive oil, and comino (might even briefly toast the cumin along with the sesame). I'll have to try this out!

That's exactly what she does to the cumin; I didn't make that clear.

[shadowinthelight]

Nothing better than a big slab o'cabbage on your plate.

It's great until your intestinal emanations attract the feds believing your house is the site of a chemical weapons attack.

[Gyrrakavian]

Seems like they forgot everyone follows the Queen of the school.

Now may i suggest you try those nice brussel sprouts steamed in a little butter with light seasoning. I find them quite good that way. Now Rutabaga fall in the same category as Sushi, i aint never been that hungry even when i was going through survival training eating juicy grubs (lot of protein there).

Do you mean sashimi?

I've yet to try sushi containing raw meat. Most Western varieties have cooked meat. Not sure on the traditional types. Though there's one with just the rice and tropical fruit in it that's pretty good.

[Catawampus]

. . .chow on some cricket/grasshopper kebabs. . .

Hey, what did princess Calista ever do to you?!? And how did you know that she was training in kung-fu?

I'm going to assume we haven't gotten to the date with Jacob, the Battle of the Para-Pool, or further interactions between Atsali and Nad', yet.

For added fun, perhaps the date could happen at her next visit to the pool.

I have to wonder though... we've not seen anyone in the comic tease Atsali... call her names and such (except for Cricket calling her jugs... and Jessie too I think...). Did someone really call her a slut, or is she angsting over the fact that that's what people supposedly say about Sirens? Is it real or perceived? If so, who called her a slut and why?

Apparently she ended up sort of under Jessie's protection for a while at the school; she told Euryale that nobody was making any comments, just a few guys staring. So she probably hasn't had much trouble at the school. Outside of school may be a different matter, as her incident at the pool seems to show.

[Dave]

I'm with you there. I will happily leaf-bake me a handful of earthworms and chow on some cricket/grasshopper kebabs if it means I don't have to eat raw fish.

Making kebabs out of 'em would be a lot of trouble, and is rather wasted effort, I think. The traditional Laotian method is easier - just treat them like shrimp and deep-fry them briefly. That's what they taste like (well, about half-way between deep-fried shrimp, and corn chips).

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[sheik]

Seems like they forgot everyone follows the Queen of the school.

Now may i suggest you try those nice brussel sprouts steamed in a little butter with light seasoning. I find them quite good that way. Now Rutabaga fall in the same category as Sushi, i aint never been that hungry even when i was going through survival training eating juicy grubs (lot of protein there).

Do you mean sashimi?

I've yet to try sushi containing raw meat. Most Western varieties have cooked meat. Not sure on the traditional types. Though there's one with just the rice and tropical fruit in it that's pretty good.

Sashimi is indeed raw fish.
Sushi actually means sour, and in Japan it generally means the rice has been dosed with vinegar and may or may not be rolled and sliced.
American tastes don't favor the vinegar and so "sushi" here generally does not have it.
My ongoing war with brassica in general has led me to it it raw, generally with some kind of salad dressing.
For Brussels sprouts I have a different solution.
Just cook them in chicken broth. For some reason this kills the bitterness.

[Thor]

I'm curious on how Atsali and Nadette's friendship/relationship is doing after all this time. Nadette got her heart broken during Winter Break, and now it's Spring Break. 3 months later and the results are ???

For that matter, it's also been about 3 months since Atsali and Goat-Boy's "date". WTF happened? Nothing worth writing about?

You're assuming that Wapsi Time is one-to-one with real (hah) time.

I am doing no such thing. When Nadette and Atsali stopped in the coffee shop where Goat-Boy works, it was explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it was Winter Break. Atsali and Nadette's Anti-Matter Bomb Adventure happened right after they left the coffee shop. In today's strip, it is explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it is Spring Break. This is ALL Wapsi Time.

So unless Winter Break and Spring Break are a week apart in the Wapsiverse, it has been 3-4 months since Atsali intimidated Goat-Boy into meeting with her and Nadette get her heart broken. Given the canonical temporal reference points mentioned, there is no other way to interpret it.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Seems like they forgot everyone follows the Queen of the school.

Now may i suggest you try those nice brussel sprouts steamed in a little butter with light seasoning. I find them quite good that way. Now Rutabaga fall in the same category as Sushi, i aint never been that hungry even when i was going through survival training eating juicy grubs (lot of protein there).

Do you mean sashimi?

I've yet to try sushi containing raw meat. Most Western varieties have cooked meat. Not sure on the traditional types. Though there's one with just the rice and tropical fruit in it that's pretty good.

Actually, it's quite common in the US to find sushi made with raw fish - the Chinese buffet place where i like to eat once a week or so has signs designating which part of the sushi bar has cooked fish and which has raw, though it's fairly obvious on some of it.

According to a couple of sources i've run across, sushi fish in the US that isn't cooked has to have been hard-frozen to kill parasites like nematodes.

[AnotherFairportfan]

I'm curious on how Atsali and Nadette's friendship/relationship is doing after all this time. Nadette got her heart broken during Winter Break, and now it's Spring Break. 3 months later and the results are ???

For that matter, it's also been about 3 months since Atsali and Goat-Boy's "date". WTF happened? Nothing worth writing about?

You're assuming that Wapsi Time is one-to-one with real (hah) time.

I am doing no such thing. When Nadette and Atsali stopped in the coffee shop where Goat-Boy works, it was explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it was Winter Break. Atsali and Nadette's Anti-Matter Bomb Adventure happened right after they left the coffee shop. In today's strip, it is explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it is Spring Break. This is ALL Wapsi Time.

So unless Winter Break and Spring Break are a week apart in the Wapsiverse, it has been 3-4 months since Atsali intimidated Goat-Boy into meeting with her and Nadette get her heart broken. Given the canonical temporal reference points mentioned, there is no other way to interpret it.

You've missed the point i was making - Paul may be keeping the backgrounds (and dates mentioned in the story) consistent with the Real World while telling a story that is not in synch with the real world.

That is, while it's been a week or less in Wapsi Story Time , in the Real World the events are happening and the background setting has matched that.

As i said, i remember a Marvel story (Spider-Man, i think) whose internal action took less than a week - maybe only one or two days - that featured issues that mentioned/involved thr Fourth of July, Halloween, Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Paul is certainly doing some of that - how many winters has the cast been through vs. the number of years they have actually experienced?

[TazManiac]

You guys are crazy, very little of Sushi is cooked.

I can understand the deeply frozen part, esp considering travel from ship to table, but Tempura (deep fried stuff in batter) ain't sushi, and Udon noodle soup goes without saying, and Katsu (breaded fillet of say Pork [Don] or Chicken, that's all cooked too.

(Can you tell I'm posting from the phone again?)

Now Mackeral, that's often pickled which can sort of count as cooking...

[AnotherFairportfan]

No - i'm talking about actually cooked fish in sushi.

Kroger has sushi bars in their stores, and all of that uses cooked fish.

The chinese place i mentioned has its sushi bar divided equally between raw and cooked.