They’re huge. Even thinking about more than one is (or should be) absurd.
It’s a Whitman Sampler so they aren’t filled with air either.
The CIDU seems, based on the post title, to have come from misidentifying the items in the box. They’re not cupcakes, they’re chocolates.
‘Maybe just one’ is a common response to being offered a box of chocolates. Which is a lot less meaningful when each piece has as much chocolate as a regular sized box.
The advantage of being a midget.
Hey, that Whitman box has only a mere twelve pieces of chocolate in it! She was too cheap to spring for a larger selection? What a ripoff!
You can buy a Whitman box with only four chocolates in it.
Life is like a CIDU: you never know what you’re gonna get.
Like those huge glasses you can buy that say “My doctor says I can only have one drink a day.”
The grandma is holding the box of pastries as if she had just pulled a tray of warm cookies out of the oven. And when offering a warm tray of cookies to someone, a common response is to say, “Maybe just one…”
But today, who has time to bake cookies? Nobody bakes cookies any more.
(Okay, maybe you do. And your spouse. And your neighbor. And your teenager. And your business consultant. But you gotta admit that less people bake cookies nowadays. They’d be more likely to buy cookies (or confections) from the bakery aisle of your local neighborhood mega-super-duper-market.)
Getting back to the joke, this grandma is offering not a tray of freshly-baked cookies, but a box of freshly-bought desserts. All offered with grandmotherly love.
I think the Whitman’s sampler line of reasoning is where this joke is going. The sides of the box look like the Whitman’s design. “Only one” is what many people say, but in this case only one is the equivalent of eating a whole box of regular sized candy. Ha Ha
“Huge” isn’t always meaningful in comic strips, because they’re not known for perspective.
I agree with the candy box interpretation. The scribbling on the side almost looks like “Whitman’s”.
Could this be a comment on the “supersizing” of our food portions and our continuing path to obesity as the new normal?
“I agree with the candy box interpretation. The scribbling on the side almost looks like “Whitman’s”.
And the green color for the signature is correct. (diamonds around the sides are blue-ish violet and are for “Chocolates and Confections”, “Assorted Chocolates” have a pink-ish violet/purple swirly-continuous-line around the sides. That’s how we can tell them apart on the shelf! :-) )
Wow.. I just went to their website and discovered that Whitman’s no longer offers “Chocolates and Confections”.
“Could this be a comment on the “supersizing” of our food portions and our continuing path to obesity as the new normal?”
It could be but it’s not.
It’s a people say “just one” and it’d be funny if one were huge.
It’s akin to “The big toe is like the captain of the toes”. Ha ha.
@ Kevin A – Whitman’s was bought by Russell Stover, which was in turn bought by Lindt, but the Whitman’s Sampler still exists. Personally, I would skip the nostalgia and go for a box of Lindt.
Which comes with such exciting varieties as Pocket Fluff, Belly Button Fuzz, and Dryer Filter Bonanza…
@Kilby The point I was trying to make in my follow-up post that Whitman’s no longer offers the Sampler that contains “Chocolates and Confections”; that’s the one that had diamonds on the sides. It included hard candies, honey nougat, and other non-chocolate items.
The only Whitman’s Sampler(s) offered at the you gave are various “Chocolates”-only. Note that the box doesn’t have diamond shapes on the sides.
(I did find a small tin of Whitman’s “chocolates” that has diamonds on the sides just now; I think it’s either counterfeit or designed by someone who didn’t know the difference. When I was a kid, being offered candies from the Whitman’s Sampler was a very emotional moment. Still is, because I am adverse to the deep disappointment of getting a wrapped non-chocolate candy.)
I have never had a Whitman’s candy or sampler. Growing up it was Bartons or Barricini that the grandmas had.
In doing research for a talk on historical samplers for my embroidery chapter I found out that the Whitman’s Sampler design is taken from an actual sampler which is now in a Philadelphia museum donated by the Whitman’s family – which also donated big money to them for exhibition space – and the sampler is included in exhibitions there at times.
