Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 21, 2015

Don’t take that, Steph — point out to him that the city that gives us “Saturday Night Lame” has nothing to be proud of.

Drive-by bageling.The worst kind.

Would that be a Linzer retorte?

looks like Stephan has never met a bagel he hasn’t loved…..

Only NYC has REAL bagels!

Everything else is just STALE DOUGHNUTS!

(Yeah! I said it!!)

What gives,Rat did not throw that bungle………I mean bagel.

What gives,Rat did not throw that bungle………I mean bagel.

As a New Yorker of my acquaintance tells it, even Manhattan doesn’t have good bagels anymore. It seems the traditional bagel crust comes from a lye bath, but once the EPA declared that bagel places needed emergency showers and eye-washing stations, they all changed their recipes.

So New York has a role in this………..

The guy who bopped Toon Boy speaks good Brooklynese.

now if only Cartoon Boy visited us here in Winnipeg…

I prefer english muffins!

Fairmount or St-Viateur Bagels? I prefer Fairmount. One more reason to visit Montreal.

I live in Montreal, so I know the difference between a NYC bagel and one from Montreal. A NYC bagel can be used to maim someone if thrown with enough velocity, not so with with a Montreal bagel, which is softer and meant to be eaten deliciously with or without cream cheese…yum!!!

’New York Style" everything is over rated at best

bagels is like chewing on yesterdays rubber, never could understand the likes?

I used to think people from New York were the well bread upper crust. . . It now seems they’re just a bunch of crumbs held together by a lot of dough . . .

There, that should clear out the rest of the puns . . .

Hey! That’s assault with a deli weapon.

feels more like a fruit cake than a bagel.

UToob has a vid of Stephan talking about his trip to Montreal that shows the bagels he likes so much. They look fabulous!!

I’m surprised they didn’t choke him out……….

Wait! That bag reads St. Viateur!! Heathen!Fairmount rules the land, damnit!

Not just Montreal bagels, but St-Viateur bagels (nice detail, Steph)!! Open 24 hours – nothing like picking up a hot dozen sesame bagels and cream cheese in the middle of the night, going to the look-out on Mont-Royal and looking at the city lights while listening to some cool jazz…

Death by bagels.

I vote NYC.

Ha ha ha. Stephan just got schmeared.

And Rangers fan screams “Potvin socks!” Or, something to that effect.

Bodo’s Bagels in Charlottesville, VA – ‘water bagels’. Awesome bagels, and made into sandwiches at the shop make them even better

Montreal, home of French-Fried Bagels! With fromage!

I’ve had both. A Montreal bagel is a bagel. A NY bagel is called a bagel much like a Crispy Cream product is called a doughnut.

SNL went stale after Eddie M and Joe P left. then we saw a line of horrible frat boy pranks and slapstick. It was grueling until Ms. Fey and Ms. Rudolph came along. But now it is time to say farewell to the SNL institution. It is done.

DD’s are better.

As I’ve said many times, Stephan can’t say right for saying wrong.

xxx

A whole bag of St. Viateur bagels? Maybe Da New York Drive-By is for his own good, ’cause Cartoon Boy was turning into something big and round and stuffed with more than just a load of pastrami….

iffin new york bagels can knock you out with one throw than i am afraid that they would be way too hard for me and i would choose the montreal bagel cause pastis at least can take a bite out of a montreal bagel so i figure i might be able to

Reminds me of the cartoon ’Mirandy’s Biscuits’ – Hatfield/McCoy like feud with people using rock hard, baked products as weapons. Bagels in Charlottesville Va? Can you say ‘Carpetbaggers’.If it ain’t biscuits – it ain’t Southern.

NYC – and I do not live there – is simply the best place in North America to find a Jewish deli, a kosher restaurant of any cuisine, or a bagel with lox or a schmear. Sorry, but it just is, like classical music is better than anything popular. You all KNOW, whatever your personal listening tastes are, that Bach and Beethoven are great and your guy or gal is entertaining.

Stephan, LOVED your comic strip on Montreal Habs; how about the Toronto Maple Laughs. Rat could be the new coach.

You should send that one to Stephan.

I usedta live a couple a blocks from da Nelson Avenue Bagel Factory in Da Bronx. There have never been better.

You couldn’t harm someone with a New York bagel. That in itself is an insult.

New York makes some hard bagels it would seem.

‘Screw Youze Cartoon Boy’?Montreal IS the best, and I don’t live there, so I’m not biased.

it’s true. bagels are only good in nyc or nj

I have an amazing bagel sandwich shop near me. It has won multiple awards and is just so good. Writing this comment makes my mouth water.