Ethics

A six-panel SMBC comic. A pigtailed girl at a table complains she doesn't want her food with onions, and a man remarks that kids are picky. He challenges her: would she eat a gummi bear sandwich on white bread? She declares 'I WOULD.' She then rattles off increasingly disgusting combinations -- licorice wrapped in American cheese, a pancake dipped in ketchup and rolled in sprinkles, gumballs and jello out of a beef jerky wafflecone -- shouting 'HUH?!' with her arms raised. The man stands silent and uneasy. Finally he admits he'd only eat those things 'if a food-blogger told me it was high status to do so,' and the girl triumphantly cries 'AHA!', having exposed that adult eating habits are driven by status signaling, not actual taste. Votey: a small wide-eyed child's face looks up, saying in a speech bubble 'THE UNIT OF MEASUREMENT IS METRIC LOLS.'