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CADBURY CREME EGG CEREAL
regrets imminent
Robin shouldn’t be allowed to do the food shopping for this home.
Actually, let’s just figure out what Robin should be allowed to do.
I feel like when she was sitting on Leslie’s couch and watching Steven Universe, she’d really found her niche.
Maybe someone will pay her for that.
At some point, maybe Becky will introduce her to vlogging.
Robin finds a new passion, leaves Congress to become a full-time Twitch streamer
Not gonna lie, I would subscribe.
well her antics are a hell of a lot funnier when she’s not an elected member of congress
If she goes back to doing it pantsless, yeah, a lot of people would pay for that.
She can probably be trusted to put her own pants on, in a controlled setting. Most of the time.
Some things never change.
Wouldn’t it be Screme egg cereal, since it’s October?
Are Creme Eggs available year round now? I thought they were an Easter thing. If so, those are gonna be kinda stale.
It isn’t cereal. It’s wrapped creme eggs. It’s candy. And I hope Becky doesn’t have a blood sugar problem.
… That is correct.
Cadbury Screme Egg Cereal is the Halloween version, made with Cadbury Screme Egg candies instead of the regular kind.
It also exists in a chocolate block form.
https://www.bigw.com.au/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-creme-egg-block-180g/p/818969/
Oh dear. I did not need to know that.
If you didn’t need to know that, you certainly don’t need to know that You ycan also buy multi-pound bags of cereal marshmallows. No cereal, just the marshmallow pieces one would pick out as a kid.
Also, cookie form, but they’re wretched…I think the cream is runnier.
… huh.
Apparently Robin’s liking for cadbury egg cereal is a constant across all universes.
Nothing Good can come of this
Are you kidding? In another universe, she solved world peace while out of her gourd on Cadbury Creme Egg cereal.
I mean in fairness she kinda did break poor Leslie’s heart in the process, and world peace collapsed soon after, but yeah. She did do that.
Mixed Blessings can come of this.
“Even better!”
cadbury creme egg cereal sounds like something id conjure up in a surreal nightmare
….. a “cereal” nightmare if you will
……I will not.
you gotta
Are you trying to kill our enjoyment of breakfast treats?
You cereal killer
just for that im gonna eat creme egg cereal with a hockey mask on and exactly none of it is gonna get in my mouth im just gonna be staring menacingly while lobbing milk-covered chocolate egg goodness at my face its gonna be great
*smack*
No. None of that. Shame on you.
If you had several of these, it would be a cereal (serial) cereal (sureal) cereal dream.
Because I’m Batman.
Unwrap? You mean you bother to unwrap them before you inhale?
My toddler has not yet worked out that this is necessary. She gets very cross with me when I fish the foil out of her mouth and will only let her eat the chocolate… She’s 17.5 months, and a BIG fan of putting everything she can find in her mouth. Or my hair. Sometimes both.
To be fair your hair does fall under everything she can find. But yeah kids at that age are very “Does this fit in my mouth?” focused.
That too but I meant she likes putting things in my hair too. The other night she was insisting on combing it with the fork she’d been eating pizza with, in between rubbing her fingers on the plate then rubbing my braid… I have no idea why she decided I needed my hair to smell like pizza but eh…
Ah, I dunno. Guess she thinks your hair is pretty.
This is up there with that time I had a bowl of Skittles and Mountain Dew with a spoon.
College was an experimental time.
Gotta be honest, that sounds pretty tasty.
I once drank a mug of chocolate syrup as a kid. It was not fun.
Even as a child I could only do a few teaspoons at a time of chocolate. What in [unintelligible black rune]’s name prodded you to drink an entire mug?
Why didn’t you just… stop?
I ask myself this about most things I did as a kid. The real answer is that kids are weird.
I didn’t start feeling pain until after I had drank it all. I drank it all like water.
You might be the scariest poster on this website.
In my early teens, I’d routinely eat a half-gallon carton of ice cream in one sitting.
As I type this, 35 years later, at 11PM, I have a half-pound of fudge next to me, and I wonder whether I’ll eat it all in the next hour.
