Beetle Moses | Bluesky

Transcript

Three panel comic.

Panel 1: Genghis khan is sitting in a throne room. His advisor enters with a fruity drink in hand. The advisor proclaims, “Genghis Khan! I bring a gift from a faraway land!”

Panel 2: he continues, “a ‘strawberry margarita.’” Genghis takes a delicate yet generous sip.

Panel 3: Genghis and his advisor exchange smiles. Genghis says, “yeeooo that’s fire”

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    55·
    10 days ago

    A strawberry margarita is out of place in the 1200s, particularly at the khan’s court. Did Jimmy buffet go back in time to share margaritas with people, and then someone travelled potentially 1000s of kilometres to give one to the khan, and it’s still fresh and frozen?

    So it’s a little bit of absurdism, and you don’t expect the punchline.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 days ago

      Technically, only the tequila is completely out of place for the time period.

      There are native European strawberries, and triple sec is a distilled orange brandy, and there were stills in China as early as the year 1200.

      The lime juice comes from South East Asia.

      So yeah, replace the tequila and it could almost exist.

      • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
        10·
        10 days ago

        While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), it was quite a while later that all those ingredients were combined in that specific way.

        The sum is greater than the parts, and all that.

      • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        10 days ago

        I think the punchline is just subverted expectations. You’d expect him not to get it, be confused by something so out of place, or overreact with amazement over something so commonplace to us. But in actuality, it’s just that a strawberry margarita is always good no matter what time you’re in, along with his surprisingly muted and modern response.