Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 17, 2024

The fact that he’s a pig should have been a red flag.

Resistance is futile. No one has that much willpower.

Temptation Mountain? Please. That does’t have a patch on Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour’s Volcano!

Well, you do have to eat it before it all melts.

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it”—Oscar Wilde, of course

I have ice cream in my freezer and it ain’t fair!

Brain freeze!

The quickest $20 I ever lost was betting someone I could eat just one Lay’s potato chip.

As the old saying goes, “I can resist anything apart from temptation”

One spoonful per minute.

You had to make a hog out of yourself, did’t you?!

You calls that giant mound? Har har! Me is eats over twenty times that size.

RJ would be proud!

No temptation at all, really….it’s gone….

No Matter what the food is ….. You Need Pie-Hole Control ;-)

Flee from temptation, Pig!

I’m that way with Sunchips and sour cream sauce dip.

Brain Freeze

I just love how big Pig got in the last 2 panels!

There! Hear it? It’s calling to you from the freezer.

Why even try?

The Reese’s Pieces sundae is one of my faves.

I think he’s ready for market.

Death by Chocolate

Don’t mess with it, just eat it!

That ice cream looks delicious.

LOL!

If you had resisted the temptation, the ice cream would just have melted, and you would have wasted it. Better not to buy it in the first place.

I love how he instantly gained weight. It’s a good lesson we all have had trouble learning.

and Pig probably also has brain freeze

Reminds me of Farrell’s Ice Cream where you could buy huge sundaes that feed 4 people, delivered by a team of “experts”

I have lots of will power, what I don’t have is won’t power!

Just don’t start. It is an addiction.

Hope that was homemade ice cream.

Never mess with ice cream.

“Lead me not into temptation. . . I already know a shortcut.”

Pig would have never passed the marshmallow test.

guess it all depends on your definition of “spoonful”!

Might want to clear the runway…

Make it out of mashed potatoes and gravy so it won’t melt away while you are being tempted. And you can recreate the scene from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A THIRD KIND.

Isn’t it great to be able to read this comments section today without all the trolls and obnoxious narcissistic a**holes that think they’re smarter than everyone else and that their opinions are the only ones that matter? Just sayin’….

In Appleton (just south of Green Bay) for a meeting, a friend and I had 24 ounce steaks for dinner and “death by chocolate” for dessert. I’m the only one still alive.

It took him ten minutes to eat all of that? I’d have done it in half the time or less. His willpower could be worse.

I have some porcine traits as well – at least as far as ice cream is concerned…

Actually, 10 minutes is a very good record.

“And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.”

Well, one way to eliminate temptation is to give in to it.

Rat stood there blankly for ten minutes while he watched pig give in…I think he enjoyed it.

There was an ice cream parlor in Portland, Oregon that served concoctions like that. One was called The Trough. Theoretically they were for a group. Theoretically…

“Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.” Arnold Glasow

“Tempted by the fruit of another…” spoonful.

Next comes the upchuck.

In my youth I decided to not eat a candy bar or doughnut for a year!Lost 27 pounds!

I was lucky that I don’t care for ice cream or biscuits (cookies for the Americans)