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Yaaaay! - 13 -12- 04
« on: December 13, 2004, 12:02:16 pm »
Oh god, I AM Roast Beef.
I hate it when people eat and drink before they've actually purchased the goods.
HATE IT!!
Even if they intend to pay. Especially if they intend to pay.
However the delight of the extrovert vs intovert is one of my many masochistic pleasures.
Good strip!

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Yaaaay! - 13 -12- 04
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2004, 02:06:20 pm »
A near-total lack of punchline.  And yet I still enjoy it.  I'm on the "don't eat it before you buy it" wagon too.
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2004, 03:13:37 pm »
confusing, but brilliant. i laughed.
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Yaaaay! - 13 -12- 04
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2004, 04:12:47 pm »
re: inapropriate eating in the grocery store.

A couple of x-mas' ago while shopping with my SO, in the scoop'n save section, I noticed they had little Lindt chocolate balls.  Naturally, this prompted me to discreetly take one, unwrap it and pop it in my mouth.  My SO notices what he reads as a strange expression on my face (rather than a mouth full of chocolate) and asks me what's wrong, so I grabbed him and gave him a big nasty full on kiss-while-passing-on-the chocolate-and-saliva move.  His first reaction was pleasure at the kiss, then disgust and pushing me away at the exchange of food stuff, then pleasure again when he realized exactly what said food stuff was.

Romance and bulk food.

I feel totally comfortable sampling from the bulk food or produce (AKA stealing), but can't  bring myself to open actual packaging and eat from things I plan to pay for.  I suppose I don't like the idea of the cashier sizing me up and giving me the old "so you couldn't even hold out til the car, could you?" look that I imagine him or her giving.
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2004, 04:17:43 pm »
I have no problem taking a pop from the cold beverage case and drinking it while I shop, but that's about the only thing I'll consume before purchase.
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2004, 04:30:09 pm »
Yeah, I can MAYBE be cool with soda, but otherwise, eating while grocery shopping is Nast Eee.
I love the little salary-man-esque corn salesman, but what the hell is UP with the last panel? Why is Ray turning around so fast? What is Beef doing with his arms.
Dang, I love this one.
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2004, 04:58:15 pm »
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I have no problem taking a pop from the cold beverage case and drinking it while I shop, but that's about the only thing I'll consume before purchase.

Indeed. Especially since so many carts come with a beverage container right there. Why would they provide cup holders if consumption of tasty beverages was prohibited?
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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2004, 05:14:43 pm »
Wow.  I have never pre-eaten.  I don't have any big moral outrage over it, but I guess it never occurred to me.  Dang, I feel all programmed now.

This strip didn't do much for me.
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2004, 05:16:35 pm »
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Wow.  I have never pre-eaten.  I don't have any big moral outrage over it, but I guess it never occurred to me.  Dang, I feel all programmed now.


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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2004, 05:16:37 pm »
I had not even been aware that this was a Problem, but I just got back from the supermarket and the woman behind me was in the process of consuming the chocolate milk and caramel-flavoured mini rice cakes that she was about to purchase, and I did find myself somewhat appalled.  But this is also partly because I think that is kind of a gross snack.
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2004, 05:24:40 pm »
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I had not even been aware that this was a Problem, but I just got back from the supermarket and the woman behind me was in the process of consuming the chocolate milk and caramel-flavoured mini rice cakes that she was about to purchase, and I did find myself somewhat appalled.  But this is also partly because I think that is kind of a gross snack.

I had caramel mini rice cakes for my morning snack today. They are awesome.
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2004, 05:51:53 pm »
Why does the corn salesman have two heads in one panel but not in the other?

Anyway, I find this strip a little unbelieveable.  I mean, Ray does his own shopping?  He doesn't have a ***** butler or something to take care of those things for him?
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« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2004, 05:54:11 pm »
Does beef wear trunks all the time now because he lives in the pool shed and that is the appropriate attire?

Why does the corn salesman have two heads in one panel but not in the other?

I think he's whipping his head from side to side, looking around for people to try his wares.
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2004, 05:56:08 pm »
I think I love this just for the non-punchline. The corn salesman is so... excited. (I also love alt text that feels the need to repeat the punchline in Cliffs Notes form, as if we didn't get it.)

As for pre-eating, I tend to think of it as mostly appropriate for kids who need distractions; god only knows there were enough supermarket trips when I was a wee one that I probably got through only by virtue of Pringles. That said, if you're going to pay, what's the damage?
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2004, 06:25:14 pm »
I am pretty sure the Ray/Beef business in the last strip is Ray giving Beef a particularly aggressive "See? Ain't no harm done and I made a dude hella joyous! This dude who works for the grocery store and he don't mind it none at all!" look and Beef replying with an "Okay, dude, whatever, chill" stance.

Ray buys his own groceries because it's all about the whims, man. Impulse snack buys, that's the thing. For Real Meals, it's class all the way: meats special-ordered on rush delivery from one of a dozen specialized butchers, pet-cultivated fruit and vegetables from Japan, and there's this one rice-grower dude in Colorado who does crazy stuff with hydroponics or something. But when you want Lucky Charms, beef jerky and a sixer of Whateverbrau? Supermarket time. And then maybe like the new Chipped Beef Pringles catch your eye, and you just go with it. It puts the Pringles in the basket.

I do not have any actual moral outrage against eating in the store, but I could not bring myself to do it. Much like the ex-Jew who still, decades later, cannot bring himself to eat pork, the habit is too far ingrained.
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