Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 02, 2013

Arthur: I shouldn’t have green salad?Cow: I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point.

I hope no one orders the fresh pork.

Nobody can eat a animal, that had a name….

Advice to Fred: DON’T PANIC and alway have your towel.

42!

If you are going to discuss The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you should start at the beginning.

“The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Right, said Fred. I’m too sexy for your grill. He’s better read than dead.

Anybody know if Towly, from South Park is related to the towels in the “Guide”?

LOCALLY-SOURCED???? :O with a hyphen!? Oh no! :(

Don’t have a cow man.

How’s the man-wich there?

Stephan, how many Bobs live in this universe? :P

shades of the restaurant at the endof the universe. at least fred didn’t introduce himself!

Meet the meat you eat…

Chef Bob? That sounds ominous. Bob-hood is more often than not a fatal condition in PBS. Maybe Fred will turn the tables and change the featured menu item to Long Pig….

Bob likes to shoot the bull.

I’ll go with Tiny the Shrimp Salad.

Is Brudder Pastis trying to convince readers to go vegetarian? I hope so :)

Perhaps Fred should have chosen a different establishment!

If you’re a vegetarian, my food poops on your food.

LOVE “Hitchhikers Guide”—thanks for all the references. Thank God for 42.

Good idea on the salad, Pig. Turns out, every time Fred eats at that restaurant, he always orders a big bowl of non-organic grain with antibiotic hormone sauce.

interesting shift in background gradient color between panels.

Piggy, you’d be better off with a veggie burger.

Advice to cook: Don’t give your food a name in front of the customer.

Mr. Pastis: This is your best cartoon ever!

I’m reminded of the movie “Galaxina”, where a spaceship lands on a strange planet and the crew find themselves at a “human restaurant”.

I don’t know why Pig is getting all squeamish now. He eats bacon and sausage with equal gusto.

First laugh out loud of the day! I almost finished with all my comics, thought there wasn’t going to be one.I’m ,sorry.

I have friends that own a farm who name every cow that they raise for beef. I am a vegetarian, but at least this family know who and what they are eating!

And do you know a better way to make sure you’re really getting what you ordered, and not, say, horse?!

Stephan is in rare form today. Well done!:(Wonder how many will get that…)

I tried to eat vegetarian once, but he escaped.

maybe makes some cow pies with the left overs?

This reminds me of an earlier Pearls strip where Rat was working as a waiter. The customer orders the New York steak, rare. Rat then sends a cow out of the kitchen, who greats the customer with “How are youse doin’?”. The customer then responds, “Not THAT rare”.

Poor Fred!

I think that would be a sensible thing to do, Pig.

xxx

Pig: “Maybe I’ll just have a salad.”Chef Bob: “What you got against cows?”Pig: “I got nothing against cows!”Bucky Katt: “I do – I have buns against cows.”Chef Bob:“Wrong strip, Bucky.”

Why is it every character is Bob? Pig and Rat know more Bobs than I have ever met in my life.

Now THAT was funny. Next up baby back ribs whooo aaah.

If Fred is old enough to need reading glasses he will probably be a mite tough.

Fred thanks you Pig.

Turns out, that was a true story, but The Doctor fixed it, turned the whole wibbley wobbley timey wimey ball of stuff around, and un-destroyed the Earth and all life on it. Only a few that have time traveled before can remember it.

On a completly different note we have a seafood resteraunt here in Seattle called Ivars, their motto for years was “Fish so fresh, if it was any fresher it would still be swimming”

There are just some questions that Pig shouildn’t ask. Steph,…..,Once again no crocs. I need my croc fix, pal. Tell the politicaly correct Gestapo,to get bent. I know ther has to be many Pearls fans who feel mthe same way……

Poor Fred. Wise choice, Pig.

No time to let Fred cure.

You don’t see McDonald’s doing that.

Oh look, another member of the NRA. Yipee!!

Too bad they don’t have locally sourced rodent meat… :|

Last orders, please.

The Vegans will rebel! (and I will fight against them.)