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while I despise apps due to the amount of extra bloat on my phones* I do appreciate general online ordering bc I don’t have to talk to anyone to get a sandwich with no goddamn onions
*I have a spare for Pokemans, sue me
OTOH, if they fuck up and put onions on it anyway, then you HAVE to talk to a real person to make them fix it.
Actually we’ve only used online ordering in the past year and p much take what we get like suckers bc we want to minimise the time exposed to the Corona (missed a whole bag of chips once that way, prob also something else I forget but restaurant staff already have it shitty as is)
I have a tendency not to check my orders at the drive thru so when they get it wrong I complain through the app or website also.
Other than work-related MFA apps I have to have on my phone, there’s only ONE that’s needed: Little Caesar’s Pizza Portal app! Order AND pickup without ever seeing/talking to a human. Genius!
Having to eat Little Caesar’s pizza, not quite so Genius.
I don’t have a problem with their pizza; their thin crust is really good (and I’m not normally a thin crust guy) but their Italian Cheese Bread is to die for.
I find that the quality of pizza at any given chain’s franchise is exTTReemely variable. One pizzabolis is awful, the next delightful. There was even a Dominos that was good! No, I’m not kidding. The last one I ate at was cardboard with red paint, so it may largely depend on the crew making them, also.
Calling something ordered from Little Caesar’s ‘Italian’ is kinda like calling something ordered from Taco Bell ‘Mexican’. MAYBE technically, but in reality, yeah, no.
I have to confess, the last time I actually had a Little Caesar’s Pizza was probably 15-20 years ago. But it was pretty crap then, so I haven’t bothered to try it again.
Little Caesar’s is perfectly fine for what it is, and what it is is cheaper than hell. It’s not quite “Taco Bell: It’s cheaper than food!” levels, but…
I genuinely like it better than Papa John’s (I don’t like Papa John’s sauce; too sweet), and it retains edibility when cold better than Pizza Hut, which coagulates into wedges of Crisco.
Though at this point, it’s been more than a year since I’ve eaten anything that didn’t come out of my kitchen or Mom’s…
Yeah I agree, Little Caesars is pretty all right compared to the other chains. Still, a frozen Screamin Sicilian is better
I don’t mind general apps, like Door Dash – it’s the restaurant specific ones I hate. And really, I only hate them because of the annoying crap they do to try to force people to use them. Taking items off the menu to make them “app exclusive” is asinine and only makes customers not want to patronize your restaurant anymore.
I think I may have commented on this before, but is has not yet ceased to piss me off. Obviously.
I like that unlike doordash and similar, the Taco Bell app doesn’t double the cost I pay in taxes and fees plus up charge for items. They also won’t bring it to me but I’ve learned to live with that >_> they all still suck in their own way tho
The Dominos website looks like it’s straight out of 2005, but paying online, specifying toppings, and scheduling orders ahead of time just works. (Especially scheduling! Submit an order during a break at work, pick it up at the location closest to home along the way there. Easy peasy.)
While I appreciate online ordering because I don’t have to talk to anybody and because it’s easy to add onions to everything, the thing that I hate about it at Taco Bell is that you can’t use it to order the Enchirito, which has been off the official menu for years, but you can still get it if you order in person.
(Sadly they don’t have the black olives any more, you’ve got to add those when you get it home.)
Agreed 100%. If all your app does is duplicate your webpage, or also offer “app exclusives” that /could/ be on the webpage, then don’t make an app. But of course they want our data. They want to track us. They want to know us. Why? To tell the CIA, FBI and NSA? Nope. It’s just to make a few cents in advertising, optimization, and customer retention. Our privacy isn’t even worth a buck. In fact we pay for the systems that allow us to give it away.
–Posted from my smartphone
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Wow. Walky’s comparing her to Taco Bell food. Rare and exclusive Taco Bell food.
He’s serious about Lucy.
If it was anyone else, this would be considered a grave insult.
Walky simply doesn’t eat tacos… He inhales them!
Right now it looks like he’s french-kissing that taco.
