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Never Enough
🕑 Added 2025-02-10 02:03:00 +0000 UTCLiz is awful and I love her so much
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Mad Marie
"The man in that creepy shop I went to was very specific that I was not to give you marshmallows after midnight. That was yesterday, so (shrug) . "
Mad Marie
Clinton puts ranch on hot chocolate?
David
No disagreement. I'm just saying, if you don't have the topping on-hand, you're probably not ready to offer it. However, having read today, and found out that it's a *secret menu item* I don't feel I should be judging.
Ursus Ridens
I'm against whipped cream in the concoction unless the hot cocoa is made _in_ whipped cream.
Ursus Ridens
"...the serious business of tasting the coffee"? I see. No lattes, no milk, no flavor shots*. Just coffee, dammit. If you ask with sufficient humility, we'll infuse it in water for you. *(shudder)
Joe
I see what you did there ...
Clifton Royston
Panel 4 is missing a "How dare you!" from Liz
Clifton Royston
Now I'm imagining marshmallows stuffed with whipped cream. This is it, this is how I make my fortune!
Clifton Royston
I resemble that statement. I'm still thrown sometimes by realizing that most people do NOT go out and start reading scientific papers on whatever topics they've gotten interested in.
Captain Button
Schrödinger's Gremlin
Mikey Bear
Sounds like something someone from the Tasmanian Devil tattoo barista cult (I forget what they called themselves) would say.
Hugh Eckert
I don't like marshmallows or whipped cream with my cocoa. Or in/on anything else.
Hugh Eckert
I'm with Miyaa. I don't like either of them in anything, actually.
Robert Heinig
That's not fair, that's atrocious. Only the redneck McPhonalds Wurger Sling yankee imperialists could perpetrate such blasphemies. Anything other than (at most) frothed milk (or a few spiders) is an insult to any honest bean.
BaronHaynes
Liz exists in a quantum superposition between "give her a big hug" and "bonk her on the head"
Mikey Bear
AAAHHH!
Mikey Bear
To be fair, Marten should know to have whipped cream and marshmallows in stock at all times if he's going to run a decent coffee shop.
Captain Button
So the comic diverges into a Quest To Regain Gremlin Energy?
Andromeda
I'm with Liz on this one
Melissa Wilson
🥰 The first car I ever drove was a Gremlin! And every other car I’ve driven since has felt like it had far too little glass…
Melissa Wilson
We avoid that debate in our house by making it with both cocoa powder & chopped chocolate. It’s hot cocoalate! 🍫 ☕️
Michael Steamweed
I'm thinking less 'haggles' and more 'kvetches'.
Michael Steamweed
Socializing a new gremlin is roughly like litterbox training a new kitty.
Michael Steamweed
THE HORROR! THE HUMANITY!
Michael Steamweed
That's one helluva hot chocolate!
Michael Steamweed
*whispers: You distract Miyaa; I'll go get the inquisitors. Hopefully the Spanish ones, but I'm not expecting them to be in their office now.
Miyaa
It has no artificial sweeteners and I taste artificial sweeteners like some people taste the soap in cilantro. It has 21g of sugar per packet (35g) of cocoa mix.
Michael Steamweed
Maybe if the marshmallows are made from the blood sugar of enemies?
Michael Steamweed
Gour-may or may-not. There is no 'try'.
Michael Steamweed
Child prodigy. Doing PhD level reading comprehension at, like, age 9 or 10 or whatever. Following the same burnout path that so many "gifted and talented" do.
Miyaa
I could see Marten watching a video from Morgandrinkscoffee about how to turn banana peels into banana syrup (add sugar to banana peels then strain out the pulp leaving banana syrup after 4+ hours) but not thinking you need whipped cream for coffees and cocoa.
Michael Steamweed
AAAH!
Richard Lindquist
If you give a gremlin hot chocolate, she’s going to want whipped cream…
Michael Steamweed
I'm getting the idea that Marten's coffee shop is growing its inventory _very_ slowly. Like, a new thing every 1-2 weeks.
