Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 16, 2024

“One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch.” —The Osmonds

It’s those black licorice tasting ones that ruin it for me.

Are we really talking Jelly Bellies? Or Bertha Bott’s Every Flavor Beans? Maybe a boogy flavored one?

Being a pig, Pig, I do not think there is many you don’t like !

Buttered popcorn or buttered toast: yuck!

A family member likes pickled flavored cotton candy…

Alas, ear wax.

I don’t get Rat’s attitude. You WANT friends to have different tastes than you, so they leave your treats alone!

Earwax.

I like buttered popcorn ones too :(

I guess he won’t want that bag of buttered popcorn Jelly Bellies Pig was planning to give him in payment.

No candy for me. Blood sugar and all… :-/

No worries, here. I don’t like jelly bellies, period!

Gravity seems to behave in a strange manner up there on Wiseass Hill.

Used to work in North Chicago Illinois near Jelly Belly factory. Depending on wind direction, we would be salivating from the aroma. At another job close by, a coworker would bring bags of ‘Belly Flops’ that were odd shaped rejects…yum!

However bad you think you have it, you can be nearly certain others are persevering through much worse.

So quit whining that your internet is down, the traffic is bad, the line at the coffee shop is moving too slowly, the iHeartRadio station keeps playing the same $#^ 10 songs over and over and over, etc etc.

This goes as much for me as for everyone else.

anybody see a plug for a product?

I know bad tasting food when I see it.

Me too Pig, me too.

Earwax- Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans

Remember : never accept a jelly baby from a man wearing a long scarf and floppy hat.

Some people feel that way about my liking pizza with pineapple on it.

I wonder if Ronald Reagan had Buttered Popcorn jellybeans in his stash??

Stick to black licorice, Pig.

I’m with Pig

Mixing sweet and salty is tricky for me. A buttered-popcorn jelly bean isn’t going to ruin my day, but it’s like finding a raisin in a chocolate chip cookie; it’s not what I expected, and I’d prefer to keep it separate.

I like most real jelly bellies. The only jelly beans I like are the black ones The rest have no flavor at all. They’re in the same category as candy corn. Ick,

I really don’t like the cinnamon ones

Buttered popcorn is one of the best ones. Ya know why? Because it tastes like popcorn!

Buttered popcorn and black licorice. Yum.

Anyone who likes jelly bellies but complains about candy corn is insane

They have a bunch of Halloween flavors () that look like normal flavors. Try slipping those in the bowl at a party

I agree with Pig, the Buttered Popcorn ones are so good.

Well, behind every cloud there’s a dark lining … I was promoted and ended up with a bunch of managers under me, had to find and fix the problems they created, and my office looked out upon Jeffrey Dhamer’s Milwaukee apartment.

I haven’t had jelly bellies in ages and didn’t realize they were still around. But, while buttered popcorn was never my favorite, it was far from the worst. It was actually one of the more complex and interesting flavors if I recall.

I do remember that I would experiment with different flavor combinations, and buttered popcorn clashed with pretty much everything else. But that didn’t make it a bad flavor in its own right, just one that needed to be eaten separately from the others. I also remember it was one of the most distinctively colored flavors, so keeping it separate was easy.

It seems like it would only be an issue if the Wise A$$ were grabbing fistfuls of Jelly Bellies at random and popping them into his mouth without looking at them. And that’s just begging for trouble.

The Jelly Belly flavor I never could stand was Mango. Don’t get me wrong, I love mangos. But the mango Jelly Bellies never tasted like a mango. They tasted the way body odor smells.

Clearly enough time has elapsed between the third and fourth panels for Pig to climb down and find Rat waiting for him, and I assume Pig filled Rat in on what the Wise A$$ had said. But it’s funnier to think that as soon as Pig saw Rat, the first words out of his mouth were “I actually like the buttered popcorn ones” with no context. If so Rat might be breaking up with Pig for a completely unrelated reason.

Which makes more sense, actually. If Rat knows what Pig’s talking about then it means he doesn’t want to be friends with someone who likes buttered popcorn jelly bellies. But if Rat doesn’t like them, isn’t it better to have someone around who does, so he can give them all to Pig and take more of whatever flavors he prefers?

Right on, Pig! The buttered popcorn flavored ones rule.

Pig is dead to me now

I like the buttered popcorn ones too!

The buttered popcorn ones is why I never buy a mixed bag. We always get the cherry, cinnamon, and coconut ones.

I like the buttered-popcorn ones, too. My wife, who for whatever out-there reason likes the black licorice ones, thinks I’m crazy.

Yes, nothing is what it seems or as advertized:

1. tourist destinations like Egypt: a grime and garbage dump, in the middle of a city. What is seen on advertizing is pristime and empty and clean.

2. retirement advertizing of healthy people on an adventure is what is seen on TV advertizing. In reality: a visit to a nursing home will shock a person into a true reality.

Pig… we can be friends.

You know you are having a good day when eating a buttered popcorn jelly bean can ruin it.

“Red Hots”—phooey

What W.A. is really saying is, look before you lick.

De gustibus non disputandum.

Nothing in life is as good as it seems. True. This shows that we’re made for a different world.

Have to agree with Pig on this one …

The only thing worse than a buttered popcorn jelly bean is the smell of microwave popcorn in an office lunchroom.

The Harry Potter ones take disgusting to new levels!

I dislike the buttered popcorn so much I wrote a poem for a Jelly Belly contest and won a bag of belly flops. If you like them, more for you!

I like every but the black licorice! Yuck!