She actually didn’t eat them raw. They were caught on the trip to the swimming hole, then later/the next day we see her playing Go Fish with the grandparents, and they’re gambling with eel steaks.
i know but her speech right now sounds like she caught and ate them on the spot. Grammatical error it may be but it dose still come across as gorse to those only privy to how she chose to word that.
It might not even be an error, but an intentional spin on the truth to add flair. You know, an actual fish story 🙂 “I once caught a fish THIS BIG…..”
Do we know she didn’t have a chance to eat one raw? Sure, she brought a couple back but that doesn’t necessarily mean she didn’t hunt one for herself off panel before or after.
According to Agent Brown it takes a *lot* for a Sarnothi to get sick, because they are Alpha predators in the water. If Selkie decided to treat an eel as a gummy worm it probably wouldn’t be even out of the ordinary for her.
Now, personally, I prefer my Unagi on rice with a bit of sesame seeds but that’s just me.
Eel rice, mmmmm, I think I have to make a trip to the Korean store. (no fangs or flippers.)
I honestly think she’s just being a typical kid here…when I was that age I probably would have reacted the same way to someone saying they caught and ate a raw eel. 😉
And yes, now that I’m (technically) an adult I LOVE sushi – but I cannot stand any sushi involving eel! *pooey*
Hmmm… I didn’t see it that way to be honest. Probably because I was a child who liked “gross” things (bugs, snails and such) and my mother taught me to try food before calling it “gross”. I still do (worst experience of my life so far was a raw, living limpet when I was around eighteen – but, well, at least I tried).
And to be honest, I don’t really like sushi. ^^’ Never ate eel, though, neither raw nor cooked or smoked. Maybe I should try…
My mom had the same “don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it” policy, and I stick to it to this day. The worst for me was sea urchin, which had the texture and consistency of lumpy yogurt and the only taste I could detect was just ‘seawater’.
However, I’m actually curious to try it again, and see if my adult tastebuds enjoy it more than my ten-year-old tastebuds did.
I agree … I remember telling my niece (who was about Amanda’s age at the time) a completely ficticious story about her father and I eating live eels when we were kids (which he, of course, confirmed), and her reaction was pretty close to Amanda’s.
On a related note, I like my sushi well done.
I think she’s just being a kid. Now if she was screaming it at a Sushi restaurant (like two very poor-mannered little boys were when I was trying to enjoy my octopus sushi), that may qualify. But I tend not to blame those behaviors so much on kids, but their backgrounds and–well–Amanda is being pretty good here considering her start.
Aren’t fish eyes considered a delicacy in some cultures? I know that the cheeks are.
While I can’t stand eel (see above), I love me some good tuna or salmon sushi or sashimi. I also ADORE fresh oysters. I guess our tastes change over a lifetime; when I was a kid, my mom kept trying to get me to eat avacados. They are very healthy. However, at the time, I couldn’t STAND them. Now I buy and eat them on a regular basis and ADORE them.
(But I still don’t think I’ll ever change my stance on eel.) 😉
Amanda’s reaction is much less grossed out than the reaction I got from my mom when I tried to tell her about the time I had to kill, skin and cook an eel at work. My mom freaked and refused to let me tell her anything more about it.
To be fair, my niece thinks it’s gross when we walk by the fish section. And she loves smoked meats so she’s always torn between being happy and grossed out. Some kids just can’t take fish.
Amanda appears to be one of the zillions of people the think meat grows on little Styrofoam trays in the grocery store. The thought of chasing and killing your own meat is probably what is grossing her.
No mention is made of eating it raw. The only time eel has been mentioned in this strip, previously, Selkie caught two, and Grandma cooked eel fillet that night and they ate it while playing Go Fish.
I take my niece to the fair and always first to the section with livestock. I like her to meet her meat and understand the sacrifices we make to have those little styrofoam containers filled with beef.
Too many people now a days think the story begins at the grocery store. I think it’s a real shame.
