Sandy gets the pudding.
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Was going to imply Sandy gets one of the macaroni scoops, then I remembered she's a sugar junkie. Hence, pudding.
“Don’t treads on mes?” Is Selkie’s class studying Early American History, by chance?
She could. Of course the Gadsden flag looks awesome enough, she could have asked Todd about it and took a liking to the phrase. It does resonate.
This is not Selkie’s first “Don’t tread on me” reference! Look on the brick wall in the background when Pohl has his little sekrit phone convo with his wife. Rattlesnake graffiti!
I forgot all about Sandy, her name rings a bell but other than that I don’t remeber her.
One of Selkie’s friends along with George and Wu. Can be seen scoring a sweet triple-pudding victory here
Very hyper young lady, with two different color eyes. Although in this one they both appear to be the same color.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie27/
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie37/
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie38/
If you zoom in you can tell the colors differ.
why do I think that lunch lady is gonna slip selkie a boca burger some day in an effort to prove selkies faking? (of course she isn’t faking so she’ll puke but the lunch lady doesn’t know that >.>)
She might just mean that she suspects that Selkie is pulling something like trading the things she can’t eat for more of what she can. Some lunch ladies can be pretty savvy.
I remember these types of days from when I was a kid, I always scored a ton of the fish filet patties. I was really poor growing up, so didn’t get a lot to eat at home, school lunches were my time to really bulk up.
None of the other kids really seemed to like those big greasy fish filet’s but I absolutely loved them, so I would often trade the stuff I didn’t like for like five or six of those filet’s. My mom couldn’t afford fish sticks or fish filet’s at home, those were luxury foods. Did I mention that much like Selkie, I love fish and seafood?
Yup, I scored big.
Yea, pretty sure she’s referring to her ordering “other stuff” when she’s not supposed to, it’s not the meat only thing she isn’t buying. 🙂
It’s a genius remember….Priceless just Priceless. Also a very mean lunch lady, the lunch ladies I had did not say much… but if you said please and thank you you got a little extra. >:)
Ummm… Salisbury Steak means gravy and gravy means flour. Sorry:( not trying to be “that guy”. Love the comic. Bye.
A previous comic had her scraping the ketchup off the hamburger patty.
hey, Selkie’s wearing her pink bow again. That’s good, I guess. I’m still wondering who was on the receiving end when the bow was off and it started transmitting some kind of emergency message. I hope we’ll find out.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie579/
Where we find out what the bow does when not near Selkie
In the one before this, Then was talking about “Resonance pulses”; is that what you mean by ’emergency signal’? I think it was just a we-detected-use-of-magic thing, Resonance being their word for their magic.
Does anyone else think the lunch lady should be fired? She’s harassing a special needs child – messed up.
Looks more like concern to me.
I’m a little puzzled. Back when I was in school, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, lunch was the same. You got no choice. You got THIS and THIS and THIS and THIS, and it cost forty cents. Your choice was “buy lunch” or “don’t buy lunch”.
From what I’ve heard, nowadays, it’s more cafeteria style, and you pick and choose what you want, and pay for what you get.
Lunch lady asked her what she wanted. Why not just get four Salisbury steaks, and skip that macaroni nonsense?
And about that “harassing”. Looked more like teasing, to me.
There is some choice in a cafeteria. But it’s not a “three entrees” type choice. You can generally get one entree, two sides, and a dessert. The school I work at usually has two different entrees available and several choices of sides and fruit. So, for example, the kids get to decide if they want quesadilla or chicken nuggets, but they don’t get both. So Selkie can only get the one steak, and she’ll trade off her sides for more steaks. Genius!
Consider this: If Selkie asks for steaks she gets steaks. If she asks for steaks macaroni and pudding then trades the macaroni and pudding, she gets steaks and her friends get extra macaroni and pudding.
Dave, this was brilliant! I remember people talking about how the school should know about her diet the first time you brought up the trading food thing. Great way to sneak it in.
Because I haven’t heard anything about it here yet, mix march madness is on and Selkie is very behind. It might not make it very far, but I figure if a few people gave it a few extra votes… it deserves it.
Thanks for the heads up. I saw that, but a bit too late to do much with it.
I feel like Amanda is going to come up and go, “I got adopted!”
And Selkie, or someone, is going to be like, “Someones adopteds YOU?!”
I think she’s more likely to be shouting, “My REAL MOM came back for me”. Any orphan stands a chance of getting adopted, but having their REAL PARENTS come back for them? That would be a heavy hit to the other orphans, even if, like Selkie or Heather, they had adopted parents.
Nice touch with the hair nets. But as a lunchlady, I can tell you that most likely happen. In my distinct, kids have to punch in their personal codes into a computer, which would list any restricted foods. (and Todd seems like a guy to be top of that) And Selkie would be forced to put the extra foods back.
As a former Lunch Lady I can tell you this normally wouldn’t happen. If a kid has a allergy we are NOT to give it to them. I spent many a morning reading threw the ingredients of things to make sure the kids didn’t get anything on their known allergy lists. It’s a really big deal because they don’t tell you HOW BAD a allergy is just that it exists. So your thinking every time it might put them in encephalitic shock. If a kid dose get something they shouldn’t you can lose your job or worse. Kids always seem to think the lunch ladys are being mean. What they don’t know is how many rules they have to follow.
I wonder if Selkie will remember that she’s met Andi, and innocently supply “your Mom knows my Dads!” ?
The first time Todd sees Andi(say at a PTA meeting), at school and beside Amanda, He’s going to have that flashbulb realization. The physical resemblance alone would do it. But having to integrate
1) Baby didn’t die
2) you lied to me
3) knowing how much I wanted her, you gave our child away and she’s know all the abuse I knew as a child.
4) you stil NEVER TOLD ME.
He’s in for a very harsh time.
Selkie hasn’t met Andi. She heard her speaking in a voice mail recording once several months prior to this current time. After that Andi met Todd alone without Selkie around. After that she hasn’t had interaction with Todd while she’s been pursuing Amanda’s reclaimation.
Good point. I Must have filled in the blanks with my imagination.
Is Amanda’s lack of ponytails a sign of her becoming happier and healthier? Or is it just Andi’s not up to the challenge of styling little girl hair yet?
Oh wait, that’s not Amanda. Wrong color eyes and freckles. That’s what I get for looking at this at quarter to 7 in the morning.
If I were Selkie I’d skip the trading ploy and just order the steaks with a side of whatever other meat is there.