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| − | + | This comic is a subtle statement on the epiphany many have when they reach adulthood and are on their own for the first time. Nobody will stop you from making poor decisions you were refrained from prior to that independence. This line graph depicts an immediate deterioration in Randall's health when he realized that he could have bacon on his own. Eating bacon whenever one wants is among them. The joke is that his health was improving until he had this revelation and then went into immediate decline. When he says "he could have bacon", he means he has both the will AND means, since the stove is his own. | |
| − | + | Frosting in a can, as mentioned in a title text is convenient because it is instant and not necessary to make from scratch. Similarly, there is now also instant, pre-made bacon that can be eaten right out of the box, eliminating the need to put in any effort to prepare it. | |
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Revision as of 12:22, 30 May 2014
| Stove Ownership |
 Title text: Although maybe it's just a phase, like freshman year of college when I realized I could just buy frosting in a can. |
Explanation
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This comic is a subtle statement on the epiphany many have when they reach adulthood and are on their own for the first time. Nobody will stop you from making poor decisions you were refrained from prior to that independence. This line graph depicts an immediate deterioration in Randall's health when he realized that he could have bacon on his own. Eating bacon whenever one wants is among them. The joke is that his health was improving until he had this revelation and then went into immediate decline. When he says "he could have bacon", he means he has both the will AND means, since the stove is his own.
Frosting in a can, as mentioned in a title text is convenient because it is instant and not necessary to make from scratch. Similarly, there is now also instant, pre-made bacon that can be eaten right out of the box, eliminating the need to put in any effort to prepare it.
Transcript
- [A hand-drawn graph is shown.]
- [On the y-axis, "My Overall Health", on the x-axis, "Time".]
- [The graph is generally steady through 3/4 of the x-axis, where it begins a steady decline, with a label "The Day I Realized I Could Cook Bacon Whenever I Wanted."]
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The title text doesn't "imply" that Randall went through a frosting phase in college similar to his present-day bacon obsession; it flat-out states it. The reader need not infer anything. Also, the usage of parens to define both a "phase" and "frosting" struck me as a little bit pedantic. I suspect most, if not all, readers of both xkcd and this explainer site are well enough versed with these nuances. 108.162.219.21 08:29, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
- I appreciated the definition of frosting, as in Australia, it means the sugar you dust over a cake, sometimes over icin, but not the icing itself. Frosting-in-a-can I had interpreted dusting-sugar-in-a-can. Someone redefining it as icing was useful to me. 108.162.250.162 23:38, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
On 5/30/14, I rewrote the description. It's still marked as inaccurate or incomplete, but the revision hasn't been reviewed yet ~J. 173.245.54.44 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Is it really necessary to describe why eating copious amounts of bacon will have adverse affects on ones health? Should we also describe the metabolic effects of eating fat on the digestive and circulatory system? I don't mean to sound so smug and cynical, but some of Randall's comics are rather self-explanatory. I believe we've satisfactorily cleaned up this explanation. 173.245.54.44 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Okay, I explained, hopefully to the satisfaction of the editors, why eating a ton of bacon would make somebody unhealthy. Can we close this one out? Thanks 173.245.54.44 01:53, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
