Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 30, 2019

So no chance that the waitress will go out with Pig.

Pig would prefer animal style curly fries

what would be considered “less fries”? only one fry?

French, curly, waffle, Texas doesn’t matter; the operative word here is FRIES.

substitute cheese fries for plain french fries – then it’ll just be one big glob instead of several individual fries

problem solved…

This is a conversation I had with my husband on Wed. I wanted to go to Five Guys for lunch. He said no because they give you too many fries. I said just don’t eat them. We went elsewhere.

It’s hard being a member of “The Clean Plate Club”.

I rarely eat fries, but they’re hard to resist at In ’N Out…. only they give you a giant pile.

I’ve tried asking for half as many, explaining that I’ll pay for a whole order, but can’t eat it all.

They say the same thing… just don’t finish it.

I tell them I just can’t throw food away, or resist eating too many… but they “can’t” do it. Rules.

You have to store uneaten Fries in the proper location; between the drivers seat & the center console of the car, of course!

Can’t you just order something else, or not Pig out?

Especially fries with blue cheese dressing.

Some are wound too tight….(((((((BOING!)))))))

That’s why I always eat the fries first. If part of the rest of my meal goes uneaten, oh well…

…such a problem… more food than you should eat…everyone should have such a problem …

The current Red Robin ads are all about people stuffing their pie hole with fries. Not very enticing to me.

I may or may not be able to resist fries, depending on how they make them. But put onion rings in front of me, and they will be eaten.

He eats like a pig.

My wife says that the Pig in the cartoon is an impostor. Pig would know the difference.

There is no such thing as “free”, Will".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqoYH2GTY3o

I actually want to see this french fry face sucking ability in action.

Fries are clearly addictive and bad for your health. That means that those who make them available to us are morally equivalent to drug pushers. Sue them, and we should have plenty of loot to pay for Medicare for All.

For that year, anyway.

Of course, there are the millions of jobs that would be lost, but hey, that would make the newly unemployed that much more dependent on the government.

These comments are easily just as funny as the original cartoon!

It’s amazing how casual we still are about wasting food.

A pull quote! “French fries crush free will”. – Stephan Pastis

I will choose free will,Rush ;)

What a pig.

SO if you have cheese fries you can say “Less” since they are all gooed together?

Pig actually had a socially responsible reply available — “I don’t like seeing food go to waste.”

I’m in full agreement with, Pig, about French Fries. Very addictive

Now to start a controversy without talking politics!!! Yes, it can be done.Who makes the best fries?I will vote McDonalds

Free will is an illusion.

So do donuts.

Just don’t order a ham sandwich. That would be cannibalism.

At places with free soda refills, if they refill just before I push off from the table, I can’t resist drinking it. So I walk away from the table completely bloated.

Really depends on the fries, Pig.

French friends? Ha! Donuts. Donuts do not merely crush free will. The pulverize it until it blows away on the wind.

We actually have one grocery store around here that has a sign at the express checkout that correctly says, “20 items or fewer”. Most say, “…or less”.

Our nation has an obesity problem — stemming, IMO, from:

1) Our parents constantly harping on us to “clean our plates.”

2) The serving sizes in restaurants have grown huge — and because we hear our parent’s words in our heads long after they’re gone, we still feel compelled to “clean our plates.”

3) Our desire to “get as much for our money as possible.” For example, I was at a restaurant yesterday and ordered a salad. The “full size” salad was $9. The “half size” salad (which in my experience is usually a “third size” salad") was $6. I ordered the full size salad (even though I was not that hungry) because I couldn’t justify paying 2/3 of the price for 1/3 of the food.

A pig will eat anything. A pig will even eat a snake.

“and I was like, give me more fries…”Sad!

For me, they have to be good fries. Really good fries. And that means Thrasher’s!

Best way to avoid eating fries is to wait until they get cold. They completely lose their appeal.

Oh yes, can I pay you Tuesday for that?

Pig, I fear you have no idea what “free will” may entail. What about courage? Fortitude? Persistence?

And if you must have an unsurmountable weakness, why is it french fries?!

If this were ANDY CAPP he"

It took forever to scroll down to the bottom to comment: 148 comments!! Yikes! : )

McDonald fries have sugar and beef flavoring. https://www.mashed.com/154644/this-is-why-mcdonalds-fries-are-so-delicious/

Reference to Five Guys, who, no matter what size your fries are, dump an extra pan of them into the bag. When I was dieting years ago (but I can’t give up my fav burger – lets not comment on my choice there), i specifically asked them not to do that, because if they were there, I’d eat them. and I didn’t need those extra calories.

Fewer, not less, but then who’s counting.

*Fewer

Its just nature. If a plate of french fries is put in front of you, you have to eat them all.

The wise words of Marcus: how can feed will coexist with divine preordination?