authentic
Original: authentic on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with glasses: I'm tired of crappy knockoffs of real food. I want authentic food made the way the people who first created it...
Panel 2:
Bald man: Suppose there were a food that first became popular in the old age and was largely unchanged in the three generations that followed. Would that count as 'authentic'?
Panel 3:
Man with glasses: I suppose. Yeah, sure.
Bald man: Come with me.
Panel 4:
Bald man: Behold!
Man with glasses: Well, I'll be damned.
Panel 5:
(Silhouette of the two men standing before a brightly lit restaurant) Sign: TACO BEL[L]
Votey:
(No dialogue. A glowing Taco Bell building stands beneath the night sky as lightning bolts strike down around it. The sign reads TACO BEL[L].)
Man with glasses: I'm tired of crappy knockoffs of real food. I want authentic food made the way the people who first created it...
Panel 2:
Bald man: Suppose there were a food that first became popular in the old age and was largely unchanged in the three generations that followed. Would that count as 'authentic'?
Panel 3:
Man with glasses: I suppose. Yeah, sure.
Bald man: Come with me.
Panel 4:
Bald man: Behold!
Man with glasses: Well, I'll be damned.
Panel 5:
(Silhouette of the two men standing before a brightly lit restaurant) Sign: TACO BEL[L]
Votey:
(No dialogue. A glowing Taco Bell building stands beneath the night sky as lightning bolts strike down around it. The sign reads TACO BEL[L].)
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A man with glasses complains that he's tired of crappy knockoffs and wants authentic food, made the way the people who first created it did. A bald man asks: suppose there were a food that became popular generations ago and stayed largely unchanged through the generations that followed — would that count as authentic? The man with glasses agrees that it would. The bald man says 'Come with me,' then 'Behold!' The final panel shows the two as silhouettes standing before a brightly lit fast-food restaurant whose sign reads 'TACO BEL[L]'; the glasses man says 'Well, I'll be damned.' Votey: the Taco Bell building glows dramatically against a black night sky as jagged yellow lightning bolts strike down around it, treating the chain restaurant as a near-holy monument to enduring 'authenticity.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.