I was one of those teens. I drank around a gallon of milk a day. My family joked but not so joked that they should have bought a cow. There’s a restaurant here that had a double triple layer burger with large fries and I always ordered that plus one more cheeseburger. Good food as well.
I had a friend who was 60, and I couldn’t figure out how he survived eating a half a sandwich for lunch. Now that I’m 50-murmle, I discover that he eats more than I should.
When you hit 50 your metabolism goes into reverse.
Or because of it. The scarier someone looks, the more swiftly and harshly they tend to get punished for being ‘mean’ (often just standing up for themselves). It’s usually the adorable or nonthreatening ones that you have to watch out for, because they’re the ones who get away with bullying and violence because of the willingness of those around them to rewrite the story as them being victims.
I think this is the perfect situation with regards to Amanda. She’s expressed an interest and doesn’t seem scared any more. She’s been told she can go, and it’s her choice that she doesn’t want to. It would probably have caused a lot of issues if she had gone, but now at least she doesn’t feel like she’s being excluded.
Huh. I didn’t realize I tended to dine at really fancy restaurants. The only table service restaurant I eat at where the menu is already at the table is Waffle House, and that barely qualifies as “table service” (let alone “restaurant”).
Normally it’s the host who hands out the menus, in my experience.
Definitely depends on the chain. The 99 has a menu out on the table, and the host(ess) brings Menus For Everyone as well (but they have to hand you the dessert pamphlet). Applebee’s, Longhorn, and Uno’s, the host(ess) brings menus; Applebee’s leaves the dessert/drinks menu on the table, and Longhorn has a dessert/drinks standee-thing. Local Uno’s closed so I can’t recall if they had a dessert menu for the table. Olive Garden has the menus entirely in host(ess) and waitstaff control… but a specials/dessert stand-up is on the table.
Friendly’s has dessert/snack menus at the table, dessert/special standee-thing, and the host(ess) lays out the regular menu when one is seated. (Presumably if you tell them you’re just there for sit-down ice-cream, they don’t bother with the regular menu.)
Local Non-Chain One… well, we go there often enough that sometimes they just hand us the menus at the front and let us go sit at our usual booth. Dessert menus also have to be provided by staff, but often they leave them atop the booth-ends in easy reach.
Non-Chain Two, seat yourself, and the waitstaff brings over a menu.
Texas Roadhouse, though, has the menus at the table and the waitstaff never remove them from there. (They’re also noisy as heck, full of peanuts, sometimes have line-dancing, but I hear the steaks are decent. I have trouble knowing what I can eat, though, since I don’t like dead-animal squeezings in my food… >_> (I don’t give people a hard time about it to be mean, but if I say it that way, it seems to get them thinking more about What Stealth Meat Juice is added to stuff. Did you know Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad Dressing… has powdered chicken in it? *headdesk* Thank you, good waiter, for giving me the heads-up when that happened!))
…I dunno what the local IHOP does. Haven’t been there for ages.
Can’t be rolls (or not just rolls) — Selkie has one. Probably a meat appetizer that got ordered to keep Benny from threatening to nom the waitstaff. Something finger-food.
Um, Amanda? This isn’t like SCHOOL school (which is all you’ve ever known) you might enjoy it…
Hopefully Todd will intervene– it’s not common for an 8 year old to be able to make decisions like this on their own…
And Benny is gonna be a typical teenager, just like mine… didn’t think it was POSSIBLE to down 3 Double-Doubles plus Animal Fries in one sitting.
Said it before but i like Benny. 😀
And I said it before, I can’t stand Benny. He goes on the same list as Truck and his parents.
Only three?
teenager? I still eat like that.. I turn 38 in a few weeks I used to be able to do that and still be hungry now its like an all day meal.
I was one of those teens. I drank around a gallon of milk a day. My family joked but not so joked that they should have bought a cow. There’s a restaurant here that had a double triple layer burger with large fries and I always ordered that plus one more cheeseburger. Good food as well.
used to swim in high school foot ball sized burrito, no problem.
I had a friend who was 60, and I couldn’t figure out how he survived eating a half a sandwich for lunch. Now that I’m 50-murmle, I discover that he eats more than I should.
When you hit 50 your metabolism goes into reverse.
If I eat ONE frickin’ french fry, immediately put on 10 pounds. Pfwoof.
Getting old SUCKS.
Should someone tell the waitress that “menuover” is two words?
Also, in the first panel, it’s ‘skepticism’, Agent Brown.
