fruitcake
Original: fruitcake on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with orange hair: I figured out how to make a tasty fruitcake!
Panel 2:
(The man hands a loaf pan to a woman with dark hair, who is smiling.)
Panel 3 (left, showing a fruitcake in a loaf pan):
Man: If you soak it with fortified wine it gets much much better.
Panel 4 (right, showing a fruitcake in a loaf pan):
Man: It turns out you can fit in more brandy if you make the cake lighter.
Panel 5 (left, showing a darker, less-full pan):
Man: ...which you really can do by removing fruits and nuts.
Panel 6 (right, showing an even darker, mostly liquid pan):
Man: The flour and sugar take a lot of space too.
Panel 7 (left, showing a pan of brown liquid):
Man: This is a loaf pan filled with brandy.
Panel 8 (right):
Woman: I find it goes really well with my morning coffee!
Panel 9:
(The two sit at a table. The man, seen from behind, slides the pan across to the smiling woman.)
Votey:
Woman: I find my morning coffee tastes better if I give it 47 splashes of brandy.
Man with orange hair: I figured out how to make a tasty fruitcake!
Panel 2:
(The man hands a loaf pan to a woman with dark hair, who is smiling.)
Panel 3 (left, showing a fruitcake in a loaf pan):
Man: If you soak it with fortified wine it gets much much better.
Panel 4 (right, showing a fruitcake in a loaf pan):
Man: It turns out you can fit in more brandy if you make the cake lighter.
Panel 5 (left, showing a darker, less-full pan):
Man: ...which you really can do by removing fruits and nuts.
Panel 6 (right, showing an even darker, mostly liquid pan):
Man: The flour and sugar take a lot of space too.
Panel 7 (left, showing a pan of brown liquid):
Man: This is a loaf pan filled with brandy.
Panel 8 (right):
Woman: I find it goes really well with my morning coffee!
Panel 9:
(The two sit at a table. The man, seen from behind, slides the pan across to the smiling woman.)
Votey:
Woman: I find my morning coffee tastes better if I give it 47 splashes of brandy.
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. An orange-haired man tells a dark-haired woman, "I figured out how to make a tasty fruitcake!" and hands her a loaf pan. Across a series of panels he explains his recipe while images of the loaf pan show its contents getting progressively more liquid and less solid: "If you soak it with fortified wine it gets much much better." "It turns out you can fit in more brandy if you make the cake lighter." "...which you really can do by removing fruits and nuts." "The flour and sugar take a lot of space too." Finally the pan holds only brown liquid, and he admits, "This is a loaf pan filled with brandy." The woman cheerfully replies, "I find it goes really well with my morning coffee!" The joke: his perfected "fruitcake" has been optimized down to pure brandy. In the votey aftercomic, a line-drawn woman's face says, "I find my morning coffee tastes better if I give it 47 splashes of brandy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.