Michael Steamweed
"Hot cacao", ya posers.
Miyaa
Shaking my head that Clinton is a *shudder* ranch guy.
Michael Steamweed
Next week: "Here is your whipped cream." "What? No marshmallows?" "Gremlins don't get marshmallows."
Philip Masters
But she didn’t demand hot chocolate. She demanded cocoa.
Philip Masters
Serious cocoa is there for the chocolate flavour, not the sugar or the dairy. Let alone air. (But then, I favour 70% cocoa solids chocolate. And my life partner prefers 85%. Neither with added vomit flavour, thanks.)
Philip Masters
I dunno. A truly serious coffee shop might consider whipped cream to be a superfluous frivolity that detracts from the serious business of tasting the coffee.
BookBeard
Liz, take advice from Elliot: "Even a bad hot chocolate is still a hot chocolate." https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4637
Philip Masters
It’s specifically cocoa. Adding whipped cream is a modern variation at best. Heck, it’s probably mostly a modern variation with drinking chocolate.
Am Queue
Specifically designed to address complaints about sightlines.
Am Queue
Yes but is it unsweetened, or sweetened with stuff other than sucrose / glucose?
Doc Gumby
*Wonders if he should start a whole 'hot cocoa or hot chocolate' debate, decides against*
Am Queue
Whipped cream or marshmallows or for people who can afford it.
Am Queue
When you were raised with everything being transactional, it's a survival trait.
Am Queue
I think it's just sad
Maurice
I wanted to come up with a tasteful comment, but everything I tried ended up disgustingly sweet.
Raymond Dannelly
Depends on the details. Don't add whipped cream for the lactose intolerant guy. But as a general menu item, I agree your hot cocoa should have something. If not whipped cream, then marshmallows, or I could accept a cinnamon sprinkle.
enchantedsleeper
Now I really want hot chocolate...
David Paul
Elliot never voiced his opinion on the matter, it seems: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3512
Charlotte Grubbs
"Wikipedia says they're confectionary but I think that's bullshit!"
Ralf Paul
Give it time and the BookBeard will come through for you, I'm sure.
Bagge
I love their relationship SO MUCH!
Duncan
Gourmetity
SilverbackRon
"Marshmallows, are they candy or not?!" I remember reading Brun and Clinton drunk at a bar and Brun asking Elliot this question but I can't find the particular page.
SilverbackRon
Yes, she most certainly would
James Anthony
Is... is it canon now that Marten doesn't know how hot chocolate is supposed to be served?
Omnithea
It would be kind of weird if a coffee shop didn't have whipped cream.
Samuel Fout
I kind of love that those are still in the comic. They've been such a staple of the background and I didn't even realize I was possibly sad if they disappeared after Marten moving.
Samuel Fout
Definitely
Michael Klos
As a father of two gremlins, i very much would frame and hang this on my wall.
Maurice Kessler
I think of her as an avatar for the worst customers Marten will ever need to deal with.
Aeryn Monet
Honestly she would be really great market research in that regard, "okay, so literally my worst customer wants these things, which other people ALSO like. If I can make HER happy I can make any customer happy"
Ashley Thomas
whipped cream is part of it. unless he had mini marshmallows.
BookBeard
Both of them, in fact. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4255
jonesnori
I love that one!
jonesnori
I think so, if you mean the one on the left.
David
I mean, don't serve cocoa if you can't top it. I'm with the gremlin.
Ursus Ridens
Whipped cream AND marshmallows AND laudanum in GOOD brandy, dammit!
Miyaa
I just got dark chocolate hot chocolate from Swiss Miss. It’s pretty good, and lightly sweet.
Ursus Ridens
But will they recognize that at the border?
djellafine
Ahh I knew it I'm secretly Canadian
Grace Kieser
But if she did that, she wouldn't be Liz!
