Forget trying to get Joyce to curse, as this strip proves other than the elusive F-Bomb she’s actually gotten pretty laid back about the whole thing.
Someone needs to offer her $20 to try a Wasabi Pea. It’s a pea (strike 1), it’s got stuff on it (strike 2), and it will probably make her cry (yer out!).
…Maybe $50 and a rare piece of D&MM merch would get her to do it.
“laid back” might be going a tiny bit far. I guarantee you she is simultaneously internally screaming and internally partying as she says her big line in panel 3.
Seriously Joyce. Congratulations, and you’re doing well “demonstrating the versatility of the word,” but a little variety of other roots isn’t innapropriate either.
I actually read it the other way around, where she’s not as cool with her lost faith and her new behaviors and all as she claims and is overdoing them in attempts to both prove to herself she is and to seem cooler to Liz.
Maybe – but the wasabi peas I’ve had were anything but squooshy. That just might pass the Joyce Test. At least until she got past the crunchy and went from “Hey, this isn’t bad” to “HELP!”
Ockham’s tweezers: the explanation with the least amount of eyebrows is the most likely to be correct.
Clif
Well the alternative is that one of the eyebrows is invisible part of the time, but they occasionally switch up, which implies Liz’s eyebrows are advanced enough to have cloaking technology. Which explanation sounds more likely to you?
milu
No need for such silly nonsense. I’m sure Liz has a single eyebrow reaching around her head like a normal person.
seriously I don’t even like eating at tables where someone else has recently eaten them, just on the off chance that one is on the chair or floor and I’ll get it on my clothes or shoes and it’ll NEVER BE GONE
So between the two of you, I can have all the pea soup? Because pea soup is yummy.
King Daniel
I, too, volunteer for this noble sacrifice of consuming pea soup.
Cholma
Me three! My mom used to make it every year with the leftover meat on the bone from the Christmas ham. Yum! (don’t know she made it the rest of the year; I just remember the bone simmering away in the pot as she cooked it down) I like to add a bunch of crackers to the soup, ’til it becomes a green paste. 🙂
same. growing up, my parents always thought it was “funny” how I’d leave a pile of peas on the side of my plate no matter how thoroughly they’d been mixed in with dinner.
Me, I was just annoyed that they kept trying to get me to eat something I knew I hated.
I always hated peas because to me they taste bitter. Everybody else tells me I’m wrong and they’re not bitter at all, but that’s the way they taste to me. As an adult I discovered that mixed vegetables containing peas are marginally edible if you dose them with a liberal amount of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning. Though honestly, that may just be the result of the tastebuds being overpowered and temporarily burning out.
My mother told me tales of her father hating peas and fishing them out, one by one, when her mother mixed them into the food. I’d bet on the ability to taste the bitterness being some kind of recessive gene thing, but who knows.
eh, whatever
You’re right. The taste of peas is disgusting. Not sure if I’d say bitter, but I can’t stand it.
Geneseepaws
See, that’s the thing. Different things taste different to different people. Senior class Bio, and you have people going around asking people to taste a piece of paper. Half would say, “Ugh, crap! This tastes like shit,” the other half would say, “Meh, tastes like paper. Why’re you doing this, again?” It was supposed to be some genetic test. But it always tasted like paper to me.
jonathan young
the same piece of paper? that doesn’t seem sanitary.
Clif
It’s okay.. They washed the paper and sprayed it with Lysol between each test.
Needfuldoer
Does cilantro taste like soap to you? That test is definitely a thing, last time I tried it tasted extremely bitter.
I also can’t stand raw celery. It tastes like a mouthful of ground black pepper. If it’s chopped up and cooked into something else it’s fine, but raw (even with peanut butter or ranch dressing)? No thank you.
*classic cartoon characters from Thirties* Peas Porridge hot! Peas Porridge cold!
Peas Porridge in the pot
Nine days old!
“Nine days old?” “P.U.” “Get that stuff away from me, bub!”
Joyce: I’m gonna show off for a Cool Friend TM! I’m gonna be a rebel! I can CURSE!
Also Joyce: But I will not eat foods that do not meet my deeply-anxious sensory-based Food Standards. I would sooner starve. This is not hyperbole, I will actually be hungry and have food staring right at me and not be able to work up the nerve to eat it because it is not a Safe Food.
I’m surprised to see Joyce go straight into saying “shit” every other word, I’d have taken her for more of a “double dumbass on you” or a “they are not the hell your whales” (although that second one is more of a specific case that probably isn’t very applicable in Indiana.