“Skeptism”. Read right over that. 😀
you know, I won’t be surprised if Scar turns out to be a cinnamon roll. Super sweet despite his rough exterior, especially to kids.
I wonder if Scar is a sarnothi name that just happens to sound like an english word.
Scar: The Sarnothi word for “adorable fluffy kitten”. It puts a new spin on The Lion King for them. 😉
Usually guys like that look scary as hell and end up being just like your grandpa.
Or because of it. The scarier someone looks, the more swiftly and harshly they tend to get punished for being ‘mean’ (often just standing up for themselves). It’s usually the adorable or nonthreatening ones that you have to watch out for, because they’re the ones who get away with bullying and violence because of the willingness of those around them to rewrite the story as them being victims.
I betcha Scar is just some silly old man who loves kids…
I betcha Scar is just some silly old man who loves kids…he’s probably like KSClaw said, a cinnamon roll
or hes like Scar from Full metal alchemist. total bad ass who is doing what he belives is right and nessasary
Or both? Both is good.
remember scar was a killer in FMA an outright sociopath. And had only minor issues killing ninazander (yes I know im kind of horrific)
I think this is the perfect situation with regards to Amanda. She’s expressed an interest and doesn’t seem scared any more. She’s been told she can go, and it’s her choice that she doesn’t want to. It would probably have caused a lot of issues if she had gone, but now at least she doesn’t feel like she’s being excluded.
Eheheh, Benny reminds me of me in that last panel XD
I was raised by a vegetarian, so when we went out to eat, or I was visiting my grandparents, I was always just like ‘give me ALL THE MEATS!’
Dave, YOU did not forget “to give them menus earlier.” The waitress did.
If the waitress did not give them menus, then what are these yellow things they are reading?
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie923/
I guess I forgot that I didnt forget…
I don’t even know anymore
From experience, unless it’s a really fancy restaurant menus will already be on the table.
Huh. I didn’t realize I tended to dine at really fancy restaurants. The only table service restaurant I eat at where the menu is already at the table is Waffle House, and that barely qualifies as “table service” (let alone “restaurant”).
Normally it’s the host who hands out the menus, in my experience.
Definitely depends on the chain. The 99 has a menu out on the table, and the host(ess) brings Menus For Everyone as well (but they have to hand you the dessert pamphlet). Applebee’s, Longhorn, and Uno’s, the host(ess) brings menus; Applebee’s leaves the dessert/drinks menu on the table, and Longhorn has a dessert/drinks standee-thing. Local Uno’s closed so I can’t recall if they had a dessert menu for the table. Olive Garden has the menus entirely in host(ess) and waitstaff control… but a specials/dessert stand-up is on the table.
Friendly’s has dessert/snack menus at the table, dessert/special standee-thing, and the host(ess) lays out the regular menu when one is seated. (Presumably if you tell them you’re just there for sit-down ice-cream, they don’t bother with the regular menu.)
Local Non-Chain One… well, we go there often enough that sometimes they just hand us the menus at the front and let us go sit at our usual booth. Dessert menus also have to be provided by staff, but often they leave them atop the booth-ends in easy reach.
Non-Chain Two, seat yourself, and the waitstaff brings over a menu.
Texas Roadhouse, though, has the menus at the table and the waitstaff never remove them from there. (They’re also noisy as heck, full of peanuts, sometimes have line-dancing, but I hear the steaks are decent. I have trouble knowing what I can eat, though, since I don’t like dead-animal squeezings in my food… >_> (I don’t give people a hard time about it to be mean, but if I say it that way, it seems to get them thinking more about What Stealth Meat Juice is added to stuff. Did you know Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad Dressing… has powdered chicken in it? *headdesk* Thank you, good waiter, for giving me the heads-up when that happened!))
…I dunno what the local IHOP does. Haven’t been there for ages.
…so Amanda ordered the chicken fingers?
I think Todd actually ordered them, probably for Amanda.
Look, I know Beeny’s been through a lot, but he’s still acting like a little A-hole.
Ayesha is kinda cute. Always been a big fan of freckles. She’s not tagged, though.
I’m confused. What have they been eating in the last few pages if their food hasn’t come yet? *gazes at the ambiguous brown shapes on the table*
Probably rolls. Most restaurants have those out.
Can’t be rolls (or not just rolls) — Selkie has one. Probably a meat appetizer that got ordered to keep Benny from threatening to nom the waitstaff. Something finger-food.
Wait… is that thing in Benny’s hand a smartphone or a “green-and-black-thingy?” 0.0
Standard smartphone. No Resonance tech allowed at a public restaurant. 🙂