(I do this rarely enough that, somehow, my weight has stayed within 5 pounds for the past 5 years. But I do still do it. Also, a quart of Ben and Jerry’s once or twice a year.)
I used to mash up Double Stuf Oreos in milk, which made grainy chocolate milk with a chocolate-crumb-and-icing slurry at the bottom. It was good, but I topped doing that shortly after discovering cookies and creme Quik.
Skittles and Dew just sounds like an unpleasant, one-way express ticket to Diabetesville to me. (Wilford Brimley’s the mayor.)
I have been known to take a swig from the chocolate sauce container, but never an entire mug. Now you have made me curious.
My teeth hurt just imagining that.
We did a thing where we dipped both M&Ms and Atomic Warheads in chocolate and let them dry. You had to pop one in your mouth without knowing what you got and not make a face as the chocolate dissolved.
Aren’t those entirely different in shape and size?
Not with enough chocolate they aren’t.
I once had an entire meal that was just cheerios dipped in nutella. I’ve made some choices.
You seem to have dropped the word ‘delicious’!
I’ll be taking that, thanks.
For me it was Cinnamon Toast Crunch and a can of Starbucks Doubleshot. Instead of milk.
Holy shit, that sounds incredible.
I once did a shot of maple syrup.
I once had an entire meal that was blue cheese wrapped in raw cabbage leaves. Which, apart from it being breakfast, probably has no place here, but whatcha gonna do about it?
I had the maple-bacon Sundae at Denny’s. Twice.
I have a friend that just drinks maple syrup. I’ve seen him down a full cup (the measuring kind) in one go.
He insists it’s no different than drinking a can of pop and I’m the weird one for calling him out on it.
Wow, looks like Becky and I have been around the same adults.
Oddly enough the cereals I find in the remainder grocers these days are weirder than Cadbury-Ohs. In fact, I bet Robin gets a royalty from the makers of CRAVE.
Hh
Poor Becky. She’s in a rough spot, adult wise.
Robin, fuck off.
Also Ownership is 9/10th of the law.
she doesn’t have superpowers anymore
how does she… live
She burns calories by breathing.
Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
You mean in this universe, unless there has been backstory that conflicts with the milieu of the strip to date.
i didn’t think it was necessary to specify, carol
Dang, that’s some heavy-duty kinda C-word you’re throwing around.
You can do it in real life too. Like chastise people for not clarifying they mean in this universe specifically.
Hm. I’ll have to try that.
I once had a co-worker who apparently had the metabolism of a hummingbird. He was this little slip of a guy who ate voraciously but never gained an ounce of weight until he turned 45.
So I can see the calories thing. The lack-of-nutrients thing is something else.
This is Walkyverse Robin, mid-Cadbury bender. She’s shaking so fast she phased into an alternate reality, but this is the middle of her blackout so she won’t remember when she settles back into Shortpacked.
“Robin of Two Worlds!”
ugh, now i want to eat shrimp
but i don’t have any shrimp
and im allergic to shrimp
Inject the shrimp into my blood stream. It’ll go well with the candy corn from the other night.
I want to have shrimp for breakfast tomorrow. Specifically, I want to have breakfast burritos with shrimp, eggs, black beans, bell peppers, and onions.
Alas and alack, I have neither shrimp nor tortillas on hand. This is unacceptable. I shall have to give my quartermaster a stern talking-to.
Stop making me hungry for food I can’t have.
I have to comment here. Last week I saw a story about an American astronaut who ate shrimp cocktail for every meal while in space, because the pressurized and weightless conditions made almost everything else pretty tasteless.
If you feel like ownership is fleeting, that’s all the more reason to do the most with it now. Just pee the bed. Then no one will want it back Or a the very least if they DO decide to take it back it’ll be inconvenient for them as well.
Dogs had it right. Pee on things and you own them. Most people don’t want something you’ve peed on.
Wolverines pee on leftover food so no one else eats it
No wonder Scott hates Logan.
He makes ONE joke about pissing in someone’s Cheerios…
Wow, hardcore; I just lick it.
