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KFC: BE SURE TO DUMP IT ON YOUR CHICKEN
I’ve always seen it but never tried it. Is it actually any good?
It was good until they got rid of their popcorn chicken and replaced it with nuggets. Something about the nuggets doesn’t taste right, and so I just get it plain mac and cheese now.
What I’m really disappointed about, in Canadian KFC they used to have these bowls which were popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, and gravy… and it was delicious. And they’ve discontinued them
The Famous Bowl? We have that in Illinois, far as I know. It’s my girlfriend’s go-to order.
You can always make it yourself if they still offer all the constituent parts separately!
Imagine Joyce faced with one of those.
Since when does KFC have chicken nuggets???
It’s been a while now, a year maybe?
They got rid of the popcorn chicken, which was their one redeeming meat item for my (grown) kid. Their nuggets are simply chonks of meat with a light coating of the original breading. They changed the chicken strips, too. They are closer to Panko than extra crispy.
But we’ll always have ketchup. And ketchup chips.
OMG
KD – topped with buttered crushed ketchup chips and baked.
Huh in Australia we have both still and the nuggets have been around longer than popcorn chicken.
It’s okay. There’s a Korean place in my area that uses the same trick, but also throws in kimchi, shallots, tater tots, sliced green onion, and an egg. It’s amazing, murders my stomach, and is named the Bowl o’Shame.
Sadly, I prefer not feeling terrible on the toilet over tasty food.
As my dad used to say, “You’ll have shit in the creek for a week to keep from setting the woods on fire.” Except, being a West Virginian, he said, “crick.”
NGL, sounds worth it to me.
i mean , theres prolly a ver of it at a local chicken shop that does it better but prolly charges you 4x as much tho i suppose if you had the time and patience and confidence in ur cooking skills (even with instructions ppl can still mess up, no shame in that tho) you could prolly make a version yourself to ur liking
Honestly, it is exactly what it sounds like: it’s KFC’s mac and cheese side, with KFC chicken on it. I found it… underwhelming, personally. I usually order a Famous Bowl, so my standards aren’t particularly high or anything.
panel 4: joyce experiences pants euphoria
I’m really really happy to see Dorothy spending friend time with Joyce. I also ship them at times like these but I want to make it clear that the platonic love is more important.
I just hope this isn’t a setup for another “teachable moment” where she again tries to convince Joyce to dump Joe.
Yeah, but hot girl-on-girl action is more fun.
Perfect Gravatar moment
I’m honestly not sure what her reaction is, I *want* to believe she’s delighted and thankful but given that she’s not flushed in the cheeks and her follow up question of suspicion I wonder if she’s concerned. Like in a “This doesn’t sound like you at all” kind of way. Especially since she just said she’d be busy with work and she funneled it into “this is work for me.” Like Dot is showing up and doing this willingly and unprompted; Joyce might be thinking, “Are you…alright?”
Dunno, we’ll see! Unless a Patron wants to tell us ahead of time.
Which would be a good thing for her to think, since Dorothy is very much not alright.
spoiling would be very bad form for them.
Ah, cutting away from the violence.
Second time that’s happened for Lucy specifically.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/04-but-dont-give-yourself-away/treat/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/raised-2/
Starting to develop a neat little pattern.
Supervillian origin story
Funny how when Sarah says the horrible thing about Lucy being a passing phase/nobody everyone is cool with it. But when it’s Linda oHHh shit gotta fite.
Poor Lucy getting this shit from Walky’s friend group and his parents
Funny how when Sarah responds to Lucy calling her a bad friend (not entirely without reason) by questioning whether Lucy is even part of the friend group “everyone” is cool with it, but when Linda says she’s dragging Walky down with her blackness, that’s worse, somehow.
Also, I’ve just skimmed the comments on that strip, and there’s a lot of people here who don’t count as part of “everyone”, apparently. Heck, I didn’t even attempt to defend Sarah on that one, because it was a crappy thing to say (even though I don’t think it was thespecific crappy thing to say everyone else thought it was).
Unlike Linda, Sarah has demonstrated actual care for those around her in a way beyond them being puppets for her ego. /nbr
People were definitely pissed when Sarah said that even though it came after Lucy had said something presumptuous about her.
Yep. Plus this time it’s not “only” about Lucy being under fire. This time Lucy is mainly pissed about how Linda talks down on Walky.
Sarah responded in kind to Lucy being mean to her. Linda, out of the blue, was racist. Incidentally showing Sarah was right, regarding the shenanigans to end racism plan.
