Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 18, 2013

I want one too!

I’d give that waiter a big tip; even Frank Nelson couldn’t have done that better.:There’s a little of the Rat in all of us.

Sounds like a fish story.

Can I get a couple thousand ordered?I need to get some trespassers off of my basketball hoop.

No tip for that waiter!………but I’m sure he felt it was worth it!

It’s a good thing that Pig didn’t order the calamari.

This is, along with religion, probably the primary reason people go vegetarian. On an unrelated note, this comic is hilarious.

Becauuuuuuuse yoooouuuuuuu taaaassssssstyyyyyy.

Being a Michelin 3-star restaurant (Pig can afford to eat at that kind of place?!), they probably barely cooked that fish, if at all. And that waiter should be fired! —-At about 350º for three hours….I am totally on Pig’s side today.

Good thing Pig didn’t order one of those seafood towers…@Sisyphos, I hear you! I have a curry cookbook by an Indian “superchef” who advocates cooking fish “for just a minute or two”. Hmmm…apparently he doesn’t use fish from the Ganges, eh!

Poor presentation.

If you think about food, you will starve. Let’s think about laws. I could stand to lose some weight there.

Would Pig have been happier if the waiter had employed the “A Christmas Story” solution to improving the presentation of food with a head?!

Sounds like Stephan ordered the fish recently.

Yes….poor presentation. No flowers or leaves or thin line of drizzled sauce on the plate.

Another one I didn’t lol

Too funny

EXCELLENT!!I do not like it when people try to purposefully forget that they are eating animals. I am not a vegetarian, I eat meat. I am also not a bleeding heart who cries about “meat means murder” or anything radically stupid like that, but at the same time I do not appreciate the disconnect from other life forms whose lives were rather important to them.

hahahaha

I think I saw that on an episode of Chopped

Why would a tire manufacturer be rating restaurants?

There would be a white tablecloth at a 3* Michelin restaurant.

Good thing he didn’t order the pork. that really would freak Pig out.

In a way Pig is right. Food should look like food, not what it was before it became food. In particular pigs roasted on a spit with an apple placed in their mouth creep the !@#$ out of me. I could NEVER eat a pig like that.

And now, we find that the seas are running dry of fish to feed our ever-exploding population. Good luck to us. Fish farming turns out to be breeding-holes for disease and bio-hazards for the pore fish and ultimately you’n me. I hold no hope for us and the ever-present “what? you only have ONE child??” sorts..

Pig wouldn’t do well in a Japanese restaurant specializing in seafood.

I don’t think Pig will be eating THERE again.LOL xxx

Of course, food in this strip is normally invisible, with all dinner plates apparently empty. So when Pig says he wants the fish to “look like food”, the waiter could just take it away and eat it himself. I’m glad he came up with this alternative solution, though!

Pig’s off to Long John Silvers, where the fish looks more familiar!!

Pig wanted fish sticks.

I’ve been a vegetarian since the 70s and this one hits home.

Actually, I have no issue with killing things in order to eat them. I’m reasonably certain I could do it myself, if I had to (so long as I didn’t have to raise it first). But your food, it should not gaze upon you with dead eyes.

However in Malaysia and Africa they certainly are considered a delicacy. A Senegalese friend told me that when she was growing up, she was told by the adults in her family that fish heads were “bad” for little kids. Now, she realises, they were keeping them for themselves.

LOL