Teenage metabolisms are designed to handle mayonnaise-lubricated corn dogs, Jonah. Eat up; it’ll prepare your system for what it’s going to face when you reach legal drinking age.
I don’t think any Amtrak trains have corndogs. This is just another point of departure from our universe. There’s unfettered access to mayo packets though!
Last time I road the Amtrak in the LA-OC corridor they had corn dogs available at the snack bar/car, but coating them with Mayo? Urgh. The appropriate condiment is mustard!
Note: Opinions expressed are solely those of the commentator, but seriously, mayo?
Frankly, I would have considered the veggie burgers much more gross. Especially if you had called them “tofu burgers”. Call me a bloodthirsty carnivore, but tofu in any way, shape, or form just sounds disgusting and wrong. Corn dogs, I actually eat (tho admittedly not with mayo).
They were sixteen in “Choose,” but in “Grillo Parlante” they were a few months away from eighteen. What I’ve been trying to figure out is how much time has passed, in-universe, since then. Jonah doesn’t look anywhere near twenty-one, but I suspect he has a baby-face.
I’d have to go back and really analyze it to be sure, but I suspect it’s been right around a year. “Grillo Parlante” spanned a whole summer for Jonah & Nera. There have only been a handful of stories since then. Some of the story arcs were quite lengthy, but as far as elapsed time, they were rather short. “Mixed up Files”, for example, ran for nearly a full year, but only covered a few weeks of real time. Others only covered a day or two. “Yes, Virginia” was the Secret Santa story. And now we’re at least well into the next Spring, since in Vermont there were flowers in bloom and leaves on the trees. Probably early Summer, since Nera is home from Cal Tech. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the kids are now a few months away from nineteen.
Agreed. I like mayo, and I like hot dogs — even corn dogs. But in combination it sounds like peanut butter and bologna. (Some of you will catch the Cheech & Chong reference.)
Well, I used to get this “Cajun mayonnaise” when I got the blackened chicken sandwich at a local restaurant. That stuff had some kick. Aside from that, I can’t imagine any other mayonnaise sounding good on hot dogs or corn dogs.
That’s very sweet.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-1000/ comes to mind
Brian, completely off-topic, but are you from Cleveland?
If he isn’t, I am. :waves:
I lived in Shaker Heights from 1964 to 1969. Then lived in Cleveland Heights and on the West Side from 1970 to 1972.
Our hero’s response: Eh, living to legal drinking age is overrated anyway! ^_^
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. In this case, a mayo-encrusted one.
(Always assuming, of course, that Jonah leaves a corpse and isn’t instantly whisked back to the shoe-care theatre.)
Teenage metabolisms are designed to handle mayonnaise-lubricated corn dogs, Jonah. Eat up; it’ll prepare your system for what it’s going to face when you reach legal drinking age.
West Coast Amtrak doesn’t serve corn dogs. I feel cheated and bereft.
I don’t think any Amtrak trains have corndogs. This is just another point of departure from our universe. There’s unfettered access to mayo packets though!
If you feel too bad, just substitute “White Castle.”
I think White Castle would make me feel worse.
…oh, you didn’t mean eating.
Last time I road the Amtrak in the LA-OC corridor they had corn dogs available at the snack bar/car, but coating them with Mayo? Urgh. The appropriate condiment is mustard!
Note: Opinions expressed are solely those of the commentator, but seriously, mayo?
“Rode”, not road. My fingers and my brain don’t seem to be communicating properly…
Serve corn dogs? Inflict is more like it.
This is my fault. Jeff had it as veggie burgers in the script but I didn’t think that was gross enough.
Frankly, I would have considered the veggie burgers much more gross. Especially if you had called them “tofu burgers”. Call me a bloodthirsty carnivore, but tofu in any way, shape, or form just sounds disgusting and wrong. Corn dogs, I actually eat (tho admittedly not with mayo).
Yup, me too. What might do it to me tho is the thought of all the weird artificial ingredients in the mayonnaise packets.
You’ve obviously never been introduced to Nattō…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattō
There is a world of difference between tofu and nattō.
Yes, they both come from soybeans, but cottage cheese and steak both come from cows.
So he *isn’t* twenty-one yet…
Hmmm…
Pretty sure they’re both around 16.
They were sixteen in “Choose,” but in “Grillo Parlante” they were a few months away from eighteen. What I’ve been trying to figure out is how much time has passed, in-universe, since then. Jonah doesn’t look anywhere near twenty-one, but I suspect he has a baby-face.
I’d have to go back and really analyze it to be sure, but I suspect it’s been right around a year. “Grillo Parlante” spanned a whole summer for Jonah & Nera. There have only been a handful of stories since then. Some of the story arcs were quite lengthy, but as far as elapsed time, they were rather short. “Mixed up Files”, for example, ran for nearly a full year, but only covered a few weeks of real time. Others only covered a day or two. “Yes, Virginia” was the Secret Santa story. And now we’re at least well into the next Spring, since in Vermont there were flowers in bloom and leaves on the trees. Probably early Summer, since Nera is home from Cal Tech. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the kids are now a few months away from nineteen.
So she’s still the golden ending, huh? Good to know. 🙂
Like your take on Amtrak colors. They looked familiar while not matching any known scheme.
Also like the “Face” on the P42!
(What? You didn’t expect Train Nuts to read?)
Why wait?
Who puts mayonnaise on hotdogs, let alone corn dogs?! Eww!
Agreed. I like mayo, and I like hot dogs — even corn dogs. But in combination it sounds like peanut butter and bologna. (Some of you will catch the Cheech & Chong reference.)
You just need the right kind of mayo!
Admittedly, “the right kind of mayo” is probably nowhere in evidence in this strip, but I still stand by my statement.
Well, I used to get this “Cajun mayonnaise” when I got the blackened chicken sandwich at a local restaurant. That stuff had some kick. Aside from that, I can’t imagine any other mayonnaise sounding good on hot dogs or corn dogs.
Nice visual metaphor with the blurred backgrounds in the second and third panels!
(Someone’s got to point these things out.)
Ah, corn dogs! A foe deadlier than even Eyeball Razor Chimps!