digest

A four-panel SMBC comic at a table. Panel 1: a blonde woman asks "Do you want some cheese?" A wide-eyed woman with curly dark hair exclaims "OMYGOD I LOVE pre-digested foods!" Panel 2: the blonde woman replies "What?" The curly-haired woman explains, "Most food is a scam. Why waste my precious gastric juices on anything crunchy or tough or fibrous?" Panel 3: the curly-haired woman continues, "No, it's gotta be a liquidy byproduct of bacterial enzymes or I am restin' this intestine." Panel 4: the blonde woman says "That's just weird—" as the curly-haired woman declares "I exclusively consume alcohol and cheese," and the blonde woman concedes "And yet..." The joke: she defends eating only fermented/aged foods as efficient "pre-digested" eating, and her cheese-and-wine diet ironically proves the point. Votey: a hand-lettered caption reads "How come there's cheese and wine but no cheesewine?" beside a drawing of the curly-haired woman gazing down thoughtfully.