Not really, since “dinner” here in the US refers to the main meal of the day, normally eaten in the evening (or midday in some parts of the US, see below). If mac and cheese is all you’re having for your main meal, that’s a pretty meager “dinner”. Here it’s often more of a side dish than a whole meal.
Funny thing, my dad is from the Midwestern US and my mom is from the Eastern US, so they used to good-naturedly argue a bit over whether “dinner” included lunch time or if it only meant supper time since the meaning was different where they grew up.
David
Most of my dinners are Kraft Mac and Cheese and nothing else. Well, not most. I’m not so young anymore. Probably only half.
I forget other people weren’t there for the moment when I was in Seattle and I noticed the end-cap of the politically correct “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner” right below a giant banner for Marlboro. It was one of the single best moments of my irony-loving life.
Znayx
A little note about that, HiEv. 1. Literally, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is in fact commonly (colloquially?) referred to as Kraft Dinner up here. Like, for us, that’s its name. He wasn’t trying to say that it belongs to any specific meal of the day. 2. Dinner is the same meal up here as it is down there. He is in fact not confused about the definition of dinner. There was nothing to correct him about. He was just referring to what we commonly call the food in question.
Lastly, referring to your comment: “If mac and cheese is all you’re having for your main meal, that’s a pretty meager “dinner”.” Well, understandably, as you said, it’s more of a side dish, however, nobody is obligated to eat it like that. Several boxed pastas that are no more substantial than Mac and Cheese are eaten regularly as full meals, particularly frozen pasta meals. BUT, I would like to clarify something: I eat platefuls of Kraft Dinner (as we call it) for dinner very often. I enjoy it and it fills me up. It don’t feel like I’m missing out on much nutritional value; I’ve never felt guilty about it. And seriously, my Kraft Dinner meals are real platefuls. There’s practically no other space left on my plate.
One final note: I don’t call dinner by that name. I use the term “supper”. I was just saying dinner for the comfort of you people who don’t say “supper”.
NO! This is where the universes start to show similarities: Ruth won’t kill herself, she’ll drink herself to death. She might ACCIDENTALLY fall down the trash chute in a drunken stupor, but I still hold to the theory that she’ll spiral into alcoholism and then die in a car accident.
Was that facepalm a “WTF are you thinking” or “SHIT I can’t believe he guessed it” one?
Aydr
Both.
Yotomoe
Naw, his face is just a palm now and he wanted to share his condition with us.
Count Dracula
I think the facepalm is “God what an idiot everyone knows Ruth can only be killed by drunk driving!” And unless someone downs a bottle of grappa and jump their sedan off a ramp through Ruth’s window, there’s no way a drunk driving accident could happen from within her room.
Yotomoe
Turns out she has a race car bed and crashed it.
Regalli
RAs get racecar beds? Why don’t they advertise that fact? I’m sure there’d be a lot more volunteers if it meant they’d get one of those.
Yeah, we’re getting back to Ruth and Billie quicker than I thought. Which can only mean one thing. I need to drink a lot of lime juice for my bi-weekly DAMN YOU WILLIS!
…man, I’m depressing myself here. I’d certainly hope she didn’t kill herself, her storyline was depressing enough in Roomies…
Skull025
Heh. Red head on fire, in bed. Anyways, she wouldn’t be warming up to Billie in that way, unless of course she lit herself on fire and Billie roasted some marshmallows.
Nah, Billie wouldn’t do that. Roasting marshmallows is less fun than grabbing a pail of kerosene.
Count Dracula
I think that’s enough self-immolation jokes for now. We’ll get back to you if the need arises for more. Thank you, and have a good day.
Skull025
You okay Dracula? You look a little. . . Pale. Do you need some sun?
Count Dracula
I did say self-immolation, so I suppose jokes about burning ME alive are fair game. Well played.
Wait I mean you didn’t joke about burning me alive at all sunlight doesn’t do that I’mNotAVampire okay geez.