Suckin’ on a
chili dogloaded nacho tacooutsideinside theTastee-FreezTaco BellMy mind went to Tacolingus, but yeah.
He somehow manages to inhale them and savor them at the same time. That’s talent.
That’s definitely a compliment coming from Walky.
I just realised, is that why he loves the Butt Taco?
I read this in a totally other way which was that Lucy is a human right in front of him whom he asked out after prompting and has barely managed to pay attention to over his taco
Things seem to be going well for Walky too! Good for him! Although maybe Lucy should tone it down. It’s just a first date.
Eh, she’s just being honest. It is a nice butt
And it’s something Walky is proud of, remarkably.
Honestly, if she said it louder and he heard it, he’d have probably offered to show her it right then and there. And then the two would be kicked out – Walky for mooning people and Lucy for being a non responsive accomplice
Yeah, Lucy wanting to talk about feelings may not be the most effective tactic with Walky. She might be better off with something he would enjoy more, like pulling teeth.
Slick, Walky. Good move that he didn’t tell her exactly how he came to that conclusion.
Yeah, a little surprised to see him thread the needle of tactful and honest. I’m never quite sure how socially inept/competent he’s supposed to be. I get that he’s doing the whole ‘obfuscating stupidity’ in general, but he seems to swing from uncannily perceptive (ex: spotting Ethan as gay) to bumbling social oaf (ex: needing Sal to collar him before quitting hassling Joyce about her sexual preferences).
He’s always been sharper than he looks, but by the same token his oafish qualities aren’t an act.
Can’t help but wonder if Lucy is going to put two and two together on her own and realise he came to this conclusion mere moments after speaking to his ex.
If they’re both smart about it they’ll realise the method of realisation doesn’t matter, but if they’re dumb teenagers…
Looking back at some Lucy involved strips, she seems hit or miss with her observations/understanding of people:
Believing The person formerly known as Billie was super popular in Read.
Noticing that Ruth was a love interest and not a conquest.
Calling Joyce a bisexual version of herself.
Immediately getting Carla to like her.
Realizing she should be friends with Walky first, rather than attacking him while he’s vulnerable, before making a move (despite not knowing what a move was).
Long story long, I call it 50/50 she finds out and is hurt by it vs she already knows and tells Dorothy thank you.
Yeah, I like the Taco Bell app.
Also, I want to go to Taco Bell now, but I am literally in bed and need to go to sleep.
Ah, the eternal struggle of the desire for food vs the desire for sleep
Once you can sleepeat the world is yours.
Some people actually do this. Sleepmurder may also be a thing.
I almost sleep punched my ex. Unfortunately I slept on the wrong side of my bed and punched the dresser instead.
I’m usually a big fan, but it’s currently ticking me off because it won’t let me order breakfast. And I can’t stop on my way to work, because there always seems to be a massive line, and everybody in front of me apparently ordered one of everything on the menu.
The breakfast thing is annoying. Pre-pandemic, the Taco Bells around here would open for breakfast at 7am/7:30am, but now they don’t open until 9am or 10am, so I don’t have time to get something before work anyway.
by which Lucy means “I liked you as soon as someone mentioned you could like me”, which as I know from experience is a terrible way to live
I mean that’s exactly what happened with Walky.
By the same token he’d known Lucy for a lot longer and considered her a friend.
When Lucy fell for him she had literally just met the guy.
Oh, this isn’t gonna end well at all is it. It’s possible I’m misreading too much into it, but I’m … not sure he actually Likes her that way.
That’s the vibe I’m getting too. There definitely seems to be an imbalance in emotional involvement here.
He probably doesn’t like her that way… yet. I was in a similar relationship in HS. She liked me, I didn’t have any feelings about her either way but when her friend told me, I figured why not. This is their first date, Walky can show affection, but he’s probably processing this status change. He will either grow to like her in this new light or realize he doesn’t and hopefully end the relationship.
I swear if there isn’t a Taco Bell scented candle by the time the pandemic is over, I’ll have to invent one myself!
But can any candle truly capture the essence of asking for Fire Sauce, and not discovering until you get home that they didn’t give you any?
