Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 14, 2013
Transcript:
Gramma Evie: Alix told me the crawdad is pregant. Will the babies survive in here? Erma: They're very adaptable. That's why they're so INVASIVE. Gramma Evie: What will you do with them all at the end of the school year? Erma: I'm thinking...etouffee! Gramma Evie: WHAT?? Erma: I like mine spicy...you? Crawdad: ?
rayannina over 10 years ago
Humans are the most invasive species of all.
cholomanaba over 10 years ago
are those things edible?
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Ask and you shall receive, Evie in the middle panel.
Phapada over 10 years ago
what is mean Etouffee…?
Gator007 over 10 years ago
I have not had a crawdad yet. Maybe in the future I will.
snarkm over 10 years ago
Last panel: That is the expression of a human who has never really thought about where her non-vegetarian food comes from. Nor, presumably, cared about how it was raised and under what condition it lived and was killed before ending up in the store.
ShadowBeast Premium Member over 10 years ago
I think Evie is gonna want to free Pinchy and her kin back to her native lake now.
monkeyhead over 10 years ago
Can I come too?
Destiny23 over 10 years ago
Granny (“Beverley Hillbillies”) liked smoked crawdads. Which confused the heck out of some hippies when she invited them to smoke some with her!
sbchamp over 10 years ago
Hoo Dat!
sbchamp over 10 years ago
Nah, them’s bait…
Dani Rice over 10 years ago
A Louisianan will never go hungry as long as there’s a ditch nearby.
magicwalnut Premium Member over 10 years ago
Should have just eaten her while you had the chance, Evie!
emjaycee over 10 years ago
Mud bugs! Yum!!
locake over 10 years ago
Alix won’t let Pinchy get eaten.
YatInExile over 10 years ago
NOW you’re talkin’, Ms. Erma!!
lisapaloma13 over 10 years ago
@kea
I’m a hero! It can get lonely as you get older, but I have a goddaughter who is like a daughter. My family cut back, and with overkill. Of my two siblings and me, no biological offspring. (Down from a family of 17 kids three generations ago.— and my parents had only three siblings between them, with one of them childless.)
Doctor11 over 10 years ago
Looks like the crawdad is going to be lunch.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 10 years ago
This is bad of course.
jmo328 over 10 years ago
Laws should be made to cut back the human population not only for the good of the planet for humanity’s own good.
We do, it’s called the Affordable Care Act. aka Obamacare. It’ll kill off plenty of us.
YoungGeezer over 10 years ago
I like the teacher’s attitude. I think I will eat her ahh … crawdads.
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
My aunt had five children; my mother had two children; I had one child; my son has none (biologically speaking). Actually, I wish I could have had more… If you can afford it, have as many as you wish. If not, there’s always birth control… ;)
Jeff0811 over 10 years ago
I’m a hero, to my 10 kids. Kidding, I only have two. I would like to think I have their undying love and respect, they certainly have mine.
harmgb over 10 years ago
@ShadowBeast…..you DO know that some people actually raise kids without government aid, don’t you?
prasrinivara over 10 years ago
Étouffée sounds like a Louisiana version of chemeen biryani (with crayfish substituted for the prawn — which is what “chemeen” means in Malayalam). Do crayfish taste somewhat like freshwater crab?