I am a male who has never dyed their hair, but my impression from talking to people who have is that vibrant colors are very difficult to pull off, and colors have a lot of bleed-over, making the sorts of things that are shown in the comic for the kids almost impossible. Selkie’s colors are especially unbelievable because you can sort of isolate strands of hair and dye them all one color (like Amanda) but having layers like that is very difficult. And yes, Sarnothi (spell?) are impossible too, but I like my suspension of disbelief to be confined to a smaller playpen. Could someone who has dyed their hair bright colors tell me if I am wrong?
As someone who frequently dyes her hair bright colours, I can say from experience that it’s possible but wouldn’t be easy. Given Amanda and Selkie’s natural hair colour, their hair would have to be bleached first. Then each layer of colour would have to be put in one at a time, allowing for the colour to sink in and washing and drying their hair inbetween each step.
Just bleaching and then dying my hair ONE colour (purple, for example) takes me an average of about three hours. Now multiply that by all the colours of the rainbow! They are good kids, but I doubt any child that age would have that degree of patience.
I expect that their hair was done with hair chalk or some of that temporary spray-on stuff that washes right out. Not to mention, after the holidays Selkie and Amanda have to go back to school and their everyday lives. Having permanently rainbow-coloured hair might be “frowned upon” by other adults or children in their lives…plus, once it started to grow/fade out it would have to be redone or dyed over in the original colour. These types of dyes (and ESPECIALLY the bleach) can be really harsh on one’s hair and skin and actually probably aren’t so good or healthy for use on children.
(I have been trying to avoid bleaching my hair lately because, every time I do it, my scalp hurts and turns bright pink from the bleach. It also has a tendency to make one’s hair break off and get split ends; luckily I have very short hair so that is usually not a problem for me. It grows super quickly so the damaged hair is cut off in my next haircut before it becomes a real problem.)
Hair chalk is pretty much my bet, because it is oil-based which allows the lighter colors to show up over dark hair—especially if it is high quality. Some bright colors do come out beautifully over darker hair, but usually some form of lightening is needed. There’s some nice candy colors out now—even beyond manic. We like Arctic Fox. I’ve been drawn to doing my hair in bright candies (one of my friends recently did rainbow hair—it was $300 to do professionally), but I prefer henna. It is a PITA to put on (though you get used to doing it after a while), but it is so nourishing for hair—especially if you mix in some good oils and egg. I do a spa day and do my skin and nails while I wait for it to settle in.
My favourite thing to do with henna is make it with tea and add bleached streaks afterwards. The tea helps ‘activate’ it, and bleach reacts to the henna creating this awesome shade of blueish green. I think it looks like a very natural colour, even if the method of achieving it is anything but! Since you don’t have to put the bleach all the way to your scalp if you don’t want to, and you leave it in for about half the standard time, it’s not as harmful to you as a regular bleaching. But the effect is cool as hell, and sticks around even after the rest of the henna has worn out.
Let’s not forget, they had Andi’s help. Andi’s been coloring her hair every day for a number of years, and can be expected to have developed a certain level of expertise in the process.
Really? Would anyone have cared if Amanda said she ate a fruit parfait and Selkie said, “Ews thats gross, yous gross.” The answer is no. No one would have called Selkie anything for it. Amanda is being a kid. If I told any number of my cousins that I ate a raw eel, they’d all say that’s gross too, save for one of the boys or perhaps the tomboy. Amanda is a typical little girl who likes pink, ponies and rainbows, of COURSE she’d think that’s gross. Selkie thinks fruits are nasty because she can’t eat them AND she thinks they taste gross, that doesn’t make her a brat for it. I thought the whole, unsweetened, unflavored ice cream thing was gross. Yes, Amanda called Selkie gross, but not because she currently is thinking that Selkie just being alive is gross, but because she thinks a raw, wriggling eel being consumed is gross.
That’s pretty typical behavior for even adults. Plenty of my coworkers find sushi to be disgusting and have said, “Ewww how can you eat that? That’s disgusting!” to me and my coworker and his wife who happen to love sushi.
