I kept skipping this one because I couldn’t figure out the title. Google insists it’s “Jucika likes to bake”, but that doesn’t make any sense. I finally figured out that it was scanning the 3rd letter of sört wrong because of cursive, lol. I’m fairly confident it’s just “Jucika likes beer”
Also FYI - it’s pretty clear from context, but the sign that says “Elfogyott” means “sold out”
As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
I don’t get it :(
Panel 1: Jucika goes to the shop to buy bottled beer, but there’s a sign reading “Palackozott SÖR ELFOGYOTT” — “Bottled BEER SOLD OUT.” Dead end.
Panel 2: Undeterred, she strides off confidently, rolling a whole barrel like it’s nothing.
Panel 3: She’s back home, and she’s set up the keg and is bottling the beer herself, with a row of filled bottles already lined up on the floor.
The joke is the escalation: she doesn’t accept defeat, she just bypasses the whole supply chain entirely. Very resourceful. Classic mid-century Eastern European humor, kind of dry and absurdist.
The main reason it’s confusing to me is, what kind of circumstance would mean you can buy kegs but not bottles of beer? Was that common? Intuitively it seems like some kind of shortage should hit them both at once.
Yeah, I’m thinking it probably made more sense in socialist Hungary at the time, and also that she’s supposed to have gone directly to a brewery to get the keg, which is the absurdity of it.