Pucky, dear, your chart is incomplete. You need to mention temperature: soup is hot, and cereal is cold. Unless, of course, we’re talking about gazpacho and fruit soups, which are cold … Or oatmeal and other porridges, which are hot … Oh, dear … it is a bit of a muddle, isn’t it?
This reminds me of my father, who’s been gone for 18 years now, and a favored cat of his. When he was eating his morning cereal, she would get on the table and start drinking milk out of his bowl while he was still eating it. He just carried on without making any objection. But the other cats didn’t have this privilege.
I can’t recall if she did the same thing when he was eating soup.
The only difference you should care about, oh dear fuzzy reporters, is that you get to lick the bowl after cereal but not soup. (Disclaimer: not all cats will adhere to this guideline, for such paltry rules are beneath them.)
This is brilliant! Elvis whipping off his glasses dramatically, Puck’s chart, Lupin gleefully being a brat. Even Goldie’s confident attitude. I love it!
Thank you to the Orb for all of the retirement congratulations and good wishes you sent my way yesterday! You all are like family and I am so glad to be a part of this group! Thank you to Georgia too for this amazing comic which has brought us all together! ♥♥BCN and the Orb♥♥
Let’s throw them a real challenge. Apart from the fact that one is eaten with chips and the other with a spoon, is there really any difference between salsa and gazpacho?
Trust me, boys, your tummies will thank you if you leave chili alone.
OFF TOPIC: PAUL
Paul was quite alert and perky yesterday, which raises my hopes that I will be able to bring him home tomorrow. He was moved to a semi-private room yesterday, which means I am not allowed to visit today. This is a shame, because his new doctor (and they keep changing doctors almost as often as I change my underwear) wants a “conference” tomorrow, with me attending by phone. I have the feeling that the purpose of this conference is to try to get Paul to agree to chemo and/or radiation at the hospital in Toronto. Paul and I were talking yesterday, and all he wants to do is come home. I am seriously questioning the usefulness of us going down to Toronto at all.
OT. As I was getting ready to read BCN, LucyLu got rambunctious and ‘made’ me knock over my very large glass of chocolate milk. Needless to say it went everywhere including all over her…and then she ran all over the house with me trying to catch her. Hope the rest of the day goes better….
Pardon for the cat heresy, but Burt with his awesome dog noise could tell them that cereal is grain based like bread while soup has veggies and maybe meat.
OT – Where did our Sunday Funday thread Go? It was here this morning; I saw it and posted! Now, it’s gone.
My bit of good news is that my Doctor Van Fleet rose bushes are in full bloom just now (see my new avatar for an example). It’s a very old-fashioned rose; it only blooms in the spring, but the fragrance is so fabulous! Mine are scions of of an enormous specimen that grew on the lot next to my parent’s restaurant – Mom took a cutting back in the 70’s; that cutting grew into an enormous bush at the house; then, when hubby and I finally had our own home, she gave me a cutting (this was in the 90’s); since then, I’ve started another cutting from that one. Mine haven’t quite reached the stature of the parent roses, but if the yard got more sunlight, they’d take over. I love these roses – and unlike hybrid tea roses, these jokers are tough and lovely. They have fragrance almost strong enough to walk on, and they shrug off things like black spot and mildew that terrorize most roses around here.
:Andy Rooney voice: “Soup is funny. It’s not really a meal. Nor is it really a first course. since it’s mostly made of water. I find soup to be the most watery of foods.Some soups have beans in them and there are beans that are as watery as soups, but they’re not soups. I don’t trust soups on the whole, no more than I trust stews.There are French soups with bread in them. I don’t really understand that. To me it’s arbitrary whether you put bread in the soup or soup in the bread. You still have sloppy bread.”
All this talk about soup combined with a chilly, rainy day made me hungry for soup. I had some leftover baked chicken, so I made a pot of chicken/potato/corn chowder. I crumbled up some leftover corn bread into it. I wish I knew how to purrrrrrr.
“ The main difference between Cereal and Soup is that the Cereal is a grass of which the fruits are used as grain, or the fruits themselves and Soup is a primarily liquid food.” -some website that came up on a Google search
Le'letha Premium Member over 4 years ago
But Woman, they are conducting vital scientific research and require firsthand observations with repeated experimentation!
