Hello, everyone. I made it back. 😉 Thank you, once more, for your understanding and kindness. I hope I didn’t worry anyone too much. Getting back to regular work hours will help, though. >_>
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George: I-I dunno about this, Sel...
Selkie: Georgie, relax. It's easy. ANDs, it'll makes a good impression. Hints hints.
George: Uuuh, hi Te Fahn.
Te Fahn: Hi, George. D-Do you wanna sits with me?
George: Yeah. Uh... do you remember earlier, the... snails...
Te Fahn: Oh, yeahs! Dids you want to try it?
George: Uuuuuuh... yeah...
Te Fahn: O-Okay! Heres. I-I hopes you like it.
[Location text] The Nurse's office. Five minutes later.
George (VO): *drippy vomit noises.*
Selkie: Georgie, relax. It's easy. ANDs, it'll makes a good impression. Hints hints.
George: Uuuh, hi Te Fahn.
Te Fahn: Hi, George. D-Do you wanna sits with me?
George: Yeah. Uh... do you remember earlier, the... snails...
Te Fahn: Oh, yeahs! Dids you want to try it?
George: Uuuuuuh... yeah...
Te Fahn: O-Okay! Heres. I-I hopes you like it.
[Location text] The Nurse's office. Five minutes later.
George (VO): *drippy vomit noises.*
Panel 5 is inspired by the time my Dad convinced my brother and I to try oysters. The fallout happened right at the table of the very nice restaurant, in full view of all diners. I can't eat them to this day.
Oh no
Getting all the way to the nurse and still vomiting… methinks our George has discovered an allergy.
Kids’ physiology is so tied to their imagination, it’s really amazing. The juncture between psych and anatomy is a wild ride.
Was thinking this. Do snails count as shellfish? Or maybe poor George just can’t have snails specifically.
Ok, this was supposed to have been a reply to Exxos. I dunno what happened to the internet. -_-
for what its worth; Those who are allergic to shellfish are sometimes, but not always, also allergic to mollusks, which would, for the purposes of this conversation, include snails… but the two allergies can present one without the other, e.g. my grandmother was told no shellfish period after she had an allergic reaction severe enough to threaten her life in her late seventies. She lived to the age of ninety eating clams and scallops near-weekly.
Some people are sensitive to food texture. My borther can’t eat anything he considers slimy, like peaches.
I’m reminded of a quote from Wayne’s World:
“If you blow chunks and she comes back, she’s yours. If you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be.”
George is in training to be an anime protagonist! He’s just received the lesson in how to survive the love interest’s anti-cooking skills. 🙂
I wonder if Selkie is flashing back to the grape? Grandma told her it would be good, and it went down, and then it came right back up.
Clearly he isn’t used to trying new or exotic foods.
At a government-paid orphanage? Probably not much variety they can afford
Hopefully this isn’t a shellfish allergy. Those can be exceptionally nasty and dangerous.
Instead of snails, he should have had escargot. (That’s what a politician would say.)
I like oysters! Well, I like COOKED oysters. Were these ones raw? That… would probably change my opinion.
It might be that Georgie got RAW snails and his stomach can only handle COOKED snails.
And yes that is a thing, cooking denatures some proteins that might be causing the allergic reaction. Example egg whites are different after cooking.
Woof.
I hope this isn’t something as simple as these snails not being fit for ANY human’s consumption and it was just…missed somehow. But I also don’t want Georgie to allergic to them or something.
That was my first thought. It doesn’t seem like the Sarnothi digestive system is widly different from ours, but it’s certainly possible that there are snails inedible to use that aren’t to them, and I wouldn’t put it past kids to overlook that possibiity.
Well, these things happen.
Oh please. Properly done snails is as good as shrimp scampi.
Oof thats a good point. Now she’s been on both sides of that unfortunate scenario
Here’s an interesting question: Which one of them is going to try and take the blame/fault for George’s condition when the nurse comes out to find out exactly what happened? Selkie because she basically bullied him into eating it and is having flash-backs to the Grape Incident, or Te Fahn for even offering it to him in the first place that because of her timid personality kicking in, it makes her believe it was all HER fault…
The things we do for love…
Hey, I give the kid kudos for at least trying it. A lot of adults wouldn’t even do that.
Yeah, I wouldn’t even attempt oysters. I can’t even swallow egg whites.
It’s something about the slippery, slimy texture, combined with the subtle egg odor, that triggers immediate vomitting when it hits my throat. I can only eat eggs if they’ve been scrambled (and surprisingly, I love them. It’s an involuntary gag reaction, not a personal dislike).
What frustrates me, is that one by one, since the beginning of the Covid shutdowns, EVERY fast-food franchise has now switched from a pre-cooked scrambled egg patty, to “fresh-cracked eggs”. They’ve been pitching it as a healthier choice (despite not offering any choice) but really it’s because it’s cheaper to cut out the middle process and ship the eggs as-is from their distribution centers.
Every store I’ve asked to scramble the egg refuses now. They “can’t” do that (they mean “won’t”) because a scrambled egg is “not the product they’re offering”. It’s like they forgot what a fork is.
I used to love breakfast sandwiches, and LOVED the MacDonalds’ McGriddle (which was a breakfast sandwhich with little pancakes instead of bread). They were not only tasty and filling, but convenient to pick up quickly from a Tim Hortens on days I had an early appointment and didn’t have time to make a full breakfast.
I made a scene the first day Tim Horten’s switched the eggs out on me without warning or changing the signs. Not proud of it, but I’d ordered an old favourite and instead got handed through the window something literally inedible to me; I almost puked in my car. They all treated me like I was crazy to complain.
I’m not some compulsive overeater or someone who usually gets emotional over food, but… dammit, this was pretty disheartening. One of my favourite foods, gone. I tried every other fast food chain with a drive-through in my city. Briefly there was one or two that kept the old egg method for a while, but soon they’d all switched over.
I can’t buy a breakfast sandwich anywhere in this city now.
The more “proper” restaurants that served full breakfasts (and don’t have a drive through) are all on lockdown and/or bankrupt by this point.
So really, I can’t buy breakfast… period. 🙁