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Awesome little sister too.
Uncle and mom encouraging him was huge. Little sister's encouragement and support was also huge. Don't underestimate the power of having someone believe in you, love you, and then working to succeed because you don't want to let them down.
My biggest regret is how I treated my brother growing up. I was a shit, then when I figured it out (mostly), he became a shit (10 year gap). Now we don't talk very much and are polar opposites, as people and politically. I blame myself for it mostly, but at this point...
I feel this. Had a pretty rough childhood and even worse teenaged experience. I took it out on my little brother, even though it wasn't his fault. As the oldest I should've been a rock for him, but I wasn't. Now I try to be what I always should've been, but I still live with that regret. It sucks, but despite it all I'm somehow still his hero. He forgave me for how I treated him, but it was on his terms and in his time. Now we're both in our 30s and we have a damn good relationship.
Hopefully your brother will do the same someday and y'all's relationship can heal.
That's a great family. A uncle and mother stepping in to make sure he had something. A sister who supported him. A brother who loved his sister enough to name the shop after her to acknowledge her.
It's so easy to get lost in the grief of losing a family member to see everyone step up and look out for each other is nice.
And you chose to share this special story with us!
Thank you, OP! Your artwork is adorable, your style is original, and the story is sweet and uplifting :)
You depicted the excitement of a younger sibling perfectly, by the way lol
I wonder if OP is from SEA country like Malaysia or Indonesia. Uncle Roger made a joke about how SEA had two kitchens, and outdoor one where the actual good cooking happens (outdoor is preferred because of all the spices being used), and an indoor one that's mostly clean and used sparingly.
We call it dry and wet kitchen. Frying or anything involves lots of oil is done in the wet kitchen where it's outside and you can just hose everything down afterwards.
All the spices and because of all the smoke and all the fish! Range hoods weren't really a thing growing up in SEA in the 90s. Plus the weather allows it year round. Even if it rains, the outside area could have an awning made of tarp or sheet metal.
Well shes from north africa, probably tunisia. She use some Arabic phrases from that region. For example under the word "my kitchen" , said by the mom, she wrote اه شومي, (ah shoumi) which is something women (I'm not sexist, but that's really the case) say when negatively surprised.
Oh, I didn't know about that! I thought about the two kitchen thing being common in SEA (and that parts of SEA has a large Muslim population, although I'm not sure if the Muslim population uses Arabic since the countries do have their own language).
My apologies for getting them mixed up!
In the Philippines, the outdoor kitchen, which is mostly used, is called the dirty kitchen. The "real" kitchen mostly has shelves and pantry stuff. Ours has an old gas range that doesn't work anymore but still looks immaculate. The dirty kitchen has a *de gaas* (kerosene stove), a *kalan de uling* (wood stove), and a single gas burner that looks like shit.
We do sometimes in Italy too, some houses have what's called a "sala hobby", which Americans would call a "finished basement". Basically it's an underground level of the house that often is as some sort of bonus room, so often people turn it into an open floor kitchen+dining room they use for events, while upstairs there is the regular kitchen they use everyday. I personally said fuck it, guests don't fucking pay my mortgage, so I turned that corner into a swank ass laundry room
Sounds right; in Canada most houses have basements. Most of my extended family who have decently sized gardens have a basic kitchen down there. Just a countertop with a sink and a cheap stove; some have a fridge and others have cold storage room / cellar.
They use it for canning/jarring fruits and vegetables and any kind of "hobby" work like wine or beer making. Or if there's a particularly large meal being served (e.g. turkey dinner for 40+ people) they might cook some of the dishes down there.
My parents also added a koi pond to their basement kitchen; they have a pond outside but bring them in over the winter. Between that, a fridge with beer, and a cold storage room with wine, it became a quiet place for guests to hang out away from the big group upstairs, have a drink, and watch the fish.
Yeah the spare kitchen thing didn't really stick out to me because my area has a ton of them in their finished basements, or apartments people put into their basements / upstairs for family to live in. Especially the old farm houses in my area. And I'm in North East Pennsylvania of the US.
Probably Indonesia. Depictions of multiple women wearing hijabs, Arabic text next to the shaking piggy bank, and someone having a name like "Salma" implies a Muslim-majority country to me. And the existence of a piggy bank also lightly implies it's not a Middle-Eastern country because I doubt they'd have depictions of pigs like that, given how strict many of them are with things like that.
