When to give up and when to persist

Hagar the Horrible, 7/5/24

I know the joke here is that you think the buffet owner has "won" this coin toss because it means someone will be patronizing his restaurant, but in fact he has "lost" it because that patron is Hagar, whose rapacious appetite will result in an unprofitable transaction. But everyone's expression in the second panel almost got me to Google "did Vikings ever engage in cannibalism" before I remembered that most webpages about Viking culture are either written by neo-pagans talking about how Vikings were very nice and kind of woke, actually, or by neo-fascists talking about how Vikings were very nice and extremely representative of the superiority of the Nordic bloodline, actually, so I decided to skip it.

Dustin, 7/5/24