Real talk: cuz if you do something gross it ruins it for you too (I have a strong sensory aversion to feeling wet and also to the smell of urine and have had it since literally before I was old enough to talk. I am talking on par to Joyce’s aversion to food touching here) and the adults might choose to destroy them to make a point anyway.
My folks are the kind of people who think those videos of parents destroying their children’s property for punishment and YouTube views is good parenting.
For the first time in my life, I have an actual guest bedroom with an actual guest bed.
I am so NOT taking your advice. Hopefully, the same is true of my as-yet hypothetical guests.
You could pee on the guests, if they take issue with the pee bed. With, y’know, their consent.
That’s a very… Robin solution.
I wouldn’t pea in the bed but if you do by accident just turn it over it may rot but you were going to lose it anyways, why wash the sheets your going to lose it anyways.
Well if there’s a pea in your bed the only one who’ll notice is a princess.
I don’t think she’s ready to take care of an adult child.
…Robin or Becky?
Yes.
This is why we need an upvote button in the comments.
I haven’t had a cadbury egg since I was like 4. I really ought to remedy that, huh?
Hey Becky’s parents took cues from my parents!
Which is why I don’t get attached to things. I never trust that they’re really mine. Even though I have been gone from under their thumbs for 10 years.
I’d say we don’t know if her mom did that, but I guess that, uhhhh… the thought completes itself.
With all we know about Becky’s father, and considering she loved her mother, it’d be my guess it wasn’t her mum taking stuff from her.
Agreed, I am just saying, Becky’s mom took Becky’s mom. I’m sure it wasn’t something she did lightly, but it’s difficult to not bring up in this situation.
I very often sleep on top of the covers. Assuming the bed has covers.
That sounds like an absolute nightmare, for a paranoid person.
How so?
Not that I can understand what it’s like for a paranoid person, but logically, sleeping on top of the covers means you have freedom of movement because you’re not going to be trapped under the covers.
Of course, I am the opposite of Yumi. The weight of blankets comforts me. If only I’d known about weighted blankets years ago, who knows what that might have done for my insomnia.
See, I’m pretty neurotic and have a severe aversion to feeling exposed. If I have no covers, I start to feel a sort of crawling sensation on the back of my neck, like someone’s hand is hovering just a couple of millimeters away. A weighted blanket sounds amazing.
I got a weighted blanket this spring and it improved my life so much.
They are a recent thing, or at least only relatively recently did they enter the marketing mainstream. If I didn’t already have all the blankets I need, I would definitely try one.
I have too many blankets. To the point where my blankets have actually replaced the function of pillows on my bed.
I have a problem 😐
But it is a completely warm and cozy problem.
The obvious solution is more pillows. There must be balance.
I do generally sleep with a blanket– though not always, which really bothers some people, but then, I tell them not to watch me sleep if it’s upsetting. But, like, if there’s a bed spread or a tip sheet on a bed? Yeah, I’m just laying on top of that. Miss me with that “unmake it and remake it every day” nonsense. You think I have my life together like that? Please.
The blanket generally doesn’t cover all of me, but that doesn’t bother me. I’ve retyped this sentence so many times trying to find a more comfortable way to say, “You’re always vulnerable while sleeping,” but
*top sheet
Technically speaking, a blanket isn’t gonna do much if someone tries to grab me in my sleep, that’s true. Sleeping with a knife is similarly impractical, but sometimes you can’t be sure the person you’re living with isn’t going to come at you in the night. The blanket is more of a mental comfort thing than a physical safety thing.
Nothing against you for maybe not needing all that, though. It honestly sounds liberating.
And a gun under the pillow tends to leave oil on the sheets.
Don’t ask me how I know.
God it must have been a terrible place where the fear of strangers can over ride the fear of a gun accidently going off because you turned the wrong way.
You need to wipe some of that oil off the gun after you clean it, or your action will get jammed with dust. Or just drown it in BreakFree, and wipe it down with lint-free wipes until it’s dry to the touch, that’s what we did with our M-16s back in the ’80s. You want fun, hand someone a mop and a 5 gallon pail of BreakFree and point them at a 155 and tell them to clean it.
