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4 Comments:
Interesting that the man looks like a person of color. We get such a bad rep from stuff like this.
sarahthegreat at 10:57AM on 01/21/08
Sarahthegreat: Nooo! I can assure you we didn't think of race when posting this cartoon. I don't even think I read the character as a person of color until you pointed it out. I was concentrating more on what the cartoon bubbles were saying—and thinking of my own days in food service (if you can call the concession stand at a movie theater "food service") and all the crazy questions and requests I got from people of all races. ("Can you put nacho cheese on my popcorn?")
Adam Kuban at 12:38PM on 01/21/08
Wow. I saw a person "of color" too. But the color was red. As in, the stereotypical trailer-trash redneck. Since hubby's from the South, maybe I should be insulted? Let me think...
Nope.
LoCo at 3:02PM on 01/21/08
Oh gawd, I read this strip about six months ago and died a little every second. I used to be a hostess at Red Lobster (sister restaurant), and that comic is pretty dead on.
As for the racial thing, I understand the discomfort, but since this is based on that guys actual years of working at Olive Garden, it doesn't bother me. He probably just didn't think twice about it - assuming that the customer was actually black. But hey, it's complicated, and I'm not the artist. ::shrug::
Damn good strip, though.
katiekate at 4:47PM on 01/21/08