Also Sarah was responding to Lucy prattling Raidiah’s bullshit. (No I’m probably never going to spell her name properly)
Funny how people react differently to different situations.
Third time’s the explosion?
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
Shit, I’m still ship them…🥰
I will never not ship them.
This strip is certainly bringing peoples shipping of Dorothy and Joyce to a middle.
That cutaway tease.
…well, it’s not quite “Steve Eating Cereal”, but its close…
QC refs ftw!
Also, damn I need to re-read QC sometime again.
Hmm… the link was supposed to read Cutaway to Dina Eating Cereal
Joyce had better ask Joe his opinions on Kraft Mac and Cheese real quick, because if they don’t align sufficiently the relationship is doomed.
i think joe knows her preferences by now but he could just flavor his after rather than sharing a large batch from a big bowl (tho that’d be kinda self serve anyways)
Wonder how the rest of the cast has mac and cheese.
Mike just had it with hot sauce if he was alone. If somebody else was present, with canned pineapple, solely to annoy them. If the person was your mom, obv, with a nickel.
Walky: with sliced hotdogs, and extra cheese.
Jacob: with peas, broccoli, and a can of tuna for protein.
Booster: Has a shaker of Italian mixed spices for just this purpose.
Jennifer: however somebody else made it for her.
Ethan: Batman shapes. Also, salted with his own tears.
This is perfect and i can find no additions
What about Dina? Certaintly she’d love dinosaur shared pasta! 🦖
*shaped
She might be thrilled to share pasta with a dinosaur.
I can see Dina disliking it because the shapes don’t have enough detail for her to judge their accuracy.
I can see Dina saying she doesn’t like it because the shapes don’t have enough detail for her to judge their accuracy, giving it a suspicious glare, then eating it anyway because even potentially inaccurate dinosaur macaroni and cheese is still dinosaur macaroni and cheese.
Totally agree re: Dina. Also if Becky’s the one making it, she spoils her a little: steamed broccoli if Dina’s wearing her triceri-top, or chicken if Dina’s being a carnivore.
Sal and Marcie: BBQ sauce
Grace, Mandy, & Sierra prefer Annie’s, because it’s fair trade
Mary: Bacon bits.
Robin: Pixie stix.
Carla’s family’s chef didn’t make Kraft, so she isn’t nostalgic for any particular method. However, she’d enjoy serving it to / throwing it at somebody, via elaborately self-aggrandizing machine.
Sarah: hotdogs, mustard, solitude.
Charlie: we’re just glad she didn’t burn the kitchen down.
I’m a little worried about why Mary would go with bacon bits.
because Mary’s a pig?
Because Mary’s a pig.
Also, middle-class American Christian in Indiana, whose parents are perfectly nice and pleasant and normal (as per Word of God). I was going for common middle-American banality, not, like, chopped spiders. I imagined Mary’s parents might have bacon bits on the table and basically put them on everything.
There’s probably also a metaphor here for how bacon bits get everywhere, but I didn’t think that hard about it.
For some reason, my mind went directly to “She developed the habit at a young age so she wouldn’t have to share with the Jewish kid in her class, because she’s that much of a petty bigot.”
I mean, it definitely didn’t hurt my association that bacon bits are specifically treif (non-kosher).
I just don’t want to insult all the American Christians on this here website, who might like bacon bits and aren’t Mary.
#NotAllGoyim.
i feel like jen would prolly have a ‘lighter’ ver like either baked or milder cheeses/calorie conscious if not being one of those asians that’s lactose (i’m not technically lactose but i never have more than one cup of milk before bed/that large a portion lol doesn’t stop me from eating ice cream tho)
Well if that’s true, I’m stealing Walky’s and Jacob’s, first chance I get. If I have to choose one, Jacob’s.
Okay, take Jacob’s, use shell-shaped pasta instead of standard noodle, add some booster seasoning of your choice (a little siracha, the abovementioned pepper, some specifically _seasoned pepper_ because that shit absolutely kills the canned taste out of anything) and you end up with a really good low-effort casserole where the shell-shaped pasta wraps itself around the peas and becomes a real gestalt.
If you want to go nuts, toast some panko in a buttered frying pan with a little more pepper and sprinkle over it as you serve it.
At last, Dorothy will make her move on Joyce and realize their love.
I’m picturing them doing the Lady and the Tramp thing with a macaroni.
IJBOL!
(Not sarcastic.)
Awwweeeeee 🥰🥲 Way to go Dorothy!
