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Too much cake-mix

May got too excited with Pintsize

May had a nasty meet-up with Yelling Bird

SOMEONE had to clean up Dale's bed!

The obligatory reference to synthetic ham

MAY IS MELTING FROM ALL THE SQUEE

May found Marigolds stache of sexy dude pictures

butts

[TRVA123]

any removal of free time to do unenjoyable or time-consuming chores is a net-loss.

But cooking can also be enjoyable, both as a creative activity, and in the eating of the results.  And any materially-based hobby will have cleaning up involved with it, whether it's model painting, woodwork, or gardening (etc).

That's if you find cooking enjoyable. I don't. and I don't see a reason to try to force myself to find cooking enjoyable. I make jewelry, a very time consuming and messy hobby. But its something I enjoy, and when forced by my ridiculous and chaotic work schedule to choose between cooking and jewelry... I will almost always pick jewelry.

If I was in a different financial situation I might cook more. But, as I said earlier, a lot of the foods I like to eat are not easy for me to make at home, either due to the cooking facilities I have or to the amount of time that goes in to making them.

[sitnspin]

I don't cook because I don't really enjoy it, it is time consuming, and it involves burdening myself with more stuff I have to own. I'm committed to owning as little as I can. I move a lot and often with little to no notice. I keep my possessions mostly to what I can carry. Cookware is just more stuff I have to deal with.

[grouchygizmo]

I love to cook, and if you just take a bit of time once or twice a week to prep things- clean chicken breast, maybe slice up some veggies- and throw them in air-tight containers, it takes a lot of that stress out. But then again, I love to cook and have 10000000 things around me while doing so, so I might not be the best help. (Though I live on my own too!)

[Miaboop]

The only think I "cook" is pancakes.

That and pasta and quick stuff like that, but the only thing I put time on making are pancakes.

[ItsNotATumor]

This situation seems like a nightmare scenario for Claire.



A nightmare... on Elm Street!






 









 

[TieDyeKat]

Y'all are really making me want to go to Waffle House today.  You know that, right?

I would love to go to Waffle House right now, but it's all the way on the other side of town and the effort of walking 1.5 miles to my car to drive it there is defeating the will to go there.

In other words, I'm being lazy.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

... but it's a whole 4 miles away. I have to drive all the way to I-35, and go like two exits...

... maybe I'll go there tonight and have breakfast for dinner.

(and, yes, I measured the distance on Google Maps. I had actually thought it was farther than that.)

This confuses me.  We drive everywhere here in Little Rock.  It's not unheard of to go try a diner three HOURS away.  But we're weird like that.

[McFace]

This situation seems like a nightmare scenario for Claire.



A nightmare... on Elm Street!






 









 

You made an account just for that didn't you?

[nosaJay19]

Puns. PUNNNNS

Quality first post. Welcome!

(Other people... May someone with < 100 posts welcome new people? I hope so.)

[Rghfrgl]

A nightmare... on Elm Street!

  out of 

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

Welcoming people is a good thing to do for anyone who wants to do it. Besides, some people go months before breaking 100. People like me.

Welcome, NotATumor. And I think I speak for everyone when I say "groaaaaaaan"

[TieDyeKat]

Since we're on the topic of pancakes, waffles, and other assorted breakfast dishes (any love for French toast?), the absolute best place I've had pancakes was from Cracker Barrel.  Huge pancakes and the syrup they give you comes in little glass bottles that's heated and REAL maple syrup.  So good, but they're a bit pricey.

Nonononono... you need THESE pancakes.



They're from Billy Gail's up in Branson, MO.  I have no idea what size pan they're using to make these, or if they just pour them on a griddle, but daaaaaaang.

[AprilArcus]

I'm down as long as there's maple syrup on them, not whatever flavored corn syrup nonsense is in that squeeze bottle. Fortunately QC is set in New England, so I don't have to worry for Claire & co!

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

That pancake is bigger than the plate. How are you supposed to get bites off of it with the fork? How are you supposed to pour syrup on it without making a godawful mess? How are you supposed to have room for the nearby bacon after that monstrosity?

