Mmmm...Jam....

[dejadrew.insanejournal.com]

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all my fellow canuckleheads. I hope you all enjoy your food comas. I was in the midst of mine when it occurred to me to propose a theme: FOOD WEEK. All the tasty tasty comics featuring, involving, or instructing one how to make food. How about it?

For my first contribution, I offer some lovely recipes in comic form.

First, Hannah from Jill Thompson's wonderful all ages comic Scary Godmother will show us how to make a sammich.


Next, the author of the webcomic Friendly Hostility takes a moment to tell you all about empanadas.




I made those when a houseguest left behind some beer. Nobody in my house drinks beer. But, as it turns out, everybody eats empanadas.

Next, a short segment from a Naruto Kakashi/Iruka doujinshi scanlated by Attractive Fascinante, titled "Hibiki". Did you know that porn can be educational and satisfy non-sexual appetites as well as sexual? IT'S TRUE!

(Note: This particular segment not actually porny. Unless you have a cucumber kink. In which case, party on.)





Lastly, for now, a scene from Kinou Nani Tabeta (What Did You Eat Yesterday), by Fumi Yoshinaga, the mangaka singlehandedly responsible for at least five pounds worth of weight gain. In this scene: JAM!






....What the hell. I just had a turkey dinner a couple of hours ago. I cannot be hungry again.

(shakes fist) YOSHINAGAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Sigh. I am off to make some toast with jam. Happy snacking, y'all.

Comments

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

That last one...

Butter and jam? Ewwwwwwwww. o_O

[currer.insanejournal.com]

What's wrong with that? One without the other is just lonely.

[dejadrew.insanejournal.com]

???

Isn't that how most people have toast with jam? It's how I just had mine. Jammy things have to be spread with SOMETHING else, or the bread gets all soaked and gross.

I usually go with butter. Unless I'm in a peanut butter mood. Or I have some clotted cream. Mmm. Clotted cream. Damn, I wish I had me some clotted cream. Hey, I whipped some cream to go with berries for thanksgiving dessert, and I wonder what that would taste like with blackberry jam and OH GODDAMMIT.

(goes back upstairs for a second midnight snack)

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

... NO.

At home, it's either butter, or jam. But not both. D:

[gargoylekitty.insanejournal.com]

How about neither? I never eat anything on my toast(both because I don't eat butter/jam and because I like seeing the Hello Kitty face on it as I eat it).

[arilou_skiff.insanejournal.com]

Agreed.

I don't use jam (sometimes marmalade) but damn, you can't do both butter and jam.

Well, sometimes toast>butter>cheese>marmalade but that's a different beast.

[nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

You should try it. It's pretty darn good. They complement eachother's tastes quite nicely.

[koichi_hirose.insanejournal.com]

Weird it creeps you out. Here in France, it's almost compulsory.

[nezchan.insanejournal.com]

Where I grew up (east coast Canada) it was the same. If you didn't, people thought you were weird.

[bj_l.insanejournal.com]

I think you are confused about how to have jam on toast.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry dude, but I think you're seriously in a minority there, whilst buttered toast is wonderful in and of itself, I'd never have jam on toast WITHOUT butter.

[queen_marshed.insanejournal.com]

Blasphemous lieeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss. Butter adds to it the creamy texture! :O

[joseph_k101.insanejournal.com]

I agree, jam is better without butter!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

It's one or the other, people. Are you all Texans or something? Jeebus. Just because you can put everything on a piece of toast doesn't mean you should. It's this kind of slippery slope that led to the Goshdarnwich - http://twitpic.com/l4q7b

[ian_karkull.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems to be the customary way to do it, but I agree, it's pretty disgusting. Of course, I've banned butter from the breakfast table completely ages ago, for being absolutely taste- and pointless.

[kaetepixie.insanejournal.com]

I can see banning butter for health reasons (I don't use it myself except for baking and a few rare recipes) but to say it doesn't do anything to the taste of food is to ignore centuries of cooking knowledge.

[(Anonymous)]

Surely taste is a subjective experience, though.

[ian_karkull.insanejournal.com]

Using butter to bake is perfectly fine (and delicious!), but I'm inclined to think that people only started smearing butter on their bread to store up some fat for hard times. Sure, fat enhances taste, but I really get enough of that in my horrible, horrible diet, I really don't need to smear it on my toast in concentrated form too. :D

[dorksidefiker.insanejournal.com]

*reads the other comments* I think you and I may be the only relatively sane ones here.

[midnightvoyager.insanejournal.com]

I've felt like a minority in feeling the same way... at least some people apparently agree!

[curlyjo1.insanejournal.com]

I wonder if it's a regional thing. I personally do one or the other, but when I lived in England when I was a kid, it was toast -> butter -> whatever else on bread. Which tasted a little odd to me.

don't know if it was the area I lived in, or the time or what, but all my British friends were totally grossed out and had never heard of peanut butter and jelly. Even accounting for the jelly is actually jam in England thing. (Are we sure that we're all speaking the same language, here?)

[danielolsen.insanejournal.com]

So I started reading "What Did You Eat Yesterday" almost immediatly after this whas posted and it's a riot.

It's also by the same woman that did Antique Bakery. Clearly gay and food tastes good together.

Morning sure have a good and varied stable of titles.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

So that first one is basically Jill Thompson's favorite pizza toppings with salad stuff added to the mix, yes? Or is she saying that it's that recipe PLUS any other of your favorite toppings? Assuming for the moment that it's the former... Let's see, now - my favorite pizza toppings are ham and pineapple... and sausage... and... that's about it. There used to be a pizza place nearby that put all three on their Hawaiian pizzas, with a bit of chopped onion - goooooood pizza. So let's add onion to the mix, too.
So let's see, uh... that makes cheese, tomatoes, chopped sausage, pineapple, a bit of onion, ham, lettuce, and salad dressing - only I'm not a salad dressing person, so let's make it mayonnaise instead, which is what I put on my salad. Plus a little salt. So all that on garlic bread... hmm... Y'know, actually, that sounds REALLY good. A tad mixed-up, but good. I'm tempted to try it. The empanadas don't sound bad, either. Dammitall, I just had a snack, and now I'm all hungry again.
We should do a recipe week. There MUST be more comic book recipes out there - in fact, I KNOW there are, since several of them have already been posted on here.

[(Anonymous)]

I misread your title and wondered for a moment what the hell food had to do with you liking the Wasp.

[daniellau.insanejournal.com]

I'd like to see more recipe comics too. I bet I'm not the only one who's ever had trouble imagining what to do from a sparsely written recipe.

Yoshinaga just puts everyone else to shame here ... every panel of that looks delicious.

[nezchan.insanejournal.com]

When I was reading online manga a lot (worse than TV Tropes, seriously), I was really into Yakitate! Japan! and Addicted to Curry, both of which had loads of food advice in them.

[kaetepixie.insanejournal.com]

What a great collection of scans! Love it!

[koichi_hirose.insanejournal.com]

I second the idea of a food week. May I request the recipe of Olliver Queen's Chili con carne? ^^ Or was it posted recently?

[ravenous_raven.insanejournal.com]

if we're having a recipe week, can I request scans from "The Manga Cookbook"? I've only glanced over it once but now I'm itching for recipes...


and I love that pg 67, panel 6 has proved I am not the only one who eats spagehetti with soy sauce :)

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Nice, but the Kinou Nani Tabeta translator slipped up on p. 66: a jar with a 9 millimeter diameter is really only good for a dollhouse...