The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for January 30, 2021
Transcript:
Granddad: Okay, fine. We won't do turkey. We'll do pork. Huey: You never heard of pig flu? Granddad: You mean something will happen to me if I eat pork? Huey: Only fever, bleeding under the skin and death within 24 hours... Granddad: Holy *%#@! Huey: ...And high cholesterol.
kaffekup almost 4 years ago
Swine flu?
TexTech almost 4 years ago
You sure wouldn’t want to die of swine flu while your cholesterol was high!
mattro65 almost 4 years ago
That sounds about right to me. Don’t forget Mad Cow disease, another of the many compelling reasons to not eat dead animals.
bookworm0812 almost 4 years ago
Wasn’t the correct term actually swine flu?
Ellis97 almost 4 years ago
How about lamb chops?
Cozmik Cowboy almost 4 years ago
I, like Robert, am old enough to remember back before the sugar-industry-sponsored anti-fat hysteria drove them to breed the fat (and thus the flavor) out of pork (“Pork – the other white meat”; “America’s leaning on pork”).
I really do miss the real thing.
GiantShetlandPony almost 4 years ago
I have it! Don’t eat anything!
Thinkingblade almost 4 years ago
The subtext of using fear against the ignorant as a way of modifying behavior is not lost …
WilliamDoerfler almost 4 years ago
You’re not funny.
bakana almost 4 years ago
Huey is milking this for everything he can.
Taking shameless advantage of Granddad’s Hypochondria.
Dean almost 4 years ago
It would not be halal. I understand many blacks now embrace the peaceful aspects of this way of life.