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edit - some people have pointed out that it probably means peach, not apricot.

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

**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos

**You can find more Jucika content in c/graphicnovels by using this search

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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I went to college with someone who would eat an orange in the shower every morning for the same reason

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

Probably smelled pretty good too.

[–] OhShitSon@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shower oranges are the bomb, you can go completely ham on that thang without having to worry about the mess, it's great!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't knock it until you try it!

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

I've tried it. It's okay

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Bah. I can smell the orange from here

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'll say one thing... These strips are not getting any less racy with time.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Being a sexual being is a revolutionary act.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

The funny thing is that I'm skipping a lot because otherwise by pure chance I'd be posting a dozen racy ones in a row. The artist clearly liked to do fan-service.

[–] Sunschein@piefed.social 46 points 2 weeks ago
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] Lautrebeacon@lemmy.ca 106 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing she'd rather be naked to eat and just get messy from all the fruit juices without messing up her clothes?

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

If I were an apricot farmer, this would be my advertisement.

"So juicy, you'd want to bathe in it!"

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Like me, Jucika is messy when it comes to eating ripe fruit. She requests a privacy screen from the waiter so that she can eat in the nude and not get her clothing dirty.

Oh lol i thought she was in the shower in the last one for some reason

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think those are very juicy apricots, so she's asking for screens, so she can... have an apricot shower in the middle of the restaurant?

Yeah, that one seems like a stretch.

[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I suppose it is slightly different: they are juicy indeed and she doesn't want to soil her clothes with sticky sugary juice.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And also eating ripe peaches is extremely erotic.

Lets not do Jucika a disservice and inject the modern, much more regressive and repressive sexual identities that seems to have cropped up, especially among the nominal left. Jucika was explicitly a sex positivist and the eroticism is the message as much as it is about not getting your clothes messy.

It would be a huge disservice to Jucika to inject the wack-a-doodle anti-sexualism some of those on the nominal left have adopted into their politics. Its certainly not a politics I subscribe to: I'm with Jucika; when eating a peach its important to both do it in an incredibly erotic way, and to not get our clothes messy.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Jucika's best read as entries of a large and comprehensive encyclopedia of paraphilias.

Today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_play

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's poor man's kink discovery through the weekly magazine

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Humiliation seems a popular one.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They documented things however they could back in the day.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's you can request a privacy screen no questions asked, and she takes it to the extreme

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Are you in northern or western Europe? As I discovered when I moved to the UK, it's virtually impossible to get stone fruit that doesn't require a hammer and chisel, and are crunchy like apples. 😬

Elsewhere in the world, they're juicy, soft and prone to spraying everywhere. Which I think is the intended audience of this strip.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

A good peach is an orgiastic eating experience.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the one only fans I would pay for.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Somebody's a big fan of apricots!

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just thoroughly enjoy Jucika's peaches.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 20 points 2 weeks ago

Now those are some juicy ~~melons~~ ~~peaches~~ apricots!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Aren't those more likely to be peaches? Where I am, apricots are just larger than a golf ball.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Apricots versus peaches are a nominal distinction that doesn't exist in all cultures or languages.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, interesting, I had no idea. They're so different. I used to have both a peach tree and an apricot tree - they don't even taste all that similar.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

No the don't, but nectarines can also get lumped in there, and I think nectarines are better than either. The fruits all find their roots in China in prehistory, so depending on where when they made it to a region and the particulars of the linguistic groups of the time. Its like how limes and lemons weren't always distinguished in all cultures.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Apple" has dozens of varieties that don't taste all that similar either.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Por que no los Tres

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

well, it exists in english

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[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I looked up “Julika es az oszibarack”. It means “Julika and the peach.”

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to wonder if Pál Pusztai was... you know... okay.

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[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is that hat made of?!

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Most likely straw, given the time the comic was drawn.

Not the crude straw hats you'd see on scarecrows mind you, but craftsman bleached straw finely cut and assembled.

As for the candle looking things - in the 50s to 70s in Hungary, fake candles with incandescent bulbs were very trending. My grandma had a crystal chandelier that had such sticks with special mini bulbs you could set to flicker like actual candles. That's why the hat isn't burning. An upscale restaurant in the 60s-70s would've likely had such a setup.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

These still exist and they're everywhere. To the extent that in the US the smaller light bulb screw base is literally called the "candelabra" base. I have such a chandelier in my house right now (a very cheap one, probably from the 1980s) only minus the tacky flicker bulbs.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Ummm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK őszibarack is peach. Sárgabarack is apricot.

Proof: you don't need a shower cabin for apricots, however, peaches are in the same category with (tejfölös) lángos. That's why it's a typical food on the beach/lakeside. You're almost naked already, damage minimised.

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