The world needs to know.

[Thedrd0nna]

So, I've been reading the old comics because I don't have like work or a life or whatevs, and I noticed something: I wonder if Marten is finally trying to follow his own advice?

[DSL]

Quality pancakes are to be had from the griddle of Mr. Benjamin Gleason, president of Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 50 in Huron, Ohio, as presented annually at the Pancake Breakfast and Fly-in, currently in search of a new home with the closing of Sandusky Griffing Airport. Six bucks gets you all you want and the airplanes are free for the looking-at.

[TieDyeKat]

Folks, I'm still hungry, and I still don't think there are any real breakfast restaurants in this whole country.

Matt's Big Breakfast in downtown Phoenix will pwn your tastebuds.

YESS

[TieDyeKat]

That pancake is bigger than the plate. How are you supposed to get bites off of it with the fork? How are you supposed to pour syrup on it without making a godawful mess? How are you supposed to have room for the nearby bacon after that monstrosity?

The world needs to know.

See the tear mark?  That's where I tore off a regular pancake-sized chunk to roll up and dip in honey. 

I agree about syrup -- if I can't have maple, I'm sure as hell not having Aunt Jemima.  But I do love real, luscious honey.

[Pilchard123]

Yup.  Many people nailed it.  I'm in the camp thinking this may get strung out enough to hit Thanksgiving before this ship truly sinks or sails.

Oh, no. You mentioned Thanksgiving.

Dear GOD, do you KNOW how much drama and major storyline issues have happened around THANKSGIVING?

"The Talk" happened around Thanksgiving. (Just afterwards.)

I'm thinking that Wednesday 26th ends with a panel along the lines of "So what's going on then?" and then Thursday is turkeys. Friday is Stevereal.

[Kugai]

FREE PANCAKES FOR ALL!!!!!


Also, it must be refreshing for Marten to see someone elses mother embarrassing their child.

[nosaJay19]

Welcoming people is a good thing to do for anyone who wants to do it. Besides, some people go months before breaking 100. People like me.

Or years, according to my projections of my own participation. I may try to be more active, though!

[marbledmurrelet]

Damn you all, now I want pancakes and of course the store just closed and I don't have any form of milk.
*goes checking the pantry*
Hmm, I've got sour-cream. And creamed coconut. Anyways, I've got the main ingredient (which is obviously maple syrup).

[Smallest]

Damn you all, now I want pancakes and of course the store just closed and I don't have any form of milk.
*goes checking the pantry*
Hmm, I've got sour-cream. And creamed coconut. Anyways, I've got the main ingredient (which is obviously maple syrup).

For actual, I think you could use the sour cream (just add water and a bit of sugar). It's sour, so it's sorta like using buttermilk? And in any case, sour cream+ chocolate+baking always works, so you can dump chocolate in...

[Estron]

Of COURSE Hannelore cooks.  Remember the line "Baking is science for hungry people!" 

[marbledmurrelet]

For actual, I think you could use the sour cream (just add water and a bit of maple syrup). It's sour, so it's sorta like using buttermilk? And in any case, sour cream+ chocolate+baking always works, so you can dump chocolate in...

Fixed ^^
Also, chocolate pancakes? Hmmm...

[BenRG]

Also, it must be refreshing for Marten to see someone elses mother embarrassing their child.

Yeah, it must be a strange relief to learn that Dora's folks weren't a one-off and that lots of his friends have embarrassing families!

[bhtooefr]

Chocolate chip pancakes are definitely a thing. Or you could put other things in pancakes - fruit is common. And, yesterday, I had some (IHOP) pumpkin spice pancakes, that was actually pretty amazing.

[AJ_]

Chocolate chip pancakes are definitely a thing.

I personally, can't stand chocolate in my pancakes.

[DrBear]

I don't cook. Somebody once got me a cookbook as a present. Every recipe started with "take a clean dish." I was done right there. 