Ah yes. The paradox of sleep: we need it, but it renders us totally vulnerable for several hours. But why do we need it? Sarah Hird has a hypothesis.
I used to feel that way, from being a mosquito magnet… Then I finally got proper bug screens on my windows, and the peace of mind from that has been wonderful. Now I only need a small part of me covered to get to sleep.
Now I just hope my fan is up to the task of making it cool enough to sleep this summer :/ I still do not handle heat well.
… weighted blankets do sound lovely, though.
“Adult”
Concerned. Very concerned.
Sadly, Becky is 100% right to worry about the conditionality of Robins gifts.
And she really doesn’t deserve a tenth of the shit she is given.
But I must say – being woken like that… yeah, Becky deserved that one. That’s all on her.
It’s kind of karmic. I wonder if Joyce will one day get her own… oh right, Joyce finds Lucy annoying.
I’m still giggling about this one
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/hnnnrrgh/
Hey, Joyce hasn’t been visiting Billie, has she?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/production/
“she really doesn’t deserve”
Are you talking about Robin not deserving the things she has? Or saying Becky doesn’t deserve what she’s getting for doing unprofessional campaigning? Which she do you refer to here?
Becky, just in the general sense. Becky doesn’t deserve all the misfortune she has been handed, but she does deserve to be woken up by an unreasonable perky person hovering over her.
Yeah, it’s one thing for somebody to say “It’s yours now.” It’s another for them to give you a property deed – or at least a lease!
Knowing Robin I would be surprises if SHE knows who holds the property deed.
Becky should start questioning if Robin can actually afford what she promised since politicians lying about their taxes is something pretty common. Just ask Individual-1 and you will get a tantrum on twitter.
That individual, along with about 2000 others, is part of a very inclusive “Blocked and Reported for Hate Speech” club in my settings.
Ooh, Borderland 2 flashbacks.
“[Referencing crumpets] That’s all you eat? Ever? You should literally be dead.”
“Naw, I’m gonna live forever!”
Tina’s one of the better NPCs. Too bad about her VA.
why does she have cadbury eggs in october?
Cadbury Scream Eggs, dude.
You know you can just order those on the internet any time you want, right?
Robin’s on a monthly subscription service
I hope Robin wins and Becky gets job after job running political campaigns to make politicians better at working for their people so her dad can go shove it.
The Cadbury has appeared! Prepare for the time jump!
That is a dangerous weapon Robin is holding.
In a world as transitory as ours, it is sort of nice to know that Robin can’t change. She’s still the early-teen girl in an adult’s body that we knew in the Walkyverse!
Well, that’s one thing that won’t change 🙂
god i hope they eat that and it’s set up exactly like it was in shortpacked except instead of a time jump it smash cuts to just like, ten minutes later and they’re both completely sick to their stomachs
Why can’t I hit +1!?
Because the +1 key is camoflaged on modern computers.
While Willis would never do it, I can totally see Toedad breaking into Becky’s home and then Robin shooting him because she’s insane enough to believe Republicans should actually carry firearms everywhere.
…
I’d be remarkably okay with that.
Becky: *traumatized look*
Reminds me of when I discovered the true meaning of Easter this year: discount Cadbury chocolate covered marshmallow eggs.
Right after Easter I buy about ten pounds of discount chocolate.
Robin’s wakey-wakey is nowhere near the cuteness level of Joyce, but can’t blame her for trying.
My teeth would be screaming in terror if those were in the cereal bowl.
I’d be screaming in terror if my teeth were in the cereal bowl, too.
I was kind of wondering of Robin’s bowl of cream eggs would ever show up in this comic, preposterous as that might sound.
I predict that by next Easter Cadbury Cream Egg cereal will be an actual thing.
So how many of those things do you think Robin has already eaten this morning?
What is “peel-and-eat shrimp”?
