Well, technically when the truck comes to a stop and opens its side out to form a makeshift sunshade, it can be considered a stand.

Hahahaha at the fact that I read this as CIA facebook. Nicely researched by the way.

Oh my god what? Under a dollar? That's like.. under fifty pence.

Fifty pence in England will buy you a packet of crisps. You will have ten pence left over for a refresher bar.

A dollar is back over 50p as of a couple days ago, thank you.

Sotico, I like you, but stop it with the anglocentrism. It is rough enough living here without it being rubbed in that we don't live there.

There is a pretty low infidelity-related joke I was about to make involving a homonym of "coming" but I did not make it. I feel like this should be shared for some reason. I don't know, maybe somebody else can figure out how this bullshit world is supposed to work.

(yes, I know I'm late to the game here)
counterpoint: chavs

seriously, there are jerks on both sides here. The only reason we have more is because we are a larger country, therefore more people live here. If you look at it per-capita, it's probably about even. In fact, it's spread pretty even throughout the world. Case in point: look at how many countries have their own editions of Big Brother.

oh thank god! no more bothersome page numbers!

I was just about to make the same point. Chubby for that.

You guys realize that was a joke right? You read the rest of the things on the front page?

Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint. Broadway and 77th. Order the French toast. You will come to understand -- even to love -- this country, for all its foibles.

I love that you didn't mention the city because you didn't have to.

Incidentally I have been to Big Nick's. And yes, it is truly a thing to love.

I was in New York recently and the airport shuttle driver and two cab drivers told me I should go there. Sadly I never made it, and...I regret it.

You're one of those crazy people who don't do anything they should be doing. Which means I should like you. But you skipped Nick's. Which means I have a Conflict. :(.

See, I can't imagine going to the Eastern seaboard without going to Big Nick's. It's, like, the Platonic restaurant. They serve every kind of food imaginable, and they prepare it better than anyone else in the world. So yes. Next Time indeed.

Preface: I have no beef (other than Roast) with you!

Are you English?

Are you happier, now that we've got Obama?

General Americans suck, just like in general people suck. We're just the biggest and loudest group of jerks around. Naturally, we seem jerkier than the rest. If you took a proportionate number of Americans and replaced all of the Basotho with us, no one would be so adamently against us.

I really think Bush helped to fuel that fire, too.

Go to the store and find your cheapest and rastiest-assed bag of sliced plain white Wonder-ouvre bread, then hold it up next to some chichi ultra wheat digestolax honey sweetened brain bread. Check the ingredients lists on each individual loaf; compare and contrast. That is America's ideas compared to the ideas of Other Nations. Give us time though we're clearly learning at this stuff.

HA! The Canadian dollar is worth more than yours! In your pants and in your face!

Yes. Those would be two places that I've begun to hoard Canadian dollars for when the Lakotah secede.

No he doesn't. Whether it is sooner OR later, there will be a case of Regrets. What I am wondering is when the time switches from sooner to later. I figure 'sooner' is when the food sits like a ball of half-set glue in your stomach, and 'later' is when warfare is declared on your lower digestive system.

Depends on the area you live in. If I'm paying more than $5 for a burrito then I'm probably doing something terribly wrong. This is not for just some cheap, terrible burrito this is for some of the best burritos that can be had in what is one of the most competitive burrito markets in the country.

SO WHAT IF A TACO IS MORE THAN A BUCK... I AIN'T BUGGIN'.

Aww man don't tell me you get your tacos in a gas station. My boyfriend works in a gas station, I've seen what they put in those things. Seriously dude if you somehow read this cut that shit out...

Pendejo = Asshole.

Also, a tuft of pubic hair.

Clearly she was refering to Gambit from X-Men.

Pendejo = Generic Insult. The proper response is to either get mad and threaten to cutchoo up mang, or to back down. At least according to the stereotype ridden movies I have seen.

Ah, B movies. Keeping you informed of stereotypes and cliched dialog since the fifties.

Iain Banks? He can't even spell his name!

An old girlfriend pushed "The Wasp Factory" at me. Later I found out she had not actually read it. You have to read it yourself to understand the heinosity of this act. It's like dosing someone with 500 mics.

I liked The Wasp Factory, but chubby about his name. Too true.

Latino, or just Mexican? People here discuss Mexican slang terms as if everyone in all of Latin America used them, which in most cases isn't true.

More specifically, it's what a Mexican taco truck proprietor will most likely call anyone and everyone who buys tacos from him.

Well, you know, it's easier. I once confused these French dudes for Amerikans in Acapulco. I was so sorry and apologized lots afterwards.

Oh SNAP

Go to the Florida area, all of a sudden all the Latino people are "Cuban".

Uhm. South Florida is heavily Cuban-American. See: Little Havana, Miami.

Wow, way to not get it. I was pointing out that the Mexican generalization isn't true everywhere, which you've now helped me prove. Unless you're trying to say that indeed all Hispanic immigrants in Florida Cuban, in which case refer to the post I was replying to.

I did in fact assume you were expanding on a generalization with a more-insulting expansion of the ways in which Americans are idiots (generalizing all Hispanics as Cubans). Clearly you were not doing this and my defense/rationalization makes no sense. Feel free to accept my humble apologies/One Gold Coin From This Bag.

I'm gonna assume you're not from the states. In which case, would you please stop generalizing people for overgeneralizing? It's alienating and hypocritical.

lol "don't insult my insulting behavior"

I was talking about racism. not overgeneralizing. "Mexican" is a nationality, there is no ethnic consistantcy to people that are citezens of any American (as in north, central, and south) nation. calling someone a nationality becuase they have brown skin is not generalizing it's blurring the lines of ethnicity, language and nationality. with the implication that when someone appears to have native american ancestory they must be poor, starving, stupid, and not a legitimate citizen. but some kind of 'second class' citizen or foreigner. and the thought you are now thinking that "but it's so often true" thought that is racism. north americans don't think of other people as people first. they think of them in terms of economic class, race, and clothing options first.

and yes I am a US citizen but I don't see why that is important to my opinon of every American I've ever meet....

also. I made one little tangent QQing post. sorry. lol it had no place here. but your still a dick. and the OP from thegrapist is still hateful bullshit. not that I think it's unique in anyway to him or the US. it seems to be a part of the universal human experince.

Pfft. Moron. Way to assume I'm from the US.

Scroll down a little bit, huh?

Enchiladas are Mexican cuisine, correct? Ergo: A Mexican would eat it.

Just like an American would eat a hot dog, a Canadian would hoark down some maple syrup, or a German would feast upon bratwurst.

Nothing hateful at all.

"starving mexican" is what I found offensive wtf are you talking about/reading? or are you just to good at flaming to have to read anything. also. good job missing the point, and have fun being another one of the billions of xenophobic ethnocentric human beings.

PS : http://www.commonsensefarm.com/images/Ingredient_sub/500soapbox-pic.jpg

Large portions of the United States are overwhelmingly racist. Large portions are not. Every United States citizen you've ever met (hyperbole or no) is not every United States citizen. As it happens, ninety-nine out of a hundred people I've encountered and discussed race with in my part of the states hate the kind of imperialist racism you describe. Sir, they like it about as much as fish like parasailing. And that's a fact. As a wise man once said: if that makes me a dick, then at the very least acknowledge my balls.

this isn't debate class, it's my experience. and your post makes no sense. what are you trying to say? you don't see it so it's not a problem and no one should ever say anything? are you done stroking your epeen? what are you looking for me to say? " I give up, racism is not a problem at all, I was wrong to be offended that someone implied my friends and family are all starving savages." are you defending thegrapis? or just insulted that I stated my experince is that americans hate natives/hispanics/latin americans usually openly, but sometimes just residually?

Asking you to acknowledge that one large country could have regionally and individually different attitudes towards race doesn't constitute, as you say, "stroking my epeen." America's a big country to be making these kinds of generalizations about, and I merely suggested that you calm down instead of potentially insulting a few decent people. Christ, man, it's only fair.

The OP was revolting, it's true: I don't think anyone would really disagree with you (hence the humor of zefiel's reply). Escalating the conversation to further insults from there instead of ignoring the comment and moving on isn't mature or productive, though.

Insulting ME for pointing out that not everyone in this danged country is racist...well, that's just silly.

Apparently I lamed you for this a long time ago. I can't imagine why. I apologize.

Yeah, I was trying to suss that one out. For a bit there I was operating under the hypothesis that Lesotho was both a fairly obscure Aftican nation (obscure to an American, anyway) and a regional So Cal snackfood what compliments tacos and Dr. Pepper. This hypothesis failed even the most superficial scrutiny. The wheel of psuedoscience takes another shuddering turn.

Also, I'm Canadian.

And trust me, your idiotic connotations are false. Stop looking for things that aren't there.

Tuesday is Taco Tuesday at Del Taco here (Utah), all I know it means really cheap tacos that are maybe good and maybe not good....They seem to vary in quality from location to location.

I have had a tacos in mexico. but I prefer other street foods that I will probably never know the name of, or know how to spell. but they are great. and inexpensive. also the coke is so good. you can't drink american coke EVER AGAIN

YES! Why is the U.S. apparently the only country subjected to fucking gross high fructose corn syrup Coke? I don't know about the Mexican ingredients, but European Coke is all sugar-sweetened. Also, apparently, you can also get sugar-sweetened Coke in the U.S. during Passover, because observant Jews can't consume corn products during that time. Here's a feed on the matter: http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/Sweet_Sweet_Passover_Coke

Because in the US, corn syrup is cheaper than cane and beet sugar -- a lot of corn is grown domestically, but the other stuff is imported.

