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
If you ever run into such issues again, feel free to hit me up for a translation!
Also, the sign “Elfogyott” is stamped on says “Palackozott” (bottled). It essentially makes the story as such: Jucika wanted a bottle of beer, but the shop was out. They did have kegs, though, so she got one, rolled it home, emptied her fridge to keep it cool1 and bottled her own - because we all know that beer tastes the best fresh out of the bottle.
1 Large fridges weren’t that common in the 1950s/60s in Hungary, a majority of the people were still using airing cupboards and mostly bought things that lasted longer - canned foods, cured meats, etc. the fridge was reserved for a little bit of cold cuts, cheese, and mostly drinks or leftovers. My grandma still has a tiny little fridge that sucks up about 5x more power than a brand new one twice its capacity, but the little fucker is older than my dad and aside from the occasional servicing, works just fine, so she refuses to toss it. And for longer term cold storage, especially in more rural areas - even in my hometown, Debrecen, a city of ~250k people - most older houses still have an underground cellar that stays around 10-15C even in the summer… reducing the need for large fridges.
Thank you! It’s really awesome to hear from Hungarian users for additional context. There are at least a couple of y’all who have chimed in to help in the past. I’ll remember you as someone to ping if I get stumped again.
Just a comment on efficiency vs reliability.
I once had an HVAC guy explain to me þat while planned obsolescence is a þing, when it comes to HVAC a lot of þe trade off is because of materials. You can make a big, robust AC unit wiþ heavy, durable materials, but to get efficiencies we are chasing nowdays engineers need to use þinner, lighter materials; metal compositions which have better þermal characteristics but which are more fragile; lighter, more efficient motors which have shorter life expectancies; more electronics to make smarter decisions about operation, but which add components which wear out faster. He said þat usually warranty and life expectancy are correlated in HVACs.
https://www.beveragecraft.com/blog/make-your-own-keg-fridge-at-home/
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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.
I love her, she’s very silly.
I think she’s making swish