I’m 1000% sure “can you not be gross” which is a sentence I’ve used myself means “stop saying gross things”
She’s commented on Selkie herself in the past
This is not one of those moments however
Selkie is totally being “gross” (on purpose)
Me, I don’t like sushi. It’s not that it’s “raw” fish, please, it’s not raw, it’s prepared. They use lemon juice for a chemical reaction that acts to cook it. I know this. I just don’t like fish. I have eaten sushi twice and didn’t care for it either time so I tend to not order anymore.
Depends on the sushi. Lemon juice is how you prepare some dishes like poke (raw fish salad, kinda like a salsa in consistency depending on who makes it) but sashimi and sushi are usually directly off the fish.
If you’re not into fish, hey, you’re not gonna like sushi, so just get the tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet) or tempura (battered veggies and stuff) or something like that. Plenty of different tastes in the world.
The gross factor also could come from the fact that Selkie killed the eel. I know plenty of people who can eat fish from the market but get grossed out at the idea of catching and killing their own.
Yeah, I took a friend into the Chinese market and one of the things I did was buy a fresh fish for dinner. (In this Chinese market that means it’s still alive when you buy it, but not when you leave with it.) Really, really, bad idea. We had salad that night, and she’s never gone shopping with me again.
Sorry Sel I am for once with Amanda on this. Eel is not something you typically eat raw even in sushi its cooked.
She actually didn’t eat them raw. They were caught on the trip to the swimming hole, then later/the next day we see her playing Go Fish with the grandparents, and they’re gambling with eel steaks.
i know but her speech right now sounds like she caught and ate them on the spot. Grammatical error it may be but it dose still come across as gorse to those only privy to how she chose to word that.
It might not even be an error, but an intentional spin on the truth to add flair. You know, an actual fish story 🙂 “I once caught a fish THIS BIG…..”
Do we know she didn’t have a chance to eat one raw? Sure, she brought a couple back but that doesn’t necessarily mean she didn’t hunt one for herself off panel before or after.
According to Agent Brown it takes a *lot* for a Sarnothi to get sick, because they are Alpha predators in the water. If Selkie decided to treat an eel as a gummy worm it probably wouldn’t be even out of the ordinary for her.
Now, personally, I prefer my Unagi on rice with a bit of sesame seeds but that’s just me.
Eel rice, mmmmm, I think I have to make a trip to the Korean store. (no fangs or flippers.)
*sigh* Amanda. Can you not be a brat? At least for christmas? Come on…
Hope someone calls her out. Looks like whatever rules Andi tried to set up for her didn’t stick…
I honestly think she’s just being a typical kid here…when I was that age I probably would have reacted the same way to someone saying they caught and ate a raw eel. 😉
And yes, now that I’m (technically) an adult I LOVE sushi – but I cannot stand any sushi involving eel! *pooey*
Hmmm… I didn’t see it that way to be honest. Probably because I was a child who liked “gross” things (bugs, snails and such) and my mother taught me to try food before calling it “gross”. I still do (worst experience of my life so far was a raw, living limpet when I was around eighteen – but, well, at least I tried).
And to be honest, I don’t really like sushi. ^^’ Never ate eel, though, neither raw nor cooked or smoked. Maybe I should try…
Speaking as a child and now adult who still likes things that would called “gross”, comments and reactions like Amanda’s is just a fact of life.
And the answer is no, Amanda. I will not and can not stop being ‘gross’ by your narrow definition.
My mom had the same “don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it” policy, and I stick to it to this day. The worst for me was sea urchin, which had the texture and consistency of lumpy yogurt and the only taste I could detect was just ‘seawater’.
However, I’m actually curious to try it again, and see if my adult tastebuds enjoy it more than my ten-year-old tastebuds did.
I agree … I remember telling my niece (who was about Amanda’s age at the time) a completely ficticious story about her father and I eating live eels when we were kids (which he, of course, confirmed), and her reaction was pretty close to Amanda’s.
On a related note, I like my sushi well done.
To clarify, I’m agreeing with Jaime’s comment.
I think she’s just being a kid. Now if she was screaming it at a Sushi restaurant (like two very poor-mannered little boys were when I was trying to enjoy my octopus sushi), that may qualify. But I tend not to blame those behaviors so much on kids, but their backgrounds and–well–Amanda is being pretty good here considering her start.
