Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 18, 2013

true…

He has a point…

How about “I love having a beer”.

Why would ravioli preclude dating vegetarians? It’s not all that Chef Boyardee glop.

Rat dates? I don’t recall seeing him with a girl

I’ve never had ravioli that wasn’t from a can….Is the real, well made stuff, tasty?

Have you ever wondered about Franco American Spaghetti? Seriously, American spaghetti from France? What?

@Varnes: Yes, the real stuff is much tastier and the filling can be cheese or meat. If you go to a good Italian restaurant you will see the difference and it does come frozen so that you supply the sauce and eat it at home. One word of caution, you may have to try different brands as not all are alike. Same for the sauce. Good eating.

That actually sounds like good justification for getting someone’s name tattooed on you. I kind of want to date a guy named Avi now, or maybe a guy named Choco.

I love ravioli (my Italian grandmother used to make it, all entirely from scratch—dough, stuffing that included spinach+eggs+calves’ brains, sauce; the whole works). I do not love tattoos. Think about it, Rat.

I should have thought of this idea when I was dating a girl called Coco.

Or maybe he could get some money by changing it to an advertisement: “I love Avis.”

Or a candy company might pay him to sport “I love cavities.”

Or maybe he’ll be lucky and his next girlfriend will be a Mavis.Or if he switches teams: "I love David.

Varnes, honestly…. haven’t you ever noticed that homemade or Italian restaurant spaghetti and meatballs, or preferably, pasta and meat sauce, is far better than the canned stuff????

Same deal.

Or he could change it it I love David Hasselhoff. Because who doesn’t love The Hoff?

Spinach raviolis is the best.

Rat with a girl?!? LOL!!!!! That rodent couldn’t get a date off a palm tree!

The “Karen” tattoo on my arm is just because I’m a caring type of guy and the tattoo guy couldn’t spell.

How as a child you can love something so much, now I can’t even look at the label without without gagging?

“I LOVE GRAVITY” would be too down to Earth.

Finally. Something that makes sense in the real world.

Well at least a girlfriend named Avi is more lively then a girlfriend named Jpeg.

i love ravioli! my mom should make it more often.it’s delicious!

I hate ravioli.

Rat with a girlfriend.Armageddon is upon us all.Yep. Pack it up its all over but the crying.That Ravioli in a can will come in handy. Don’t forget the Twinkies.

It looks like Rat’s taking a page from Johnny Depp’s playbook here.

That’s using his noodle!

and the common thread for booking and photo-i.d.ing all felon arrests? every last one of them has tattoos. nice class of people you’re dropping down into, rat.

I prefer pierogies.

If you’re feeling brave, Rat, you could make it “I love David’s girlfriend.”

If only I could find a girl named “Acon”…

Rat has a backup plan. You know if he has a backup plan, he’s gonna be using it.

As soon as I saw the word ravioli my mouth started watering…

Mmm…

Ravioli are little Italian hot pockets for dinner.

Now I want ravioli.

I used to but I ate it too much and now I hate it

Famous story related to this strip. Johnny Depp was dating the actress Winona Ryder for quite the while. Got ‘Winona forever’ tattooed on his arm. When they eventually broke up, he had the last two letters of her name lasered off, leaving him with ‘Wino forever’!

This is the day I was born :)