edit - some people have pointed out that it probably means peach, not apricot.

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I dont get this one

I think those are very juicy apricots, so she's asking for screens, so she can... have an apricot shower in the middle of the restaurant?

Yeah, that one seems like a stretch.

I'm guessing she'd rather be naked to eat and just get messy from all the fruit juices without messing up her clothes?

Like me, Jucika is messy when it comes to eating ripe fruit. She requests a privacy screen from the waiter so that she can eat in the nude and not get her clothing dirty.

I suppose it is slightly different: they are juicy indeed and she doesn't want to soil her clothes with sticky sugary juice.

I went to college with someone who would eat an orange in the shower every morning for the same reason

I think it's you can request a privacy screen no questions asked, and she takes it to the extreme

Jucika's best read as entries of a large and comprehensive encyclopedia of paraphilias.

Today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_play

What is that hat made of?!

A good peach is an orgiastic eating experience.

This is the one only fans I would pay for.

Probably smelled pretty good too.

Most likely straw, given the time the comic was drawn.

Not the crude straw hats you'd see on scarecrows mind you, but craftsman bleached straw finely cut and assembled.

As for the candle looking things - in the 50s to 70s in Hungary, fake candles with incandescent bulbs were very trending. My grandma had a crystal chandelier that had such sticks with special mini bulbs you could set to flicker like actual candles. That's why the hat isn't burning. An upscale restaurant in the 60s-70s would've likely had such a setup.

It's poor man's kink discovery through the weekly magazine

And also eating ripe peaches is extremely erotic.

Lets not do Jucika a disservice and inject the modern, much more regressive and repressive sexual identities that seems to have cropped up, especially among the nominal left. Jucika was explicitly a sex positivist and the eroticism is the message as much as it is about not getting your clothes messy.

It would be a huge disservice to Jucika to inject the wack-a-doodle anti-sexualism some of those on the nominal left have adopted into their politics. Its certainly not a politics I subscribe to: I'm with Jucika; when eating a peach its important to both do it in an incredibly erotic way, and to not get our clothes messy.

Humiliation seems a popular one.

Aren't those more likely to be peaches? Where I am, apricots are just larger than a golf ball.

Apricots versus peaches are a nominal distinction that doesn't exist in all cultures or languages.

They documented things however they could back in the day.

well, it exists in english

Oh, interesting, I had no idea. They're so different. I used to have both a peach tree and an apricot tree - they don't even taste all that similar.

No the don't, but nectarines can also get lumped in there, and I think nectarines are better than either. The fruits all find their roots in China in prehistory, so depending on where when they made it to a region and the particulars of the linguistic groups of the time. Its like how limes and lemons weren't always distinguished in all cultures.

"Apple" has dozens of varieties that don't taste all that similar either.

If I were an apricot farmer, this would be my advertisement.

"So juicy, you'd want to bathe in it!"

Now those are some juicy melons peaches apricots!

My grandma also had one of those tacky lamps.

Oh lol i thought she was in the shower in the last one for some reason

Don't knock it until you try it!

I think nectarines are better than either.

I agree, and disagree. Nectarines are the best of the three to eat by hand. But peaches, an apricots are better cooked.

These still exist and they're everywhere. To the extent that in the US the smaller light bulb screw base is literally called the "candelabra" base. I have such a chandelier in my house right now (a very cheap one, probably from the 1980s) only minus the tacky flicker bulbs.

Are you in northern or western Europe? As I discovered when I moved to the UK, it's virtually impossible to get stone fruit that doesn't require a hammer and chisel, and are crunchy like apples. 😬

Elsewhere in the world, they're juicy, soft and prone to spraying everywhere. Which I think is the intended audience of this strip.

Por que no los Tres

I'll say one thing... These strips are not getting any less racy with time.

I'm beginning to wonder if Pál Pusztai was... you know... okay.

Shower oranges are the bomb, you can go completely ham on that thang without having to worry about the mess, it's great!

Yeah, like "Apples of earth" ("Pomme de Terre"). /s

Being a sexual being is a revolutionary act.

Or road apples

I've tried it. It's okay

Less extreme in terms of shape but not taste, is the Spanish arándano, meaning blueberry OR cranberry.

It's OK because Spanish makes up for it by having European and American names for all variety of critter.

Was her name Kelly Hoppen?

Should be translated into English as peach, then.

These were around into the 90s. Steak and Ale, man, those flickering bulbs with the incandescent screens. How they worked was kinda cool.

Well no, not necessarily. Languages don't necessary map 1:1, and conceptions change over time. What one generation calls a peach, and what a previous generation calls a peach, they might differ.

Just like a peach, you may have to accept a little fuzz.

there is sufficient context for that kind of head gymnastics. By looking at the picture, we can clearly see it's peaches.

The funny thing is that I'm skipping a lot because otherwise by pure chance I'd be posting a dozen racy ones in a row. The artist clearly liked to do fan-service.

I mean somewhat but I feel like you are trying to flatten things to fit how you want to under them. Language and human experience don't necessarily meet modern experiences.

Bah. I can smell the orange from here