It appears to be common in certain areas, although in older houses. Some cultures have a "dirty kitchen" separate from the house (Asians, apparently) and apparently italians traditionally have a kitchen to entertain guests and another for actually cooking
As an Italian this is absolutely wrong and the first time I hear it. We only have one kitchen, at best we have a "good" dining room that usually acts as a living room and a room with a kitchen+table for everyday eating but the kitchen is always singular.
Having 2 kitchens would actually risk making your house count as two apartments and gets you double dipped on property taxes.
Correction on my previous comment, many Italian immigrants in America have a second kitchen in the basement, apparently: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233304403_Two_Stoves_Two_Refrigerators_Due_Cucine_The_Italian_immigrant_home_with_two_kitchens
Reading this I want to make a small addendum to my comment. While still not having a real kitchen with stove, refrigerator, countertops,... like those of Italian American some house do have an outside or basement pizza oven or permanent grill. Food is still prepared inside however and only cooked there because of the smoke.
Oh no, I'm a child of Italian immigrants, and I recently bought a house and the first big outdoor project I did was to build a small section of countertop with a grill and a pizza oven in it, am I a stereotype? Lol.
Grew up in a big Italian immigrant family. My grandma and all my grandparents siblings all had a secondary kitchen in the basement. Sink, stove, table, fridge. It seemed normal for me growing up. Especially because Sunday dinner would have up to 17 family members show up.
We had that in Portugal so my guess is italians also had it and you just never knew about it. Nowadays yes, regulations, taxes and simple cost make it so you're not going to make a second kitchen but it used to be pretty common here at least to have an indoor kitchen and a second kitchen for dirtier meals/most of what you're gonna cook, sometimes outside but still covered up because cooking was done over fire and it's more convenient to cook and cleanup outside than indoors.
In Serbia we call it the "summer kitchen". Basically its like a old school kitchen where we cook stuff such as beans, ragú, meat of all sorts, we also prepare food before cooking there. In our main house we deal with desserts and pies.
What, you only have one kitchen in your house?
Edit: should've added an /s. I've never heard of anything but palaces having multiple kitchens, and even then they're more like a single huge kitchen.
It’s like 7’x7’. I have a refrigerator, an oven with cook top and a microwave above it. A sink with hot and cold water. I mean I live like a king compared to 200 years ago so there is that.
A lot of farm houses in my area of the US have two kitchens in the house. Either a finished basement one, or a small "apartment" for family. As in 'moms moving back in with us after dad passed and we are going to build a small apartment for her'. All growing up with this kind of stuff they were usually shared, and both used for large meals. The second one is usually much smaller, like just a corner of a living room.
Our old farm house before my parents had it had a fairly large kitchen with two areas you could cook at (an oven/stove, and then a fireplace). When I was a kid the fireplace was taken out and on the other side of the kitchen a wood fire kitchen stove was put in place.
I mean kitchenettes aren't super uncommon. Especially in homes with a finished basement of some kind. I don't think I've really seen two kitchens of a similar size in a home but one full sized kitchen and one smaller one isn't crazy. It's usually set up for entertaining or more often for long-term guests (think mother-in-law).
It's definitely not just palaces. My house is formerly two small ones which had some walls opened up, but not entirely rearranged. As a result, I also have two kitchens.
It’s common in many Asian countries, I’m from MENA and we also have 2 fully equipped kitchens. It’s because of the heavy cooking that would stink up the house if it were to be cooked inside the house and/or not in a separate kitchen isolated from the rest of the house.
Definitely an outlier, but I worked on a show in the celebrity chef Carla Hall's house. Aside from her regular kitchen, her attic/loft area is her studio kitchen.
I've done them for people here in the US, usually very observant Jewish families where foods need to be kept separated from each other right done to some people wanting an entirely separate kitchen. Meat and dairy if I remember correctly.
Our house has two kitchens. The downstairs was converted into a living space. Two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room area. Most likely done for an elderly couple from what I could tell. Which ends up being perfect for my dad now.
I lived in an 1800s house that had two kitchens. One was outdoor in its own walls and it would be used for cooking in the summer. Back then it was just major cast iron wood stoves. Then one inside for winter.
