[PA Comic] Friday, December 9, 2005 - Savoritas

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[PA Comic] Friday, December 9, 2005 - Savoritas

Savoritas

http://www.penny-arcade.com.au/comic/2005/12/09

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Drinkyourtea

What is the reference for this strip? I'm not from america so maybe that's why I don't get it.

zerzhul

Hickory Farms makes gift baskets of meats and cheeses and whatnot. It's an extremely common thing in the US to get someone a hickory farms gift basket if you don't know what else to get them.

Smrtnik

Pretty expensive too for what it is.

Darkewolfe

A Hickory Farms gift basket says, "We in no way have any ongoing relationship that would tell me enough about your life to have any idea what to get you, but you're still tangentially involved enough in my life that to not buy you a gift would be rude."

You buy them for, like, your aunt that you haven't seen in three years. Or your nephew's cousin that you see once a year at the family reunion.

So, like, my close aunt would always buy me a pen set. Because she didn't know me well, but she knew "he's a writer, right? Pens!"

Whereas my dad's cousin would send a hickory farms gift basket, because she wasn't certain if I was 25 or 40, but knew we were related.

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Commander Zoom

Before my family implemented wish lists, I'd buy from HF, on the basis that "everyone likes to eat, right?"
I still buy one of my brothers meats and/or cheeses for the holidays, but (1) I'm a bit more selective and (2) it's impossible to get him anything else, as he just goes out and buys it himself.