Sue Ellen over 4 years ago
Sorry, Lupin. Poppycock is clusters of glazed popcorn and various nuts.
dmah Premium Member over 4 years ago
Cocoa Boops! I want to keep it next my copy of “Snoot Boops of History”!
RAGs over 4 years ago
“Cocoa BOOPS to all of you.
LuvyaBebe05 over 4 years ago
I was going to bring up temperature, but then I remembered gazpacho.
Biskits over 4 years ago
I like Froot Boops myself.
dmah Premium Member over 4 years ago
Pucky, dear, your chart is incomplete. You need to mention temperature: soup is hot, and cereal is cold. Unless, of course, we’re talking about gazpacho and fruit soups, which are cold … Or oatmeal and other porridges, which are hot … Oh, dear … it is a bit of a muddle, isn’t it?
Kaputnik over 4 years ago
This reminds me of my father, who’s been gone for 18 years now, and a favored cat of his. When he was eating his morning cereal, she would get on the table and start drinking milk out of his bowl while he was still eating it. He just carried on without making any objection. But the other cats didn’t have this privilege.
I can’t recall if she did the same thing when he was eating soup.
MrsXandamere over 4 years ago
The only difference you should care about, oh dear fuzzy reporters, is that you get to lick the bowl after cereal but not soup. (Disclaimer: not all cats will adhere to this guideline, for such paltry rules are beneath them.)
Notaspy over 4 years ago
So is the milk in cereal a beverage, a sauce, or a broth?
Carlos the clown over 4 years ago
This is brilliant! Elvis whipping off his glasses dramatically, Puck’s chart, Lupin gleefully being a brat. Even Goldie’s confident attitude. I love it!
piwismom over 4 years ago
Thank you to the Orb for all of the retirement congratulations and good wishes you sent my way yesterday! You all are like family and I am so glad to be a part of this group! Thank you to Georgia too for this amazing comic which has brought us all together! ♥♥BCN and the Orb♥♥
Robin Harwood over 4 years ago
I’m pretty sure that chili isn’t cereal.
Robin Harwood over 4 years ago
A couple of days ago, mistercatworks wrote:“The fourth cat Wilamena the Radio Cat was atop the refrigerator …"
That’s why I want an explanation for “Radio Cat”.
Robin Harwood over 4 years ago
And by dint of screen snip and then expanding the image, I have discovered the can is “Hey It’s Soup”.
WelshRat Premium Member over 4 years ago
One tends to be hot, guys. The other tends to be cold. And Porridge is cereal soup.
SometimesKate over 4 years ago
Chili is stew.
dadoctah over 4 years ago
Let’s throw them a real challenge. Apart from the fact that one is eaten with chips and the other with a spoon, is there really any difference between salsa and gazpacho?
David 42 over 4 years ago
Somewhere there’s bound to be cereal in a can and soup in a box.
jewlie over 4 years ago
Cats can be found in some restaurants but they do not run them, they sit around looking puzzled.
Cassia over 4 years ago
Cereal Girl – Mow-donna
Some cats diss me
Some cats bug me
Some cats like to play
If my bowl is filled with soup
I just walk away
They can beg and they can plead
But they can’t see the light (that’s right)
’Cause the bowl with the cold milk boops
Is always so, so right
’Cause we are living in a cereal world
And I am a cereal girl
You know that we are living in a cereal world
And I am a cereal girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wzQj3M-qY
Madonna – Material Girl / Songwriters: Peter Brown / Robert Rans
cat19632001 over 4 years ago
I love Puck’s “thinking paws” in the last panel.
Pet over 4 years ago
I WANT COCOA BOOPS!
Ignatz Premium Member over 4 years ago
This is the sort of observation children make. I wonder if this came from one of Georgia’s kids.
ladykat over 4 years ago
Trust me, boys, your tummies will thank you if you leave chili alone.
OFF TOPIC: PAUL
Paul was quite alert and perky yesterday, which raises my hopes that I will be able to bring him home tomorrow. He was moved to a semi-private room yesterday, which means I am not allowed to visit today. This is a shame, because his new doctor (and they keep changing doctors almost as often as I change my underwear) wants a “conference” tomorrow, with me attending by phone. I have the feeling that the purpose of this conference is to try to get Paul to agree to chemo and/or radiation at the hospital in Toronto. Paul and I were talking yesterday, and all he wants to do is come home. I am seriously questioning the usefulness of us going down to Toronto at all.
Michael G. over 4 years ago
I vote for the Poppycock®.
