Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 04, 2022

As the Jewish director said to the real bad actor in To Be or Not to Be (1942):

“You are something I wouldn’t eat!”

I do not like deviled eggs and ham,

I will not eat them, Rat-I-Am.

So Pig should listen to a fellow who was once alive.

Looks like only half an egg to me.

that’s a he(LL) of a meal!

Reminds me of the old line about a breakfast of ham’n’eggs: The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed!

The ham might say something to pig about cannibalism.

The summer of my postdoc in Germany, the lab had a picnic, and everyone was supposed to bring something. I decided that deviled eggs would be just the thing, but my supervisor did not recognize the name or understand my description. This really surprised me, both because he had done a postdoc at the University of Georgia and because these are EXACTLY the sort of things I would expect Germans to eat. At any rate, I made them for the picnic, and when he SAW them, he said, “Ach! Gefüllte Eier!” Yes, they eat them, but being much more literal, they just call deviled eggs “filled eggs”.

Just in passing: You might like to try making your deviled eggs using curry powder instead of mustard. Rave reviews at potlucks I’ve brought them to.

That is SO true.

Deviled eggs are good! Ham, ok once a year!

Quick, grab that egg and boil the heck out of it! The real word is banned)!

I do not like deviled eggs and ham, I do not like them, Satan-I-Am!

I love deviled eggs.

That dish is salty enough.

Substitute spam and save your soul… if you can gag it down.

I thought he was the ham.

Deviled eggs make a more noxious sound when they leave the body

Ham and eggs: A day’s work for the chicken…a lifetime commitment for the pig…

Ham? Ham! Is that Pig’s uncle?

C’mon. My Dad’s got a boat.

Devil’s food cake for dessert.

Deviled eggs are truly the scion of satan.

The origin of the term “deviled” seems to be rather obscure, perhaps intentionally so. It seems that back in earlier times, back before modern refrigeration and food processing standards were developed, one might add a lot of spice and pickles to cover up the flavor of some food that had gone somewhat “off.” That reached its pinnacle in the Chicago meat-packing industry at the end of the 19th Century. They would gather, process, cook, “de-vile” with spice & such, and then can accumulated scrap meat. Hence, “de-viled” ham or whatever. Tasty stuff!

hey, take my wife please. my wife’s a pig. i saw her outside rollin’ in the mud. i said “what are you doing”. she said “bacon a mess”. oh

Mouse is already talking to the ham.

The ham is just over-acting.

Shouldn’t Pig be offended by what Rat is eating in front of him?

That’s an old yolk…

I recommend throwing the plate away, along with the contents of said plate.

I have a friend whose grandmother wouldn’t allow the devil’s name mentioned around her. She called them “teased eggs”. So does my friend.

If I eat this crap, will it turn me evil? LOL

What the ham said: “Hi, Pig! I’m the future you!” :D

Really like deviled eggs. I really, really like ham, but went vegetarian quite a few years ago. I still like ham, I just don’t eat it.

Serve up some deviled eggs and angel’s food cake and let them fight it out.

T-shirt I noticed today—

“Save The Earth.It’s the only planet with pizza”

Devilled eggs because of red paprika topping.Served in all high-class barbecue pits;in case a vegetarian sneaks in.

The ham probably tap dances while singing an Al Jolson song and playing a home made banjo.

Dam Ham?

The Devil Egg is already something of a ham.

Deviled eggs and ham sounds delicious right now.

Oh, I can’t wait!

Balance it out with some Angel food cake.

Today’s “Sheldon” strip confronts much the same issue: sheldoncomics.com/archive/220804.html

Stephan is plenty of ham already!

Nice. Always love it; today I love it more.

Actually, it’s the cooking technique. Although, as I think about it I’m not sure deviled eggs should really qualify anymore. At least not the way we make them. The technique is a refernce to a spicy sauce, or just a bit spicy in general (I make deviled turkey using an 1860s recipe and there is nothing spicy about the sauce in the recipe, but it does require you use some cayenne on the turkey itself). Our deviled eggs don’t have any spiciness to them. Not sure too many make them very spicy anymore.

Last I recalled, the Devil doesn’t do the actual hurling into the fiery pit; that is God’s job. what the Devil does is he leads souls into said fiery pit.

I don’t like them, Sam I Am. I don’t like deviled eggs and ham!

The Ham: “Sam-I-Am eats green eggs and ham. Like the eggs next to me, I am also deviled and like to be known as The Ham in the Can!”

When I say or think of “deviled eggs,” that is not what I have in mind….