Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 21, 2021

4 years after an Aussie businessman told millennials to give up their artisanal toast so they could afford to buy homes

https://www.businessinsider.com/artisanal-toast-san-francisco-craze-2017-6?amp

No. That’s foutu.

I think it means that they pumped it out of a well.

What kind of bread, Goat? Multi-grain?

Each side is certain that the other consists of lunatics. They’re both right and everything has gone all wrong…

always easy to wonder about others without confronting yourself!

We lived quite frugally for most of my life. As a result, now that it hurts to move and I’m unhappy sleeping otherwise than in my own bed, we have enough $$ to splurge… a little. Occasionally.

I’m not convinced that we did it wrong, either: It was challenge to find things that were fun/useful AND worth their cost. And a big win at that game was just as much fun (at least) as winning at a more expensive game.

P. T. Barnum was right—there really is a sucker born every minute.

Paraphrasing my patissiere daughter-in-law, it’s English for “We made a bit of a mess of it but we’re going to sell it anyway…”.

And it looks like he burnt it too.

It’s like they’re talking right past each other.

Bought at a “Going Out Of Business” sale for a San Francisco bakery.

Occasionally it can mean “way better than the crap you eat, Pig”

I use the price of sunglasses to judge the lunacy of today.

It means ‘probably not slave-work’.

Ah but the French Artisanal Beer is worth it…

What is Artisanal toast? For that price must be baked with enRICHed flour!

I wonder how much Rat wastes on his beer. He certainly does drink a lot of it. Frankly, if someone wanted to waste some of their own money on toast, what business is that of mine? I heard about a rich guy who wasted money on a gold toilet.

This also explains Starbucks.

Because if you add the word “artisanal” you automatically triple the price.

Interesting how the word artisanal breaks up into three smaller words. Just an observation, I don’t think that of art at all and after all I am enjoying art reading this comic.

Society: Be yourself.Society: NOT LIKE THAT!!

I paid 10 bucks for an italian exprsso in NY, and it was just so-so; would have loved to get an artisanal toast for 6$

Art is anal? Art who?

Allons-y Brandon!

No matter what the cost it all turns to poo in the end ;-)

I think the last four letters are key here.

What used to be mutts are now expensive designer dogs

Food prices are increasing. It’s insane.

You know that old saying about it takes two to tango?

Rat takes the “artis” out of artisanal!

Chris Hedges: “Death Of The Liberal Class”. ’Nuff said.

Skip the first five letters of artisANAL and that is what you really have.

A REAL contradiction in terms is buying a “Gourmet Meal” from Wal-Mart…

Some take advantage of raising prices. It’s a crumby move

Who says you can’t learn anything reading GoatKomixs? I’d never heard of artisanal bread before.

I can’t believe people would be that stupid to pay that much money for a piece of bread! Freshly baked rolls and mini-baguettes cost me 10¢-15¢ a piece at the panaria down the street.

LOL. And I still live in a world where I won’t pay more than a buck for a cup of coffee at the convenience mart (and I live so close to a Starbucks that I could hit it with a stone). Artisanal toast? I think not.

“Artisanal” means that somebody made it.

Everything is artisanal.

The wife and I stayed on the San Antonio Riverwalk in April of this year. (Its terribly, terribly overrated.) For breakfast, the hotel we stayed at offered two eggs on a piece of toast for $18. That was their cheapest breakfast offering yet it was a 20 minute wait for a table. “A fool and his money…”

Starbucks sell artisanal coffee. How else can they account for a $5 cup that cost them about 15cents.

Love it

Maybe it is a work of art. After all, he’s not eating it, he’s letting it get cold while he reads the paper.

Don’t forget the current buzzword, “curated.” All of a sudden, everything is curated for me. I guess I’m supposed to feel special because of that, but I don’t.

The menu was in French. Counts for something.

Texans invited Californians to move to Texas and to bring their money. A bunch did, now Texans are finding their Lone Star Beer has been replaced by Chardonnay, their Cowboy Boots replaced by Birkenstock’s, their Biscuits & Gravy replaced by Avocado Toast, and they got Elon Musk (boy we suckered them on that one).

$6 for a slice of cooked bread? What is going on in the world?

Alfred E. Newman once remarked that the only reason every American family does not own an elephant is because one has never been offered for a dollar down and a dollar a month (MAD magazine, c. 1960).

Reminds me of the old Bob and Ray “House of Toast” routine.

Hmm, let’s see. If I eat $8 worth of artisinal toast every day for 100 years, that would come to…$292,200.00!

Nope, still not enough to buy a house. May as well eat the toast and live in a cardboard box. :(

pig is correct, its a total ripoff

Support the artisans!

if people want to be sheep that’s free will. If a company can convince you that a piece of bread is worth $10 dollars that’s free enterprise.

It’s the eatable version of the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Food perversion is rampant.

Don’t give anyone ideas – especially the governor or the broke state of Illinois. They’ll enact “artesian toast tax!”

My favorite line is, “If you are still paying $3 for a bottle of Smart water, it’s not working, is it?”

Thank you, pig! I always wondered what the word meant.

Only HALF!? I don’t understand 90% of this country. Yer all looney to me.

You better make sure you spell that right or the ATF will be kicking your door down. They may think you were saying Arsenal.

Pig’s right – and a rip-off in french does sound a bit like artisanal: “arnaque”.

But for a rip-off with posh language like artis*anal* Germans use “Ver*arsch*ung” – and Arsch is vulgar for anal.

Rat does show some common sense and wisdom. Occasionally.

Is the tale true that the idea for Perrier Water came from a French business meeting where someone rhetorically asked “How dumb do you think Americans are?”

Pig’s rim-shot may not be technically correct, but he is On Message!

No one needs a six-buck slice of toast!

OOH! Yes! ZING! Score one for rat!

And then there’s half of the country that does a lot worse than overpaying for toast. I stand with the artisanal people.

Generation-on-generation crime, the actions of the lazy……………………………..right-wing populists?: