Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 13, 2020

Along with kegs of beer (it is Wisconsin).

Cheeses, that pig is dumb!

That’s a good theory. Of course France, Germany and Oregon also have Cheese Angels (and many other places).

“Cheese Angel, can you hear me”

But where does bacon come from?

I took for granted how good the cheese is here until I started travelling to other parts of the country.

I can go down into the cheese cellar and get a bottle of hundred year old wine and hundred year old cheese. Is that a bad idea?

It’s the bountiful gift from Gouda.

I Brielieve!

what about that British cheese shop which also sells queso venezolano de castor?

He’s right. But not just Wisconsin.

Pig believes that a healthy diet of broccoli, cauliflower, beer, beans, chili … after which you will be able to cut the cheese.

Now I know who is cutting the Cheese!

My favorite breakfast – these yellow-flagged (quarantine) days:

Take a small bowl – put in:

1 heaping tablespoon of shredded sharp cheddar (cheese)

1 heaping tablespoon of cubed ham (I KNOW!)

Two medium eggs

Mix – stir – whatever (Who am I, Betty Crocker?)

Microwave on High – 2 minutes (1100 watts)

Separately . . .

Take three medium-sized (~8") flour tortillas (de harina)

Interleave them on a plate with papertowels, each with a small spot of water in the middle

Microwave them on High – 1 minute

Tuck a third of the ‘ham & cheese omelet’ into each tortilla,

Roll it like a doobie – tuck – don’t twist – one end – leave the other open – rather like,

A breakfast burrito!

YUM!

Are they sitting on pillows, or have they learned how to poop marshmallows?

he’s got deep and abiding faith in cheeses…

I just saw National Lampoon’s European Vacation and in the scene after the Griswolds check into the 1/2 star London hotel the kids turn on the tellie and basically get 3 snowy channels of a cheese making documentary at which the kids scream when they realize that this is what terrestrial TV was like (sans cable)… Looking back to the ’80s I remember being quite content with 24 channels in 1984 or so, and then 40 by the end of the decade and actually as a pre-teen in the ’70s before my parents got cable in 1978 or 79 we got by okay in Tampa with ABC, NBC, CBS, WTOG 44 the independent, 2 PBS channels and occasionally a snowy TV signal from Orlando or Fort Myers….

Anyhow, watching cheese getting made sounds like a punishment to moi, perhaps Goat, Pig and Rat are in purgatory……

That’s why those people have cheese wedges on their heads.

And no one can prove otherwise! (-:

Pig are you related to Satchel ? … Croc Power !

I wonder if Vieux Boulogne will change his mind.

Gee, I wonder if Pig knows how piglets are made – might explain his lack of progress with Pigita…

Nah, then dropped it into the fields of England then up pops Cotswold cheese.

It’s true! I live in Wisconsin. I go and pop a couple pain pills, go outside, and see all kinds of things you’d never believe!

Steph must have chatted with Garfield today. Go check it out.

Pastis, will you please draw those guys a couch.

I prayed to the Cheese Angel for some Limburger, but I had to drive to Monroe, Wisconsin to get it.

No whey that’s true.

Sounds like his story has holes in it…

Cheese, (Geez) That’s funny!

How cheese is made in reality, start to finish

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wondered-how-milk-becomes-cheese/2015/05/15/32abad22-ece8-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html

It’s pretty interesting that they curdle the milk like it had gone bad, so if your milk is spoiled, just give to your local cheese factory (don’t).

Anyone getting flashbacks to the church of cheese?

Actually Pig, cheese is made from cured and solid milk.

Garfield has a cheese strip today

Manna.

Amen Cheejus

True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Not quite as sweet as believing in a cheese angel… ;-)

The Amish would have a problem with this… if they read comic strips

The moon is made of Wensleydale.

Cheese? The cartoon is not about cheese, it about the Covid 19 and the true believers who bought into this BS

I remember a few decades ago that there was a TV show called Cheeses Angels. Three sumptuous flavors of cheese were starred.

Life without cheese isn’t worth living.

Must be the same angels who bring the beer!

I love Pig.

As a nearly lifetime Wisconsinite, I know for a fact it comes from the moon.

yes, I heard the melody to ‘teen angel’ :)

California takes umbrage with today’s strip.

That’s it! I’m cheesing it. Somebody cut the cheese.

You are almost correct pig. Here in Wisconsin those angels actually land in the fields all around the state. We call them Master Cheesemakers. Wisconsin has the only Master Cheesemaker program outside of Europe. We citizens are master cheese eaters who support them, as they make the tastiest, most award-winning, highest-quality cheese on the planet. Yeah, I’m a cheesehead.

Has pig ever tried head cheese? It’s a little hard to find now except at specialty delis.

True! I live in Wisconsin. The 1st thing my son does when he comes over, is head for the fridge & ask, “got any cheese?”

I grew up in a Dairy State (New York – Upstate), but it wasn’t until I moved to Wisconsin that I truly understood the sheer volume and quality of Wisconsin Cheese. Incredible. It’s like a religion here. Yes, I’m a believer.

This public service announcement brought to you by The Wisconsin Dairy Association.

Wisconsin only, huh? Sorry, don’t buy that. Not since there is cheese originating in Vermont, Ireland, England, France, Italy, and Romania.

Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch just came to mind.

Who cut the cheese?

Cheese,if you please/ is in all of these/ and a number of others, to boot/ but the Senegalese/ care little for cheese/ preferring the ginkgo root/ This world is big/ O provincial pig/ and full of delectable fare/ don’t fixate on cheese/ though it seems the bee’s knees/ for cheese may not always be there…

There are those fantastic Bacon Angels also.

When I was in high school (don’t ask when) there were guys who still believed in storks delivering babies. I pray they were joking. Some bad myths never did.

Pig’s naive ignorance is actually kinda sweet, if frustrating….

Does that mean there’s bourbon angels in Kentucky?

I always thought it came from the mysterious white brick in my kitchen.

Ahh—the power of cheese …

Everything’s better with cheddar