Somehow I got irked by the first textbox alone. There is nothing illogical about humans living together. "Humans have everything they need to live alone"... except they can't reproduce asexually, and on top of that younglings can't fend for themselves for ~15 years, so from an evolutionary perspective, of course humans are biologically inclined to form associations with other humans. It would be illogical if they didn't. And this doesn't even begin to touch on the benefits cooperation has for survival. Our social nature is the very thing that allowed us to achieve world domination. You're telling me an alien capable of space travel couldn't reason this out themselves? I guess even alien schools suffer from budgetary deficits if this is the extent of their education.
This has been your regular unnecessary overanalysis of a throwaway line that doesn't actually matter in any way to a cute comic about bread. Until next time.
Sounds like you need some warm and fresh out of the oven bread lmao
They are completely correct about how stupid that line was.
And still might need fresh bread, though
I think there are ways you could make it feel more organic to the setting, but without more detail it's pretty silly. Like, we don't actually know how this species is raised, and are free to come up with basically anything. Like, imagine if they're sort of vat-raised and then receive all the education they need not from a social setting but through access to educational archives like video lectures and wikipedia kind of stuff. Even if our alien creature might understand human biology or even sociology they might not have internalized the idea that these things are biologically necessary nor spiritually fulfilling because their own society has been so far removed from it. Where they might think "oh yeah humans need this" and not think "oh, yeah, humans need this".
And it would be easy to compare that to how people learn to cook, with recipes and video programs, and think, "oh, that's very similar to how our society works for, well, just about anything. we have our colonies and communities but we do not have these romantic, spiritual, affectionate communities. given the ways in which emotions are unreliable as a system of information delivery or messy in other ways, this seems like a weakness" and of course there are many stories that cover this aspect! And then of course the focus of the work would be in celebrating and communicating the joy, the spirituality of sharing meals with others.
Which is all to say, hey, who's got the fresh baked bread cuz daddy's hungry