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SaniTaco Tuesday, July 20, 2004 • read strip Viewing 69 comments:

The name 'SaniTaco' just kills me.

i picture a nice crispy corn tortilla filled with a strongly-scented pink urinal cake.

SUCH a good call there. Chubbied like crazy.

Unfortunately, Lyle had plans for a different kind of strongly-scented pink taco.

A comment left by rowboat was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by TonyHighwind, RBisme, Zem)

I felt the same conundrum, but the synergy between wae's comment and the Todd avataricon tipped the scales to "chubb."

More than one year later, I have decided to chubby it. It's all so clear now....

rowboat you kind of sound like a little pussy

D...dad? Do they have assetbar in heaven, daddy? I'm sorry I'm not what you wanted me to be. I'm sorry I never made the cross country team. I ran really hard for you daddy....I just couldn't win. I'm sorry I got big and fat. You told me I would if I kept playing those video games and eating all Dortios brand products and you were right. I got fat plus I jacked off too much and sometimes to men you walked in on me that one time and I'm so, so sorry that you hated me for that. Please, please don't tell God and heaven's angels....

calm down

Fuck you, dad.

[IMGS OFF]

thats fucking gross.

Your post gave me a chubby, so I'm returning the favor.

This made me chortle out loud

That is mega-nasty. That is dog shit.

You know in the book American Psycho there was a part where he dipped a urinal cake in chocolate, said it was Godiva and gave it to his girlfriend.

Even though it was so terrible tears were running down her cheeks, she at the whole damn thing and said it was fantastic, just because it was Godiva chocolate.

I am so tempted to do that with some people.

I wrote a 20 page paper on that book, somehow without mentioning that episode once. Now that I think about it, it would have been the perfect example of a floating signifier.

What the hell is a floating signifier?

According to the wikigods, it's a word "to represent an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning."

...

They use "oomph" as an example. I don't know, either.

First math, now language...

My brain was not meant to comprehend such things. Why must you so clearly demonstrate my ignorance, Wikipedia?

So...I guess what Wikipedia. is trying to tell us is that it can mean whatever the hell we want it to mean.

A urinal cake pretending to be Godiva can mean whatever you want it to mean,

Weird, it seems quite obvious that, considering the rest of the book that the Faux Godiva was revealing both the woman's adherance to social norms under trying circumstance or society's attempts to wrap crap in cellophane and call it a Gift.

That wasn't meant as a stab at you, foetusy. Sorry brother.

Not only would I not take it as a stab against me (more of a stab against the weird definition that Wikipedia gave the thingie), I would not even mind if it was. You have been more than kind enough. Here, have a chubby. Heck, have two.

dag, have three!

I considered majoring in English, but Wikipedia articles on critical theory scared me straight.

I spent one summer and one Christmas season working at a Godiva store. I took home bags upon bags of unsold merchandise and such. When you have about five pounds of free truffles around all the time it kind of makes it lose some of the luster of exclusivity. It is just sort of middle-quality chocolate then.

Fun fact: Godiva is owned by Campbell's and made in Pennsylvania.

You good sir, should be a horror writer. I have not envisioned something so horribly vivid in my entire life.

Putting Lyle in charge of a taco cart called SaniTaco sounds like a really bad idea to me, on par with bringing a ham to a Seder or that perennial History Channel blunder, the land war in Asia.

"When that guy just has GAS I change my shirt and run the garbage disposal!"

Never get involved with a Sicilian when death is on the line!

A begrudging chubby for beating me to it.

I will get an oral disease or else the papillomavirus.

makes this strip a 5

They are the only two options. Nothing else can come of eating a taco stand taco.

Hmm... which would I rather eat, a taco which I associate with sketchy unwashed cooks or a taco I associate with bleach and/or condoms?
Tough.

The former, of course. A clean taco is not a taco, it is a folded sauceless pizza.

It takes only two panels for Lyle to regret getting Ray involved

This is my favorite story arc ever.

Luckily, a vaccine for the Papillomavirus is now available. You know what they about science.

what do they about science?

We need more of it. They say it. I've been regretting that mistake since I posted it. It haunts my dreams.

There... is ass in your pants. Chubby!

Black hole!

That they are all about 'coulda' not about 'shoulda'

i know that... don't tell me..

no tell me

Grandmothers giving birth and having cancer become airborne. Patton Oswald.

Ahh, Patton. I love that album.

Well then I am glad I'm not your wife, if that is your definition of love... you don't even remember!

Oh shit, my wife!

Oh man, you'd better call that dame. She might not be very happy at the moment.

I just get a lick out the taco stand being parked on the grass.

I just discovered that I lamed this comment long ago. Why? Why would I do such a thing?

I am sorry about this hypoluxa

Interesting. A lick, huh? I won't ask...

God damn man, I would never eat a taco from a place called "SaniTaco," be thinkin' the whole time, "Why are they so insistent that this is a sanitary taco? Come to think of it, how clean could it really be? It's a taco and from a stand."

lyle has some nice shoes .

the dude and catastrophe

Today's Blogs

Pat: People allow the worst things about themselves to show.
Teodor: Visit to Aunt Brezna's
Philippe: Teodor's back!
Mr. Bear: What To Do With The Winnings.
Lyle: blank checkbook!
Onstad: I wonder...
Little Nephew: Hella salty chips!

Ha! Teodor, Philippe, and Onstad's blog entries here, in conjunction, are hilarious.

Damn... doesn't that just kind of defeat the whole point of getting a taco from a parking-lot stand?

I thought "Taco Del Rey" was supposed to be a reference to Teisco del Reys, but then I realized the original stand was neither innovatively shaped nor awesome.

i had this shirt (BRING IT BAAAACK!). it was stolen by someone who thought it was funny, but didn't know where it came from. i still be hell of hatin'.

Do you want your shirt baaaack?

I do not understand people who somehow think that taco trucks are somehow unclean. It seems like a very yuppie sort of attitude to me.

Likewise the dude cooking bacon-wrapped hot dogs on the street and selling them who almost certainly has no license? I am not worried. He is just a dude cooking hot dogs. I do not need the board of health to tell me that he's doing a great job at it. I just trust that he is not some sort of psycho just like I generally trust my friends to grill food without government certification.

Too bad, those bacon dog carts are now illegal! Because restaurant industry lobbyists didn't like the carts taking away their business.

Isn't it awesome when people use government to force their desires on others?

Cart?!? The guys I've always seen didn't even have a cart, just a cooler next to a small grill. Also, weren't they always illegal because they didn't have a license for vending or submit to proper health inspection.

Restaurant industry lobbyists are complete dicks though. They're always fucking with government here. Often to help them dick over employees or customers, but almost never to do anything that would actually help people.

I'd eat at a Tacos del Rey over a SaniTaco, any day.

THIS SHIT IS SO FUCKING RACIST NIGGER

I imagine it's served with a sanitary napkin - SaniNapkin(TM)?

A metaphor for venereal diseases.

Fantastic.