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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I know what the marshmallow test is; I don't get the joke in the comic. It depicts one of the kids who didn't wait. Where's the joke?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

It's not the kid who didn't wait...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's that he waited 5 seconds and got zero marshmellows?

Or he ate it already between the 2nd and 3rd panel, and is demanding the second one?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't get it til another poster pointed it out -- instead of the kid eating the marshmallow, the marshmallow is biting the kid's arm.

I glanced over the comic a couple times, and each time I saw the kid tossing the marshmallow in the air as if to catch it in his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

The marshmallow is eating the kid, not the other way round.