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sausage

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sausage
Votey panel for sausage
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Explanation

This comic plays on the phrase "extra sausage" as a pizza topping request. A customer calls to order a pizza and asks if it comes with "extra sausage." The pizza worker confirms it does, but warns that unfortunately, the sausage has a somewhat coarse, unappealing look and has "never resembled anything made public" — implying the sausage looks suspiciously like something inappropriate.

The worker then adds, "You might even say it looks a lot like real... something," trailing off awkwardly. In the final panel, a woman is shown ordering the pizza online, and the worker tells her "Look, you do your best. I do mine. It just won't work." She responds, "I understand."

The joke is a double entendre built around the appearance of sausage, playing on the well-known visual resemblance between certain sausages and anatomy. The humor comes from the pizza worker's increasingly uncomfortable attempts to describe the sausage while dancing around the obvious comparison, and the resigned acceptance at the end that some things simply cannot be made to look appetizing. It satirizes how people awkwardly navigate conversations where an innocent topic has an unavoidable suggestive subtext.

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