Josh
Don’t worry, you don’t need to be one of those closet vampires, we’re very accepting these days!
Nah. Still WAY to early for that. Willis hasn’t made us care about her enough yet. He has a Wheadon-esque talent for waiting until the audience loves a character before killing them. ^_~
156 thoughts on “Warming”
Jen Aside
DAT MAC & CHEESE
Jen Aside
[starting to think Walky and Dorothy just changed wardrobes]
NCP19
Fits her remarkably well if so (better than that whole “Joe is clearly wearing Dina’s shirt post-orgy” thing)
Plasma Mongoose
Well the difference in size is a lot less pronounced with Walky/Dotty than it is with Dina/Joe.
Hawkwing
the shirt was obviously one-size-fits-all.
beeftony
It’s the shirt he got for her when she said he could pick anything for her to wear.
Groove
Quite right
Jen Aside
I dunno, it looks like they just traded–saves money!
Kemp
No, he bought that shirt for her.
Tucker
Lol at the US. It’s just called Kraft Dinner up here.
HiEv
Not really, since “dinner” here in the US refers to the main meal of the day, normally eaten in the evening (or midday in some parts of the US, see below). If mac and cheese is all you’re having for your main meal, that’s a pretty meager “dinner”. Here it’s often more of a side dish than a whole meal.
Funny thing, my dad is from the Midwestern US and my mom is from the Eastern US, so they used to good-naturedly argue a bit over whether “dinner” included lunch time or if it only meant supper time since the meaning was different where they grew up.
David
Most of my dinners are Kraft Mac and Cheese and nothing else. Well, not most. I’m not so young anymore. Probably only half.
Tucker
I forget other people weren’t there for the moment when I was in Seattle and I noticed the end-cap of the politically correct “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner” right below a giant banner for Marlboro. It was one of the single best moments of my irony-loving life.
Znayx
A little note about that, HiEv. 1. Literally, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is in fact commonly (colloquially?) referred to as Kraft Dinner up here. Like, for us, that’s its name. He wasn’t trying to say that it belongs to any specific meal of the day. 2. Dinner is the same meal up here as it is down there. He is in fact not confused about the definition of dinner. There was nothing to correct him about. He was just referring to what we commonly call the food in question.
Lastly, referring to your comment: “If mac and cheese is all you’re having for your main meal, that’s a pretty meager “dinner”.” Well, understandably, as you said, it’s more of a side dish, however, nobody is obligated to eat it like that. Several boxed pastas that are no more substantial than Mac and Cheese are eaten regularly as full meals, particularly frozen pasta meals. BUT, I would like to clarify something: I eat platefuls of Kraft Dinner (as we call it) for dinner very often. I enjoy it and it fills me up. It don’t feel like I’m missing out on much nutritional value; I’ve never felt guilty about it. And seriously, my Kraft Dinner meals are real platefuls. There’s practically no other space left on my plate.
One final note: I don’t call dinner by that name. I use the term “supper”. I was just saying dinner for the comfort of you people who don’t say “supper”.
Heavensrun
Ha ha! You have a different name for something! I shall laugh patronizingly at your culture!
teasugarsalt
Aw, anyone eating Kraft for dinner has enough reason to be grumpy.
Kenny
Ooooooooooo
Skull025
ooooooooOOOOOOOOH SNAP!
LS
She killed herself.
Calling it.
Yotomoe
You’re a macabre man. Man, you’re macabre.
Wonder Wig
I thought you were calling him macrame, and that he was selling darling home-knitted textiles from his etsy store.
Led
Well, what do you think is clogging the trash chute?
Macabre +2
Dean
Yes, Ruth obviously flung herself down the trash chute in despair afrer being rejected by Billie.
SeanNOLA
NO! This is where the universes start to show similarities: Ruth won’t kill herself, she’ll drink herself to death. She might ACCIDENTALLY fall down the trash chute in a drunken stupor, but I still hold to the theory that she’ll spiral into alcoholism and then die in a car accident.