The Pro from Dover over 4 years ago
I’m cuckoo for Poppy Cocks! Cuckoo for Poppy Cocks!
A R V reader over 4 years ago
Since when did Lupin became the doubtful one, and Elvis so concern?
ekw555 over 4 years ago
reminded me of an old gag from the TV show Soap
The Major: Poppycock!
(other character, maybe Chester): what?!
The Major: I said BALDERDASH!
scyphi26 over 4 years ago
Lupin just wants to say funny old-timey words.
Also, most (but obviously not all) soups tend to be savory—haven’t yet encountered a cereal I could truly call “savory.”
rikkiTikki Premium Member over 4 years ago
All said Lupin is a jerk for making a mess and wasting food.
cat19632001 over 4 years ago
The poor cats in a world with no rules where nothing makes sense anymore.
asrialfeeple over 4 years ago
It all has to do with the ingredients, my dear felines.
LucyLuLu over 4 years ago
OT. As I was getting ready to read BCN, LucyLu got rambunctious and ‘made’ me knock over my very large glass of chocolate milk. Needless to say it went everywhere including all over her…and then she ran all over the house with me trying to catch her. Hope the rest of the day goes better….
Mary Ellen over 4 years ago
Technically, a Pop Tart is a ravioli.
marilynnbyerly over 4 years ago
Pardon for the cat heresy, but Burt with his awesome dog noise could tell them that cereal is grain based like bread while soup has veggies and maybe meat.
tims145 over 4 years ago
Silence, Woman, you’re interrrupting our scientific study group!
over 4 years ago
I could go for some Cocoa Boops right now.
GSD Mom Premium Member over 4 years ago
Off-Topic:
fuzzybritches over 4 years ago
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet . . .
KL over 4 years ago
BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh, Lupin!
GSD Mom Premium Member over 4 years ago
OT – Where did our Sunday Funday thread Go? It was here this morning; I saw it and posted! Now, it’s gone.
My bit of good news is that my Doctor Van Fleet rose bushes are in full bloom just now (see my new avatar for an example). It’s a very old-fashioned rose; it only blooms in the spring, but the fragrance is so fabulous! Mine are scions of of an enormous specimen that grew on the lot next to my parent’s restaurant – Mom took a cutting back in the 70’s; that cutting grew into an enormous bush at the house; then, when hubby and I finally had our own home, she gave me a cutting (this was in the 90’s); since then, I’ve started another cutting from that one. Mine haven’t quite reached the stature of the parent roses, but if the yard got more sunlight, they’d take over. I love these roses – and unlike hybrid tea roses, these jokers are tough and lovely. They have fragrance almost strong enough to walk on, and they shrug off things like black spot and mildew that terrorize most roses around here.
willie_mctell over 4 years ago
Just think of it as wet food or dry food the humans put water on.
Mx Crazy Cat Person over 4 years ago
Poppycock!
meowlin over 4 years ago
Great chromostereopsis effect with the cereal flying out of the bowl!
Darth Thespian over 4 years ago
:Andy Rooney voice: “Soup is funny. It’s not really a meal. Nor is it really a first course. since it’s mostly made of water. I find soup to be the most watery of foods.Some soups have beans in them and there are beans that are as watery as soups, but they’re not soups. I don’t trust soups on the whole, no more than I trust stews.There are French soups with bread in them. I don’t really understand that. To me it’s arbitrary whether you put bread in the soup or soup in the bread. You still have sloppy bread.”
Sue Ellen over 4 years ago
All this talk about soup combined with a chilly, rainy day made me hungry for soup. I had some leftover baked chicken, so I made a pot of chicken/potato/corn chowder. I crumbled up some leftover corn bread into it. I wish I knew how to purrrrrrr.
knight1192a over 4 years ago
Hmmm, seen soup in boxes. Though usually that’s more a soup mix.
LrdSlvrhnd over 4 years ago
I’d try the hell out of Cocoa Boops
calmom75 Premium Member over 4 years ago
This was an episode on one of my ‘rabbit ears’ channels last week; FBE, maybe? Chill vs soup vs cereal vs stew vs mac&cheese, etc.
lim95 almost 4 years ago
“ The main difference between Cereal and Soup is that the Cereal is a grass of which the fruits are used as grain, or the fruits themselves and Soup is a primarily liquid food.” -some website that came up on a Google search