March 11th, 2008
#461 - Speck
We have taco night 2 or 3 times a month. I’ll eat 4 tacos and then look down at my plate. It’s like there’s a bonus 5th taco there. My wife brings a fork to eat the scraps, I don’t see the point… I ate the first 4 with my hands… why stop there? What is the messiest meal you eat on a regular basis?
March 11th, 2008 at 12:10 am
A taco-repelling shirt. That’s actually a good idea.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I need one of those in white, with a tomato sauce-repelling coating.
The Duck Has Spoken.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Finger food is fun. For the extra toppings on the plate after tacos, I use a fork too. I’m a clean eater, so I usually stay away from food that make a mess.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Ice cream, spaghetti and Coke. Not all at the same time, but separately, they all seem to find their way onto my shirt somehow.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:09 am
i had this burrito type thing for dinner yesterday that fell apart as i ate it. i finished the tortilla several bites before i finished the stuff that started out inside it. it was pretty messy.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I am a rather clean eater =p
…i think
March 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
When we have tacos it’s all a matter of crumb management. When you start eating a taco it’s all about holding it together as best as possible and shoving it into your face in a methodical manner
March 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Nachos are definently my messiest meal.. I tend to get myself and the floor a mess because I don’t eat nachos with a fork generally.
I’m mostly a clean-ish eater, but I generally spill coffee on me. No matter what I do, I will spill a bit of my first coffee everyday.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Sloppy Joe sandwiches.
With a three year-old in the house, it’s a messy disaster every time. But somehow we never learn, and keep making them…
March 11th, 2008 at 5:47 am
those little sugary barbecue sausages that they have at parties
March 11th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Chocolate fondue. One time one of my friends even managed to get chocolate on the back of his head
March 11th, 2008 at 6:05 am
A gyro. I love the way they pile on way more meat than you could ever really hope to contain in a pita. Then they add the Tzatziki sauce (fun to say AND delicious) all over and it just snowballs from there.
I remember eating at a local gyro joint with a buddy one day and there was a kid there, maybe 8 or 9, that was literally covered in the sauce up to his elbows. It was inspiring.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Let’s just hope Biff doesn’t drop the whole thing on his shirt, otherwise that’ll be a huge mess to clean up.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Heh… My messiest food is taco’s too. They’re always so hard to keep together!
March 11th, 2008 at 7:14 am
It’s important to check the repulsion coefficient of your shirt before purchase. Sufficiently strong garments will also eliminate crumb problems–by rendering it impossible to even approach a taco.
This one time, I wore a shirt so powerful, Taco Bell gave me a restraining order.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:46 am
I don’t know why but I can never seem to keep hamburgers together, and the way I like them I get ketchup and mustard everywhere and I somehow lose the tomato. But tacos and burritos I can eat without spilling anything.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Beef curry…every freckin’ time… -___-
March 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Rice is my messiest food, probably because I insist on using chopsticks to eat it (I’m a traditionalist with no room for common sense).
I’d prefer to have one that repels bullets, knives, and blunt objects though… It would augment my present super powers nicely. As of right now, I can stop speeding bullets with my body, but I can only do it once.
It’s also messy and hurts like hell.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
The messiest on a regular basis, eh? Probably sausage with cheese tortellini in your garden variety marinara. Coat that with freshly grated parmesan, some romano, and it’s as smelly as it is messy.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:55 am
For the longest time, every hot dog I ate would find a way to deposit its mustard on my person.
It got so bad that I had to scorn the mystery meat for a few years to break the trend.
I’m ok, now. I think.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
My wife and I were invited over to a friends house for a traditional African dish, mainly involving rice and chicken. The hosts passed around a bowl for us to wash our hands in and then we were instructed to simply eat from the main dish in the center of the table, with our hands. No utensils were allowed.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:41 am
@Joe sounds like fun my messiest food would be anything with sauce no matter how hard i try it will allways get on my sleeves thats why i cant wear white anymore
March 11th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Oh yes get me one of those!!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Fajitas. I always pack mine really full, bite into it, and half the sauce flies out
March 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I agree that tacos are pretty messy and I usually eat the leftovers with a fork, too. But Taco Bell’s food seem to be messier than my homemade ones.
But no matter what kind of dinner I make, about 75% of the time, I end up getting some food on my chest. (I’m a little big in the chest department.) I usually wipe it off laughing and say, “Looks like my boobs got hungry again!”