David
*facepalm*
Plasma Mongoose
Was that facepalm a “WTF are you thinking” or “SHIT I can’t believe he guessed it” one?
Aydr
Both.
Yotomoe
Naw, his face is just a palm now and he wanted to share his condition with us.
Count Dracula
I think the facepalm is “God what an idiot everyone knows Ruth can only be killed by drunk driving!” And unless someone downs a bottle of grappa and jump their sedan off a ramp through Ruth’s window, there’s no way a drunk driving accident could happen from within her room.
Yotomoe
Turns out she has a race car bed and crashed it.
Regalli
RAs get racecar beds? Why don’t they advertise that fact? I’m sure there’d be a lot more volunteers if it meant they’d get one of those.
Plasma Mongoose
Racecar beds? If you really REALLY want to attact the right kind of RA, you need a Millennium Falcon bed.
lauren
but it’s a SWEET car bed!
phlebas
Or a “this character was last seen in despair, may have killed herself and your response is ‘Calling it'”?
Thor
As long as you *facepalm* with no regrets.
Regalli
And integrity.
G.G.
Link us an example of a facepalm with no regrets and integrity. I need an example.
Andrusi
faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacepalm?
NCP19
…well, that’d be a major downer for everyone (though I suppose we haven’t seen Friday’s strip yet…)
Skull025
Yeah, we’re getting back to Ruth and Billie quicker than I thought. Which can only mean one thing. I need to drink a lot of lime juice for my bi-weekly DAMN YOU WILLIS!
phlebas
Putting the ‘bi’ into ‘bi-weekly’?
Skull025
Always.
Skull025
That would be the direct opposite of “warming up” to Billie.
Aydr
Unless she lit herself on fire?
…man, I’m depressing myself here. I’d certainly hope she didn’t kill herself, her storyline was depressing enough in Roomies…
Skull025
Heh. Red head on fire, in bed. Anyways, she wouldn’t be warming up to Billie in that way, unless of course she lit herself on fire and Billie roasted some marshmallows.
Nah, Billie wouldn’t do that. Roasting marshmallows is less fun than grabbing a pail of kerosene.
Count Dracula
I think that’s enough self-immolation jokes for now. We’ll get back to you if the need arises for more. Thank you, and have a good day.
Skull025
You okay Dracula? You look a little. . . Pale. Do you need some sun?
Count Dracula
I did say self-immolation, so I suppose jokes about burning ME alive are fair game. Well played.
Wait I mean you didn’t joke about burning me alive at all sunlight doesn’t do that I’mNotAVampire okay geez.
Josh
Don’t worry, you don’t need to be one of those closet vampires, we’re very accepting these days!
ItsaMe
Seconded.
Somebody
Don’t even joke like that. 🙁
That Damn Rat
Hasn’t been anywhere enough build up for that. I’m sure she’s just sobbing into her pillow and feeling sorry for herself.
anickel4u
Who pull the drama tag?
G.G.
Cause that would be satisfying (sarcasm)
Heavensrun
She killed the radio star.
Calling it.
xKiv
She killed the hermit (wrong site?)
Doom Shepherd
A jokester is you!
Taigan
Nah. Still WAY to early for that. Willis hasn’t made us care about her enough yet. He has a Wheadon-esque talent for waiting until the audience loves a character before killing them. ^_~
David Herbert
Ruth wants something nice and warm. A cuddle.
Yotomoe
Well I’m sure Billie DOES look extra cuddly.
Count Dracula
I can think of a few other things that are nice and warm.
Like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner.
Skull025
She wants Billie’s FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
Kam
betwixt her nethers.
Vert
I… CAN’T know that.
ridtom
I think Billie by far has the best expressions.
NCP19
Seconded
Pinja
Thirded
G.G.
The random avatars you got whilst mentioning expressions is pretty negative. Ha ha
Kernanator
So warm, she’s starting to sweat!
Yotomoe
You may even say she’s HOT for me.
Plasma Mongoose
They can share a peppermint to warm their tongues.
G.G.