Shrimp are crustaceans and you have to peel off their exoskeleton to get to their meat, like with crabs and lobsters. Usually most of this is done before they’re served in restaurants, but not always, and any shrimp you cook yourself is going to be “peel and eat” unless you want to eat the shell. Which you can, it’s not very hard. Some people just eat them whole. I do not understand this.
So… just prawns that are cooked and not shelled. Huh. Why not just ‘unshelled prawns’?
Lazy manufacturers with clever marketing teams.
Peel ‘n eat shrimp are usually served cold, with cocktail sauce. Cocktail sauce isn’t what it sounds like, though. It’s a tomatoey thing with horseradish, for dipping.
This is in contrast to prawn dishes which are meant to be served hot.
Yes. Prawn sauce. Salad cream, paprika and tobacco.
So it’s cold boiled pawns.
* prawns.
Wakey wakey, Cadbury eggs and chocolate bakey!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dark-Chocolate-Covered-Bacon-Strips/359665879?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=7617&adid=22222222227269349766&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=320895776763&wl4=aud-481850994936:pla-789223149072&wl5=9026811&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117446513&wl11=online&wl12=359665879&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzunmBRDsARIsAGrt4muG0kMtDQmhjCJ9TZyo5KYYyjdSwaGBiJ_QqmTr86WEyJXksGRbtn4aAvAKEALw_wcB
From your neighborhood Wal Mart. Enjoy your nightmare.
Becky’s right and this one really resonates with me. I’m 28 and still getting fucked around by housemates. I’ve been homeless since Friday because my roommate was able to bully me out on the streets because I’m underdocumented. I don’t know why stuff like this keeps happening to me since past decade.
Oh, man, that’s awful.
My sympathies go out to you. I hope your situation improves.
So, non-super-powered Robin is still a sugar addict. That’s… not even remotely surprising.
Wakey-wakey
Cadbury-creme eggs and… no bakey
Cadbury crème eggs for breakfast?
Is Robin related to Rayne from “Least I Could Do”?
It’s a call-back to Willis’s previous story continuum, the Walkyverse. In that, Robin ate bowls of Creme Eggs in milk when she needed sugar-boosts. She’d black out and, whilst she was out, she’d have achieved some impossible prodigy of intellect like winning a congressional seat or somehow making cancer illegal.
Last time she solved world peace.
And cheated on Leslie.
On camera, iirc.
Yay, finally! The Vote for Robin storyline… hopefully, with a lot of Robin content 🙂
And seriously… vote for Robin! :))
Floofy Becky is a blessed image
Floofy hair on all the girls.
ouch, panel 4 is relatable :C
In October?
Cadbury has Scream Eggs during Halloween now. The different candy makers are trying to get their candy normally associated with a single season into others by making slight changes. Like the horrible people who make Peeps have Ghost versions of their sugar-encrusted marshmallow heart bombs around Halloween, and Candy Corn has been trying to infiltrate Christmas.
It’s not peel-&-eat, but if you ever wake up and find yourself in Williamsburg VA, treat yourself to shrimp-&-grits for breakfast at a place called HoneyButters.
Best I’ve had anywhere — you eat it and it goes to a place in your brain right next door to sex.
Dark mood
Panel 4 is too damn real.
Breakfast of champions.
Wow, this woman is a dumpster fire on so many levels.
I like this transition; the last strip was almost too cartoonishly evil for me to really process. I mean, this situation is also silly in its own way, but I have more real feelings about it…
Yeah for Cadbury unwrap and eat breakfast!
The implications of the last strips made me forget Becky working for Robin’s campaign was a thing. Becky’s dad being let out is setting things on a collusion course, only unlike last time Becky is now part of Robin’s campaign which means round two of his malicious intent is going to go even worse then the last time and one can assume be a lot more public. The only non train wreck outcome I can see is him maybe assuming she changed her “outlook” by joining Robin’s campaign and stands down…but that is a reach given what we’ve seen.
*collision
(NO COLLUSION)
Well, Blaine is helping Carol and her church get Ross out of prison, so arguably their collective involvement could be called a collusion course.
Yay Robin!