I just saw National Lampoon’s European Vacation and in the scene after the Griswolds check into the 1/2 star London hotel the kids turn on the tellie and basically get 3 snowy channels of a cheese making documentary at which the kids scream when they realize that this is what terrestrial TV was like (sans cable)… Looking back to the ’80s I remember being quite content with 24 channels in 1984 or so, and then 40 by the end of the decade and actually as a pre-teen in the ’70s before my parents got cable in 1978 or 79 we got by okay in Tampa with ABC, NBC, CBS, WTOG 44 the independent, 2 PBS channels and occasionally a snowy TV signal from Orlando or Fort Myers….
Anyhow, watching cheese getting made sounds like a punishment to moi, perhaps Goat, Pig and Rat are in purgatory……
You are almost correct pig. Here in Wisconsin those angels actually land in the fields all around the state. We call them Master Cheesemakers. Wisconsin has the only Master Cheesemaker program outside of Europe. We citizens are master cheese eaters who support them, as they make the tastiest, most award-winning, highest-quality cheese on the planet. Yeah, I’m a cheesehead.
I grew up in a Dairy State (New York – Upstate), but it wasn’t until I moved to Wisconsin that I truly understood the sheer volume and quality of Wisconsin Cheese. Incredible. It’s like a religion here. Yes, I’m a believer.
Cheese,if you please/ is in all of these/ and a number of others, to boot/ but the Senegalese/ care little for cheese/ preferring the ginkgo root/ This world is big/ O provincial pig/ and full of delectable fare/ don’t fixate on cheese/ though it seems the bee’s knees/ for cheese may not always be there…
When I was in high school (don’t ask when) there were guys who still believed in storks delivering babies. I pray they were joking. Some bad myths never did.
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Along with kegs of beer (it is Wisconsin).
Sherlock Watson over 4 years ago
Cheeses, that pig is dumb!
DennisinSeattle over 4 years ago
That’s a good theory. Of course France, Germany and Oregon also have Cheese Angels (and many other places).
“Cheese Angel, can you hear me”
MathProf2 over 4 years ago
But where does bacon come from?
TaliesinWI over 4 years ago
I took for granted how good the cheese is here until I started travelling to other parts of the country.
sirbadger over 4 years ago
I can go down into the cheese cellar and get a bottle of hundred year old wine and hundred year old cheese. Is that a bad idea?
syzygy47 over 4 years ago
It’s the bountiful gift from Gouda.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member over 4 years ago
I Brielieve!
Templo S.U.D. over 4 years ago
what about that British cheese shop which also sells queso venezolano de castor?
Robin Harwood over 4 years ago
He’s right. But not just Wisconsin.
B UTTONS over 4 years ago
Pig believes that a healthy diet of broccoli, cauliflower, beer, beans, chili … after which you will be able to cut the cheese.
dwane.scoty1 over 4 years ago
Now I know who is cutting the Cheese!
Walter Kocker over 4 years ago
My favorite breakfast – these yellow-flagged (quarantine) days:
Take a small bowl – put in:
1 heaping tablespoon of shredded sharp cheddar (cheese)
1 heaping tablespoon of cubed ham (I KNOW!)
Two medium eggs
Mix – stir – whatever (Who am I, Betty Crocker?)
Microwave on High – 2 minutes (1100 watts)
Separately . . .
Take three medium-sized (~8") flour tortillas (de harina)
Interleave them on a plate with papertowels, each with a small spot of water in the middle
Microwave them on High – 1 minute
Tuck a third of the ‘ham & cheese omelet’ into each tortilla,
Roll it like a doobie – tuck – don’t twist – one end – leave the other open – rather like,
A breakfast burrito!
YUM!
Algolei I over 4 years ago
Are they sitting on pillows, or have they learned how to poop marshmallows?
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
he’s got deep and abiding faith in cheeses…
TampaFanatic1 over 4 years ago
I just saw National Lampoon’s European Vacation and in the scene after the Griswolds check into the 1/2 star London hotel the kids turn on the tellie and basically get 3 snowy channels of a cheese making documentary at which the kids scream when they realize that this is what terrestrial TV was like (sans cable)… Looking back to the ’80s I remember being quite content with 24 channels in 1984 or so, and then 40 by the end of the decade and actually as a pre-teen in the ’70s before my parents got cable in 1978 or 79 we got by okay in Tampa with ABC, NBC, CBS, WTOG 44 the independent, 2 PBS channels and occasionally a snowy TV signal from Orlando or Fort Myers….
Anyhow, watching cheese getting made sounds like a punishment to moi, perhaps Goat, Pig and Rat are in purgatory……
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
That’s why those people have cheese wedges on their heads.
jpayne4040 over 4 years ago
And no one can prove otherwise! (-:
Breadboard over 4 years ago
Pig are you related to Satchel ? … Croc Power !
tonypezzano over 4 years ago
I wonder if Vieux Boulogne will change his mind.