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They’re huge. Even thinking about more than one is (or should be) absurd.
It’s a Whitman Sampler so they aren’t filled with air either.
The CIDU seems, based on the post title, to have come from misidentifying the items in the box. They’re not cupcakes, they’re chocolates.
‘Maybe just one’ is a common response to being offered a box of chocolates. Which is a lot less meaningful when each piece has as much chocolate as a regular sized box.
The advantage of being a midget.
Hey, that Whitman box has only a mere twelve pieces of chocolate in it! She was too cheap to spring for a larger selection? What a ripoff!
You can buy a Whitman box with only four chocolates in it.
Life is like a CIDU: you never know what you’re gonna get.
Like those huge glasses you can buy that say “My doctor says I can only have one drink a day.”
The grandma is holding the box of pastries as if she had just pulled a tray of warm cookies out of the oven. And when offering a warm tray of cookies to someone, a common response is to say, “Maybe just one…”
But today, who has time to bake cookies? Nobody bakes cookies any more.
(Okay, maybe you do. And your spouse. And your neighbor. And your teenager. And your business consultant. But you gotta admit that less people bake cookies nowadays. They’d be more likely to buy cookies (or confections) from the bakery aisle of your local neighborhood mega-super-duper-market.)
Getting back to the joke, this grandma is offering not a tray of freshly-baked cookies, but a box of freshly-bought desserts. All offered with grandmotherly love.
I think the Whitman’s sampler line of reasoning is where this joke is going. The sides of the box look like the Whitman’s design. “Only one” is what many people say, but in this case only one is the equivalent of eating a whole box of regular sized candy. Ha Ha
“Huge” isn’t always meaningful in comic strips, because they’re not known for perspective.
I agree with the candy box interpretation. The scribbling on the side almost looks like “Whitman’s”.
Could this be a comment on the “supersizing” of our food portions and our continuing path to obesity as the new normal?
“I agree with the candy box interpretation. The scribbling on the side almost looks like “Whitman’s”.
And the green color for the signature is correct. (diamonds around the sides are blue-ish violet and are for “Chocolates and Confections”, “Assorted Chocolates” have a pink-ish violet/purple swirly-continuous-line around the sides. That’s how we can tell them apart on the shelf! :-) )
Wow.. I just went to their website and discovered that Whitman’s no longer offers “Chocolates and Confections”.
“Could this be a comment on the “supersizing” of our food portions and our continuing path to obesity as the new normal?”
It could be but it’s not.
It’s a people say “just one” and it’d be funny if one were huge.
It’s akin to “The big toe is like the captain of the toes”. Ha ha.
@ Kevin A – Whitman’s was bought by Russell Stover, which was in turn bought by Lindt, but the Whitman’s Sampler still exists. Personally, I would skip the nostalgia and go for a box of Lindt.
Which comes with such exciting varieties as Pocket Fluff, Belly Button Fuzz, and Dryer Filter Bonanza…
@Kilby The point I was trying to make in my follow-up post that Whitman’s no longer offers the Sampler that contains “Chocolates and Confections”; that’s the one that had diamonds on the sides. It included hard candies, honey nougat, and other non-chocolate items.
The only Whitman’s Sampler(s) offered at the you gave are various “Chocolates”-only. Note that the box doesn’t have diamond shapes on the sides.
(I did find a small tin of Whitman’s “chocolates” that has diamonds on the sides just now; I think it’s either counterfeit or designed by someone who didn’t know the difference. When I was a kid, being offered candies from the Whitman’s Sampler was a very emotional moment. Still is, because I am adverse to the deep disappointment of getting a wrapped non-chocolate candy.)
I have never had a Whitman’s candy or sampler. Growing up it was Bartons or Barricini that the grandmas had.
In doing research for a talk on historical samplers for my embroidery chapter I found out that the Whitman’s Sampler design is taken from an actual sampler which is now in a Philadelphia museum donated by the Whitman’s family – which also donated big money to them for exhibition space – and the sampler is included in exhibitions there at times.