Picky

A four-panel comic about food and social-media-driven eating choices. In the first panels, a woman calmly says people are picky while an agitated man with flame-like hair rapidly lists increasingly absurd food combinations: licorice wrapped in American cheese, a pancake dipped in ketchup and rolled in sprinkles, gumballs and jello served from a beef jerky waffle cone, demanding 'HUH?' The woman recoils with an 'Aah!' and replies that she would only eat such things if a food blogger told her it was high status to do so. In the votey aftercomic, drawn in a simple white panel, the man thinks 'I could get Instagram points for a gummi bear sandwich video.' The woman asks 'What are you thinking about?' and he hides it, answering 'Nothing!' The joke skewers how social-media clout reframes disgusting food as desirable.