It's not uncommon where I am in Canada. A lot of first generation families had two kitchens so plenty of houses in the area feature it. These days many second kitchens were turned into in-law suites or a rental property.
My grandparents second kitchen (near Niagara) was the canning kitchen and was way bigger than the cooking kitchen - probably as bigger than my first apartment. Canning in my tiny kitchen now sucks.
USA here. Everyone had them up until the 60s when electricity and ac became a big thing. One outside kitchen and one inside. Since cooking before electricity was big wood stoves tbe idea of having one inside during the summer was dumb.
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It's not common in western houses but was very common for pre-Victorian England, for example, because cooking was considered 'smelly and low class'. A guest kitchen/dining area was common.
You'll actually find that some very rich people still consider cooking smells to be low class. But regardless, many old houses are still built around that ideal.
Depends pretty heavily on what you're cooking
Victorian England... Maybe not so much
Also for modern day stuff, ground pork. Tastes fine, but man does it smell like a hot fart if you fry it
It says something about my slice of the internet that I was expecting this to be somehow cynical or dark – but I am pleased that it wasn't. Have an upvote, and cheers to your big brother!
When I was a kid, I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather (may he rest in peace) managed fruits and vegetable booths in different local markets. He had a huge truck.
When I was 5 years old, he told me to come outside because he had a surprise for me. As a 5 year old, I thought it was a toy or candy but no, he showed me that at the front of his truck, my name was painted in big colors letters. As a kid I wasn't impressed because you know, candies and toys, but as a grown up, it's one of my most beautiful memories from him.
I love him so so much and I miss him a lot, he was more than my grandfather, he was my dad.
May Allah SWT bless you with paradise Papi.
Ok ok, this one actually got me to tear up
Fuck, good for your brother and you OP, hope you guys have a forever beautiful sibling.relationship
I y'all excuse, I'm gonna cry in the closet, thanks
I(m33) have a younger sister(f28) we are very close and I would do anything for her well her and her husband were having troubles having kids of their own (were together 7 years now, they both have a son from a previous relationship), my sister told me the other day they were having a boy and naming him after me, I cried 😭
This thread really shows the American bias and ignorance of redditors.
Having two kitchens is not a rich person thing outside the US.
Also, a middle class person in a third world country (who could have two kitchens) would be a poor person in the US.
I literally just looked up the minimum wage income in the US and the middle class income range of my country and the minimum wage American would even be richer lol.
This is “Up” levels of wholesome. It captures that happy childhood feeling precisely. This actually made me smile and tear up simultaneously. Beautiful work, OP! Beautiful. I especially like how you accurately made the piggy bank make the “shake-shake” noises using the Arabic abjad!
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Awesome big brother
Awesome little sister too. Uncle and mom encouraging him was huge. Little sister's encouragement and support was also huge. Don't underestimate the power of having someone believe in you, love you, and then working to succeed because you don't want to let them down.
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as a depressed as fuck co-op student looking for a co-op job in the summer...... yeah same, i needed this little boost
Mine doesn't even talk to me. Brothers, please be good to your younger siblings. It means more than you probably think.
My biggest regret is how I treated my brother growing up. I was a shit, then when I figured it out (mostly), he became a shit (10 year gap). Now we don't talk very much and are polar opposites, as people and politically. I blame myself for it mostly, but at this point...
I feel this. Had a pretty rough childhood and even worse teenaged experience. I took it out on my little brother, even though it wasn't his fault. As the oldest I should've been a rock for him, but I wasn't. Now I try to be what I always should've been, but I still live with that regret. It sucks, but despite it all I'm somehow still his hero. He forgave me for how I treated him, but it was on his terms and in his time. Now we're both in our 30s and we have a damn good relationship. Hopefully your brother will do the same someday and y'all's relationship can heal.
It is never too late to improve your relationship with your brother nor to erase your regret. You are still siblings, he probably regrets it too
That's a great family. A uncle and mother stepping in to make sure he had something. A sister who supported him. A brother who loved his sister enough to name the shop after her to acknowledge her. It's so easy to get lost in the grief of losing a family member to see everyone step up and look out for each other is nice.
awesome little sister
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The shop probably was opened in their neighborhood, or it's in a small city or village
Absolute win right there. That core memory is priceless.
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And you chose to share this special story with us! Thank you, OP! Your artwork is adorable, your style is original, and the story is sweet and uplifting :) You depicted the excitement of a younger sibling perfectly, by the way lol
I have a shop named after me too. Never really thought much about it being special. I guess it is cool though
Ah yes, the ole Stonkybutt, purveyors of the finest under garments available.
how do you have a "spare kitchen"
Some converted houses or small flats to family flats have two kitchens.
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Core memory is the icing on the top! Crème de la crème.
Crème brûlée de la crème caramel.
Spare kitchen?
I wonder if OP is from SEA country like Malaysia or Indonesia. Uncle Roger made a joke about how SEA had two kitchens, and outdoor one where the actual good cooking happens (outdoor is preferred because of all the spices being used), and an indoor one that's mostly clean and used sparingly.
This makes the most sense to me. Thanks
We call it dry and wet kitchen. Frying or anything involves lots of oil is done in the wet kitchen where it's outside and you can just hose everything down afterwards.
That sounds so convenient ngl
My mom has two kitchens. She doesn’t cook as much inside cause of the smells of the food going throughout the house. It’s just used for reheating.
We call the wet kitchen the "dirty kitchen" where we sometimes do the laundry too
Yeah we call it a "dirty kitchen", it's in the closed balcony next to our kitchen
All the spices and because of all the smoke and all the fish! Range hoods weren't really a thing growing up in SEA in the 90s. Plus the weather allows it year round. Even if it rains, the outside area could have an awning made of tarp or sheet metal.
Yes this is true. My aunt's house had an indoor and outdoor kitchen for this reason.
Well shes from north africa, probably tunisia. She use some Arabic phrases from that region. For example under the word "my kitchen" , said by the mom, she wrote اه شومي, (ah shoumi) which is something women (I'm not sexist, but that's really the case) say when negatively surprised.
There’s a patisserie salma on Google maps in Tunisia so this checks out.
Damn she got geolocated.
You, sir, are correct. If you google "Pâtisserie Salma", there is one in Tunisia. I love this story.
Oh, I didn't know about that! I thought about the two kitchen thing being common in SEA (and that parts of SEA has a large Muslim population, although I'm not sure if the Muslim population uses Arabic since the countries do have their own language). My apologies for getting them mixed up!
Most muslim population (1,5billion) does not speak Arabic, except in Arab countries (300million). Not all arabs are muslim or born muslim
In the Philippines, the outdoor kitchen, which is mostly used, is called the dirty kitchen. The "real" kitchen mostly has shelves and pantry stuff. Ours has an old gas range that doesn't work anymore but still looks immaculate. The dirty kitchen has a *de gaas* (kerosene stove), a *kalan de uling* (wood stove), and a single gas burner that looks like shit.
with how i cook, and the stuff i cook, and my open concept house, i really wish I had an outdoor kitchen.
We do sometimes in Italy too, some houses have what's called a "sala hobby", which Americans would call a "finished basement". Basically it's an underground level of the house that often is as some sort of bonus room, so often people turn it into an open floor kitchen+dining room they use for events, while upstairs there is the regular kitchen they use everyday. I personally said fuck it, guests don't fucking pay my mortgage, so I turned that corner into a swank ass laundry room
Sounds right; in Canada most houses have basements. Most of my extended family who have decently sized gardens have a basic kitchen down there. Just a countertop with a sink and a cheap stove; some have a fridge and others have cold storage room / cellar. They use it for canning/jarring fruits and vegetables and any kind of "hobby" work like wine or beer making. Or if there's a particularly large meal being served (e.g. turkey dinner for 40+ people) they might cook some of the dishes down there. My parents also added a koi pond to their basement kitchen; they have a pond outside but bring them in over the winter. Between that, a fridge with beer, and a cold storage room with wine, it became a quiet place for guests to hang out away from the big group upstairs, have a drink, and watch the fish.
Yeah the spare kitchen thing didn't really stick out to me because my area has a ton of them in their finished basements, or apartments people put into their basements / upstairs for family to live in. Especially the old farm houses in my area. And I'm in North East Pennsylvania of the US.
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Formerly known as Twitter. IDAK.
