Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 14, 2020

Goat must have been one of those kids that told the other kids there was no Santa Claus.

I never realized how big Goat and Pig were compared to people – or is that a tiny person?

Messenger, but with my accent, nobody understands me.

I’m with the Wisconsinite cheese man here: this is definitely going to take a while.

Blessed are the cheesemakers

I have to admit that when I learned about the old testament manna from heaven, I imagined it tasting like cheese.

Gouda cheesey puns filled the comments yesterday.

The farmer is quite a feta so he’s gouda to provolone that cheese doesn’t come from heaven until he’s bleu in the face.

Everything he says is sure to go over Pig’s head—Swisssss!

No he’s not a messenger from God but a messenger from Gouda, the mother of God!

Yum…white stilton with apricot!

I had the cheese; now I’m a believer!

Drive by Cedar Valley Cheese on the wrong day and you’ll get an olfactory understanding of the cheese-making process. You’ll also find out where the expression “Cut Cheese” came from.

That said, it’s the best place around to stop in and get a block of aged cheddar. :)

Along while ! Better bring a week’s worth of “MRES” … Croc Power !

Camembert, perhaps?O: Ah! We have Camembert, yessir.C: (suprised) You do! Excellent.O: Yessir. It’s ah… it’s a bit runny.C: Oh, I like it runny.O: Well,.. It’s very runny, actually, sir.C: No matter. Fetch hither the fromage de la Belle France! Mmmwah!

Pig has a higher appreciation for him than some would.

It’s not “manna”.

Limburger has a certain air to it.

Sorry, but the BEST CHEESE I ever had was from Amish Country in Pennsylvania.

Comes a great disillusionment. I am sorry, but cheese is actually is rotten curdled milk.

Considering how tiny Pig is drawn compared to other characters, that’s one short farmer.

Pastis is really milking this thing.

“The farmer takes a wife, the wife makes the cheese, hi ho a dairy-o the Farmer in the Dell”

Cheese, not another day of this.

Poor poor PIG! Now who could have filled his head with all this malarkey?

I thought pigs were smart creatures.

I did a tour of the Cabot cheese factory in VT; they actually do use their bare hands to stir the proto-cheese.

Let Pig think the way he wants to think

They brought in an expert messenger from God; I hear his name is Dr. Fauci

Which I take to mean, do not bother to provide truth to true believers, they simply refuse to listen, unless of course you agree with them

The life-cycle of Milk:

1) This tastes good!

2) This doesn’t taste so good.

3) This tastes bad!

4) This tastes REALLY bad!

5) This will kill you!

6) Oh, yummy cheese!

Sad bit of reality Wisconsin dairy farmers have been facing very tough economic times….predates Covid-19 by several years…

Why waste good milk-fat on that when it could be used to make ice-cream?

I consider myself a zealot.

I think an Islamic story had a deity toss out used ass’ milk cosmetics down to Earth, and a present bystander compared it (in parallel) to manna from heaven.

“And does the angel also deliver the cheesehead hats?”

Poutine. Mmmmmmm.

Tillamook cheese is better.

He would only be a messenger from God if they were talking about chocolate.

I find mine under cabbage leaves.

Cheese Gromit, cheese.

That is one brave Wisconsin Dairy Farmer! Pig is nearly a hopeless case!

Maybe just say “yes” and get back to America’s Dairyland….

That dairy farmer may be grateful Wisconsin is also known for beer.

Cheese of the Gaps — Swiss, of course.

The Angel Tillamook does a wonderful job.