Yes.

Yes he does.

Why do you have to be so angry?

fie!

My Grandmother used to make Head Cheese. That's right: Put the pig's head in the oven, bake it, and pick off pig lips, tongue, and whatnot, combine it in some kind of gelatinous mess and call it food. My grandma knew how to do it, but I never ate it. Whenever I see head cheese in the supermarket, though, I think of her, and her badass-head cheese ways.

OH MY GOD IS THAT WHAT HEAD CHEESE IS

Thank Christ I've only ever heard about it on TV and stuff and never actually seen it in real life. If I ever do I will just fall to my knees and screech for a while. Like the guy on the far right of the first panel here.

Heh, I know exactly what panel you're linking to without checking it. Being well-versed in Achewood saves me time and effort once more.

Head cheese is a nasty word, dude. Back where I come from (Denmark) this is a much celebrated dish, eaten around Christmas in the main. Although most people have gone from using the head to making it with more convenient cuts of meat.
In the Danish recipe, the head is boiled, though. The meat, all tender and tasty as hell, is then peeled off and put in a container with a few bay leaves and other spices. Finally the container is filled to the brim with the broth from the pot. Finally it is refridgerated for some time, letting the juices coagulate into a wonderful, gelatinous mess. It is served with rye bread, pickled red beets, and a strong mustard. It is the food for men.

The name of this dish, I might add, is "sylte" (which directly translated means "pickle". In Denmark we are so in touch with the swine that we just assume that you mean pickled pig if you don't add a surfix.

Also be prepared to use lots of isinglass.

Ray doesn't empathize with Teodor kneading dough.

Wah-WAHHHH.

Ugh

Ray in Panel #6 gets this one a 5/5 for me.

Also the last panel.

mr bear is straight up raw. and i love beef's assessment of him in the last panel.

I was also under the impression that Teodor knew how to cook. What the hell, Teodor?

The pressure got to him.

We have seen in recent strips that although they may not be as notorious as Beef's, Teodor has his own Circumstances.

Cornelius is just... my favourite character. Statement needs no qualifiers.

what about vlad and pat's attempts?

They were perfectly fine loaves of bread. Adequate, yet uninspiring.

Pat's was probably some vegan nastiness that wasn't worth commenting on, as we've seen that shtick before.

Yeah but then again, Cornelius' was vegan too, and probably wasn't that nasty at all.

This is one of the first strips where I realised that Mr. Bear is pretty old.

"A thousand minutes? A million?"
Is Téador actually crying under this criticism?

Nah. He's just sweaty, as is Lyle in frame 7, from the stress of competing against Cornelius.

A million minutes! God, I fucking love this strip.

Everyone on the intertubes is a 70-year-old retired bitter furniture salesman in Winnipeg. Didn't you know that?

dammit malloreddus is not a joke on malodorous

i felt like i had a horrible paraphilia when i chubbied this...thanks a lot!

Really, as a female, you'd be pretty sweet if yeast hated you (candida albicans, that is). If it loved you, there's your problem.

Not really, because that would be breaking the First Rule.

Maybe, but robots WANT to hurt us. Robots are dicks.

Until then, he'll have to settle for the video game version of The Warriors. "C'mon, youngbuck! I'd like to see you take me down!"

Note how Teodor stands in front of the line of wannabadasses. He's eager.

Actually..thinking about it..I'd have thought Pat would be the guy indulging in this kind of irritating behavior.

Footnote: I try to tell my friends things are "Hard" but they don't have a damn clue what I'm talking about.

They are a top drawer failure by any measure in the book.

As a robot, shouldn't Vlad get an alternate task, such as building his own solar panel or drawing up plans for a portable generator?

Cornelius is wearing an apron before the goal is announced. As soon as he read the invite, he knew there was going to be mad baking going down.

Actually, I think thats just an undershirt. Or some kind of jersey. Same as all the other contestants.

Ahhh I think you're right. The fact that he's wearing it over his normal attire, with a bowtie, makes it look like an apron at a glance.

It seems that they're all wearing wifebeaters.

the way i'm kneading this dough is like my emotions right now... hella crazy

But I would knead five hundred minutes
And I would knead five hundred more
Just to be the man who kneaded one thousand
Minutes and proved he was frickin' hardcore

It's a "wifebeater" over a suit.
I don't know which is funnier, his or Vlads.

Wearing a tanktop was an unspoken rule of the games, which Cornelius of course bucked and mocked like the badass that he is.

teodor is so angry with himself on this one.

Man, my brother made bread today, by hand. It was delicious and I showed him this strip after I commented that "Nothing is more old-school than baking your own damn staff of life!".

Ah, Teodor... When will you learn that nothing good comes free...

Just look at beef standing there in his swimming-trunks as if it was just a basic time of day.

The Badass Games are a good chance for us to see some of the characters who don't get much face time apart from the blogs.

"completely raw" has entered my everyday vocabulary, but i usually give it that extra oomph by adding "as hell" after it.

almost two years after this strip runs, it just now occurs to me that winning a bread competition by making pasta is about as badass as winning a marathon by taking a cab for the first 25 miles.

Lyle's dough grew up to become Cynthia the prostitute.

Bread is the [B]staff of life[b]

DAMMIT

But... whose watching Phillipe?

Dunno. It's not my watching Phillipe, that's for sure.

I'm playing in the bathtub with Mr. Toaster!

I absolutely love Beef's line there at the end, just to tell you right off the bat how this arc is going to end.

holler?

There needs to be a crossover between Achewood and Yakitate Japan.