Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 09, 2021

Where do you even get a volcano, Alice? They’re not in stores.

That can’t be good for your picky eater ranking, Petey.

Is there a hotdog roller and a deep fryer? There is a cheese fountain for the nachos. The beans stop up the chili fountain.

Is that the same stuff as ketchup?

My son in law puts it on literally everything…how disgusting

Poor Petey. Fated to imagine a delivery system for a food that is specifically made to be in contact with other food.

Condimentphobia is apparently a thing

Ech! I can smell it just reading this.

Love the use of the more accurate and historical term: Catsup Thanks go the megalithic company “Heinz” a whole generation has grown up thinking Ketchup is the proper term.

hoping for a mustard geyser myself

Ketchup fountain or catsup fountain? Inquiring minds need to know.

Unfortunately, this makes me think of a late night stop at a McDonalds where a seriously inebriated young man knocked over one of those ketchup pumps and continued to pump it, covering himself with tons of ketchup. He looked like he was bleeding to death.

If I was Bubbsy Clownpants, I’d be very nervous right now. It’s traumatic enough to fall into a pretend volcano, but it’s an experience you walk away from (you live to fall another day).

So cute that the little volcano is asking Santa for a volcano. Maybe kill two birds with one stone, Alice, and ask for a catsup volcano, and the mountain could be made of tator tots.

I’m afraid this one is a “lose-lose” situation, Petey! Can’t help you this time, ’cause, yes, you may well be the first to conjure up the notion of a Catsup Fountain!