powder
Explanation
This comic is about a parent's fantasy of finding a shortcut for family meals, and the gap between the fantasy and reality.
In the first panel, a father sits in an armchair thinking: "What if I could just feed them all on some kind of garlic bread food powder? Imagine the savings!" He is fantasizing about reducing the labor and cost of family meals to a simple powder.
The second panel jumps to "Later." The father presents homemade bread to his family: "I made homemade bread!" His family responds warmly: "You are so thoughtful!" and "Wow Dad!"
The joke is that the father's internal fantasy was to find the laziest, most efficient possible way to feed his family -- a utilitarian powder that eliminates all effort. But what he actually did was the exact opposite: he made homemade bread, one of the most labor-intensive food preparation tasks. The family praises him for being "thoughtful," completely unaware that his original impulse was the opposite of thoughtful.
The comic plays on the contrast between what motivates people internally (laziness, efficiency, cutting corners) and how their actions are perceived externally (as generous and caring). It also gently satirizes the modern fascination with food optimization products like Soylent or meal replacement powders, suggesting that even someone who fantasizes about reducing food to powder will end up making homemade bread because the social rewards of "real" cooking are too powerful to resist.