eat-4
Explanation
This comic explores the idea that humans are uniquely strange in the animal kingdom for eating things that are objectively terrible for them — or rather, for how they prepare food.
The first panel has a character noting: "Seems like everything edible or harmful is found elsewhere in the animal kingdom." Someone responds "Turducken?" — referring to the dish where a chicken is stuffed inside a duck, which is stuffed inside a turkey.
Another character asks "What are you talking about?" The response: "Google 'murder hornet.' It's a delicacy." This implies that somewhere in nature, something eats murder hornets as a delicacy.
The second panel presents the real punchline. One character says: "Hakarl alone implies Icelanders selected a breed of sheep to ferment underground until it rots, and the same culture eats putrefied shark and fermented ram testicles. Nothing is off the table." The final panel has: "On second thought, let us not try to isolate human uniqueness. 'Twas always overrated."
Actually, the humor is specifically about how humans try to claim uniqueness from the rest of the animal kingdom — we are tool users, we have language, etc. — but the comic points out that even our most bizarre and disgusting culinary creations have analogs in nature. The joke culminates in the characters giving up on finding anything that makes human eating habits truly unique, since nature has already done everything weird we can imagine and more. The line "Next thing you tell me goose murder fun is a delicacy" plays on the absurdity of trying to out-weird nature.