homemade
Original: homemade on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A person with red/orange hair, seen from behind, sits at a computer reading text on a monitor. The on-screen text reads:
Homemade Mimosa Recipe
I was trying to create the perfect mimosa and, after dozens of experiments, I'm prepared to share: When I was first learning to make these drinks, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
Caption (below panel):
14 hours of scrolling later, I realized I'd been scammed into reading classical literature.
Votey:
BONUS JOKE AT: HTTPS://GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/6130/6130-H/6130-H.HTM
A person with red/orange hair, seen from behind, sits at a computer reading text on a monitor. The on-screen text reads:
Homemade Mimosa Recipe
I was trying to create the perfect mimosa and, after dozens of experiments, I'm prepared to share: When I was first learning to make these drinks, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
Caption (below panel):
14 hours of scrolling later, I realized I'd been scammed into reading classical literature.
Votey:
BONUS JOKE AT: HTTPS://GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/6130/6130-H/6130-H.HTM
Alt text
A person with red hair, viewed from behind, sits reading a computer monitor. The screen shows a blog post titled "Homemade Mimosa Recipe" that begins as a recipe intro but slides into the opening lines of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: "...it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the" (cut off). A caption below reads: "14 hours of scrolling later, I realized I'd been scammed into reading classical literature." The joke is that a recipe website padded with endless preamble turned out to be a whole classic novel in disguise. Votey (bonus panel): hand-lettered text in a wobbly box reads "BONUS JOKE AT: HTTPS://GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/6130/6130-H/6130-H.HTM" — a link to the Project Gutenberg edition of A Tale of Two Cities.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.