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| − | | titletext =Although maybe it's just a phase, like freshman year of college when I realized I could just buy frosting in a can. | + | | titletext =Although maybe it's just a phase, like freshman year of college when I realized I could just buy frosting in a can.}} |
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| | ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
| | + | Bacon is generally considered one of the most delicious foods on earth, particularly in pulp culture, where it's praised by such characters as Homer Simpson from ''The Simpsons'' and Vincent Vega from ''Pulp Fiction.'' It's also ''very'' bad for you. |
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| − | This comic is a subtle statement on the epiphany many have when they reach adulthood and are on their own for the first time: No one will tell you what to do! Nobody will, however, stop you from making those poor decisions you were restrained from prior to that independence. Eating bacon whenever one wants is among them.
| + | Hence, the moment Randall realized he could cook bacon whenever he wanted, his overall health took a dramatic turn for the worse. |
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| − | This line graph depicts [[Randall|Randall's]] health as a function of time after some undefined point. The joke is that his health goes into an immediate deterioration the moment he realizes that he could just cook bacon on his stove whenever he wants. When he says "he could cook bacon," he means he has both the will AND means, since the stove is now his own. Before the bacon revelation, his health was actually improving - this may be explained because he was now cooking his own, healthy food rather than getting pizza delivered or having other pre-made foods/junk food.
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| − | {{w|Icing_(food)|Frosting}} (or icing) is something you use to decorate cakes. Many children enjoy frosting so much that they eat it off the cake and leave the rest behind. Frosting in a can, as mentioned in a title text, is convenient because it is instant and not necessary to make from scratch. When Randall came to college, he still had a very sweet tooth, so when he discovered frosting in a can, his health curve at the time also went into decline. However, that turned out to be a phase - he got over it - and he hopes it will be the same with cooking bacon.
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| − | There is now also similarly instant, pre-cooked bacon that can be eaten right out of the box, eliminating the need to put in any effort to prepare it. The sudden drop in health, obviously, is due to the fact that most bacon is pork belly fat, and while high in protein, its irresistible flavor cannot compensate for its high fat and cholesterol content. In addition, porkless bacon made from turkey meat is also available in some places.
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| − | In the title text of [[1674: Adult]], it turned out that [[Cueball]] was not yet ready to go shopping by himself, even though he was an "adult" and ended up dying of over-consumption of {{w|AirHeads}}, very similar to the frosting in this comic's title text.
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| − | Eating frosting out of the can was also referenced in the title text of [[1793: Soda Sugar Comparisons]].
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| | ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
| − | :[A hand-drawn graph is shown.]
| + | [Hand-drawn Graph is shown, on the Y axis, My Overall Health, on the X axis, Time. Graph is generally steady through 3/4 of the X axis, where it begins a steady decline, with a label 'The Day I Realized I Could Cook Bacon Whenever I Wanted.' |
| − | :[On the y-axis:]
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| − | :My overall health
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| − | :[On the x-axis:]
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| − | :Time
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| − | :[The graph is generally steady rising through 3/4 of the x-axis, where it begins a steady decline. A stapled line marks the start of this decline. Below where the line crosses the x-axis, this decline is labeled:]
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| − | :The day I realized I could cook bacon ''whenever I wanted''.
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| | {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
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