He probably ordered hot revenge and the cook is informing him of his faux pas.
Personally, I think the cook was showing off his knowledge of a quotation and nothing more. Meh, when I saw it the other day..
Perhaps this patron has tried to impress the cook by asking about a wine pairing.
I’m thinking he sent his order back to the kitchen and now the cook is going to let it get cold as “revenge” for criticizing his skills.
I think it is supposed to be that we are to imagine in this restaurant in this universe that guy did indeed order “revenge” as something to eat ….
It’s not a good joke because we can poke holes in it be pointing out that “revenge” isn’t a thing to eat so we have to imagine the restaurant has a dish named “revenge” in which case this is a set-up joke that are never that funny (“So this lady had a dog named Freeshow, and she was in the shower when her dog ran out into the street and…”.. Thank you, Matt Groenig for that bit of idiocy….)
But it isn’t a CIDU. It’s jut a really meh cartoon.
… And what is the *POINT* of having metaphors if we aren’t supposed to visualize them literally?
The entire reason we *have* that metaphor is because we are supposed to imagine revenge as a dish cold and biting. Pointing out that a dish is … a dish… can hardly be considered thoughtful, clever, or funny.
He’s been dumped. He goes to his usual morning diner. Sits at the counter in his usual seat. Orders revenge for a change. Breakfast is usually hot. Waitress gives him the line. Might have worked better with “Harry says” and Harry on the apron, but I thought it was rather cute.
Y’all are so negative on comics, I sometimes wonder why you read them. Of course, I like Fraz, so I’m obviously demented.
The cook recognizes him and is holding an old grudge against him. Just a heads up that he might not want to eat whatever is prepared for him there.
” Of course, I like Fraz, so I’m obviously demented.”
The key to that question is which character you identify with. If it’s Caulfield or Frazz, you’re probably going to like it, and if it’s anybody else, you probably won’t.
I identify quite well with Caulfield, but my education was all Mrs. Olsen, and no Frazz…resulting in the present adult (chronologically) I am today.
Karl has it. Guy ordered a plate of hot revenge and the cook thinks it should be served cold instead.
Reminds me a little bit of Paul Coker’s Horrifying Cliches made into monster flesh in Mad Magazine – Embracing a Cliche, Introducing a Resolution and so on.
He complained that his coffee was too hot. He will live to regret it.
“The key to that question is which character you identify with. If it’s Caulfield or Frazz, you’re probably going to like it”
I identify with what Frazz is supposed be and how Mallet thinks he is portraying him. That trouble is what Frazz actually is and how Mallet is actually portraying him is a sanctimonious self-righteous idiot with a warmed-over (*barely*) intellect who thinks he is clever but is actually boring and pedestrian.
…. which is probably how I actually am but not how I *identify* myself.
How about this:
Customer: Hey, my coffee is cold!
Waitress checks with cook, cook give back the line, implying that the coffee wasn’t cold due to negligence.
Now, whether the cook actually wanted to have revenge on the customer or he just tries to cover up bad keeping-coffee-hot skills or why indeed the cook has to take care of coffee is left for the reader to decide.
I think BillyBob, Bob Peters and Markus are on the right track…
The customer is a chronic complainer (or possibly there is some other customer/cook conflict, but chronic complainer seems the most likely). So the cook intentionally gives him coffee that is not only cold, but probably tainted in some disgusting way. When the cook gets the inevitable complaint, he responds with “revenge is best served cold,” as a way of informing (or at least suggesting) that the temperature is not the only thing wrong with the coffee.
The problem is that the punchline requires too much setup to really work in a single-panel comic.
Does the cook back in the kitchen make the coffee in these sorts of establishments, rather than it coming from a counter-based machine/filter thing operated by a barista-cum-waitress?
Why *not* simply, the guy ordered revenge and the cook tells him its a dish best served cold and the cartoonist thought it was a pun?