…Actually, I guess most candles smell like an absence of Fire Sauce, so that’ll be easy to replicate.
It’s one thing to not put sauce in the bag, but then they *specifically* ask me if I want sauce, and THEN not put any in the bag, my vision goes red.
If it’s a thing you can think of Etsy probably has it.
https://gourmetcandle.org/products/taco-candle
Maybe the parent company is saving all the wacky not-food marketing ideas for KFC. They already have a game console and chicken-scented fireplace logs, why not a candle with the secret blend of herbs and spices?
Don’t forget the dating sim.
If only I could.
“The guey to a man’s heart”…
*plays “Mahalageasca” on Voxola PR-76*
Oh, how I envy Walky, living out my dream!
Oh yeah, I mean I guess being a date would be nice, I was talking about dining in at Taco Bell.
I AM A WEEK OUT FROM HAVING THIS OPTION.
Dating, on the other hand, is not my idea of fun.
June 15, for us.
Not sure what I’m going to do when that happens. I think I’ve forgotten how to do social.
once again, xkcd is relevant.
We started with hangry crotches, crossed Sloppy Joes, and now we’re on to Taco Bell!
I guess the saying’s true: one of the best ways to the heart is the stomach!
Hell, cooking is how I’ve won most people over. You’d be amazed the level of social ineptitude people are willing to overlook if you can make great chicken carbonara
Of course, the ribs are in the way. But if you aim lower at the stomach, then punch the blade upwards, you can more easily get to the heart. Otherwise you need thorasic aurgeon style equipment like a saw and rib-cage spreader.
This is getting real. He even looked away from his taco for a bit
With like most any other person, I’d be suspicious that he was going after her for convenience, but I don’t really get that vibe off of Walky. I do genuinely think he’s being sincere, and does think she’s the whole package.
Like, he’s not acting dopey like he did when he got with Dorothy, nor is he as thirsty as he was with Amber, but Lucy’s neither of those women, and Walky’s also a bit more experienced here, so the dynamic being different doesn’t strike me as concerning at this moment.
I say this with upmost respect to Walky but I think he’s just dumb. He doesn’t really have a high opinion of himself and has proven to be dense at love, so he just assumed Lucy was never on the table. He was with Amber specifically because she said she was trash too like him, so that made it fair. He’s just now realizing he has value to girls he probably places above him socially.
Problem is that he’s doing what someone like Jacob would do: she ticks all the boxes (cartoons? Check. Likes me? Check. Girly parts? Check.) and just rolling with it.
If Lucy was expecting passion, I don’t think she’s gonna get it.
She might get passion. Satisfying discussions of feelings, not so much.
Subtly wind up his mother in a way she won’t put into words and thus support his sister without having to put much effort into it? Check
Yeah… I’m not convinced that Dorothy made him realise he liked Lucy like that and so did she – she made him realise a girl he gets on well with, respects and has some interests in common with is into him. And he’s a macho man so *of course* he has to be down with that.
But I think even if he thinks she’s pretty, he’s not particularly into her. I can’t see him being part of trying to beg Dina to act as a third wheel and make them stay Uc for instance… And unless that passion builds it does raise the question of what will happen if/when he meets somebody he does have that sort of spark with…
Much like Raidah got hurt because she was Jacob’s tickbox girlfriend, I suspect Lucy’s going to get hurt here. And while I’ve been slow to warm to Lucy I don’t dislike her and don’t really want to see her getting her heart crushed
yeah, I can tell he’s really into her.
also the taco.
okay, about 50/50.
… make that 40/60.
I don’t actually think he IS into Lucy. I think he asked her out because he doesn’t want to be lonely. And once the relationship progresses and she wants to accelerate it he’s going to find out that he doesn’t have strong feelings for her and break her heart.
kind of the vibe I’m getting too, honestly. It certainly isn’t helped by lucy being a major romantic (looking for catharsis after several months of unrequited love) and walky… for all we know not even being over Dorothy yet, and dating her basically on a whim besides
That’s definitely possible but I don’t think Walky’s the kind of guy who would date a girl just because she’s available if he didn’t have some feelings for her.