(... Or, more precisely, would probably have to be imported to acquire sufficient volumes of it to manufacture Coke. I'm not sure how much of US table sugar is produced domestically and how much is imported, since SOME sugar cane and beets are probably grown in the US.)

Very good point.

Within a 40-mile radius of Dublin, Texas you can buy sugar-sweetened Dr. Pepper. I lived about half an hour from Dublin and after moving I just can't drink regular Dr. Pepper anymore I just can't.

Damn, this strip is making me miss Texas.

You can also buy cane-sweetened Mexican coke on the bottom shelf of various Texas-area minimarts.

American Coke is disgusting. They've somehow managed to make it taste greasy.

Oh god yes. There's a market between my house and school that imports Mexican coke. Nothing like actually drinking it in Mexico but whatever.

I need to see that pineapple thing done. That sounds rad.

In my hometown in Texas my friends and i would walk down to Taqueria La Jaliscience. The food was amazing and cheap but i never saw such displays of pizazz. Then again, it was usually right before closing and we were an annoying group of kids. Good times.

wtf is lesotho, besides a small country in africa

that is both wild and disturbing.

Much like your icon.

The picture of the dinosaur makes me laugh. The one behind the other one is taking such a dainty step. Looks like a reptillian ballerina.

I applaud josher's shameless posting, as for some reason the alt text only half displays on my browser, after which it dissolves into ellipses.

It didn't take me this entire 5 months to find that extension, but it did to thank you for your help. So thanks!

I don't think there's a lame mafia. I think there are just a lot of people reading this now, and many of them (five, as I write this) found it lame. Look at how many different users have commented on this page alone. Surely five of them can have independently come to the conclusion that the comment sucked.

I almost marked it lame, and then thought better of it, but I'm not part of an Evil Conspiracy. I'm sure other people had the same thought and then failed to change their mind.

As far as the obliteration goes, you can prevent that from happening by setting your hide threshold at the top of the page, right under the comic. Mine is at 9999, so comments are never hidden.

And if a comment does get hidden somehow, you can still read it by clicking the word "comment" in the message "A comment by somebody was marked lame too many times and exlcuded." This works with spam, too: No comments are ever actually deleted.

Lame.

Only 4.3?! "I still have enough money left over for a large Dr. Pepper and Lesotho" is one of those quintessential Achewood lines like "Now you must call it a sex bicycle." FIVE STARS

Oops, forgot to do the "feelings on this strip" dropdown. I thought that's what the rad chilies are for.

A chubby goes to the man who sneakily makes me do a search for the term "sex bicycle."

Oh man, you hadn't read the sex bicycle arc? You are in for a treat.

PS My iPod is named Sex Bicycle.

Let me know when your restaurant opens. I will be there, and I will be brandishing an oversized fork.

I agree. These are both Good Ideas.

The cardboard box actually has to be an oversize revolver, or maybe just the cylinder, with each burrito loaded and ready to fire. I would definitely buy such a thing.

Also, the Double-Barrel : Two chipotle marinated steak burritos with seasoned peppers and onions, brown rice and green chile with colby jack and cheddar.

<hungry>Ooohhh man, it's gruzzle time</hungry>

It didn't look like it would happen this morning, but you got your wish!

Awesome. Especially since he said next strip Thursday ... and in the last moment we got the birthday strip anyways on Wednesday.

You rock Chris!

The Lesotho line nails it. Absolute classic Beef.

na na nanana na DORIT - O
na na nanana na something - HO

Chubbied for excellent beatbox work, and the use of that rhyming scheme that is never used in real rap, ever.

Heh. I think that kind of "rap" was invented by movie executives who wanted a rap over the end credits of their movies. Dragnet. Ace Ventura. Also Fruity Pebbles commercials.

I applaud the rhymes, though I appall the rhythm.

"Cuisine so good it made me slap my mom?" What?

KISS MY ASS, BITCH! I'LL BE AT DWAYNE'S!

The serious period is in effect.

Christ, look at Ray's rims!

uh oh, ray's gettin annoyed in that last panel. beef, you are providing sass in the main.

That's really interesting, how beef realizes Ray spent so much money on him in the fifth panel, and yet by the sixth, he's still making fun of Ray. I wonder if Beef has any issues with getting married that he's taking out on Ray, or if he's just still getting back at Ray for calling him a butthole.

No, I think he's mad because Ray spent that much on him, and Beef will likely never be able to do the same for Ray. Or himself, for that matter. Basically, he's grateful, but his pride is wounded also, so he gives into the baser impulse to protect his pride rather than express gratitude.

Big question of the day:
are these two small-times knuckleheads going somewhere that maybe will lead to awesome? Every desert trip so far has ended up in a nice arc.