146 thoughts on “Experience”
Ana Chronistic
well don’t eat the PEAS if you’re in a pod, that’d be like CANNIBALISM and YOU GO TO FAR
Rose by Any Other Name
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… I think you mean YOU GO TOO FAR…
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… sorry, not sorry.
Clif
Actually, it’s spelled Pharr
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharr,_Texas
Doctor_Who
Forget trying to get Joyce to curse, as this strip proves other than the elusive F-Bomb she’s actually gotten pretty laid back about the whole thing.
Someone needs to offer her $20 to try a Wasabi Pea. It’s a pea (strike 1), it’s got stuff on it (strike 2), and it will probably make her cry (yer out!).
…Maybe $50 and a rare piece of D&MM merch would get her to do it.
Mturtle7
“laid back” might be going a tiny bit far. I guarantee you she is simultaneously internally screaming and internally partying as she says her big line in panel 3.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Seriously Joyce. Congratulations, and you’re doing well “demonstrating the versatility of the word,” but a little variety of other roots isn’t innapropriate either.
Kidding. You’re great primate!
Clif
To me, it sounds like some kind of dance craze.
They did the Shit. They did the shitting Shit…
Decidedly Orthogonal
It was a bathroom bit,
When on the fan it hit!
Andy
I actually read it the other way around, where she’s not as cool with her lost faith and her new behaviors and all as she claims and is overdoing them in attempts to both prove to herself she is and to seem cooler to Liz.
Daibhid C
Yup.
Fist_of_Life
Twas my take as well.
Fnord
Maybe – but the wasabi peas I’ve had were anything but squooshy. That just might pass the Joyce Test. At least until she got past the crunchy and went from “Hey, this isn’t bad” to “HELP!”
Clif
How odd. You have an avatar but no name.
butts
surprised this one isn’t titled “anyshittingthing”
a/snow/mous/e
willis doesn’t like to spoil the punchline
i know it’s not at the end but for me the fact that joyce is swearing but the only swear word she’ll say is “shit” is the real punchline
Clif
Dumbing of Age Book 12: I’m Shitting Ready to Do the Shitting Shit.
Tan
Dumbing of Age Book 12: I Could Deal With Experiencing a Smidge Less
Decidedly Orthogonal
Dumbing of Age Book 12: They’re Squooshy.
Thag Simmons
That’s a confirmed sighting of both eyebrows at the same time.
Clif
I tell you, it’s the same eyebrow leaping from side to side so fast it produces the illusion there are two eyebrows.
Actually, it’s aim is a little off, as you can see from the fact that the two supposed eyebrows don’t line up.
milu
Ockham’s tweezers: the explanation with the least amount of eyebrows is the most likely to be correct.
Clif
Well the alternative is that one of the eyebrows is invisible part of the time, but they occasionally switch up, which implies Liz’s eyebrows are advanced enough to have cloaking technology. Which explanation sounds more likely to you?
milu
No need for such silly nonsense. I’m sure Liz has a single eyebrow reaching around her head like a normal person.
Needfuldoer
Liz’s eyebrow is under the Olsen Twin Effect?
RassilonTDavros
…finally, someone who hates peas as much as I do.
seriously I don’t even like eating at tables where someone else has recently eaten them, just on the off chance that one is on the chair or floor and I’ll get it on my clothes or shoes and it’ll NEVER BE GONE
BBCC
More for me! I’ll eat them if you eat whatever soup or stew’s around.
Unless there’s peas in the soup/stew, in which case you’re on your own.
Doctor_Who
So between the two of you, I can have all the pea soup? Because pea soup is yummy.
King Daniel
I, too, volunteer for this noble sacrifice of consuming pea soup.
Cholma
Me three! My mom used to make it every year with the leftover meat on the bone from the Christmas ham. Yum! (don’t know she made it the rest of the year; I just remember the bone simmering away in the pot as she cooked it down) I like to add a bunch of crackers to the soup, ’til it becomes a green paste. 🙂
He Who Abides
I’ll split those peas with you, BBCC.
Deanatay
Joyce loves split-pea soup! It’s tasty!
Just don’t tell her there are peas in it.
Mollyscribbles
same. growing up, my parents always thought it was “funny” how I’d leave a pile of peas on the side of my plate no matter how thoroughly they’d been mixed in with dinner.
Me, I was just annoyed that they kept trying to get me to eat something I knew I hated.
Yotomoe
Peas are like tiny mini potatoes with extra juice.