Imma have some Mac and Cheese myself right now!
with a secret ingredient if you can guess
roasted radishes?
Wait wat.
exactly. and nope!
Not a secret ingredient, a “special” ingredient. But I’m no snitch
Nutmeg?
nope! (none of you are gonna figure it out are you?)
Black mustard seed, ground in your big granite mortar with your big granite pestle.
Looks like imma have to give another hint.
It comes from a tree native to India and Central Asia.
toasted almonds
Can only be cinnamon.
Here’s another hint: Carla also enjoys this ingredient, but as far as we know, she doesn’t primarily consume it by eating it
adoration?
Is this an ingredient generally referred to as a herb or weed, good for relaxation and pain relief, popular recreationally amongst students, and recent legislation in parts of the US has made it either legal or legal for medical purposes?
Ding ding ding!
Yee, I made cannabis infused Mac and Cheese!
not a tree, so I’m still guessing almonds
Ketchup in mac n cheese? WitchKraft!
Obviously you should use pizza sauce.
mustard! make it taste like sharp cheddar
IMNSHO, Anne’s Organic is the best Mac & Cheese in a box. Any of the flavors are good. As long as you stay away from the god-awful Gluten Free one.
TRUTH
Probably true, but there are times you just really need that lovely orange processed powdered cheese food product. The kind of orange you can see from space. The kind of orange that’d fit right in on Koningsdag.
Yes!
Just remember to devour it all before it sets. For whatever reason, that stuff never reheats right after it’s been in the fridge.
Kraft has a gluten free version if ya wanna check that out
i don’t mind some instant foods but some of the powder was too strong for me, even the kinda liquidy sauce was a bit meh but also a bit odd b/c the portion was way too much for the shell shaped noodles tho it might’ve been catered to an american palette. i dont mind the baked mac a local fast food chain has but a few other places that has had mac as a side is also a bit strong (tho i guess i usually prefer swiss/any thing other than pepperoni and grilled cheese i don’t eat a lot of melted cheese [and this ‘macaroni’ salad some hawaiian/asian place had was surprisingly good/light white sauce even tho i normally hate mayo unless it’s something else])
yeah if you’re looking for quality vs. nostalgia this is definitely the way to go
this is the shell-shaped pasta I was talking about above when I was going off about legitimate low-effort casserole.
I wish “gluten free pasta” was better. Some of it isn’t bad, but a lot is still grainy, mealy, and unpleasant. (I have no problem with regular ol’ semolina pasta, but people with celiac shouldn’t have to suffer any more for it! Maybe the whole “going gluten free by choice” trend will help advance development on better choices, like “going sugar free” helped give diabetics more choices than saccharin and aspartame.)
Damnit Dorothy, you even have to make Kraft Dinner a whole-ass thing. I get exhausted just looking at you.
Adding pepper to her own portion is making it a whole-ass thing?
I think it’s more that she’s going back into martyr mode and framing the mac-n-cheese as a huge burden to make Joyce happy.
That was what I was referring to, yes.
Ruth has the right idea. Cold Kraft’s M&C with Hunt’s Ketchup on it is the best!
My dad used to put ketchup on his. Not my thing, but I suppose I can see how it works, same with pepper.
(Myself, I just tend to put a kraft single torn up in with the mac and cheese to thicken it up.)
You spelled Heinz wrong.
Hunt’s ketchup….not Heinz.
I know what you wrote.
At least get French’s. Hunt’s ketchup is as bland as their plain canned sauce.
You spelled Brooks’ wrong.
My variant uses salsa instead of ketchup.
Dorothy, you’re sounding really… bad right now. Like, “someone call your parents” bad.
Idk, maybe she always has a bit more formality to her manner of speaking, but she’s sounding really robotic here. From personal experience that’s like the last step before a complete severe breakdown.
Basically, I’m just worried about her is all. I could be misreading and she could be sounding totally normal with appropriately mild enthusiasm about impending Kraft Mac and cheese.
I took this as healing. She’s not cutting herself off from Joyce like a dumbass. And she’s smiling in panel 3.
Yeah, plus remember what Amber said, focus on what you really enjoy in yourself. For this it’s taking care of Joyce, because they’re friends and she loves her, not *literally the entire world at once*. She’s centering herself, I think. Or at least taking a step to realize what she was doing is not sustainable.
Start small, with something you know you can do, then work your way up.
I think this is Dorothy, at bare minimum, coming to terms with the fact that she needs to change. She understands that what she was doing wasn’t working anymore.
