• raoulraoul@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      I was thinking, funny as it is, it might have worked better as a one-panel vignette (I don’t know the cartoonist’s usual format, if they always follow this 4-panel square layout) with just panel #4, word balloon included, and the text from panel #1 as a caption.

      Yeah, yeah, everyone’s a critic. In any case, it’s pretty funny…but not as funny as your face! 🤡

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    25 days ago

    I knew that the marshmallow plant was used medicinally and perhaps as a sweet for thousands of years, but I wondered whether there was anything like a fluffy marshmallow during Vlad the Impaler’s time. It appears probably no. The marshmallow plant’s sap does not appear to have been whipped up like a modern marshmallow until the 19th century, whereas Vlad lived in the 15th century.

    They did have marshmallow plants in Europe, though, so it’s possible that he tasted it, just not fluffed up. That being said, I’m also not clear about whether the marshmallow plant actually tastes like a modern marshmallow, which doesn’t contain any part of the marshmallow plant.