Nulgar
First read that as "Do you have any whipped cream?" and was confused by Marten's reaction. It would've been so easy to be nice, just use two letters less, Liz.
Populuxe
Is that poster behind her from Marten’s apartment?
Doc Gumby
It's a compact car from AMC with lots of glass in the back.
narkosys
She is right though. Canadian law states that it has to be either whipped cream or those little marshmallows.
Timothy Roller
How can he even call it hot cocoa? Are his lattes just Americanos?
SpookyPenguin
He said the gremlin word aaah!! Now I said the gremlin word AAAH
ValdVin
Panels 3-4: Liz almost loses her gremlin energy, and recovers to her tsundere side. Really, anything else and I'd be disappointed.
Spot & Tabbie
[Spot] my gif, she is such an engineer… how did she get pulled into the ph.d track
Carrie
If you want to level up sooner laugh in a growl next time and smile extre primley after a unabashedly wolfish grin.
Packy Anderson
I mean, it IS hot chocolate. It's just very plain hot chocolate.
Ben R
A totallu legitimate request. Marten just isn't cut out for gourmetness.
Shawn K. Younkin
Heretic!
OldGoat
What is a gremlin but a goblin wearing a flight suit?
BookBeard
Reddi Whip has a sugar free variety that's actually not bad.
OldGoat
Our Little Dutch Tulip. (She'd probably kill me for that.)
ValdVin
Does the menu board say "Whipped Cream", Liz?
JMK
Liz is Queen Gremlin. You do not give a Queen regular brown milk! Good day, sir. I SAID GOOD DAY!
BookBeard
No mini marshmallows? This hot cocoa is NOT Skullmaster Approved! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3200
Sean Kinlin
In theory, one could make it without sugar.
Bill Silvia
That's the fancy stuff. Gremlins get instant cocoa made with hot water.
Tannerbot
"If you give a mouse a cookie" should be replaced by "if you ever help a gremlin"
Tamara Macadam
people at the bus stop are staring at me because of the cackle i made. worth it
Adam Abbott
Go big or go home?
Yelling Bird
Marshmallows?
Sean Kinlin
I like Marten's fancy waiter demeanor in panel 2.
Doc Gumby
If your weird shut-in brain just can't help but complain You're a Gremlin!
Andrea Andrew
Whipped cream is too much sugar for me.
Miyaa
I don’t like whipped cream in my hot cocoa! Or marshmallows!
Sean Kinlin
"You didn't have to do that...but since you did, I will assign you further obligation."
kupo
She does make a good point.
Shawn K. Younkin
Jesus Marten, are you even TRYING?
Sean Kinlin
Only if she can wait 5 minutes.
Carrie
Unless you want an all nighter.
Opus the Poet
Gotta get the whole thing, or it's not right. But still gremlins should be grateful for what they get.
Carrie
If she's an extra good gremlin reward her with golden roasted marshmallows to go with the hot cocoa.
Cozy
Liz 😩❤️
Melissa Wilson
Say, “Thank you, Marten.”
Carrie
Yes
Melissa Wilson
“She’s going to ask why it doesn’t have tiny marshmallows in it & whipped cream on top.”
Zig Justice
Whapped cram
JMK
She has a very valid point. No whip cream or marshmallows is not really hot chocolate. It’s warm chocolate milk
Michael Boettger
I wonder if she'll burst into flames if she ever express'es genuine gratitude.
Fart Captor
Or at LEAST some marshmallows! What kinda service IS this?
Captain Button
Is Liz one of those people who reflexively haggles no matter how good the offer is?
Doc Gumby
Liz is so not used to people being nice to her, it's adorable!
Uniquitous
No marshmallows? *Honestly...!*
Michael
She's not a gremlin she's the gremlin Martin
Lord Crusade
The bluntess of the blunt
Taigan
Don’t give her cocoa after midnight.
Brendan Luster
two marshmallows
Peter McDevitt
"If You Give A Gremlin A Cocoa..."
