Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 05, 2022

The Man said cold pizza is ok.

No, that’s never been true. Breakfast is a meal, not a type of food.

There’s also some foods that are approved for anytime of the day, beer, chocolate, ice cream . . .

It’s lunch-o’clock somewhere!

How come Pig didn’t mention Bacon or Ham slices for breakfast?

But Pig, it is 12 noon four time zones ahead of us. So it’s lunchtime.

Until cereal companies started pushing it, most folks who didn’t do hard physical labor had nothing for breakfast. Or a glass of (likely enough) near beer* or the like. And maybe hunk of bread or some cheese. Or not.

‍*‍ Up until pretty recently, plain water was likely to make you sick. A bit of alcohol (or boiling it to make tea or coffee) makes it safer.

“Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.” – Jules, Pulp Fiction

It’s a very special occasion when this strip shows the cast with actual food on their plates.

80% of the time I have leftover dinner for breakfast.

Pancakes are better in the evening. For breakfast, eat what you can find, I’m going back to bed.

And in Britain, they really do it weird- kippers!

Say how about some pork n bacon for breakf….whoopsie. Sorry about that, Pig.

Pig may love sticking it to the man, but the man loves sticking pig in his mouth for breakfast, along with eggs.

Sorry, gotta go with Rat on this one. Lots of restaurants serve “breakfast” food all day, but I really treasure the ones that serve “regular” food at breakfast time. For instance, my local Burger King will cheerfully sell me a Whopper and fries at seven in the morning. This is also one of the few redeeming qualities of White Castle: they’ll serve you anything on the menu, any time of day.

But beer before noon feels wrong no matter what.

I am 100% with rat there. Breakfast type foods (eggs, etc) are fine when I am actually in the mood for that, but otherwise I’d rather have a burger. Also, I work nightshift and have been up for 12 hours at normal-people breakfast time.

Eggs, Toast, Hash Browns, Sausage, Pancakes, Bacon, Waffles, French Toast, & Canadian Bacon are great for other meals – especially supper.

Wash it down with a beer and you’re good to go.

Coffee and Xanax®

Rat… Always the Rebel.

Pumpkin pie is a fantastic breakfast.

You show ’em Pig!

Yeah, WHO SAYS that you can only eat certain things for Breakfast? If I want a Cheeseburger at 8 A.M. and a bowl of Oatmeal at 9 P.M. WHO SAYS that it’s wrong???

Notice Pig left out the best breakfast food: BACON!

is there anything better than drunken diner french toast at 3 am?

I remember the first time I saw someone having a soda for breakfast, how odd it was. You have OJ or milk, I thought. That was the day my life changed. And my weight! (not really since I was in the Marines and almost everone was a mean, grean, fightin’ machine; the weight thing happened when I turned 45, got divorced, and yes, the soda really flowed).

You’re sticking it to the waist.

Spaghetti-O’s.

The first time I went to Europe (Germany), I ran into this dilemma. The bed and breakfast we stayed at served all kinds of meats and lunchtime things for breakfast and no cereal or eggs or pancakes. Talk about culture shock! :)

There’s a phrase I haven’t heard in a long time, “Sticking it to the man”.

I always sigh with melancholy when circumstances require I get a fast-food-franchise breakfast. I’d so very much rather have their burger and fries claim to fame, but “the lunch grill is not open until 11:00”.

Its 5 o’clock somewhere – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU

Cucumber sandwiches and tea !

It’s whatever floats your boat, PIG and RAT!

Got any bacon around?

I will eat anything for breakfast and a leftover hamburger is common but not fries

You can have a sausage and biscuit and hash browns, what’s really the difference?

I flout that arbitrary rule frequently.

Breakfast for dinner is also good.

Pig eschewing bacon to be chewing burgers?

….and sometimes I enjoy breakfast in the evening! ;o}

Ice Cream for breakfast is good too.

I do it the other way around, pancakes for supper !

Nothing wrong with a breakfast burger but can’t do it for all three meals every day…..

Rat doesn’t follow the crowd.

I just love the forth panel : )

The best breakfast when you’re in the mood for it is a BLT!

You make me laugh Steph. Thank you.