But does he like-like her, or does he just think she fits the description of somebody he should like? It’s totally fine if Walky is just giving this a try because it sounds potentially good—that’s what first dates are for!—but it still might not be great for Lucy, since she’s already invested.
I think he doesn’t yet know what he is thinking. And part of dating, is figuring out if you just like someone, or if you feel more about them.
As for Lucy, even if they end up not being the perfect romantic match, I think it’ll be good for her to give it a try, to know for real if this is something that would work or not. Especially since Walky is not a bad person to have as an ex.
They’re at an age that it’s ok to try out relationships, and Walky is as honest about his intentions, as she is.
My thoughts entirely. Uni is for working this stuff out. And I don’t see Walky intentionally being hurtful, either way.
Also to OP, even if he is lonely it’s not an entirely unreasonable reaction to a traumatic event. Especially a life-threatening one where people you know died.
He compared her to Taco Bell. If that’s not a sign of affection from Walky, I dunno what is.
Walky knows a good thing when he sees it! You just might have to point his head in the right direction first.
Man, I hope it all works out for them, but I have been in multiple relationships where one party was waaaay more into the other, and it always kinda felt like this, and rarely lasted long.
Walky was challenged by Dorothy and Amber. Lucy feels easy… Too easy for Walky. I fear he likes the fact she likes him but doesn’t really have any other good reasons for wanting to go out with her. Possibly a really bad ending here. I’m surprised more people aren’t raising alarm bells.
awwww, Lucy.
I hope he’s all you hoped for.
Like, I really hope this is what you wanted
“I hope you’re happy, now that you’re choosing this.”
“You too…”
I notice Lucy got the exclusive online order crooked burrito.
I have now just devised the perfect pun for this:
SAUCE!
Taco Bell should pay Willis for this promotion.
They really should. They’re almost certainly gonna get a purchase from me sometime this week just because of this comic and its secret taco knowledge
They’re not? I know this is just a Walky joke, but it does feel a little bit “turn the product placement labels toward the camera”-y.
… Fine. Maybe I’ll go through the Taco Bell drive-thru sometime this week, but I’m not downloading more apps.
My husband informed me this morning that the Naked Chicken Chalupa was back, so we would “unfortunately” be going to Taco Bell more for a while. And then this strip comes up.
If Willis and Taco Bell work in tandem, they could sell so many tacos.
Also, Needfuldoer has a great stance. No, there doesn’t need to be an app for each individual restaurant. Y’all can barely design functional websites. Letting you design mobile apps is just asking for trouble.
I get annoyed enough as it is because you need a separate tracking app for each major shipping carrier (UPS, FedEx, USPS). There’s probably an app that can do all three, but third-party tracking systems are almost always at least several hours behind.
And how every mobile site is a limited view full of ads and toaster notifications that demand you “view in our app” to “unlock” the content desktop clients get for free!
Remember before everything was an “app” and the Internet didn’t revolve around a handful of platforms that don’t work properly? I miss the 2005 Internet.
Lucy mentioned Walky’s butt….
Walky is eating a Taco….
COINCIDIENCE?!
Not really. Walky is always eating tacos.
Fact check rating: Somewhat False. He frequently eats McNuggets as well. “Walky is eating…”: Mostly True.
As Cumberbatch Holmes said: “The universe is rarely so lazy”
And evidently neither is DyW, may he be blessed by His noodley appendage.
And much like this loaded nacho taco, Lucy will soon be in Walky’s mouth!
I’m hoping Lucy comes to her senses soon
I actually feel like this is Walky realizing he has no emotions regarding Lucy. Heh. We’ll see.
Honestly? Same. He side steps completely to talk about tacos.
It’s just that there doesn’t seem to Walky (in his head maybe) that he has a good reason to say no. She’s cute, nice and and likes him. But the thing is not really feeling it is a perfectly valid reason in if itself not to date.
I feel like the sidestepping might be tact? I would be crushed a lil if I got the answer “my ex told me I should have noticed by now”.
