as someone who used to compete in chess

Oh, that’s cool. I barely know the rules, myself.

looks like the output of extreme gastro-intestinal distress

I love the way you describe it, ha ha. It seems to be pretty spicy, from what I’m reading?

If think it’s pretty good! I can’t find any where I live, unfortunately, I’ll have to try to make it myself one of these days. Chard is awesome.

It’s not Italian, actually, it’s Nissart.

In Nice there’s a kind of swisschard gnocchi that’s called merda de can (dog’s shit) because of its appearance.

Judge by yourself (image taken from here).

The shape can be different depending on how you make them, but it always looks a bit suspicious.

It reminds me a bit of the “mud porridge” that we liked to make in a concave tree stump in the schoolyard when I was in preschool.

Oh yes, I saw your comment! I’m just not very reactive these days because I have exams coming up, ha ha.

I realised after posting my comment that it was very badly written. I actually meant to ask if you knew about “chessboxing”, which keepthepace@tarte.nuage-libre.fr had just told me about. It was invented by Enki Bilal in a BD album in the early 1990s and later became a real life sport played by actual people.

I’ve actually never read the Nikopol trilogy. Maybe I’ll get around to it when my exams are over.

The rhyming game (Bouts-rimés) is way older than comic books… but it’s thought to date from the 17th century, which is when De capes et de crocs takes place, so that was a good guess.

Very interesting, thank you for the link.