Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 11, 2021

Eight times a day, enlightened people around the world turn and face toward Wisconsin.

I’ll meet Wise Ass halfway with manicotti and red wine.

Everyone has their own Nirvana.

Hmm. Both of them use microorganisms to transform one form of food into something better. What does it all mean?

That wise ass isn’t so wise. The cheese should be sharp cheddar melted on nachos.

I’d recommend ice cream, this time of year, for those of us who don’t care for beer.

The Wise Ass is trying to accelerate the Philosophy of Darwinism.

sounds like that Pastis guy is using his job to get him another beer and cheese freebie to sample how his new toon is going along. Was the doofus never fed at home? Should have just pinched his ravenous head off, when they could’ve.

All that cheesy goodness is something you can fondue; all that philosophy, maybe you fondon’t. But the beer is bedrock truth! We should all hops to it.

They know not of plates or even a tablecloth for that cheese.

I miss the crocs…

Constipated and drunk. No thanks.

Well at least Pig looks happy in this arch !

I sometimes think the “Wise Ass”" is a “Smart Ass”!

Cheese and beer will certainly make you look like Buddha.

As hot as it’s been lately, sitting in the sun is a way to BE consumedby heat & sun strokeUnless you can enjoy beer & cheese at sunrise.

I like the WAOH as a recurrent character in the strip. He can be whatever the joke needs at the moment.

Sorry – he’s wrong. If chocolate isn’t involved, there is no happiness…

A good IPA and a bag of Cheetos works almost as well.

I could go for some grilled cheese.

Leaving aside the “Way of the Wise Ass”, I seriously doubt that Rat has studied to the extent that he claims.

Cheese? Bleah! Just gimme the beer.

Either the beer will ruin the cheese, or the cheese will ruin the beer, depending on your preference.

Neither for me. Bacon and wine, yes.

he might have asked Pig as well

I think I’d go with rare steak and Jack Daniels instead.

So Rat’s idea of nirvana is a picnic lunch. How quaint.

All that’s missing is the “thou” (a jug of wine, a loaf of bread….)

It might just be me, but back in my beer-drinking days I didn’t like to eat anything when I was drinking- no pizza, no peanuts, nothing. I don’t know why, but for me the combo of beer and food just didn’t taste right.

In other words, get snockered and you won’t care about anything….

Sounds like the old saying “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.” And if you only eat cheese and drink beer, you are helping the odds of dying.

Bring back Danny Donkey.

Throw in some dry salami and a loaf of sourdough bread and you’ve got yourself aa whole damn picnic!

Enlightenment is nice. But one needs at least two cans of beer.

I’d rather eat cheese in the shade, the sun makes it nasty….lol

Make it mac’n’cheese and Capri Sun and I agree.

Blessed are the cheese makers…

Even that Wise Ass doesn’t know that wine goes even better with cheese than beer.

What cheese goes well with scotch?

Hops is a vegetable right? So beer & cheese covers all the food groups.

I don’t drink alcohol. I lack the key to happiness…

Eat, drink and be wise my friend……

Me, I’ll take root beer over regular beer, but I’ll gladly have cheddar with it.

Left out crackers and summer sausage.

Happiness begins with you. You have to choose to be happy (some just have a harder time and may need to be medicated). Stop watching the news would be a good thing also

Maybe also stop reading comments on go comics

Funny. My idea of happiness is sitting your room and listening to Arctic Monkeys while reading a good book. Perhaps the Wise-Ass is wrong.

Magic mushrooms?

Cheese and beer does not bring happiness to me. Other foods and beverages do, but they also require more weight loss efforts. Hugs and caresses from my GF is the best source of happiness.

“God is great, beer is good, & PB4S is crazy”!! Apologies to Billy Currington.

I do not like cheese and bear. Don’t you hear?

he forgot baguette…

Fart foods when combined

Ew. Beer tastes like vomit. Maybe a nice REFRESHING berry sangria instead?

Even better: Cheez doodles and beer.

The gas later on may be “enlightening”.

https://www.comicskingdom.com/sherman-s-lagoon

I will have to make a pilgrimage to Milwaukee.

Or wine!

Well, in that case, I must be a got dang living Buddha.

No, no, no! Foolish * on the Hill, you need more. You’ve just started gathering the ingredients for German Cheddar beer soup. Now you need to finish making the soup. AND SOFT PRETZELS! Gotta dip soft pretzels in the soup. German Cheddar beer soup and soft pretzels are the secret.

“Wisconsin is Heaven!” to paraphrase a writer from nearby Waukegan.

bleah. sounds like a horrible combination. now if you made it ice cream…

It’s the simple things…….

How about homemade cookies and ice-cold lemonade?

And someone to share it with!

Does root beer count?

35 years of being enlightened! Exactly why I wisely moved my ass to Wisconsin 35 years ago…..for enlightenment and hoppiness.

*naught

So constipation is enlightenment?

I listened and did this exact thing but in my home and without beer

Do they know not of cheese and beer or do they know naught of cheese and beer?

Amen! Although I might swap the beer for apple cider.

Pinot noir and pizza works for me.

Rat and Pig+beer and cheese+sunshine=Enlightenment! Who knew?

Wine, cheese and a loaf of sour dough

FritoLay will be annoyed he didn’t mention chips & salsa

I’m certain there’s a Koan for this.

cheese is created by unhappiness for cows, though… keeping cows constantly pregnant and lactating but taking their babies away at birth and disposing of them so that humans can have the milk… pretty messed up. Doesn’t seem like misery could be the actual key to happiness…