I think the sidestepping may be Walky reluctant to talk about feelings.
I suppose that Lucy should feel that being in the same importance category as greasy fast food to be an enormous expression of affection from Walky!
Considering Walky’s deep and abiding love of Taco Bell, I believe that’s his intention.
Fast food is a pretty high level of importance for Walky, so being compared to that is definitely a compliment from him.
is…is anyone else seeing the magically floating streetlights and signs in the first panel?? i don’t see any other comments about it but they’re like…definitely just hovering there, with no pole holding them up. like a layer is missing from the art or something
They’re looming over the town from a distant hillside. Clearly this is the moment when Season 2 of DoA jumps the shark.
Everyone expected it to be Head Alien, but instead it’s monstrously oversized street elements coming, Godzilla-like, to take over the world.
You mean Monkey Master-like, right?
You suggested that edit with great Dexter-ity.
They are hanging from horizontal wires. The real-life location can be seen in Google Street View at https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1684553,-86.5336359,3a,75y,344.18h,93.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sfR3czZivwTgrOaXW8KuuLA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DfR3czZivwTgrOaXW8KuuLA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D147.4653%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
I figured they were on wires, but I had to look real close to confirm they were actually drawn there. Hard to see, with the low contrast and all.
They don’t suspend stoplights from wires strung across the intersection in your neck of the woods?
Not in a lot of places. Near as I can tell, it’s a big indicator of a municipality without the funds for proper infrastructure. i.e. If I can see street lights on wires when I look up, I don’t need to look down to see pot-holes to know they’re there.
Around here, you see either lights on cables or a single arm reaching over the street from a single pole. Rarely, if ever, do you see a full gantry over the entire street.
There’s potholes regardless, due to frost heaves. They keep you on your toes.
I’m pretty sure that Houston is a municipality with funds for proper infrastructure. If you don’t have wires or cables holding the overhead lights and streetsigns in place, what are you going to do? Make a person driving look away from traffic over to the side of the road? Use drones to hold them in place? Projected holograms someday, but not today.
Some places we’ve gone to programmable lane signs, but held in place by cables. Suburbs are less busy and slowing to look for a streetsign at the edge of a street isn’t a huge problem. Conversely, on freeways, there are no traffic lights and metal overhead structures instead of wires. But for surface roads, I want to know how they hold the traffic lights in places where you are, Demoted.
Standard streetlight posts, with overhang arm. Arm can be long enough for one or two lanes of traffic lights centered above their respective lanes. two lanes + left turn results in an opposing center meridian with an upright traffic light for the left turn. More lanes have an arm from the center meridian reaching back towards the first lightpost. BC has a good traffic light image. (tranbc.ca)
This is normal in every Canadian city I been to, including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon, and what I can recall of L.A., Seattle, Manhattan, Paris, Rome, Napolli, Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona. That’s I think why it stood out so much as I drove through the smaller American cities where I’ve seen the lights on wires infrastructure. It just seems so… temporary.
With a background in building and infrastructure I am curious what the rationale is behind the decision to suspend from wires. Like is it a sacrificial thing? Expecting the lights will come down in a hurricaine anyways and this way they can be replaced faster? Or is it just cheaper? I’ve seen the wire setup in Syracuse and Watertown N.Y. I didn’t know this was standard for Houston, but I’ve also been told Dallas doesn’t have sidewalks, so I’m a little uncertain of what I hear about The South and Texas.
Cables are probably just faster and cheaper to deploy. Cantilever arms are the most common in my area (suburban MA), but it’s not that uncommon to see cables hung over four lane roads.
Oh and yeah, really major street intersections will either have touching connected arms, or a full gantry, but this is only typical of larger cities and freeways.
And please let the computers take over driving before someone actually thinks holographic street lights are a good idea. It’s one thing for a power outage to show you “hey, the lights off, this is now a four-way stop. vs there just being no traffic control indicator/image at all.
Come on, everyone knows when the traffic signals fail, you’re supposed to devolve into anarchy. Chaos reigns when the lights stop going blinky-blinky.