That’s a great first step, but there could still be more breakdowns along the way.
Yeah this is like, actually listening to Joyce’s preferences and being nurturing and spending time together, rather than judging and nitpicking, feels like progress. Maybe she’s rethinking what “helping everybody else” means. Still not so great to think of yourself as not worthy of help, but… Progress!
When has adding parents in ever helped a situation with this crowd?
Dorothy’s seem pretty nice and even-keeled. If their daughter was going through a bout of depression they seem like the sort that would come and try to help her, rather than drag her away from college or berate her.
College dorms have actual kitchens? That surprises me for some reason.
If it’s anything like my old dorm it’s one communal kitchen for the whole building. Bigger dorms I could see having one per wing or something
My college’s dorms had kitchens in every hallway.
Needed them, the meal plan was only for lunch and dinner weekdays, weekends on our own.
My dorm had a kitchen in the basement – I thought they all did.
I never used it since I had a hot plate in my room.
That’s nuttin. My grad school was the only uni I’d ever heard of with its own bar.
Basement of the student union, dim, loud, always packed… Ah the mems.
No bar, though some dorm parties were allowed alcohol with putative carding. But we did have a student-run ‘Coffeehouse’ in the basement — more about the burgers, jalapeno cheese sticks, soft drinks, etc.
That sounds like the bar at my school. It was called a “coffee shop,” but it was a simple beer joint. Got some good musicians, though. John Jackson. Donal Leace. John Miller (blues musician).
I think having an on-campus bar is not-so-rare in countries where the drinking age is equal to the age of incoming freshmen (18); I attended grad school in Ireland and my university had a bar on campus, that doubled as a decent food place for breakfast. I know some other universities in Ireland also have bars, but not all.
Yeah, Edinburgh (where I went to fail at physics due to undiagnosed dyscalculia) has a sports bar in the Teviot, the main student union building, I think two bars in the Potterrow “student hub”, and a there used to be a fourth in the Pleasance building where the SF&F Society used to meet, but it’s a cafe now. I don’t drink, so I only ever went to the Pleasance for Skiffyoc meetings.
i’d hope they’d have something in a break room, if ur living in a dorm i assume you wouldn’t always want to go to the cafeteria and/or affording takeout each weekend
Me, too. I never lived in a dorm, but I helped my (future) wife move in/out over summer breaks and I don’t recall seeing any kitchen.
My sophomore dorm had a kitchenette in the lobby, but none of the freshman dorms did.
I think they’ve become a lot more common since my day.
We weren’t even allowed to have hot plates in our rooms, though everyone did.
Just supposed to starve on weekends, I think.
Well yeah. Are college students not expected to cook? The girls on my floor are always marinating and frying chicken or making salmon or shrimp or something.
I guess I expected them to be like military dorms. Two beds/desks per room, and either a shared bath between rooms or a single community shower/toilet on each floor. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner all served at the campus dining facility/cafeteria.
Wait wait.. we got to go back to walky and lucy sir.
Turn the camera around.
Don’t worry, we’ll cut back to Walky’s Egg Donor being atomized, I’m sure
I’m worried she just bottled it up, and switching scenes is to advance time without showing the non-response.
I’ve assumed that time is retreating, not advancing, in the scene changes: these are all happening concurrently.
I hope so. So far, she’s only bottled up her frustrations and unleashed it at the person the “popular” people directed her at.
Not yet! Maybe six months
Part6 (NSFW)
Would you believe me if I said I still have a bit more in me?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you. I could never believe you would have more in you.
I can believe it. I also love her teasing about what he’s off to do.
If nobody has pointed this out yet, your dialogue feels very in-character for Joe and Amber.
Agree.
‘Believe’? Like we weren’t hoping? 🤭
not seeing the ‘thump thump thump’ from upstairs anymore.
Haha it’s still happening. Probably just a lull while they’re shifting positions.
Oh. Em. Effin. GEE.
Yoto you’re brilliant. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Reading the comment before I tab over to the link, and it sounds like *someone* needs a bit more in them.
Or in someone else.
“I would have rocked your world”.
Wow… big change from her encounter with Danny: “I really don’t know what I’m doing. It’s just the mask.”
Well, good for her!
I hope so, but… well, I know a lot of gamers like to claim to be more skilled than they actually are, especially when they don’t have to prove it. She might just be approaching this subject the same way.
Of course, she could well be right anyway, if for no other reason than that Yotomoe probably doesn’t want to depict disappointing sex.
That almost seems like a skill. Draw out a sex scene of canonically bad sex.
