I knew that the marshmallow plant was used medicinally and perhaps as a sweet for thousands of years, but I wondered whether there was anything like a fluffy marshmallow during Vlad the Impaler’s time. It appears probably no. The marshmallow plant’s sap does not appear to have been whipped up like a modern marshmallow until the 19th century, whereas Vlad lived in the 15th century.
They did have marshmallow plants in Europe, though, so it’s possible that he tasted it, just not fluffed up. That being said, I’m also not clear about whether the marshmallow plant actually tastes like a modern marshmallow, which doesn’t contain any part of the marshmallow plant.
And thus, some lives were saved.
Vlad the ImpalerLemmy Kilmister discovers marshmallowsReminds me of Hark a Vagrant!
damn, i haven’t thought about her comics in a while. I absolutely loved them.
Vlad: Hey I’ve solved our pile of rotting heads problem.
Wait till he discovers shish kabobs
Yeah but unless you are the one making them you dont get to impale the meat 😔
but if you impale them you also get to burn them at the stake
hmmm, decisions
If only there was a simple solution to that problem…
Geographically and historically, yes. He will.
And acupuncture!
And narwhals!
And uhhh… unicorns?
and those fat grey unicorns
I feel like the dialogue in the last panel is unnecessary.
I was thinking, funny as it is, it might have worked better as a one-panel vignette (I don’t know the cartoonist’s usual format, if they always follow this 4-panel square layout) with just panel #4, word balloon included, and the text from panel #1 as a caption.
Yeah, yeah, everyone’s a critic. In any case, it’s pretty funny…but not as funny as your face! 🤡
not as funny as your face!
You didn’t have to brutalize them like that, damn
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