Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 18, 2013

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    Ida No  about 11 years ago

    I want one too!

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    Sherlock Watson  about 11 years ago

    I’d give that waiter a big tip; even Frank Nelson couldn’t have done that better.:There’s a little of the Rat in all of us.

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    hariseldon59  about 11 years ago

    Sounds like a fish story.

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  about 11 years ago

    Can I get a couple thousand ordered?I need to get some trespassers off of my basketball hoop.

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    blunebottle  about 11 years ago

    No tip for that waiter!………but I’m sure he felt it was worth it!

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    Bilan  about 11 years ago

    It’s a good thing that Pig didn’t order the calamari.

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    kamb8  about 11 years ago

    This is, along with religion, probably the primary reason people go vegetarian. On an unrelated note, this comic is hilarious.

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    Don Winchester Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Becauuuuuuuse yoooouuuuuuu taaaassssssstyyyyyy.

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    Sisyphos  about 11 years ago

    Being a Michelin 3-star restaurant (Pig can afford to eat at that kind of place?!), they probably barely cooked that fish, if at all. And that waiter should be fired! —-At about 350º for three hours….I am totally on Pig’s side today.

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    Good thing Pig didn’t order one of those seafood towers…@Sisyphos, I hear you! I have a curry cookbook by an Indian “superchef” who advocates cooking fish “for just a minute or two”. Hmmm…apparently he doesn’t use fish from the Ganges, eh!

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    eddie6192  about 11 years ago

    Poor presentation.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member about 11 years ago

    If you think about food, you will starve. Let’s think about laws. I could stand to lose some weight there.

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    Destiny23  about 11 years ago

    Would Pig have been happier if the waiter had employed the “A Christmas Story” solution to improving the presentation of food with a head?!

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    tangcameo  about 11 years ago

    Sounds like Stephan ordered the fish recently.

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    Gilbert  about 11 years ago

    Yes….poor presentation. No flowers or leaves or thin line of drizzled sauce on the plate.

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    flashnzoom  about 11 years ago

    Another one I didn’t lol

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    jmartin1955  about 11 years ago

    Too funny

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    SuperDaveP270  about 11 years ago

    EXCELLENT!!I do not like it when people try to purposefully forget that they are eating animals. I am not a vegetarian, I eat meat. I am also not a bleeding heart who cries about “meat means murder” or anything radically stupid like that, but at the same time I do not appreciate the disconnect from other life forms whose lives were rather important to them.

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    Le00eL  about 11 years ago

    hahahaha

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    oldschool434  about 11 years ago

    I think I saw that on an episode of Chopped

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    oldschool434  about 11 years ago

    Why would a tire manufacturer be rating restaurants?

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    sterling3 Premium Member about 11 years ago

    There would be a white tablecloth at a 3* Michelin restaurant.

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    A_NY_Outlaw  about 11 years ago

    Good thing he didn’t order the pork. that really would freak Pig out.

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    Ambydextrous  about 11 years ago

    In a way Pig is right. Food should look like food, not what it was before it became food. In particular pigs roasted on a spit with an apple placed in their mouth creep the !@#$ out of me. I could NEVER eat a pig like that.

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    unca jim  about 11 years ago

    And now, we find that the seas are running dry of fish to feed our ever-exploding population. Good luck to us. Fish farming turns out to be breeding-holes for disease and bio-hazards for the pore fish and ultimately you’n me. I hold no hope for us and the ever-present “what? you only have ONE child??” sorts..

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    finale  about 11 years ago

    Pig wouldn’t do well in a Japanese restaurant specializing in seafood.

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    Number Three  about 11 years ago

    I don’t think Pig will be eating THERE again.LOL xxx

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    seismic-2 Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Of course, food in this strip is normally invisible, with all dinner plates apparently empty. So when Pig says he wants the fish to “look like food”, the waiter could just take it away and eat it himself. I’m glad he came up with this alternative solution, though!

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    hcr1985  about 11 years ago

    Pig’s off to Long John Silvers, where the fish looks more familiar!!

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    joegeethree  about 11 years ago

    Pig wanted fish sticks.

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    lin4869  about 11 years ago

    I’ve been a vegetarian since the 70s and this one hits home.

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    BlackFrostWarrior  about 11 years ago

    Actually, I have no issue with killing things in order to eat them. I’m reasonably certain I could do it myself, if I had to (so long as I didn’t have to raise it first). But your food, it should not gaze upon you with dead eyes.

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    However in Malaysia and Africa they certainly are considered a delicacy. A Senegalese friend told me that when she was growing up, she was told by the adults in her family that fish heads were “bad” for little kids. Now, she realises, they were keeping them for themselves.

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    tbritt99  about 11 years ago

    LOL

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