Reminds me of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award! https://literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award
dick is getting angry
gotta squeeze out every last drop of that horniness, Yoto.
How on earth did I not notice this was happening until tonight?
Most days I click to the previous day and search for “yoto” just to see if there’s bonus comic, and I somehow missed five whole strips?!?
Excellent work as always, Yotomoe!
Damn you Willis!
Holy dramatic blue balls.
Dorothy is making MAC N CHEESE AND NOBODY CAN STOP HER!
I take it as a good sign Dorothy insists on making at least some her way. She needs to not deny herself at least some pleasures.
This reminds me of when I first made mac and cheese for my ex. I’ve never been much for boxed mac and cheese (yes, I realize this makes me a weirdo), but when I do make it on rare occasions, I always add extra cheese to it. Like, shredded cheese, or a torn up American slice, or shredded parmesan if I’ve got it (or some grated parmesan dust if not), or a little Velveeta, or whatever. So I made the mac and cheese and without thinking I just added extra cheese… and she got so mad at me she started CRYING. Because I ruined it. Admittedly, I didn’t think to ask before adding it, but she also didn’t tell me that adding cheese would cause her to have a meltdown lol.
Ironically, when she calmed down, she later admitted it was better that way. Oh well lol
Gravatar roulette
Also, before anyone asks, she wasn’t on the spectrum or anything (at least she never had a diagnosis or any symptoms). But she did have a habit of making small things into big things
Like her refusing to eat the Big Mac meal from McDonalds because I accidentally ordered a medium fry instead of a large one. Because if it wasn’t going to be enough food she wasn’t going to eat it at all, threw it away, drove off for about 6 hours to cool off, and then went to McDonalds to get another Big Mac meal. Sigh…
Apparently I don’t understand how gravatar roulette works
Did you change the capitalization on your email?
Thats what I usually do.
As someone who absolutely is on the spectrum, I have absolutely had a meltdown because there was something wrong with my Mac and Cheese, but I would never throw away a good meal because of an accident on size. Especially if I wouldn’t be made fun of for just getting more fries or something.
I am now forcibly reminded of the sheer amount of food-related trauma I have…
Gotta love missing a forward slash.
“There is not enough food, therefore I will eat no food at all.”
Yikes.
The only appropriate response to that behavior is “Then starve.”
She never had any symptoms the poster says as they describe some of the symptoms she had.
I don’t think it’s weird to not like boxed mac n cheese. I was raised on homemade mac n cheese. You bake it usually. Lots of church potlucks, cookouts, stuff like that. It’s weird to me when boxed is considered “the good stuf” when it’s always just been a “I don’t wanna cook tonight” alternative. Probably just cultural differences.
I think if a person grows up on it, it often becomes a comfort food. It’s very easy, very predictable, you can make it come out exactly the same as how you had it when you were a kid.
For Joyce, it’s also a Safefood.
Either way, the secret ingredient is nostalgia, and you and I just haven’t got it.
The trick is not thinking of them as the same food. They’re both good, but they’re completely different things.
ppl can get emotional over random things, i’d only be mad if someone took something i bought and made it without permission versus that but i’m not a huge fan of cheese overall compared ot most americans, or can tolerate some of it’s mild/prefer a lighter taste/used to pizza
If you’re weird then I am too. Boxed product in question has no actual cheese in it. Never liked it. Won’t eat it. If I have time and desire I can make macaroni with cheese. Probably have six different kinds of
on hand.
Yeah, unless it’s like dirt cheap to just buy a box of it, you could easily just buy a box of just the noodles and buy separate cheeses of your liking lol
Just adding pepper is still practically plain, Dorothy.
Right?? Her idea of making it fancy is the second most basic seasoning of our culture, barely a step up from salt
.
Nobody said it was fancy, though…
maybe she doesn’t eat it often enough to bother going ‘all out’ on seasoning it, if not for a lack of seasoning available on the kitchen stock
Something like plain/buttered noodles i’m fine with b/c i’m basic af but i wouldn’t mind like, lemon pepper/garlic salt maybe or so
Is adding ketchup a Canadian thing? Like ketchup chips?
Not sure. Only other place I’ve seen it was on Kids In The Hall, soooo maybe?
they add ketchups on omlettes/omurice in japan too so might depend on the country. tho i can imagine some places like the south would add hot sauce for a bit of a ‘kick’ to balance out hte creaminess
Ketchup in Mac and cheese is a known, if uncommon, choice among East Coast USA peeps… Certainly not a rare enough thing to cause confusion or surprise.
