Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 02, 2019

Look at it this way, Rat: you will be doing a good thing when you make the salad. You will be putting the fruit out of its misery.

You have to feel for those poor pieces of fruit about to sliced and diced. I’d be sad too.

Sort of the exact opposite of the Fruit Buddies: http://pbs3.referata.com/wiki/Fruit_Buddies

So, we have a pouty pear, a watery melon, a leaky lemon and an angry orange.

Two days on one gag – shall we go for three?

That’s a pretty sad excuse for a fruit salad.

Working on the fruit salad will give Pig a chance to dismember why he is sad.

Yesterday sad… Today sad… Hopping for happier days. Happy New Year!

Rat, make a fruitcake and dedicate it to Pig, instead.

Pig what would Larry Croc do ?

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What? No lacrimal lemons, bilious berries or unhappy honeydew?

Only a rat would eat that …

Oh.

Make a fruit salad? Ridiculous! Everyone knows fruit salad comes in a can.

Melancholy

Melancholy melon

Rat’s efforts to cheer Pig up are fruitless. He should let Pig stew in his own juices.

I think someone needs a couple hundred upvotes to buoy him in these dark days.

Fruit salad makes me sad…

I’m sad that we don’t get to see enough of the crocs, and zeeba neighba

These fruits will scream when you bite into them!

Bananas are perpetually sad. Or happy.

Wow, Rat suggests doing something constructive and healthy.

(insert funny comment here)

hey where’s the bad pun??????

Sad fruit salad. It’s an old family recipe….

Why is rat making something healthy? I thought he lived on beer and chips.

I’d be frowny too if I were being made into fruit salad!