March 11th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I hate messy foods. I eat them as fast as possible,
to keep the mess at a minimum. I’m otherwise a neat eater.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Subway sandwhiches.. they’ve changed their bread and now the damn things fall apart as you eat them. Hence, I wind up with the insides mostly outside of my insides. *sigh* I don’t eat much else that’s really messy.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I concur with Twist. Our sandwhiches at school are sub sandwiches, and the lettuce always comes out of mine. Plus, the vinegar stuff you can have put on it sometimes seeps all through the sandwich and soaks the poor thing in a dripping, soggy mess. >
March 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
weird clothes week!
March 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
i once ate a hotdog, and found ketchup on the back of my shirt. how in the heck does that happen?!
March 11th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I can’t eat anything with crumbs, for example potato chips.
My little brother is worse, though. He apparently just has really bad aim. So by the end of the meal, he’s eaten half his food, got a fourth on his face, and the rest on his shirt. He has no more white shirts, they’re all stained into submission. The worst thing about it? He’s nine years old.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
this isn’t about food, but it’s a mess anyway. one year me n my friend were really into fancy inks and pens and stuff like that, and we bought a little tub of ink for our groovy feather quills. well, we were writing and managed to get the stuff all over our hands. once we cleaned up and put everything away, i went home and took off my shoes and got all sorts of cosy. and then i glanced down at my foot to find i got the ink on my sock.
as for food? messiest meal would be rice. i tend to get that everywhere, also. and i use a fork, usually…
March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Taco bell tacos are TERRIBLE. Seriously. I used to eat them once a week with my dad, but we stopped going after awhile. Then I started eating tacos from Por Que No? (a local taco place) and I never went back! It was only when taco bell was the only option that I fully realized how horrid they were.
Also, Por Que No? has cool shirts that say “I love Tacos!” on them…
I have one…
March 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Messiest food, definitely fajitas. I use a soft tortilla outside my crunchy taco to fix the collapsing shell problem.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Not only does Biff invent something that doesn’t kill him, it’s actualy useful!
Way to go Biff- or maybe I should be thanking Chris…. whatever.
As for the messiest foods, I’d say…. cake! Yes, eat cake everyday!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
samosas are pretty messy….and as a kid, there was pasta!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
then again, any indian food can get messy, since a lot of it is eaten with the hands…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
After you’re done with the four tacos, you need to grab some of the left overs, like meat, salads and sauces and mix it all on the plate with the crumbs and bits that have fallen off. It’s the best, nay the only, way for people to finish eating tacos.
On topic, tacos are definitely the messiest. I eat about 6 each time and end up with 2 bonus tacos at the end.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Homemade sushi. I’ve tried making it myself a couple of times, and the process of creation always winds up with me absolutely coated in rice up to the elbows. Eating it can be pretty messy, too, since it’s really hard to get the rice mixture correct and have the rolls stay together.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Speghetti personally… I used to manage to get it EVERYWHERE….
My older brother used to be able to eat tacos so well, that nothing would touch the plate… like… we coulda put his plate back in the cupboard it was so clean at the end of it all… never did figure out how he did it…
March 12th, 2008 at 3:19 am
just wait until he swallows it. his shirt’ll either get a bit bigger, or just explode.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:19 am
knowing biff itll do both.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Eggrolls always seem to do the same thing as tacos. I buy a massive box from Sam’s Club and we have them when we’re too busy to cook.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:04 am
hot wings.
Oh yes, they are tasty and messy.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
My first thought was the curry I usually have on a Thursday- but thinking about it it’s pasta in tomato sauce that always finds it’s way onto my clothes. Though that could just be as it’s more noticable than the light yellow curry sauce.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
(first time posting)
Hot dogs! I never fail to get chili all over my hands, shirt, pants and the floor. Then it seems like the chili seeps int my skin and my fingers smell like chili all day. It’s very annoying… Which is why I usally don’t eat hot dogs.
Ps. Love your comics Chris! Biff rocks!
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Spagetti, sandwiches, any food really is messy for me. Then again, I only have one hand to eat it with… and everything not in my mouth happens to end up up my shirt, which ALWAYS happens (just happens) to be white.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
i want that shirt
April 6th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Sigh… to think I am going to leave sunny Mexico to go live in Germany for a year would be OK if only there were good tacos there…
April 18th, 2008 at 3:19 am
I’d say spicy cheeseburger soup. Yes that’s a real recipe. It’s not super cheeseburgery or anything like eating a liquid cheeseburger, but it is really good. Its got some jalapeno, potato, and carrot in it. Not sure what else or the measurements. I could ask for the recipe from my mom if someone wants it. The mess is more when you reheat it though. Soup likes to explode a bit in my microwave, especially the thicker ones. That and it likes to cake onto the bowl.
As for mess on my hands (and/or plate for hand held meals) I’d say home made burritos and ribs.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am
quesadillas…mmm. my mother makes them so greasy that they literally drip…
July 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
It would make it hard to eat if you had a short neck.