edit - some people have pointed out that it probably means peach, not apricot.

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[–] 75 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I went to college with someone who would eat an orange in the shower every morning for the same reason

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  • [–] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'll say one thing... These strips are not getting any less racy with time.

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    This is the one only fans I would pay for.

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    I think those are very juicy apricots, so she's asking for screens, so she can... have an apricot shower in the middle of the restaurant?

    Yeah, that one seems like a stretch.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I suppose it is slightly different: they are juicy indeed and she doesn't want to soil her clothes with sticky sugary juice.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago*

    And also eating ripe peaches is extremely erotic.

    Lets not do Jucika a disservice and inject the modern, much more regressive and repressive sexual identities that seems to have cropped up, especially among the nominal left. Jucika was explicitly a sex positivist and the eroticism is the message as much as it is about not getting your clothes messy.

    It would be a huge disservice to Jucika to inject the wack-a-doodle anti-sexualism some of those on the nominal left have adopted into their politics. Its certainly not a politics I subscribe to: I'm with Jucika; when eating a peach its important to both do it in an incredibly erotic way, and to not get our clothes messy.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Jucika's best read as entries of a large and comprehensive encyclopedia of paraphilias.

    Today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_play

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Are you in northern or western Europe? As I discovered when I moved to the UK, it's virtually impossible to get stone fruit that doesn't require a hammer and chisel, and are crunchy like apples. 😬

    Elsewhere in the world, they're juicy, soft and prone to spraying everywhere. Which I think is the intended audience of this strip.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Now those are some juicy melons peaches apricots!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Aren't those more likely to be peaches? Where I am, apricots are just larger than a golf ball.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Apricots versus peaches are a nominal distinction that doesn't exist in all cultures or languages.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Oh, interesting, I had no idea. They're so different. I used to have both a peach tree and an apricot tree - they don't even taste all that similar.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    No the don't, but nectarines can also get lumped in there, and I think nectarines are better than either. The fruits all find their roots in China in prehistory, so depending on where when they made it to a region and the particulars of the linguistic groups of the time. Its like how limes and lemons weren't always distinguished in all cultures.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Should be translated into English as peach, then.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well no, not necessarily. Languages don't necessary map 1:1, and conceptions change over time. What one generation calls a peach, and what a previous generation calls a peach, they might differ.

    Just like a peach, you may have to accept a little fuzz.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    there is sufficient context for that kind of head gymnastics. By looking at the picture, we can clearly see it's peaches.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Less extreme in terms of shape but not taste, is the Spanish arΓ‘ndano, meaning blueberry OR cranberry.

    It's OK because Spanish makes up for it by having European and American names for all variety of critter.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    What is that hat made of?!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Most likely straw, given the time the comic was drawn.

    Not the crude straw hats you'd see on scarecrows mind you, but craftsman bleached straw finely cut and assembled.

    As for the candle looking things - in the 50s to 70s in Hungary, fake candles with incandescent bulbs were very trending. My grandma had a crystal chandelier that had such sticks with special mini bulbs you could set to flicker like actual candles. That's why the hat isn't burning. An upscale restaurant in the 60s-70s would've likely had such a setup.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    These still exist and they're everywhere. To the extent that in the US the smaller light bulb screw base is literally called the "candelabra" base. I have such a chandelier in my house right now (a very cheap one, probably from the 1980s) only minus the tacky flicker bulbs.

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm beginning to wonder if PΓ‘l Pusztai was... you know... okay.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Ummm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK Ε‘szibarack is peach. SΓ‘rgabarack is apricot.

    Proof: you don't need a shower cabin for apricots, however, peaches are in the same category with (tejfΓΆlΓΆs) lΓ‘ngos. That's why it's a typical food on the beach/lakeside. You're almost naked already, damage minimised.

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