Just replacing the 120 watt incandescent bulbs with LED modules could knock an intersection’s power requirements down enough that they could fall back to a flashing red/amber for days if they had a couple batteries and a solar panel at their disposal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYO1TObNz8
(And am I the only one who finds malfunctioning traffic lights a little creepy? Whether they’re flashing red/amber or completely stone dead, there’s just something vaguely foreboding and post-apocalyptic about them…)
Well yes, you describe what /is/ vs what is supposed to be. And yes, add a plastic bag tumbleweed and you truly know that everyone is just -gone-.
Also, for all the nay-sayers about computers driving and people never giving up control: how many people have you seen text and drive? People largely give up control to the computer already, but the ones they gave it to ARE NOT the ones that can drive for you.
I get the impression that Booster’s going to end up proven right by all this, and Lucy’s going to eventually see that Walky’s not a good fit for her – just not in the sense that it immediately sounds like when Booster says she can “do much better.”
I’m kind of already at the point where I’m not so much rooting for the relationship to succeed as I am hoping that their companionship endures after it fails.
Also, it’s interesting to see this going on at the same time that there’s been the complication in Becky and Dina’s relationship. Parallels!
“when did we first notice that we liked each other” – Lucy chill it’s a FIRST DATE
Lucy doesnt know how to chill
That is. A very normal question to ask.
Then again, I’ve never been on a first date and my current (most successful!) Relationship started off with an “i love you” confession
Panel 5: Good job, Walky, that’s actually a pretty nice way of putting it. Way to keep your foot out of your mouth.
Panel 6: Siiiiiiigh. … I think Lucy’s going to be cool with it anyway, but SIIIIIIIIIIGH.
YAY! A taco double entendre! Will Lucy be strong enough to contain her imagination? Is Walky aware of what he’s doing? I think the answer to both questions is “Absolutely No!”.
Another good potential book title: Also I Saw Your Butt
Walky “Also I saw that taco’s butt and now I’m sucking on it”
‘At the border’? What am I missing?
A Taco Bell look-alike.
Isn’t that “on the border”?
Walky decides “For me it was when my ex directly explained to me that you were interested, because God knows I was never going to figure it out on my own” is a Bad Answer. I’m not sure I’d be doing that well.
I really likethat Walky is eating a taco, while talking about how much he likes her.
Very Hitchcockian.
”I could’ve bern eating this taco for months!”
We should give Walky a break about his love life. Remember he was kidnapped just a few weeks ago. Watched a murder. Wasn’t sure he would survive. His roommate died. His first semester away from home had a roller coaster love life. That he might be emotionally numb is understandable.
More like a few months but yes.
*puts on my “I successfully predicted a plot development in DoA for the first time’ hat and dances a merry jig*
What is it???
You’re making me anxious that I’m not as right as I think I am.
What’s the prediction?
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/shrewd/#comment-1545184
Unless it’s the prediction thatJennifer rejected the name Billie because it starts with Bi.
Aaaaaand I’m back!
Aaaaaand it’s good!
as of the day this comic was posted, the Naked Chicken Chalupa just recently came back, I’m gonna get one later today
Eh, you don’t have to be in love with someone before you start seeing them. I didn’t fall hard for the love of my life until he confessed his long-standing love for me after a couple days of flirting (we’ve been friends for years, i was unavailable most of that time). Could well be the same thing for Walky so idk i don’t think it’s doomed
Nacho? Not nachito?
Nachitoes, or more properly, Natchitoches, just aren’t filling enough. A nacho, you can sink your teeth into. By the time you eat a dozen nachito, you’re hungry again.
TexMex 1 CreoleMex 0.5 for effort.
Can we all agree that this comic needs 20% more tacos? Or at least agree that 20% more tacos wouldn’t hurt the comic? Maybe we even get a little brand synergy going and get Willis the Taco Bell sponsorship he always wanted.
How do you eat a taco like that without the shell going straight up in between your front teeth!? Does Walky have the ability to rotate his jaw without moving his head? Is he the ultimate devourer of tacos?!
Phrasing.
I mean, if it is the case… both meanings work.