page 683 – Not Ominous At All
I have no idea what you’re talking about, Ichabod. That doesn’t seem the least bit worrisome!
Also, look! I finally found an excuse to stick fictional pop cultural into the background again! For some reason, lengthy scenes in the underbelly of a space shantytown just don’t provide many chances to fit in billboards.
And guess what, more Voting Incentives! See how a really, REALLY bad idea eventually gave birth to a really, really good one!
(Historical Notes: Past Me missed an incredibly obvious way to have worked more ads into this setting. People could have taken old billboards and the like to use as makeshift walls or other building components! In fact, that could easily have opened itself up to multi-layered jokes by having un-fitting ads right on top of each other, or with ironic graffiti changing the original meaning. Dang it, Past Me! Why didn’t you- oh right, you were busy frantically re-arranging months’ of comics to set up the single greatest pre-Christmas cliffhanger in Far Out There history…)
(HISTORICAL EDIT: Also, this was the page when I received probably the coolest Far Out There fanwork ever, which I honestly didn’t even realize was still online until just now. Go see for yourself!)
I’m considering resuming the commenting thing on this webcomic.
Also, apparently this page was about the time I posted a fangame. Somehow, I simultaneously thought that it was before this arc, but also much more recently than 2014.
I still haven’t tried fried apples in real life.
Aieeeee! *points* It’s the ghost of Seros Senric!!! It lives!!!!! 😀
If you do ever decide to partake of fried apples, please note that there’s a big difference between what Ichabod has in his hand, which appears to involve covering part of the apple in some sort of batter and then dipping it into the frying oil for a while, and ACTUAL fried apples, which involves no batter at all, but lots and lots of sugar, some cinnamon, and occasionally some other stuff. Actual fried apples are pretty good, if you don’t mind them being very very sweet, whereas you’d have to pay me a fairly large sum of money to even try to eat what Ichabod has there. Neither version sounds even slightly healthy.
What Ed8 is talking about as Fried Apples are Pan Fried Apples, a desert.
What Ichabod is making is a Deep Fried & Battered Whole Apple. The Apple itself will likely taste like a Baked Apple, though you’ll have the taste of the batter in your mouth while you’re eating it. So it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume it tastes a little like an Apple Pie would. Probably not a GOOD Apple Pie, but an Apple Pie none the less.
…a gross, really really greasy apple pie, with none of the sweetening ingredients normally included in a pie. yuck.
(I’ve always ever heard of the “pan fried apples” just called “fried apples”, although pan-fried certainly does correctly describe them, may be a regional difference in naming, or just because frying an apple the way Ichabod has done is an offense against apples everywhere so noone considered any other method of apple frying, and thus considered the additional description unnecessary. Or it’s also possible I just don’t pay much attention to food to begin with, and that’s why I’ve never heard it, and it’s actually really common here)
Either way, I’d rather have one of those Vashti Burgers anyway. Possibly with a side of XalGox fries.
I LIVE!
I actually hate the taste of apple pies.
And, yes, if I were to eat fried apple, it’d be pan-fried slices. and definitely cinnamon.
I’m not sure cooked apple can taste good without cinnamon.
(raw apples tend to taste good always as long as the apple isn’t unripe or too overripe)
The complication of trying to figure out what Ichabod’s little invention here tastes like is we still have no idea what’s in that batter/breading/whatever on the outside. That could potentially change a LOT.
Also, CRAP! I need to include the link to the paperdoll game up in the Historical Notes!
Oh, that is the correct term for them, Ed8. I was just specifying to ensure that future readers of the comments understood the difference, as Ichabod is trying to Deep Fry his Apple, and you were talking about Fried Apples. Also, there are people who will batter & deep fry ANYTHING and eat it. Deep Fried Apples are positively tame for some of those people.
As would be Deep Fried Candy Apples, which would give you the closest to adding all the sweetening ingredients. The closest way to make them work the way you imply might taste better is if you skin the apples before covering them in the melted sugar, though.