Right On ! …(burp)

What’s also interesting is what foods are “breakfast” foods in different cultures. Bread… salad… fish… noodles… bacon/eggs/sweet stuff

This reminds me of that age-old joke: “I’m on the see-food diet. When I see food, I eat it.”

We like in a society that doesn’t like pineapples on pizza. Hey, society, I’ll eat it for you!

When I lived with a friend in the South, I found her eating a bologna sandwich for breakfast. I was shocked. She also ate a tomato by itself like an apple!

I think the stomach is more sensitive when you get up in the morning,so you stick to the “soft stuff” for your first meal.or so the legend goes.

AND THEN mC dONALD’S INVENTED THE “BREAKFAST SANDWICH”

Not to worry, they’re mostly crazy Californians.

The comments have me thinking that a lot of people here today do not know (or remember) that Pig-being-a-bacon-eater was an established thing from the beginning of Pearls before Swine (Currently, 2 strips are in the first 7 days on GoComics, Saturday and Sunday. I highly recommend reviewing them).

I love pancakes and sausage (or bacon) soaked in maple syrup any time of the day!!!

What I noticed about this strip is it’s 8am. This means that Rat had to have time to prepare the burger and fries. He also had to have time for the first thing in the morning tasks. Based on this he probably woke up at about 7am. Who gets up at that ungodly early hour? That makes this strip unbelievable.

A friend of mine eats salad for breakfast and gets upset when the pancake house doesn’t have veggies.

Other conventional “rules” that deserve flouting:

1) Handshaking. Not a COVID thing, I just don’t like touching other people or being touched by them. (and if you put your hand on my shoulder and you are not my wife or selected family members, well, just don’t)2) Ties. I’m not real big on tying something snugly around my neck as a way of saying “look at me, I’m a professional.” Jackets, fine. Ties, no.3) Saying bless you after a sneeze, and then being required to thank the person for said blessing. A sneeze is an acute allergic reaction; there’s nothing remotely religious about it. So knock it off. You don’t bless someone when s/he coughs, burps or passes gas do you? Well, maybe some of you weirdos do.

This.. this I relate to heavily.

You could work in broadcast media. The morning shift people eat their lunches at 8am. Countless times I’ve walked in at 9am to smell Thai food being microwaved.

Cold pizza is the best, cold lasagna a close second

Well, we as an American society. In other countries, breakfast looks very different.

Burger King for some reasons many years ago started smelling Whoppers during breakfast hours. It must be working for them.

i love breakfast for dinner too

A few years ago Whataburger came to our town, home of the 24 hour hamburgers. HEAVEN!!!

Who said we agreed to such things? Pig, do you know the full saying about the definition of Yankee? Wish I could remember which Library book I read it in years ago, but the full saying has some bearing on today’s strip.

To people in other countries, a Yankee is someone from the United States. To people in the United States a Yankee is someone who lives in the North. To people in the North a Yankee is someone who lives in New England. To people in New England a Yankee is someone who lives in Vermont. And to people in Vermont a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

So that’s saying some have nothing wrong eating pie for breakfast, though I’d say it’s far more than folks in Vermont. And folks eat steak, cake, fried chicken, hot dogs, pork chops, etc. for breakfast.

When I was a teenager I had a paper route. On Sunday morning, I delivered the paper at 5am. Afterwards other paper boys and I went to a local restaurant for breakfast. We ate cheeseburgers and fries.

Jack in the Box ran an ad campaign on that very idea 20 years ago. Their entire menu is available at all hours.

I used to deliver to a major restaurant chain which is no longer in business. When the delivery was done the chef would cook me a nice large burger…. at 9 a.m. Mmmmmm…. burgers for breakfast!

Go, Rat, go! Hamburgers. Cold pizza. Whatever you want for breakfast! Let “Society” mind its own eating habits….

There was a time when I liked eating spaghetti for breakfast.

Once I retired , I made it a point eat anything other than breakfast food for breakfast . I’ve done everything from beef stroganoff to deep fried breaded shrimp with fries . There have been times where I’ve had a bowl of cold cereal for supper because it’s quicker & cheaper than microwave meals.

But French Fries are Hash Browns in a different form :D

My Grandfather was this way, certain foods could only be eaten for certain meals, except bacon, it was considered a free agent.

If sausage and ketchup is fine for breakfast, then nothing was wrong when I made meatballs and sauce for breakfast.