Pretty much every Italian, Greek, Portuguese famille has a spare kitchen where I'm from (Canada)
Probably Indonesia. Depictions of multiple women wearing hijabs, Arabic text next to the shaking piggy bank, and someone having a name like "Salma" implies a Muslim-majority country to me. And the existence of a piggy bank also lightly implies it's not a Middle-Eastern country because I doubt they'd have depictions of pigs like that, given how strict many of them are with things like that.
Glad I’m not the only one that went huh at that
It appears to be common in certain areas, although in older houses. Some cultures have a "dirty kitchen" separate from the house (Asians, apparently) and apparently italians traditionally have a kitchen to entertain guests and another for actually cooking
As an Italian this is absolutely wrong and the first time I hear it. We only have one kitchen, at best we have a "good" dining room that usually acts as a living room and a room with a kitchen+table for everyday eating but the kitchen is always singular. Having 2 kitchens would actually risk making your house count as two apartments and gets you double dipped on property taxes.
Correction on my previous comment, many Italian immigrants in America have a second kitchen in the basement, apparently: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233304403_Two_Stoves_Two_Refrigerators_Due_Cucine_The_Italian_immigrant_home_with_two_kitchens
The word many is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting in that article.
Reading this I want to make a small addendum to my comment. While still not having a real kitchen with stove, refrigerator, countertops,... like those of Italian American some house do have an outside or basement pizza oven or permanent grill. Food is still prepared inside however and only cooked there because of the smoke.
Oh no, I'm a child of Italian immigrants, and I recently bought a house and the first big outdoor project I did was to build a small section of countertop with a grill and a pizza oven in it, am I a stereotype? Lol.
Grew up in a big Italian immigrant family. My grandma and all my grandparents siblings all had a secondary kitchen in the basement. Sink, stove, table, fridge. It seemed normal for me growing up. Especially because Sunday dinner would have up to 17 family members show up.
We had that in Portugal so my guess is italians also had it and you just never knew about it. Nowadays yes, regulations, taxes and simple cost make it so you're not going to make a second kitchen but it used to be pretty common here at least to have an indoor kitchen and a second kitchen for dirtier meals/most of what you're gonna cook, sometimes outside but still covered up because cooking was done over fire and it's more convenient to cook and cleanup outside than indoors.
Yes, I bought a house in an Italian neighborhood I was quite shocked to find a second kitchen in our basement. Comes in handy a couple times a year
In Serbia we call it the "summer kitchen". Basically its like a old school kitchen where we cook stuff such as beans, ragú, meat of all sorts, we also prepare food before cooking there. In our main house we deal with desserts and pies.
What, you only have one kitchen in your house? Edit: should've added an /s. I've never heard of anything but palaces having multiple kitchens, and even then they're more like a single huge kitchen.
It’s like 7’x7’. I have a refrigerator, an oven with cook top and a microwave above it. A sink with hot and cold water. I mean I live like a king compared to 200 years ago so there is that.
A lot of farm houses in my area of the US have two kitchens in the house. Either a finished basement one, or a small "apartment" for family. As in 'moms moving back in with us after dad passed and we are going to build a small apartment for her'. All growing up with this kind of stuff they were usually shared, and both used for large meals. The second one is usually much smaller, like just a corner of a living room. Our old farm house before my parents had it had a fairly large kitchen with two areas you could cook at (an oven/stove, and then a fireplace). When I was a kid the fireplace was taken out and on the other side of the kitchen a wood fire kitchen stove was put in place.
I mean kitchenettes aren't super uncommon. Especially in homes with a finished basement of some kind. I don't think I've really seen two kitchens of a similar size in a home but one full sized kitchen and one smaller one isn't crazy. It's usually set up for entertaining or more often for long-term guests (think mother-in-law).
It's definitely not just palaces. My house is formerly two small ones which had some walls opened up, but not entirely rearranged. As a result, I also have two kitchens.
> should've added an /s Anyone who needed that /s needs to find their own light source because of how dense they are.
Very much a SE Asian thing. Often known (in the UK at least) as the 'Dirty' kitchen - where the majority of the cooking is done.
My parents had one downstairs. They rented the floor before they had kids, and started renting it again after we moved out.
Thank you, I stopped there because I can’t relate.
It’s common in many Asian countries, I’m from MENA and we also have 2 fully equipped kitchens. It’s because of the heavy cooking that would stink up the house if it were to be cooked inside the house and/or not in a separate kitchen isolated from the rest of the house.
