Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 16, 2018

If we could get all the world leaders to sit down for a pancake breakfast (with real maple syrup), all the world’s problems would be solved.

I am tempted to do that at times, but I will not waste a good pancake!

I’m close to kicking Goat

Quit being a spoil-sport dietitian, Goat, and just enjoy.

My daughter blames us for two things in her childhood: raising her with real maple syrup, and with real peanut butter. When she went to friends houses and was served Aunt Jemima and Jif, it was not the same.

My father’s brother in law operated a candy shop in Lowell MA. He kept us supplied with bark and peanut brittle in the holidays, and he was a source for Northern Comfort Maple Syrup. The labels used to have a bear, nodding off.

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Exquisite eh? It might be good for Pigs complexion!

Pancakes are probably the thing I would choose to eat every day of my life, if I had to pick one. As long as you can put almost anything on it, it will be enjoyable. But even plain, it’s still palatable.

Having said that, I like the cake on the face idea. Kind of like a hot towel.

Because you can’t spell ‘I hope’ without IHOP!

Hearty pancakes with lots of bacon are a great traditional snack in the lower Rhine Valley. To meet halfway with goat, they are often made from buckwheat and they are usually served with a small salad….

Oh good. Free pancakes with mutton and pork.

Pastis’ muse must be wearing a pancake.

I’m in, as long as we can put whipped cream on them first.

One of the best parts of winter is coming up ….taping Maple trees to make maple syrup …. collect the tap water cook it down and there is your syrup !

That’d be a waste of a perfectly good pancake

They could try waffling.

Someday all of Mankind’s social ills will fade away, and we will evolve socially into a Utopian planetary civilization of prosperity and brotherhood.

After all, if the pancake can be transformed into its evolutionary pinnacle, the Sausage Egg Cheese McGriddle, can Mankind be far behind?

I’m making cinnamon rolls from scratch.

Just sayin’

Goat is such a spoil sport. Maybe Rat should serve them with goat sausage.

those are some hard pancakes.

The problem with this approach is that you can’t see all of the good things in the World that can give us hope either. Learn how to ignore most of the crap for the BS that it is. For the stuff that is truly outrageous, call it out for what it is, but don’t get drawn into the arguments of the fools that defend it. That only bogs you down.

I propose we extend this idea to full-body pancakes. Let’s start with the Flap Jacket!

Pigs in a blanket are always exquisite.

That last panel just made me crack up!! Much better than burying your head in the sand.

to say here but bacon goes good with pancakes too!

“…Don’t you DARE be sour!!!!…”

Misties (MST3K) beg to differ. WAFFLES will save the world!

Pancake make-up your own reality.

New Day had it right. #PANCAKEPOWER

But…do not put the bacon over pigs face! That is just rude..lol

A world without pancakes would be just waffle.

Are they gluten free? (Not that I care, one way or the other.) Has anyone ever noticed that gluten and glutton differ by only two letters? And I’ve heard them pronounced the same (by people who really should know better). I have often pondered on how the human race survived long enough to propagate without knowing all these things that are “bad” for them, and that “all these things” are subject to change; gluten, carbs, sugar, whole milk, eggs, red meat, white meat, any meat as protein, white bread, usque ad nauseam. I’m amazed to have lived to the ripe old age I’ve attained!

For a fresh warm steamy facial.

It spooks me when he’s right.

I see that all these characters have pancake snorkels. Unlike my considerably less nasal self.

I’ve heard of pancake makeup, but this is ridiculous, Cartoon-Boy!

perfect

The exact way that some people would wear masks in a couple of years. Pastis is definity a visionary.

I’m more of a waffle person.