I always found it funny that Breathed chose the band "Billy and the Beaters" to parody with Bill the Cat's band. Billy and the Beaters was a one-hit wonder with a song that was featured on Family Ties.
As someone who doesn’t remember those days, why was it so ridiculous to get a burger without a bun? Even without lettuce wraps, it seems like it would’ve been simple enough to throw/stack in the wrapper/box. Messy, but simple. These days, it’s commonly eaten with a fork.
This is based on a marketing campaign back in the day from Burger King called Have It Your Way. At the time having things customized in the food industry, especially fast food was not common and food allergies/intolerance were not really acknowledged. If you didn’t like pickles or tomatoes, you picked them off instead of being made without for you. So when BK started this it was pretty revolutionary.
It’s funny how this isn’t even an odd request anymore. Most places will make burgers into lettuce wraps now. I wonder which factors (keto, gluten-free, broader health awareness) or combination of them had the most influence on changing perception about it?
I’m so excited! Thank you for doing this! I had to buy the 2009 complete collection on paper to get high quality versions. Did you digitize all those years of strips?
Very welcome :) This will be a nice trip down memory lane! Pretty amazing how relevant it still is today.
I have the complete collection as well. I did not digitize them, as they are freely available on GoComics.com. I have noticed that GoComics sometimes is missing some days here and there, in those cases I will digitize.
I read the comics everyday as a kid, my parents got the paper. I never understood Bloom County, I’m looking forward to seeing if it’s better now that I’m old.
I grew up in a small town that had a very small newspaper which had no comics. So I only saw Bloom County on Fridays (we got the paper from the big city on Friday for the week’s tv schedule) and my grandmother saved the Sunday comics for me. But as soon as the books were released I bought all of those. Over the years I have reread them many times, but never in order.
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