How I hate them.
Clif
I always hated peas because to me they taste bitter. Everybody else tells me I’m wrong and they’re not bitter at all, but that’s the way they taste to me. As an adult I discovered that mixed vegetables containing peas are marginally edible if you dose them with a liberal amount of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning. Though honestly, that may just be the result of the tastebuds being overpowered and temporarily burning out.
My mother told me tales of her father hating peas and fishing them out, one by one, when her mother mixed them into the food. I’d bet on the ability to taste the bitterness being some kind of recessive gene thing, but who knows.
eh, whatever
You’re right. The taste of peas is disgusting. Not sure if I’d say bitter, but I can’t stand it.
Geneseepaws
See, that’s the thing. Different things taste different to different people. Senior class Bio, and you have people going around asking people to taste a piece of paper. Half would say, “Ugh, crap! This tastes like shit,” the other half would say, “Meh, tastes like paper. Why’re you doing this, again?” It was supposed to be some genetic test. But it always tasted like paper to me.
jonathan young
the same piece of paper? that doesn’t seem sanitary.
Clif
It’s okay.. They washed the paper and sprayed it with Lysol between each test.
Needfuldoer
Does cilantro taste like soap to you? That test is definitely a thing, last time I tried it tasted extremely bitter.
I also can’t stand raw celery. It tastes like a mouthful of ground black pepper. If it’s chopped up and cooked into something else it’s fine, but raw (even with peanut butter or ranch dressing)? No thank you.
Thag Simmons
Peas are fine. Not my favourite but they’re edible
Roborat
Fresh or frozen peas are ok. Canned peas should die in a fire, then the ashes should also be burned.
Keulen
I’ve never liked the taste and texture of peas. Or most vegetables for that matter.
BBCC
Damn right, Joyce! You keep your persnicketiness about food! You’re RIGHT and you SHOULD say it.
Giguioto
I’m sure this can only end well
Eolirin
Welp, this is going to end badly.
Cholma
You and Giguioto should now have to fight it out!
Clif
Due to the miracle of the English language, they are actually expressing the same idea.
But why should that stop them from fighting?
TrueVCU
S Q U O O S H Y
darkoneko
S Q U O O S H Y
EpochFlame
well, shit
Clif
SQUOOSHY is the new SHINEY.
SHIT is the same old shirt.
Clif
Damn you, autocorrect.
milu
Welcome to the Good Place!
Stephen Bierce
*classic cartoon characters from Thirties*
Peas Porridge hot! Peas Porridge cold!
Peas Porridge in the pot
Nine days old!
“Nine days old?” “P.U.” “Get that stuff away from me, bub!”
milu
Stephen!!! can the P.A. system be blasting Pass the Peas
please
Deanatay
*pedant warning ahead*
It’s actually pease porridge, although it IS still made of peas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_pudding
ADLegend21
Not the red background for the sqooshy lmaooo
Regalli
Joyce: I’m gonna show off for a Cool Friend TM! I’m gonna be a rebel! I can CURSE!
Also Joyce: But I will not eat foods that do not meet my deeply-anxious sensory-based Food Standards. I would sooner starve. This is not hyperbole, I will actually be hungry and have food staring right at me and not be able to work up the nerve to eat it because it is not a Safe Food.
Big mood, Joyce, big mood.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . .How does Joyce feel about Mushrooms?
Squishy, they’ll squirt juice into your mouth when you’re not expecting it, all around awful and worse then Peas even.
brionl
If mushrooms are squirting juice in your mouth, there’s something wrong with them.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
Then I must have extremely poor luck. *Every* Mushroom I have ever had has done this to me.
He Who Abides
I’ve never had that problem, because I don’t eat mushrooms. They’re kinda gross.
Clif
The trick with mushrooms is to fry them in butter. That way, if they squirt into your mouth, at least it tastes like butter.
eh, whatever
The mushrooms you’ve eaten simply weren’t done. Cooked mushrooms aren’t even elastic.
And how can fine slices squirt juice…?
Thag Simmons
I can’t imagine her ever eating one
Bagge
It’s a date!
StClair
RED PANEL
ValdVIn
I didn’t know that squooshy peas rose to the level of Red Panel status, but here we are.
BlackScarabFilmZ
I’m surprised to see Joyce go straight into saying “shit” every other word, I’d have taken her for more of a “double dumbass on you” or a “they are not the hell your whales” (although that second one is more of a specific case that probably isn’t very applicable in Indiana.
milu