Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for June 02, 2018

Pork Faggots? I understand fag has a different meaning in England but this is a little daring for Opus!

Meseems that an essential, the clotted cream, has been overlooked…

No doubt Bill is doing his level best in the kitchen. Also no doubt that THAT is a major reason for the loss of mojo that has occurred.

“Ye.” I always get a chuckle when I see that, or especially when I hear it. It’s properly pronounced “the.” To wit: The word ye , as in Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, is simply an archaic spelling of the definite article the. This came about because the early type sets were made in Germany, and did not include the letter thorn, Þ or þ. In the Old English alphabet, þ represented the hard th- sounds (th) and (th̸) in Modern English. The use of the letter Y, which in some type fonts at the time had some visual similarity to þ, was a printer’s adaptation to absence of the thorn character. Thus, the form would have been rendered as ye. The pronunciation [yee] today is a spelling pronunciation. Likewise, modern technology makes it possible to easily spell it properly, as þe.

Further consideration suggests that Bill’s kitchen might have been enhanced and even better accessorized if it included a turnspit dog/vernepator cur in a wheel. ’Twould be right proper for traditional Olde England.

Let’s pray the “Orange Spotty Salty Dick” doesn’t mess up this chance for peace in Korea.

yes the magic is gone, along with my stomach.

“British Cuisine”; a true oxymoron.

“Wouldest it be thee, or wouldest it be thou… say, which are you, a Thee or a Thou?

That pie with the fish sticking out of it is a real thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdDmivUQero

Salty orange eels’ jellied spotty dicks, yum! (I may have screwed up the recipe).

Or as Andrew Zimmern would say, “A light snack.”

Bill, I’m not sure that’s how you make Haggis or Sheeps Head stew, but hey if the sheep fits…..

That sounds awful on so many levels.

British Soul Food

Hey, if you’ve never had Rocky Mountain oysters served on a brioche fried in duck lard, then you haven’t lived.

Satirical on so many levels. Great job, Berkley.

We named our two Poms Bubble and Squeak

Hasn’t anyone heard of the “Full English breakfast”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast

Pigeon cawl – so delicate, and yet so nauseous

I really enjoyed checking out those dishes on Wikipedia and their images on Google.

“Hathn’t it” LOL

The royal wedding series here has lost my interest. Just misses all the marks. A very modern couple has a not entirely traditional royal wedding, and Berke keeps going as if it’s Queen Victoria getting married.

The sheep and the pig and the roly-poly fish heads seem not to be joining in Bill the Chef’s merry tunes and looney melodies. I wonder why?

And marmite is in reality rat poison marketed as a palatable foodstuff! I’ve tried it (and found it guilty as charged)!

The mayhem in panel 4 is amazing!

All this over a comic. Methinks too many people have too much time on there hands. Get a hobby!

“Crempog” sounds disgusting but they’re just Welsh pancakes, very much like the American variety. The word comes from a Breton pancake, apparently. See Wikipedia for more than you probably want to know!