Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 04, 2017

Never eat any place that has rats.

I don’t have an Instagram, but I once photographed a salad I made and posted onto Facebook. Luckily THIS rat (according to the Chinese zodiac) ate it.

Well, we do say “culinary arts.” Just playing devil’s advocate.

When the beauty is in your eye, like a big pizza pie, that’s amore…

Sometimes I think “social media” was created just to show me how many people I’m superior to.

H4J, everyone!

Wait, Rat eats pizza with a knife and fork?

Quick, drink that beer before he steals that too…

It wasn’t perfect anyway, no onions and no pineapple….. ; D

I’m with Rat on this one. It’s FOOD, people. Just EAT IT!

Pastis is insulting people who take pictures of their food! I’m unfollowing this strip in protest!

huff stomp slams door

Sploink?

RIGHT!

Well, he still has the beer.

Good job, Rat!

Exactly.

See today’s Speedbump.

I’d comment, but right now I’m busy photographing my french toast.

And that’s why I STILL call this strip “Worship the Rat”

I think the whole idea of people posting pictures of everything they eat is so silly, that I once considered starting a Twitter account to document the other end of the process.

don’t pin this on millennials, ‘cuz i’ve seen women in their 60’s and 70’s doing this as well.

I’m proud to be an “Old Schooler”

Seriously, I don’t understand why people think the rest of us actually care what they eat.

xxx

@arianne when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie don’t get sore, eh…?

Rat has the correct approach.

Do not leave your “perfect pizza” around me while you look for a camera-phone!

Snarf!

I’ve only taken pictures of my food if it were unusually beautifully presented… though I don’t think I’ve ever posted it.

I’m going to start doing this, only my quip will be, “You snooze, you lose.”

a rare strip with no line after the punch line

did he just tough a fork to that pizza

I once heard that there was literally a rat in a mall food court. Now there’s a rat in a diner! CALL PEST CONTROL!!!

The second panel kind of looks like Rat is sucking up the pizza through a straw.

…but not other people’.

I don’t know about keeping your memories on an external device. You lose your phone; you lose your memory if not your whole mind.