Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 08, 2019

Remember to carb load on pretzels.

It’s counterproductive because you forgot the pizza!

Not THAT kind of rehydration, Rat! Goat was referring to water or even electrolyte-filled Gatorade.

But counterproductive tastes so much better!

Bartender, it is now time to whine. I think a good Merlot will work.

Rat has to restore his alcohol balance.

As @DennisInSeattle implied, there’s too much blood in his alcohol stream.

I got a real laugh out of that one…but seriously, having a beer after a workout isn’t unusual. When I volunteered for IRONMAN, I often saw the top athletes having a beer after completing the race.

Jef is having a good influence on Rat, I see.

Job well done Rat ! ….. Croc Power !

If it’s light beer, it’s mostly water anyway.

Stupid Rat. Alcohol dehydrates, not rehydrates!

How is Goat such an expert?

Yeah, it doesn’t help that there are 16 microbreweries within a quarter mile’s distance off the W&OD trail here in Northern VA.

I used to compete in races and most of them had beer at the finish. Some had pizza.

That is not really hydrating per se.

I’m so vexed by hearing admonitions to “hydrate” I could scream. The other day I walked past the drink stand for a road race that bore the sign “Hydration Station.” Why must Americans medicalize every simple, normal human behavior like drinking by labeling it with absurd technical jargon? It’s sick!

Well, that’s one way to get that ’runner’s high’!

There’s a reason the USDA doesn’t all beer to put complete nutritional information on the label; information that is mandated for everything else: beer is an excellent source of B vitamins and anti-oxidants, it’s fat-free, low-sugar, and your liver can process the alcohol to usable energy faster than anything else you can drink.

Quite the summer landscape

I knew kids at college who would work out all week so they wouldn’t gain weight from their weekend drinking.

Or rather like the person who orders the colossal triple-decker bacon-cheese burger with everything with a side of super-sized fries to be washed down with a double-giant Diet Coke.

Beer is just fermented vegetable soup. So it must be good for you, right?

Water, water, water…..

But worth the weight.

Wait, Rat, needs to lose weight?

what I read here I can drink beer and hydrate https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.1997.83.4.1152 so I am staying with beer (don’t bother arguing, its a valid opinion, like fake news)

Re-hydrate, Rat! Not “re-alcoholate”! Oh, well. In Rat’s case, what does it matter?

Probably safer than doing it Rat’s way before the workout.

Rat could be a perfect Andy Capp’ pupil .

Is Rat sitting on his tail?

“Well, to the layman’s eye, of course…”

I think the rehydratation by beer is not the best option… The beer drinks better in musical events and parties or when we saw sport events with some peanuts…