Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 17, 2014

Order up!

It made Goat feel awful.

Goat, you forgot to put syrup on it.

And goats will eat practically anything.

Awful offal joke.

I erred. The handbook of diner slang calls that order “haggis on a checkerboard”.

He forgot about hoffle poffle, which really DOES taste awful (despite what Mom thinks).

Try saying that even one time fast.

We’re going to make sure you eat those words Cartoon Boy.

Rat has no idea what he’s talking about, that is pure genius….Love the pre-nausea eyebrows in the first panel.

I agree with Rat for once, these “jokes” keep reaching further and further with less result.

Meesta Pasties need get bunch of old “Fammilie Circus” strips, improve hees jokes. Look like Meesta Pasties no got jokes of hees own.

Smothered, covered, chucked, diced, peppered and capped.

We call that hash in our house, what Mom says!

Is Goat eating his words?

Authentic Jordanian falafel: http://youtu.be/CcCdRPvx56E

Rat is right once more! BUT him being right is the equivalent of a stopped clock telling the correct time at least twice a day!

Wonder what Stephan will put on his tombstone.

You should just make a single-panel strip with more visual cues as to what you’re talking about. The first and third panels are unnecessary. Less is more.

No wonder Pastis’ wife kicked him out.

The comments are good today…

I think this was featured on The Taste last week.

And this is why your wife kicked you out! Still surprised that he’s actually married!

I used to make AND eat peanut butter honey jam summer sausage sandwiches. REALLY! And maybe a few other things I forgot.

Goat doesn’t like it? Heck, I’m feeling sick to my stomach, and it’s your fault, Cartoon-Boy! Your protest, Rat, needs to be more forceful (if you know what I mean—still have your baseball bat?)!

I’d rather eat that then read that joke again, and I’m a vegetarian!

When even a goat hates your cooking, you know it’s bad.:We once had a cat that expressed its disapproval of a new brand of cat food by sniffing it once, then burying it.

Hey all of you naysayers….this took guts to do.

Mr. Pastis, do you ever do a gut check for one of your puns. Probably should have done one for this.

Someone’s been eating too much haggis.

Between the recipe and the joke… I’d call it pretty much a wash

Are they at Offal House?

Rat —> Bat —> Prat —> Splat!

who makes a good falafel?

That’s kinda what I think when I hear talk about Haggis, and I still don’t know what it really is.

No wonder Steph’s wife kicked him out of the house — he probably walks around practicing his puns.

Did someone slip Rat some tranquilizers? He’s far too uncharacteristically calm in the last panel.

Over at MythTickle today Jason Thompson’s brother admitted that Jason and Stephan were pals. “The pun brothers.”

Still not as gross as real haggis (made with lung meat).

Oh, burn Rat! Right on!

The food was awful, but annoying Rat made it all worth it.