Dorothy: “My work is making everyone ‘s lives better :)”
Ruth: “And that includes me, right?…”
Dorothy: ” Anyway…”
well, they aren’t exactly close but i imagine maybe dorothy would think of another way to pay her back after the last time she supervised her drinking or so
Dorothy: “My work is making everyone ‘s lives better :)”
Inner Dorothy: “And that includes me, right?…”
Dorothy: ” Anyway…”
Dorothy will pass out trying to help just one more person before putting on her own mask.
And when she wakes up, blame herself. For passing out.
D: We’re out of ketchup.
R: I can squeeze some out of my chips
I weep, missing ketchup chips
I wish ketchup chips and hickory sticks were easier to find in the US. (Never been to Canada myself, but a former coworker went regularly and always brought the good stuff back.)
Dorothy becomes a real politician. under the guise of taking care of everyone, she only cares about her own people
Well, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Ensure the well-being of a nation
family, tribe, nation — all human inventions designed to solve the problem of Me vs Us. However effective they may be, they always leave us with the higher order problem of Us vs Them.
indeed
Nah, Best mac N cheese has hot dogs, garlic, and extra shredded cheese.
be interesting to see ppl react to a blind taste test and see which is most popular. (tho i think after adding a specific amount of meat/extra in gradients when does it stop becoming ‘mac and cheese’ and just a ‘meat and pasta dish with melted cheese’ lol)
Lasagna? Mac and cheese with some meat in it. Its all mac anf cheese.
The lazy shortcut way to make lasagna is to just make ravioli in meat sauce.
Ham.
Dorothy is looking extremely “I would willingly kiss a girl if she asked me to” today.
It’s the untucked dress shirt. Especially if there’s a few buttons down in front. Huge bisexual vibes.
what
As far as I can tell, the internet has decided that sitting crooked and being slightly askew in general is how you determine that someone is bisexual. Which is weird, because none of the bisexual people I know feel a need to do any of that stuff.
I think they just want to have some stereotypes.
other than getting caught on something i wouldn’t think ‘untucked’ shirts necessarily look unpro or so, unless it’s like super long compared to your pants but i’d prefer shirts to be a bit longer so my midriff doesn’t accidentally show if i move around/stretch plus you could prolly ‘get away’ with wearing sweat pants that are a certain texture/darker color versus jeans if your shirt is covering where a zipper would normally show (not that ppl should really care too much lol)
This is Dorothy. She needs the girl to follow a trail of extremely subtextual clues that will break Dorothy’s heart if she even gets one wrong, THEN ask Dorothy to kiss her but not directly.
this is an improvement over “by being president of the United States of America or equivalent successor nation”. Need to drop the “else”. And scale back the every.
i’m sure she still sees joyce as a huge ‘fixer upper’ even tho she’s gotten better since the beginning of their college days as long as it doesn’t devolve into some toxic codependency lol
I think the main problem with Dorothy wanting to become president to make everyone else’s lives better was her thinking she could do that by becoming president. Maybe in a country where the political system works for the working people, but not here in the US where the political system works for the very wealthy.
I add real shredded cheese to mine, broccoli, roasted red pepper, whatever kind of meat I have on hand, sometimes bread crumbs, and then bake it for a double-baked kind of deal.
the crunchy top is a special treat.
When I’m making it from scratch I try to undercook the elbows a lil bit, then fish em in the oven. Done it with and without a Panko crust. My oh-my-gawd favorite is to make it with diced ham and lots of jalapeños. Om nom nom.
*finish. Jeez.
i never esp disliked broccoli (tho i tended to eat teh stems more than the tops unless it was made in a restaurant/takeout compared to parents cooking) but i liked caulifower a bit more
On one hand this could be good or bad but its a bold strategy cotton let’s see if it pays off for her
Can a box of Mac n’ cheese serve 2 people?
My instant macaroni parameter is Lamen. So, it seems like one portion is small for an adult. Right?
a standard sized box of kraft mac n cheese as depicted in the above strip is 7.5 oz dry, or somewhat less than 3 cups cooked. in theory, that’s 3 servings per box.
(in practice, i would happily eat the whole box in one sitting by myself if no one stopped me)
I did that once. It was delicious and I regretted it immensely.
“at first 3 seconds, it totally worth it”
O’Marlley, Amber
(Also, me)
I assume they’re not necessarily eating it to get full, if they’re splitting the box.