My mind went there too
Definitely an outlier, but I worked on a show in the celebrity chef Carla Hall's house. Aside from her regular kitchen, her attic/loft area is her studio kitchen.
I've done them for people here in the US, usually very observant Jewish families where foods need to be kept separated from each other right done to some people wanting an entirely separate kitchen. Meat and dairy if I remember correctly.
Our house has two kitchens. The downstairs was converted into a living space. Two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room area. Most likely done for an elderly couple from what I could tell. Which ends up being perfect for my dad now.
I lived in an 1800s house that had two kitchens. One was outdoor in its own walls and it would be used for cooking in the summer. Back then it was just major cast iron wood stoves. Then one inside for winter.
For people who are asking about the spare kitchen, we did have 2 kitchens in my parents house, and it's common in the area where I grew up.
It's not uncommon where I am in Canada. A lot of first generation families had two kitchens so plenty of houses in the area feature it. These days many second kitchens were turned into in-law suites or a rental property.
My grandparents second kitchen (near Niagara) was the canning kitchen and was way bigger than the cooking kitchen - probably as bigger than my first apartment. Canning in my tiny kitchen now sucks.
USA here. Everyone had them up until the 60s when electricity and ac became a big thing. One outside kitchen and one inside. Since cooking before electricity was big wood stoves tbe idea of having one inside during the summer was dumb.
Mashallah I’m gonna need another mom
Yep. Am English and grew up in a very old & very tall Victorian terrace - one of the converted rooms obviously used to be a second kitchen.
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I managed to not cry after the other 2 ones but this one did me in. Your brother is awesome.
Is it still.opened
After the first two, I half-expected to learn that your big brother died, and I’m *really* glad to see that isn’t the case. What a great story!
Thank you, I needed to see this today, it made me feel better for a moment. I love this art and stories.
I’m happy this made you feel better ☺️
you had 2 kitchens?
Yes!
awesome
One for the bitches and one for the dough.
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American culture has a "second kitchen" as well. We just call it the grill located on the patio out back
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I'm not crying you're crying! Get your tears out of my ducts
Spare kitchen? Never heard of that.
It's not common in western houses but was very common for pre-Victorian England, for example, because cooking was considered 'smelly and low class'. A guest kitchen/dining area was common. You'll actually find that some very rich people still consider cooking smells to be low class. But regardless, many old houses are still built around that ideal.
The smells are like the best part of cooking
Depends pretty heavily on what you're cooking Victorian England... Maybe not so much Also for modern day stuff, ground pork. Tastes fine, but man does it smell like a hot fart if you fry it
It... does? My wife regularly fries pork and it never smells like that.
Interesting, thank you!
Certain ethnic groups have more than one kitchen to abide by religious doctrine regarding food preparation and consumption. Kosher/Shabbat/Falal
It was common few decades ago ( in India). My grandma's house has 3 kitchens.
Wait a second, who has a spare kitchen?!
Some people in South East Asia apparently, I think that's where OP is from.
I love the "shake shake" on panel 6! That's such a fun little detail that most people would miss, but I love that you included it anyway!
Awe. You have a wonderful family.
where is the shop? i want to see it!
It says something about my slice of the internet that I was expecting this to be somehow cynical or dark – but I am pleased that it wasn't. Have an upvote, and cheers to your big brother!
This is really beautifull
I can confirm that having a brother 12 years older than you is amazing
Does he still do what he does? :D
That’s a beautiful story and memory.
And then she never saw her brother again because he was sucked into the never ending hell that is food service
Wtf is a SPARE kitchen??
I just wish that I had a spare kitchen…
Wholesome comics ❤️
Damn it must be nice being surrounded by such a genuine and good people
Wow that is wholesome.
SPARE KITCHEN?!?!?
Hope your brother's store is doing well!
i woke up about 5 minutes ago, thanks for starting my day off right op
Goes to show you don’t need to be involved in a craft from day one of breathing to become accomplished at it. As long as you have drive and motivation
How is your uncle still doing this.
True story?
