The Bare Essentials
beans, beans, good for your heart
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Alas, good intentions don’t take the place of regular meals.
it's hard to recognise when you're not the best placed person to help. offering her less than enough might prevent her from finding something better, yknow? she could offer to be a reference!
These two. These two make me happy. 💚
I saddens me that Beans and Rice is both the most traditional food of my country, Brasil, and a staple of poverty in the US....
It's still "down home cookin" in the southern US where Faye is from - to her it's comfort food. Flavored with ham or (my favorite) hot sausage it becomes a real treat. Poverty foods tend to become delicacies a generation or two later. Clams from our Pacific Northwest, lobster from New England, barbequed "junk meat" like brisket and ribs, they're all foods served at celebrations now. Cassoulet was peasant food in France that you now find in swanky restaurants.
Unless Faye is also drinking some citrus with those beans, she could still develop scurvy!
And beriberi if she sticks to white rice. Almost destroyed the Japanese military in the 1800's
This I'm sure will be consistent. I mean if there's one thing we can always trust QC for, it's realistic depictions of economics and requiring actual solutions to problems.
Being in a relationship with a robot can be handy I guess. When Faye starts stinking up the bedroom with bean farts, Bubbles can just switch off her olfactory senses
Mind you, knowing how AIs react to the smell of tea, maybe leaving those senses on could be more fun 😂
Wait, beans are good for scurvy? I thought that was just citruses
Yuppers. Basically, the rice is just carbs. The beans are doing all the detailed nutrition.
Scurvy? But pirates are cool, right?
We gotta get more clients to these two.
Thought: they tell May they wish they could hire her, but that they don't have they income to. May asks if they would be able to if their business picked up (not necessarily a given, an increase in customer repairs also means more parts to buy and possibly prioritizing hiring more repair staff. We don't know if they're underselling their labor costs, which would undercut their profitability when expanding). If the answer is yes, then May starts to show a knack for advertising and PR. :)
"If you can bring in more business, you can have a percentage of it" is a pretty tried and true tactic.
Aww such good people. I wanna get May a job. Maybe she can somehow learn to be advertising. That would make them more money?
She had that dancing-with-a-sign-idea. Gotta be worth something
Don't knock beans and rice. I got hooked on that stuff in Costa Rica. Done right I would be happy to eat that every day (and I have) Beats the hell out of ramen from my college days.
beans, beans, good for your heart better still, they make you fart 😉
Man,.... didn't recognize they were so close to destitute.
Same here. I just assumed they would be doing a bit better by now.
Huh? Wha? Did I miss anything? Went into cute-overload at panel 3. But I'm back now.
can.....can we set them up a gofundme????
bless 'em
Faye and Bubbles are just so great. Almost wish I could give up my Skullmaster career.
Obvs faye should cut out the rice. That's mostly just starch and empty calories.
Brown rice has fiber, that's pretty important
Faye definitely would help a small child figure out how to open a can of beans, & probably give it to the small child before herself.
"My darling" - Bubbles the romantic
Also, the Bear King will miss his bean tribute...
"my darling" don't mind me just over here gayly sobbing ❤️
A lysine deficiency will not help matters.
From going to being a bit hostile to willing to starve in order to help May. I love Faye. Wonder how Marten and Clare are doing financially? Perhaps they could take over the food situation at the apartment?
Sounds like it’s time to go to Yay or Hanners for help.
It's been time for that for a while now, IMHO. But Faye has enough pride to keep that from happening. They might be willing to accept advertising from Yay and Hanners, but I'm pretty sure Faye would object to talking with them about it for fear of getting a handout. I think Bubbles would prefer taking the handout rather than having Faye starve, but she is (reluctantly) going along with Faye on this while it's still borderline.
Poor Faye. I really hope she and Bubbles will experience financial gain soon.
Melon posts a glowing Yelp review, bringing in the detachable ass fetishists.
Well now my thoughts that her character was starting to look like she was loosing weight is not me going crazy!
that's probably just Jeph's constantly evolving art style ("if you don't like the art style, come back in two weeks")
ffvvvt
There's vitamin C in beans?
The beans and rice thing is so you get all eight essential amino acids, which are, like, essential.
I wanna donate real money to their fictional enterprise
You are here. That means you have.
God they're such good beans