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
Gee, I wonder if Pig knows how piglets are made – might explain his lack of progress with Pigita…
jessie d. over 4 years ago
Nah, then dropped it into the fields of England then up pops Cotswold cheese.
Mentor397 over 4 years ago
It’s true! I live in Wisconsin. I go and pop a couple pain pills, go outside, and see all kinds of things you’d never believe!
Ksandler4570 over 4 years ago
Steph must have chatted with Garfield today. Go check it out.
Andrew Sleeth over 4 years ago
Pastis, will you please draw those guys a couch.
Thena June over 4 years ago
I prayed to the Cheese Angel for some Limburger, but I had to drive to Monroe, Wisconsin to get it.
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 4 years ago
No whey that’s true.
Zebrastripes over 4 years ago
Sounds like his story has holes in it…
iggyman over 4 years ago
Cheese, (Geez) That’s funny!
Pig111 over 4 years ago
How cheese is made in reality, start to finish
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wondered-how-milk-becomes-cheese/2015/05/15/32abad22-ece8-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html
It’s pretty interesting that they curdle the milk like it had gone bad, so if your milk is spoiled, just give to your local cheese factory (don’t).
Pig111 over 4 years ago
Anyone getting flashbacks to the church of cheese?
Ellis97 over 4 years ago
Actually Pig, cheese is made from cured and solid milk.
VICTOR PROULX over 4 years ago
Garfield has a cheese strip today
tripwire45 over 4 years ago
Manna.
Homer J over 4 years ago
Amen Cheejus
Librarylady over 4 years ago
True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Not quite as sweet as believing in a cheese angel… ;-)
KEA over 4 years ago
The Amish would have a problem with this… if they read comic strips
Snolep over 4 years ago
The moon is made of Wensleydale.
cuddysark over 4 years ago
Cheese? The cartoon is not about cheese, it about the Covid 19 and the true believers who bought into this BS
bhilly over 4 years ago
I remember a few decades ago that there was a TV show called Cheeses Angels. Three sumptuous flavors of cheese were starred.
DCBakerEsq over 4 years ago
Life without cheese isn’t worth living.
Christopher Lees Premium Member over 4 years ago
Must be the same angels who bring the beer!
jal333 over 4 years ago
I love Pig.
zeexenon over 4 years ago
As a nearly lifetime Wisconsinite, I know for a fact it comes from the moon.
candor1230 over 4 years ago
yes, I heard the melody to ‘teen angel’ :)
Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 4 years ago
California takes umbrage with today’s strip.
asrialfeeple over 4 years ago
That’s it! I’m cheesing it. Somebody cut the cheese.
l3i7l over 4 years ago
You are almost correct pig. Here in Wisconsin those angels actually land in the fields all around the state. We call them Master Cheesemakers. Wisconsin has the only Master Cheesemaker program outside of Europe. We citizens are master cheese eaters who support them, as they make the tastiest, most award-winning, highest-quality cheese on the planet. Yeah, I’m a cheesehead.
H.lupulus over 4 years ago
Has pig ever tried head cheese? It’s a little hard to find now except at specialty delis.
pearlyqim over 4 years ago
True! I live in Wisconsin. The 1st thing my son does when he comes over, is head for the fridge & ask, “got any cheese?”
MJ Weber Premium Member over 4 years ago
I grew up in a Dairy State (New York – Upstate), but it wasn’t until I moved to Wisconsin that I truly understood the sheer volume and quality of Wisconsin Cheese. Incredible. It’s like a religion here. Yes, I’m a believer.
1504jarvis over 4 years ago
This public service announcement brought to you by The Wisconsin Dairy Association.
knight1192a over 4 years ago
Wisconsin only, huh? Sorry, don’t buy that. Not since there is cheese originating in Vermont, Ireland, England, France, Italy, and Romania.
the lost wizard over 4 years ago
Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch just came to mind.
Cornelius Noodleman over 4 years ago
Who cut the cheese?
Call me Ishmael over 4 years ago
Cheese,if you please/ is in all of these/ and a number of others, to boot/ but the Senegalese/ care little for cheese/ preferring the ginkgo root/ This world is big/ O provincial pig/ and full of delectable fare/ don’t fixate on cheese/ though it seems the bee’s knees/ for cheese may not always be there…
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 4 years ago
There are those fantastic Bacon Angels also.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 4 years ago
When I was in high school (don’t ask when) there were guys who still believed in storks delivering babies. I pray they were joking. Some bad myths never did.
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
Pig’s naive ignorance is actually kinda sweet, if frustrating….
Shades O’Grady over 4 years ago
Does that mean there’s bourbon angels in Kentucky?
Asadeerf over 4 years ago
I always thought it came from the mysterious white brick in my kitchen.
rgcviper over 4 years ago
Ahh—the power of cheese …
Altar_Ego over 4 years ago
Everything’s better with cheddar