I’m a fairly, um, big girl, and I eat about like you’d expect. But yeah, one box of M/C will feed me twice. Unless I am really depressed.
Box says it’s 4 servings
I have always wanted to meet the miniature people who determine serving sizes on food packages.
Small serving sizes let them list fewer calories per serving.
You’re supposed to eat it in addition to vegetables and a protein
That’s not a thing though.
It’s like those old ads for breakfast cereals where it was “part of this nutritious breakfast” and the breakfast shown is like fruit and eggs and juice and would be just as nutritious without the sugar cereal.
It’s almost as if kraft M/C is just junk food. The serving size should be small because it shouldn’t be eaten as a meal
“adjacent to this complete breakfast.”
In the US, macaroni is only elbows. In Italy they count more noodles than just elbows.
Arms and cheese
Good one.
What part of the US are you basing that off of? Everyone I’ve ever met IRL counts everything from elbows to spirals to mini bowties to shells to those ones little straight ones with the pinhole in them. If the pasta is under an inch and you’re coating it in one of several cheese sauces, that’s mac & cheese here.
Missouri. Shells and cheese is like mac and cheese, but its shells. if we don’t call it macaroni when there’s no cheese, then it’s not mac and cheese. If I ordered mac and cheese, and got cheesy bow ties, I wouldn’t trust anything made by that person/restaurant to be what they claimed and would rather have hunger pains.
In Jamaica some people call all pasta macaroni. I always found it annoying but I guess it’s technically more authentic, who knew
If you’re Yankee Doodle you call a feather in your hat macaroni.
I mean, there are places where people call any kind of soft drink “pepsi”, so.
i’m sure dorothy’s calculated the exact amount they need for their own portions and seconds based on the last time they ate together
tho given how ‘bottomless pits’ some teens are they might need more
I hope
They do
L a u n d r y
Mmm.
1 box makes about 700 mL.
@Amós
450mL for each one. Seems so few. What’s about 2 boxes of Mac ‘n Cheese?
(Look how I webt straight to your comment. Too lazy to calculate to Metric System)
Half of 700mL is 350mL. Double of 700mL is 1400mL.
I’m hungry.
Oh gosh. I was not expecting Dotty to act so… adjusted? Would that be the right word?
unless she’s just on a manic ‘high’ and just hiding it/knowing joyce’s issues might be ‘easy’ to solve or just wanting to check in on how her and joe are doing
I think this is a distraction from the real problem.
Sometimes that’s an unhealthy coping mechanism other times it’s what you need for a while to process and put the real problem in proper proportion instead of blowing it up to be bigger than it really is.
I dare say it’s a good start.
I like that from the clothes and Ruth talking,
this comes just after the two patreon bonus comics. :O
ok but what brand of ketchup
There’s only one brand of ketchup. Heinz.
(Ok, and a second weirdly delicious brand of organic ketchup at a restaurant near me but they don’t have it anymore so my point stands.)
Malloa
I put either a little yellow mustard or honey dijon in the cheese sauce personally
Amber did tell her to focus on things that bring her joy, and this is a perfect example. I’m not a very good cook, but I do get a lot of joy from cooking for other people, even (especially?) when it’s something simple like Mac and cheese. Cooking for yourself sucks, because it’s always easier to just heat something up or go to McDonalds or whatever. But cooking for other people lets you focus on the process instead of how hungry you are, besides just feeling nice to do things for people.
yeah money and time aside, shame it’s not more of a ‘thing’ for ppl to host potlucks, if not like culinary arts students hosting a dinner every weekend or so, unless it’s something more ‘upper class’ students would have the budget for but even a casual hangout is possible but i guess ppl would just order in pizza or takeout unless your group of friends is known for foodies/likes to cook as a hobby
tho i can see the appeal of ordering out too, even if someone loved you unconditionally, i’m not boterhing someone in the middle of their sleep at like, 3 am if i want some scrambled eggs and would either make it myself or go to a diner lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODYfkPxdy8c or it’d end up something like this lol
Damn you Willis, way to leave us on a cliffhanger!
years from now, when married, they will accidentally re-enact this scene after a fight and only realise they’d done so… later. ^_^
the floor’s common kitchen huh.
This should be the most commented upon strip
Whaaaaat!? Damn drama-blocked by Willis again!
Ohh Dotty likes it spicy, I like her.
The dorm floor’s kitchen which we haven’t seen very often, if at all.
The unrealistic aspect being how clean the damn space is. Common kitchens like these are often incredibly filthy. I guess Dorothy must have cleaned all of it, huh. Or Ruth is still frightening enough to enforce a strict cleaning schedule.
