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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by AMELIA'S GRANDMA. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | The | + | The comic portrays the back side of a box of cookies (evidenced by the {{w|nutrition facts}}-style table on the left side). Many brands have a romanticized origin story on their packaging explaining the name or how they have a secret ingredient. Instead, this brand's origin story is tale of petty one-upmanship as the brand's founder sets out to prove that her cookies are better than her grandmother's. |
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+ | Grandma's cookies were apparently very fragile and crumbly. They also had "gooey exteriors and slightly crisp interiors." Normally items bake from the exterior in, so how the interior had gotten crisp and the exterior hadn't is not explained (maybe Grandma used a microwave?). The grandmother's cookies also had a "mysterious gritty texture", presumably from sand getting into the flour from the stone grinders, that would be unpleasant. | ||
To complete her revenge, the "story" contains the grandmother's address. Creating false addresses for their mascots is often used as a publicity stunt for children to write testimonials to the brand's PR or marketing department. However, here it appears to be Amelia's actual Grandma's actual address, the goal being for her to receive thousands of letters on a regular basis about how her granddaughter's cookies are so great, while jabbing "unlike yours!" | To complete her revenge, the "story" contains the grandmother's address. Creating false addresses for their mascots is often used as a publicity stunt for children to write testimonials to the brand's PR or marketing department. However, here it appears to be Amelia's actual Grandma's actual address, the goal being for her to receive thousands of letters on a regular basis about how her granddaughter's cookies are so great, while jabbing "unlike yours!" | ||
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In retaliation, Amelia's grandmother has started submitting (presumably bogus) food safety complaints about Amelia's bakery to the health department in a ploy to overburden the bakery with unnecessarily frequent inspections. At one point Amelia eventually decided to offer a truce, which her grandmother emphatically rejected, underscoring it by sending Amelia an extra-large batch of the cookies she knows Amelia hates. | In retaliation, Amelia's grandmother has started submitting (presumably bogus) food safety complaints about Amelia's bakery to the health department in a ploy to overburden the bakery with unnecessarily frequent inspections. At one point Amelia eventually decided to offer a truce, which her grandmother emphatically rejected, underscoring it by sending Amelia an extra-large batch of the cookies she knows Amelia hates. | ||
− | While the name of the city past the first letter and at least one of the zip code digits is too illegible to read, by process of elimination it is plausible that the city is Orlando and the zip code is | + | The high-resolution version of the comic may be found [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/amelias_farm_fresh_cookies_2x.png here]. |
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+ | While the name of the city past the first letter and at least one of the zip code digits is too illegible to read, by process of elimination it is plausible that the city is Orlando and the zip code is 32891 (or less likely, 32861). No other location in Florida consists of one word starting with O and a zip code legibly close to the one in the comic. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[What looks like the back of a package of cookies is shown.] | :[What looks like the back of a package of cookies is shown.] | ||
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:''Amelia'' | :''Amelia'' | ||
− | :[A partially legible squiggled address appears at the bottom left of the Our Story part of the box | + | :[A partially legible squiggled address appears at the bottom left of the Our Story part of the box.] |
− | :Ms W[ | + | :Ms W[illegible] M[illegible] |
− | :1[ | + | :1[illegible] A[illegible] Ln |
− | :O[ | + | :O[illegible], FL 328#1 |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Food]] | [[Category:Food]] |