Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 14, 2013

Humans are the most invasive species of all.

are those things edible?

Ask and you shall receive, Evie in the middle panel.

what is mean Etouffee…?

I have not had a crawdad yet. Maybe in the future I will.

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.

I think Evie is gonna want to free Pinchy and her kin back to her native lake now.

Can I come too?

Granny (“Beverley Hillbillies”) liked smoked crawdads. Which confused the heck out of some hippies when she invited them to smoke some with her!

Hoo Dat!

Nah, them’s bait…

A Louisianan will never go hungry as long as there’s a ditch nearby.

Should have just eaten her while you had the chance, Evie!

Mud bugs! Yum!!

Alix won’t let Pinchy get eaten.

NOW you’re talkin’, Ms. Erma!!

@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.)

Looks like the crawdad is going to be lunch.

This is bad of course.

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.

I like the teacher’s attitude. I think I will eat her ahh … crawdads.

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… ;)

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.

@ShadowBeast…..you DO know that some people actually raise kids without government aid, don’t you?

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?