Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 31, 2024

Pig can go to the Toy "Я"Us® at Mall of America®

And Baskin-Robbins only exists in certain Dunkin shops, and only has 12 flavors at most.

And Weight Watchers is now WW and will prescribe you Ozempic instead of teaching you how to put down the fork.

Did KFC change its name, because it didn’t want to pay royalties to the state of Kentucky?

Ignorance can be bliss for a reason, Pig!

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

— Jefferson Airplane (taken, however, from an SF story)

Dunkin’ Donuts changed its name? Huh.

Pig, take a trip up north… We still have Toys R Us, in Canuck-Land

So is my brother.

Toys r us still exists in other countries other than the US

The only thing that stays the same is everything changes. Tracy Lawrence. This explains the conflict in society at this time period in history.

And with the name changes, the quality, (with perhaps the exception of Dunkin Doughnuts) also took a serious “shortening”.But, focus groups and the advertising agencies involved, must have saw that the ‘new’ names would appeal to the same groups that have replaced the spelling of words ending in the letter “s”, with the much more ’progressive" letter “zed”.

“Star Wars” killed Toys ‘R’ Us.

Change my mind.

Pig is right. Life has changed a lot! So, I went out there to become the “old me”… turns out I cannot afford “me” anymore… :D

He found his old reliable haunt. His bed.

That nothing Pig. Just waits till you sees what happen to all those beloved Hollywood franchises of yours.

Pig would probably feel better with some new bedding from his local Bed, Bath & Beyond store.

We have a Dairy Queen in town, and the sign still says Dairy Queen.

Not like Pig could get cheese at any of those places anyway.

They have Toys ‘R’ Us in Macy’s though

JC Pennys NOOOOOOO!

And you’re just a few steps from being bacon, ham, pork chops, and pig knuckles.

Emotional eating won’t help anyway, Pig.

At least there is still KMart.

The only constant is change.

Junk food, by any other name, is still as bad for you.

I wonder if anyone of them are still owned by American Company’s anymore ?

The moral of the story: People are too lazy to say names longer than two syllables or three letters.

Well it just so happens that Toys R Us recently reopened as a section in Macys. Joke’s on you, Rat! Unfortunately, only two flagship Toys R Us stores are in the Mall of America in both New Jersey and Minnesota.

Pig, it’s not that big of a deal. The names have been abbreviated, but they’re still the same ones that we know and love.

I think it had something to do with banjos??

Pig is clearly not a Buddhist. Pain comes from trying to cling to stuff and not accepting impermanence..

Don’t tell him about Pizza Hut…

At least we still have Chuck E. Cheese

I guess we just had more time to use complete names back in the 70’s.

Sorry, Pig.

Depends where you live. There are 81 Toys R Us locations in Canada, and we have Tim Hortons, not Dunkin.

Glad when American Baked Bald Eagles changed to ABBEs. Much easier to say and spell!

Except for toys are us, no change?

Well then, I’ll just pop over to Mr. Donut for a white cake donut with sprinkles. Then stop by Block Buster and check out a few movies!

Not to mention all the smaller stores and shops that all know longer around thanks to the great Vid 19 reset.

Pig ain’t wrong.

What are they Dunkin’ now?

KFC replaced the Colonel’s distinctive rub/batter mix with something that renders the chicken as indistinct from that of most other fried chicken joints.

WE FEAR CHANGE.

-Garth Algar

I recently met a bartender who works in the building that once housed my original favorite watering hole when I first came to town back in 2016. Back then it was a casual dining chain restaurant, very reasonably priced even before I became a regular and they started giving me little breaks on everything. It closed for years and now it’s a fancy pants steakhouse, very expensive.

The bartender encouraged me to come hang out one of these nights and I’m thinking how familiar and yet how simultaneously strange it will feel to sit at that bar again after all these years: the same but different.

If you have a really strong magnifying glass,you can still find Arthur Treacher’s Fish N’Chips

How about they create Dunkin’ Kentucky Dairy Toys?

My angst is trying to find out online if Dunkin sells a variety box in Drive Through.

When my husband was in High School some 55 years or so ago he worked at KFC. At that time it was called Colonel Sanders. To this day I still call it that and my grandkids are never sure what I’m talking about.

Dunkin doesn’t make the doughnuts at the individual stores anymore either. They’re frozen and shipped to the stores. They also don’t taste like doughnuts anymore, just fried bread.

And long gone A & W and Bob’s Big Boy in my home town.

Try Sears.

To be fair: Toys R Us is OPENING stores again! Guess their bankruptcy helped ’em out. <3

Bringing joy wherever he goes.

TOYS ‘R’ US was expensive. I don’t feel the least bit bad for them going out of business

Yes Pig, it is indeed ♥♥ Here’s a hug to make it better ♥

It was widely referred to as KFC by the gen pop long before the name change.

All three were saving money on new signs.

If you don’t die soon enough, you’re dead anyway since you can’t relate to the society you live in.

At least you can still watch the TV shows from when you were a kid, er, I mean piglet, as long as you pay the cable bill.

My grandparents just called it Kentucky Colonel. Just as Girl Scout Cookies don’t contain Girl Scouts, this didn’t contain any Colonels (that was never proven). Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s was a protege of the Colonel in the early days.

Toys R Us USA closed, but not the Canadian stores.

Huh. I was at Toys R Us to pick up some LEGO yesterday. Same amazing selection as always.

I’m writing this at Chock Full Of Nuts.