Seriously, I have a milk carton in my fridge with a picture of the Lindbergh baby. 

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

[grouchygizmo]

So, I've been reading the old comics because I don't have like work or a life or whatevs, and I noticed something: I wonder if Marten is finally trying to follow his own advice?

Hmmm... maybe Marten is taking his own advice... or he simply has no clue what is going on. He could be lost in the pancake zone, which so many people are.

[Smallest]

Chocolate chip pancakes are definitely a thing.

I personally, can't stand chocolate in my pancakes.

Blasphemer!

I only like mine plain (plus maple and butter) or with chocolate (plus some combination of maple, butter, and peanut butter). But then, I think the only other kinds I've made are apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice, neither of which are my favourite flavours anyway. I feel like I've had banana but I don't think I could taste it.

[Loki]

I don't think I came home before 11pm on any day over the last few weeks, so cooking then is out of question. We don't have a freezer, so keeping food for more than a few days isn't really possible. I also don't have an oven, and basically only one usable hotplate, which further limits my possibilities.

It's 1am and I am cooking right now. One of the upsides of living in a dorm.
Downside: I share the refrigerator and the freezer with three other people, so I don't have much space to store stuff.

[Aziraphale]

Chocolate chip pancakes are definitely a thing.

I personally, can't stand chocolate in my pancakes.

Blasphemer!

I only like mine plain (plus maple and butter) or with chocolate (plus some combination of maple, butter, and peanut butter). But then, I think the only other kinds I've made are apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice, neither of which are my favourite flavours anyway. I feel like I've had banana but I don't think I could taste it.

Try either apples and peanut butter, or apple butter with peanut butter on 'em.

I had cornmeal pancakes a little while back that tasted heavenly, come to think of it. Wish I could remember where I got 'em.

[Fig]

I enjoy using peanut butter instead of regular butter and slathering it all with maple syrup. Mmm, so glad I'm having pancakes for my daughter's birthday tonight.

[Aziraphale]

So, I've been reading the old comics because I don't have like work or a life or whatevs, and I noticed something: I wonder if Marten is finally trying to follow his own advice?

Possible. I also find myself wondering if Marten's so okay with this because the last few strips are the first he's actually realized he has a thing for Claire. I get the feeling that if he'd been interested earlier, there'd be all kinds of angst, as we've seen earlier, along with the second-guessing and all that goes with it. But the way things have played out, I can't help but wonder if he kinda stumbled into the head massage and thought, "Well, that's unexpected. But y'know something? This just feels right." And went with it for once.

I enjoy using peanut butter instead of regular butter and slathering it all with maple syrup. Mmm, so glad I'm having pancakes for my daughter's birthday tonight.

I've done that with waffles. Butter, peanut butter and syrup. My arteries must hate me. Oh, and bacon, egg and cheese with waffles instead of a roll.

[Orkboy]

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[Zwammy]

Marten is just like "She's right. These pancakes are much better."

He is isn't he? I imaging him thinking that in a Samuel L. Jackson voice: "Mmm-hmm! This is a tasty pancake!"

Damn, now I want to hear a sound clip of that.

[Method of Madness]

On Good Friday e.g. it's forbidden to dance to music and stuff like that, because it "contrasts the solemn nature of the day".

Wait, is this actually enforced? I didn't know Germany was particularly religious.

We aren't - it's more labour protection considerations. Even the 20:00 closing hours on weekdays were intensely debated, it used to be 18:30 when I grew up.

But why particularly on Good Friday, and why specifically ban...I don't know, fun?

[ankhtahr]

Well. It's definitely a relic from christian tradition.


Jesus, I've been craving pancakes for the whole week now, and I was so close to making some today. I would have had pancakes for two days, if it wasn't for my flatmate. I need me some pancakes! But actually I'd take any kind of food, I'm just plain hungry.

[Aziraphale]

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I find it ironic that they're saying not to use Bisquick, but he's using Log Cabin "syrup" (HFCS, along with eye of newt and God knows what else). I always keep a box of Bisquick around in the wintertime.

