page 1405 – Part Of This Balanced Breakfast
Comics like this are why there should really never be any consumable Far Out There merchandise.
Also, see? I TOLD ya’ll Marshall would have a thing or two to say about this idea!
Also also, I’m deeply annoyed that, between my convention trip and the bonus pages that went up last week, I actually gave myself time to build up a fairly MASSIVE backlog of comic rough drafts… then got really sick over the weekend so that I’m actually running a bit BEHIND schedule with actually finishing anything. No rest for the wicked.
I’ve got bad news for you Marshall, nothing you cook is “natural” either. Xal-Gox, and 10-drumstick Turkeys, and glowing Foodoids summoned from another dimension and every other available plant and animal have been bioengineered and gene-spliced and retrovirused and crossed and doublecrossed and nanotechnoed for a million years. It, and the chemicals it has been bread to ‘naturally’ produce, are no less artificial than the Sodaburgers and Burgersodas and even the Burgermeister Sodaburger. If there are any surviving natural life forms, nobody remembers which ones they are, and nobody considers them edible because they havent beein Madmagic’ed with ultraflavorfultastiness like everything else has.
Marshall thinks his cooking ingredients aren’t artificial the same way Tabitha thinks her experiments aren’t Mad Science.
(Also, I Lol’d for the Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town reference)
“They’re real. They don’t have any plastics, be they manufactured or grown within. They don’t have chemicals not normally found within humans or other foods. They’re as much real-food as human’s are real-humans.”
…Humanity are no longer really biologically related to their singular-planet bound existances, meaning that an argument that they’re not really “Human” but something that should really be named something different can be applied. Particularly since I would be shocked if some of the “Human’s” can breed with other “Humans”. Ram Quatzi & the other’s like him is a great example of that.
Smash cut to one of the other nitpickers using this as an excuse for why Marshall should be okay with cannibalism, just to mess with him.
Only cannibalism of humans who have undergone EXTENSIVE Genetic Therapy or other such biological changes to be different from the person either preparing the dish or the person eating it would be permitted.
…though, depending on the degrees of separation and precise interpretation of that rule, Mashall cooking and eating Mariska could be considered a reasonable argument. On the assumption that Mariska’s people, who prefer significantly hotter planets, can’t produce fertile offspring with Marshalls, who prefer standard temperatures.
They are not real – they most certainly do all have many, many chemicals (and other creepier things) that do not originally occur in plants or animals – thats the whole reason they were gene manipulated and modified in the first place – to get around any regulations on adding those chemicals and other stuff. It’s far easier just to add that stuff afterwards, but then it’s regulated, they bioengineered all those creatures because if it’s “naturally” produced inside the new organism it’s OK, both with governments and with consumers who believe in the appeal to nature fallacy.
I can’t wait (despite the fact that I won’t live to see it) until the real-world had “Organic, Wild-Caught Space-Fish”, Space-Fish obviously being a man-made “aquatic-simulation cattle” designed to thrive in the vacuum of space with minimal resources for consumption & food on space-flights, and somehow managing to escape their initial captivity and expand across at least the Asteroid Belt despite their relative immobility & lacking any ability to travel through space on their own.