Just chill,Amanda. She isn’t going into gorey details. When she does. Then you can be grossed out.
exactly. if you´re grossed out already, when you catch her eating fish eyes straight from the still twitching goldie, odds are you´ll faint 😉
Or Amanda might just show everyone what she ate last
Aren’t fish eyes considered a delicacy in some cultures? I know that the cheeks are.
While I can’t stand eel (see above), I love me some good tuna or salmon sushi or sashimi. I also ADORE fresh oysters. I guess our tastes change over a lifetime; when I was a kid, my mom kept trying to get me to eat avacados. They are very healthy. However, at the time, I couldn’t STAND them. Now I buy and eat them on a regular basis and ADORE them.
(But I still don’t think I’ll ever change my stance on eel.) 😉
In my aunt’s family, they boil the eyes and eggs as a special treat. At least one of the kids is crazy about them.
Amanda’s reaction is much less grossed out than the reaction I got from my mom when I tried to tell her about the time I had to kill, skin and cook an eel at work. My mom freaked and refused to let me tell her anything more about it.
To be fair, my niece thinks it’s gross when we walk by the fish section. And she loves smoked meats so she’s always torn between being happy and grossed out. Some kids just can’t take fish.
I want an aunt like Marta and I’m an adult!
Amanda appears to be one of the zillions of people the think meat grows on little Styrofoam trays in the grocery store. The thought of chasing and killing your own meat is probably what is grossing her.
No mention is made of eating it raw. The only time eel has been mentioned in this strip, previously, Selkie caught two, and Grandma cooked eel fillet that night and they ate it while playing Go Fish.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie-252/
I take my niece to the fair and always first to the section with livestock. I like her to meet her meat and understand the sacrifices we make to have those little styrofoam containers filled with beef.
Too many people now a days think the story begins at the grocery store. I think it’s a real shame.
I don’t know how Selkie can make the claim that she consumed the eel with just her hands, I believe other body parts come into play as well.
Where is Selkie’s hair bow?
Good question. This could be a problem.
I’m betting it’s in her pocket or someplace close by. I can’t see Todd letting her get too far away from her protection.
Bigger concern should be the holo show that would be going off at their place if she left it there. XD
Is selkie’s hair, hair? Does it feel the same? It has the same texture? Etc, etc
I am a male who has never dyed their hair, but my impression from talking to people who have is that vibrant colors are very difficult to pull off, and colors have a lot of bleed-over, making the sorts of things that are shown in the comic for the kids almost impossible. Selkie’s colors are especially unbelievable because you can sort of isolate strands of hair and dye them all one color (like Amanda) but having layers like that is very difficult. And yes, Sarnothi (spell?) are impossible too, but I like my suspension of disbelief to be confined to a smaller playpen. Could someone who has dyed their hair bright colors tell me if I am wrong?
Quick google got me this: http://www.afroinga.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cvetnye-pryadi-volos-foto-nicki-minaj.jpg which seems pretty close? So apparently possible to pull off.
As someone who frequently dyes her hair bright colours, I can say from experience that it’s possible but wouldn’t be easy. Given Amanda and Selkie’s natural hair colour, their hair would have to be bleached first. Then each layer of colour would have to be put in one at a time, allowing for the colour to sink in and washing and drying their hair inbetween each step.
Just bleaching and then dying my hair ONE colour (purple, for example) takes me an average of about three hours. Now multiply that by all the colours of the rainbow! They are good kids, but I doubt any child that age would have that degree of patience.
I expect that their hair was done with hair chalk or some of that temporary spray-on stuff that washes right out. Not to mention, after the holidays Selkie and Amanda have to go back to school and their everyday lives. Having permanently rainbow-coloured hair might be “frowned upon” by other adults or children in their lives…plus, once it started to grow/fade out it would have to be redone or dyed over in the original colour. These types of dyes (and ESPECIALLY the bleach) can be really harsh on one’s hair and skin and actually probably aren’t so good or healthy for use on children.