Did Ray's right nipple fall off in panel 5? Should I really be noticing details such as this?

His hand is ever so subtlety dangling in front of it as his arm supports his gangsta lean.

*dessert.

LETS HOPE FIESTA MAX! DOES WEDDINGS
TOOT TOOT

Whoops, accidental clicking there. What I meant to say is that I miss a lot of the characters that haven't been popping up lately. Chucklebot, Pat, Nice Pete, etc. It's not that I don't love Beef and Ray. I love Beef and Ray, but sometimes I miss the other guys.

I could go for some Vlad to tell the truth.

this comic actually made me google at 4 in the morning to see if i could find an all-night mexican restaurant in melbourne.


sadly i could not.

DASTARDS!

But Mexicali Rose on Swan St, Richmond is pretty good during "normal" hours. Not a Sani-Taco to be seen.

The conscienceless bastards over at Taco Bell will stop at nothing

"My Fiesta name is Pendejo." Dying. Choking. Others in the office asking if I am OK. See, when Chris does that he is in the zone. He is as funny a writer as has written! P. G. Wodehouse class.

I think Beef is saying that he's got enough left over for a guilt-easing (temporary grade) donation.

Thanks prine! Just couldn't parse that one.

Semi-related question: what's the mexican food equivalent of Outback/Chili's/TGIF/Applebees/Olive Garden/Red Lobster/etc.? Is there even a nation-wide mexican equivalent?

Dunno about nation-wide, but there is a regional equivalent here in the TexMex part of the country:

El Chico

El Chico means "the little boy."

The owners chose that name because it would be easy for gringos to remember. Seriously.

We employess learned that in the employee meeting where we saw the History of El Chico video.

Ugh. El Chico. We have those here. I worked at one for a couple months. I HATE EL CHICO'S FOOD. My working there has nothing to do with it; I kind of liked the job. But that food is just fucking terrible.

On the Border is one. It's not in every state, but it's in most of 'em.

also, they're big Margarita promoters, like Chili's

On the Border has some amazing empanadas, though. Gotta give them props for that.

I'm not a big fan of Mexican food at all really, so I don't have much too compare them to, but, yeah, that's one of 2 things I've had in my few trips to On the Border (the other being chicken fingers off the kids menu), and they're pretty good.

Hmm now that you mention it, chili's has probably sold a few items with "southwestern" or "fiesta" in the name

Hah! A day later I see an ad on TV for Chili's "Chipotle Crispers"

Hand to god, Onstad got this one perfect.

The only thing I know about Chevy's is when I was like 6 some lady was shot in front of one. So now I associate that place with suffering.

Azteca. God how I hate fucking Azteca.

posting from wii. achewood on my tv is twice as good ; ]

I meant to chubby this, but Assetbar has decided that I am too Friendly.

(Hey, Assetbar folks? It would be cool if you set the chubby/lame threshold to scale based on the number of comments on the page. Unless it already works that way, but if it does I can't tell.)

minus the thing that caused that

I HAVE A WII AND A GIRLFRIEND

or a feature where a razor blade pops out of the side of the controller and vibrates if you try to cut across the road instead of down the street because you're so emo about the burn you forget the proper procedures

You may find reading this helpful.

o yeah of course, i've studied that page many a time, my concern is that if i ever get burned again in such a fashion as i did above that my judgment would be impaired such that i would forget to apply the proper technique. seeing that the wii is japanese and all i just kind of figured that an intuitive suicide interface would be a natural addition to the product

The Wiimote conceals a spring loaded Tanto for ritual Seppuku

I think Seppuku will be one of the minigames in the next Wario Ware.

Man, Ray is so cool about a $147 meal. Cooler than a pack of Lesothos, he is.

What is a pack of lesothos? The internet is driving me crazy on this one, I can't figure it out.

did you read this page at all? there is like a 20 post thread about it up higher on the page. i imagine the internet is often a problem for you.

"My Fiesta Name is Pendejo."

5'd.

"My Fiesta Name is Pendejo" - I wish more gringos had Fiesta Names!

Nobody ever says 'this was my first Achewood' anymore, well it was. I was horribly confused, these cats just don't make much sense if you're not acclimatized to their speech patterns. So I went back to the start, and was a captive of the archives from 'because of a problem?' untill I finish the comics that have been made since this one.

A really good Mexican taco... across the border will run you somewhere in the vicinity of $1 to $1.50 - and those are good stuff.

In San Diego, a burrito, with a higher price so as to make gringos more comfortable about what they're eating, will run you anywhere from 4 to 6 bucks. But northern of San Diego... I'd be weary of your Mexican food... you have to really hunt for it to either be GOOD/TASTY and or COLON-SAFE.

I AM from Mexico originally, consider my words LAW.

Lesotho is especially nice with guacamole.

I'm completely with Beef on this one. I, too, got mad crazy guilt about wastin' food.