My love language is getting made food exactly the way my neurodivergent taste buds AND eyes need it to be <3
Crumbled well-done bacon.
Not bits in a jar, but the real thing.
I have a cup of chocolate milk with my mac & cheese. Is that weird? Probably.
makes sense if mac and cheese was on the menu once every week or two in elementary school.
Firstly we need to get back to Lucy. Secondly, Joyce Dorothy is being really weird. Her work is making everyone else’s lives better??? Someone sit her down with a cup of tea and check in. Do not be distracted by mac and cheese!
just gonna shill my nonstagram again, i post mostly smut and (smutty) DOA fanart. Obviously it is NSFW 18+ lol.
a while back i started a porn-y story feat Marcie & Malaya, i didn’t finish it (barely started really) because i kept going back and fiddling, but i kinda lost interest on the way so i’m gonna post what drawings i do have, context-free and incoherent as they are.
maybe not all in one go so that i have an excuse to put this link up a few more times =P
(yes i’m whoring for compliments but a) don’t whore-shame, and b) i think it’s possible some people what would appreciate my silly horny art are not yet aware of it, so i’m really being super selfless and cool actually)
These would make the ancient Greeks blush. [thumbs up emoji]
OMG – Ruth eats it like my family used to. 5 kids growing up, one salaried income. We ate a lot of Mac and Cheese.
With broiled sausages or scrambled hamburger, and a veggie.
This is a nice start… yeah why wasn’t this one the birthday strip for Mrs. Willis instead (lemme have it, I guess)
A counterpoint to Ruth making her own Kraft Dinner: this monstrosity
This strip went up 9 pm PST on 10/23, so technically it was her birthday strip over here
Dorothy, you’re not supposed to make epiphanies work for you.
There’s nothing wrong to adding ingredients after the fact, but the cooking instructions are there for a reason. Trust the food scientists that worked to perfect the formula.
Sometimes a little mad science in the kitchen makes it better though.
Food scientists have been demonizing fat and pushing low-fat for half a century to cover up the damage cigarettes did so… eh, they are kind of on thin ice.
It’s not really like the “food scientists” creating Kraft Dinner are focused on either nutrition or actual quality.
It’s all about cheap and addictive.
Adding more flavoring to your personal tastes or adding ingredients to make it more of a complete meal doesn’t break anything meaningful.
“Trust the food scientists” is possibly the most disturbing comment on this strip.
Good job reading that completely out of the context of the first half of the sentence. I bet you can make everything real spooky this Halloween season.
All the fanciest…dijon ketchups!
Only if I had a million dollars.
I wonder if Dorothy wants to have a serious talk about the future with Joyce while they’re eating. One of those who need the warm light given by candles… Of course Ruth will hear everything and give her lots of advice.
Okay here’s my Mac n cheese hot take, inherited from my brother. I don’t eat the stovetop stuff much but I love easy Mac, specifically replacing the ⅓ cup water with 1 cup milk. Bonus points if it’s oat milk, it adds a kind of rich sweetness. Result is a kind of delicious cheesy soup I am addicted to. Make sure to get that mac al dente too
I’m just gonna say it.
Homemade mac and cheese is the only kind I like. Kraft is just okay compared to taking your own pasta and adding the cheese of your choice.
What? Homemade, lovingly prepared recipes with higher quality ingredients taste better? I don’t know. You might be on a list now. (Kidding)
kraft makes Velveeta shells in cheese that are almost like the version you’d get on thanksgiving or xmas in some parts of the us. The only downside is cause it uses cheese sauce its 4 bucks box
comment section today:
Joyce and Dorothy in the same room, SHIPPING INTENSIFIES
Still got to make mac n cheese with Cougar Gold. But a tin of that stuff is…$50?
not if you steal it! 8D; <-for legal reasons this is a joke
tho i wouldn't be surprised if stuff like that was overpriced/catered to rich ppl versus something you could sorta make urself if you rly tried
Iirc it’s an on-campus WSU creation – WSU creamery, college of food science. So it’s probably made by students, arguing the simple-ish to make… but it does get aged for a year before it’s sold, so that makes it harder to readily do in-home. I think the expense is mostly because it’s made in comparatively small batches; WSU Creamery’s no Tillamook operation.
Joyce is an element of the set everyone else, not a subset. No wonder Dorothy is failing math.
(/s)
Sounds about right for a Canadian, yeah.
Fancy Dijon ketchup!