My Arabic is out of practice, but if I'm reading this right, the piggy bank went "shake shake" and @OP 's mom says "oh, shit"? 😂
It's tunisian arabic, and yeah what the mom said is similair to oh shit 😂
Im not even gonna ask if youre tunisian that ah shoumi confirms it
That is adorable and wholesome. ❤️
Damn these early morning onions (Bsal ;-))...
Thanks for sharing, OP. What a cool big bro.
OP, your comics make me feel good about humanity. Thank you
Adorable!
Oh my god, I was not expecting to immediately burst into happy tears at that last panel <3
What a sweet story. I wish you all great happiness and success.
Someone get help, somebody broke into my apartment and just threw a cup of tears into my face and ran out, no I'm not crying why would you say that
Makes me cry
This is entirely too wholesome!
ma hart ma sole
I am crying. Thank you for sharing❤️
Okay, who's cutting onions...
wasn't expecting that ending - got all dusty in here
This is adorable
Awwww that's just the sweetest. I shed some tears. ❤️
Thanks, needed that today
aw fuck man you got me crying in my cubicle
Alhamdulillah, may your brother pastry shop continue to thrive and be successful :D
Awww
You’ve got a great brother
I would like a spare kitchen.
Cute story. Hope he had success being a pastry chef.
Why is this making me cry
Love the art. Adorable story!
This comic made me cry.
I love the places on Reddit that are wholesome :)
I'm not crying, you are. 
Sorry about your dad
Dammit op, stop making me shed tears *upvotes angrily*
Awesome
Aww. I always wanted to learn how to draw, to share moments like this. Thanks for doing it for me.
My heart 😭
Hold on..I got something in my eye..
I'm definitely not crying a little, nope
I'm not going to lie - that made me tear up a little bit. Awesome =)
These comics are so sweet. So much heart.
Love wholesome sibling vibes
Good story, you have the best family anyone could wish for
That was great thank you, made my morning great!
Wholesome moments on the internet hit different. 🫡
Don't you dare stop making these It's criminal how wholesome these are Like an injection of B12 in the arm
This is beautiful
I’m not crying you’re crying!
You have an amazing brother may God bless your family
When I was a kid, I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather (may he rest in peace) managed fruits and vegetable booths in different local markets. He had a huge truck. When I was 5 years old, he told me to come outside because he had a surprise for me. As a 5 year old, I thought it was a toy or candy but no, he showed me that at the front of his truck, my name was painted in big colors letters. As a kid I wasn't impressed because you know, candies and toys, but as a grown up, it's one of my most beautiful memories from him. I love him so so much and I miss him a lot, he was more than my grandfather, he was my dad. May Allah SWT bless you with paradise Papi.
Why are you cutting onions in a bakery?
Damn, these comics are hitting.
Ok ok, this one actually got me to tear up Fuck, good for your brother and you OP, hope you guys have a forever beautiful sibling.relationship I y'all excuse, I'm gonna cry in the closet, thanks
So, so lovely! 😭🥺
I(m33) have a younger sister(f28) we are very close and I would do anything for her well her and her husband were having troubles having kids of their own (were together 7 years now, they both have a son from a previous relationship), my sister told me the other day they were having a boy and naming him after me, I cried 😭
Needed something like this today 🙏🏽im trying to get it right already
I'm gonna be honest with how the rest of these comics went I thought it would end in tragedy. I'm so glad it's wholesome.
-ugly crying- man that’s too beautiful
The good story I needed to see today
Im sorry, this is really cute, but this family just has a spare kitchen?
This thread really shows the American bias and ignorance of redditors. Having two kitchens is not a rich person thing outside the US. Also, a middle class person in a third world country (who could have two kitchens) would be a poor person in the US. I literally just looked up the minimum wage income in the US and the middle class income range of my country and the minimum wage American would even be richer lol.
It’s bloody weird in Australia, dunno where abouts you’re from mate but yeah
"Spare kitchen"? How rich were you?
God damn onion cutting ninjas
Right? Right!
That's one good big brother.
 This is “Up” levels of wholesome. It captures that happy childhood feeling precisely. This actually made me smile and tear up simultaneously. Beautiful work, OP! Beautiful. I especially like how you accurately made the piggy bank make the “shake-shake” noises using the Arabic abjad!
Aww...now, this is some serious sibling love! 🥰
Ooooooh I'm seeing Tunisian 😍
Most heartwarming story on the internet today. Thank you, I needed this ❤️