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He probably ordered hot revenge and the cook is informing him of his faux pas.
Personally, I think the cook was showing off his knowledge of a quotation and nothing more. Meh, when I saw it the other day..
Perhaps this patron has tried to impress the cook by asking about a wine pairing.
I’m thinking he sent his order back to the kitchen and now the cook is going to let it get cold as “revenge” for criticizing his skills.
I think it is supposed to be that we are to imagine in this restaurant in this universe that guy did indeed order “revenge” as something to eat ….
It’s not a good joke because we can poke holes in it be pointing out that “revenge” isn’t a thing to eat so we have to imagine the restaurant has a dish named “revenge” in which case this is a set-up joke that are never that funny (“So this lady had a dog named Freeshow, and she was in the shower when her dog ran out into the street and…”.. Thank you, Matt Groenig for that bit of idiocy….)
But it isn’t a CIDU. It’s jut a really meh cartoon.
… And what is the *POINT* of having metaphors if we aren’t supposed to visualize them literally?
The entire reason we *have* that metaphor is because we are supposed to imagine revenge as a dish cold and biting. Pointing out that a dish is … a dish… can hardly be considered thoughtful, clever, or funny.
He’s been dumped. He goes to his usual morning diner. Sits at the counter in his usual seat. Orders revenge for a change. Breakfast is usually hot. Waitress gives him the line. Might have worked better with “Harry says” and Harry on the apron, but I thought it was rather cute.
Y’all are so negative on comics, I sometimes wonder why you read them. Of course, I like Fraz, so I’m obviously demented.
The cook recognizes him and is holding an old grudge against him. Just a heads up that he might not want to eat whatever is prepared for him there.
” Of course, I like Fraz, so I’m obviously demented.”
The key to that question is which character you identify with. If it’s Caulfield or Frazz, you’re probably going to like it, and if it’s anybody else, you probably won’t.
I identify quite well with Caulfield, but my education was all Mrs. Olsen, and no Frazz…resulting in the present adult (chronologically) I am today.
Karl has it. Guy ordered a plate of hot revenge and the cook thinks it should be served cold instead.
Reminds me a little bit of Paul Coker’s Horrifying Cliches made into monster flesh in Mad Magazine – Embracing a Cliche, Introducing a Resolution and so on.
He complained that his coffee was too hot. He will live to regret it.
“The key to that question is which character you identify with. If it’s Caulfield or Frazz, you’re probably going to like it”
I identify with what Frazz is supposed be and how Mallet thinks he is portraying him. That trouble is what Frazz actually is and how Mallet is actually portraying him is a sanctimonious self-righteous idiot with a warmed-over (*barely*) intellect who thinks he is clever but is actually boring and pedestrian.
…. which is probably how I actually am but not how I *identify* myself.
How about this:
Customer: Hey, my coffee is cold!
Waitress checks with cook, cook give back the line, implying that the coffee wasn’t cold due to negligence.
Now, whether the cook actually wanted to have revenge on the customer or he just tries to cover up bad keeping-coffee-hot skills or why indeed the cook has to take care of coffee is left for the reader to decide.
I think BillyBob, Bob Peters and Markus are on the right track…
The customer is a chronic complainer (or possibly there is some other customer/cook conflict, but chronic complainer seems the most likely). So the cook intentionally gives him coffee that is not only cold, but probably tainted in some disgusting way. When the cook gets the inevitable complaint, he responds with “revenge is best served cold,” as a way of informing (or at least suggesting) that the temperature is not the only thing wrong with the coffee.
The problem is that the punchline requires too much setup to really work in a single-panel comic.
Does the cook back in the kitchen make the coffee in these sorts of establishments, rather than it coming from a counter-based machine/filter thing operated by a barista-cum-waitress?
Why *not* simply, the guy ordered revenge and the cook tells him its a dish best served cold and the cartoonist thought it was a pun?
Sometimes a simplest explanation is best.