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Bloom County

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Hello fellow Bloom County fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gluten free I think, that was basically the only reason we made them back when I worked at a fast food joint

[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to order this way when I was doing the atkins diet. Now I am vegetarian and have ordered a whopper without the meat.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The milkshake, on the other hand...

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely on both hands. And your lap. And the floor...

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just the way I likes it.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

What was different back then?

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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.