(I have been trying to avoid bleaching my hair lately because, every time I do it, my scalp hurts and turns bright pink from the bleach. It also has a tendency to make one’s hair break off and get split ends; luckily I have very short hair so that is usually not a problem for me. It grows super quickly so the damaged hair is cut off in my next haircut before it becomes a real problem.)
Hair chalk is pretty much my bet, because it is oil-based which allows the lighter colors to show up over dark hair—especially if it is high quality. Some bright colors do come out beautifully over darker hair, but usually some form of lightening is needed. There’s some nice candy colors out now—even beyond manic. We like Arctic Fox. I’ve been drawn to doing my hair in bright candies (one of my friends recently did rainbow hair—it was $300 to do professionally), but I prefer henna. It is a PITA to put on (though you get used to doing it after a while), but it is so nourishing for hair—especially if you mix in some good oils and egg. I do a spa day and do my skin and nails while I wait for it to settle in.
My favourite thing to do with henna is make it with tea and add bleached streaks afterwards. The tea helps ‘activate’ it, and bleach reacts to the henna creating this awesome shade of blueish green. I think it looks like a very natural colour, even if the method of achieving it is anything but! Since you don’t have to put the bleach all the way to your scalp if you don’t want to, and you leave it in for about half the standard time, it’s not as harmful to you as a regular bleaching. But the effect is cool as hell, and sticks around even after the rest of the henna has worn out.
Let’s not forget, they had Andi’s help. Andi’s been coloring her hair every day for a number of years, and can be expected to have developed a certain level of expertise in the process.
Really? Would anyone have cared if Amanda said she ate a fruit parfait and Selkie said, “Ews thats gross, yous gross.” The answer is no. No one would have called Selkie anything for it. Amanda is being a kid. If I told any number of my cousins that I ate a raw eel, they’d all say that’s gross too, save for one of the boys or perhaps the tomboy. Amanda is a typical little girl who likes pink, ponies and rainbows, of COURSE she’d think that’s gross. Selkie thinks fruits are nasty because she can’t eat them AND she thinks they taste gross, that doesn’t make her a brat for it. I thought the whole, unsweetened, unflavored ice cream thing was gross. Yes, Amanda called Selkie gross, but not because she currently is thinking that Selkie just being alive is gross, but because she thinks a raw, wriggling eel being consumed is gross.
That’s pretty typical behavior for even adults. Plenty of my coworkers find sushi to be disgusting and have said, “Ewww how can you eat that? That’s disgusting!” to me and my coworker and his wife who happen to love sushi.
There’s a difference between saying sushi is disgusting and that you are disgusting.
I’m 1000% sure “can you not be gross” which is a sentence I’ve used myself means “stop saying gross things”
She’s commented on Selkie herself in the past
This is not one of those moments however
Selkie is totally being “gross” (on purpose)
These are KIDS. They say stuff like that to each other all the time.
Not even out of the ordinary, you get used to it. Mari and Theo aren’t even gonna bat an eyelash.
Me, I don’t like sushi. It’s not that it’s “raw” fish, please, it’s not raw, it’s prepared. They use lemon juice for a chemical reaction that acts to cook it. I know this. I just don’t like fish. I have eaten sushi twice and didn’t care for it either time so I tend to not order anymore.
Depends on the sushi. Lemon juice is how you prepare some dishes like poke (raw fish salad, kinda like a salsa in consistency depending on who makes it) but sashimi and sushi are usually directly off the fish.
If you’re not into fish, hey, you’re not gonna like sushi, so just get the tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet) or tempura (battered veggies and stuff) or something like that. Plenty of different tastes in the world.
The gross factor also could come from the fact that Selkie killed the eel. I know plenty of people who can eat fish from the market but get grossed out at the idea of catching and killing their own.
Yeah, I took a friend into the Chinese market and one of the things I did was buy a fresh fish for dinner. (In this Chinese market that means it’s still alive when you buy it, but not when you leave with it.) Really, really, bad idea. We had salad that night, and she’s never gone shopping with me again.