[Smashwidget]

You all should try bacon-and-dark-chocolate pancakes.  Just mix some pancake batter, fry it, and add some bacon bits and chocolate chips as it's frying.

[Penquin47]

Y'all are really making me want to go to Waffle House today.  You know that, right?

I would love to go to Waffle House right now, but it's all the way on the other side of town and the effort of walking 1.5 miles to my car to drive it there is defeating the will to go there.

In other words, I'm being lazy.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

... but it's a whole 4 miles away. I have to drive all the way to I-35, and go like two exits...

... maybe I'll go there tonight and have breakfast for dinner.

(and, yes, I measured the distance on Google Maps. I had actually thought it was farther than that.)

This confuses me.  We drive everywhere here in Little Rock.  It's not unheard of to go try a diner three HOURS away.  But we're weird like that.

This is West Texas, too.  I thought it was just a combination of we can drive four hours and still be in our part of Texas, thus fucking our sense of scale all to hell, and the spread-out nature of the area.

[Schmorgluck]

All this line of conversation on pancakes makes me want to dust off my special pan and make me some crêpes or even Breton buckwheat gallettes.

[GarandMarine]

Breakfast aside, have we discussed the important part of this comic yet? Claire talks about Marten enough that Mom not only knows who he is but wants to meet him. He has made the mom list, and Claire is already on the Martenmom list. If Clairemom and Martenmom meet and compare lists their offspring will never hear the end of it until they date.

[bhtooefr]

I thought I mentioned that somewhere earlier in this thread...

Ah, yes, in the middle of some insane troll logic intended to mock the idea that Clairemom was stalking Marten.

There's going to be a Meeting of the Meddling Mothers if this goes on long enough. I mean, both Veronica and now apparently Clairemom ship this.

(I should clarify that that's not actually part of the insane troll logic, more part of the setup for it.)

[hedgie]

No speculations along this line.  Please.

Edit:  If you don't know why, there's this http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28457.0.html thread, and I'd politely suggest to read it in its entirety.

[Kugai]

Damn!!

I'm out of Vanilla Essence!!!

[Kugai]

Ok Why is claire sleeping with her boobs on. Has it been established that she has been hormones long enough to get substantial breasts? Or does the same super science that gives robots give better hormone treatments?

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[valkygrrl]

Hasn't it only been about three weeks of comic time since Marten had a one night stand with D?

As much as I ship Marten/Claire it's rather hard to imagine that she's finished 'not judging him.'

EDIT

This isn't to say she doesn't want to, she clearly does but for people who aren't quite as chill as Marten questions come up. Questions like 'if you're interested in me why were you running around having casual sex instead of asking me out?'

[anahata]

Hasn't it only been about three weeks of comic time since Marten had a one night stand with D?

As much as I ship Marten/Claire it's rather hard to imagine that she's finished 'not judging him.'

I don't see a conflict there. If anything the vehemence of her reaction may have been because what she was really feeling was jealousy, even if she wasn't admitting it or hadn't been aware of her felings for Marten. Maybe that scene was an early clue.
Also on reflection she would have taken on board that Marten wasn't happy about his ONS either.

[valkygrrl]

Hasn't it only been about three weeks of comic time since Marten had a one night stand with D?

As much as I ship Marten/Claire it's rather hard to imagine that she's finished 'not judging him.'

I don't see a conflict there. If anything the vehemence of her reaction may have been because what she was really feeling was jealousy, even if she wasn't admitting it or hadn't been aware of her felings for Marten. Maybe that scene was an early clue.
Also on reflection she would have taken on board that Marten wasn't happy about his ONS either.

Always assumed she was jealous in that comic... think of it like this. You're interested in someone. They go have casual sex then soon after it's all hey want to make with the smoochies? A person who's less laid back is going to wonder how interested this person really is. Remember she didn't see Dora and Faye and Tai pushing him to go have a hookup. Three weeks is a short time to get over it no matter how much she wants those smoochies.