Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 15, 2022

They will take the opposite sides on Ding Dongs, with the Twinkie lover opposing the teaching of Critical Snack Theory.

They are both ding dongs. That’s something most of us can agree on.

Shoulda went with Fruit Loops in spite of the redundancy.

I would have expected them to throw Zingers at each other.

not much of an open, honest dialogue, was it?

you could have served twix, they are split down the middle too!

The Twinkle Defense will become popular again amongst politicians.

Deep-fry the Twinkie!

The best way to eat a Twinkie is to split it lengthwise, spread your favorite jam on it, place them together and eat it like your 10 again.

Twinkie Wiener Sandwich!

(Thank you, Weird Al.)

Such a waste of perfectly good Twinkies. Unless you get a rotten one, of course.

I much prefer Ho Hos. Yum! Real artificial chocolate!

You forgot ‘stop racism agains Twinkies’, ‘Twinkie lifes matter’, ‘stop Twinkie immigration NOW’ and ‘Twinkies take our jobs’.

Definitely Ding Dongs. To match the guests.

Food fight!

Stephan please go back to the humor bag and get out of the political bag ;-)

Is this a ding or a dong? I only like dings,. You are stupid. Dongs are better… ?No that is a way worse sounding debate.

They’re both fruitcakes.

The political spectrum is technically much more complicated than just two sides. As Stephan himself has mentioned previously, the ultimate oligarch elites (and their allies in the CCP, the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, et cetera) who own the media, and their puppet politicians, are systematically indoctrinating the people at large to try to fit into narrow-minded boxes, as part of their efforts to create as much division as possible, so the people at large cannot organise against them for the sake of freedom and human rights.

See here for an example of that you are all much more complicated than just a party affiliation,and there are many more areas than this: https://8values.github.io/

I think Ho Hos are the best (at least better than Twinkies or Ding Dongs).

Some places are proposing banning high sugar and high fat foods for kids, so it’s a political issue.

The ding dongs are already there!

Chockodiles!

ding dongs you can find aplenty in the political comics comments sections…

Defund the Twinkie? The LGBTQ crowd is going to be all over this one. Put The Count down on the “Support” side.

I assume this is a play on the Planters Peanuts Super Bowl commercial.

See? Too much sugar causes inflammation.

Or the dum-dums

You did go with ding dongs!

Well Done Pastis. We all need to work on finding the common ground . The Truth is a good goal, rather than a narrative.

Here is some: Twinkies are yellowish and oblong with a sweet cream filling. Some people like them and some people don’t and no-one should be cancelled, insulted or ostracized because of their preferences on twinkies.

Hard to disagree with that. If you are looking for the common ground.

Wait, they’re looking at Pig funny. I think they can both agree that they love bacon.

That’s a waste of Twinkies. You should have given them to R.J. from Over the Hedge. :)

I knew a man that really ate a " Pheasant " can you imagine that ?

Nah. Twinkies is a private company. Unless it’s getting government subsidies, no reason to defund. Besides, why bother when people who eat them are only hurting themselves? Knock yourselves out.

FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!

How about sandwiches and beer? Do they agree on sandwiches and beer?

You invited the ding-dongs over to rate the Twinkies…!

He did go with ding dongs — he invited them over.

Too many ding dongs.

They’re all ding dongs!

Should’ve gone with dong-kicks.

Ding Dongs? Talk about redundant.

Count Choculaaaah!

You DID go with the ding-dongs, Pig!

If this was like real life, one would take all of the twinkies and the other would share.

Ding Dongs for the Ding-a-Lings?

I prefer, crocs, guard ducks and the like over the political stuff. But, judging by the number of likes, I must be in the minority?

Oh, you went with ding dongs, all right….

Best strip in a while. Imwould shove both their mouths full of twinkies, to shut them up

I’ve heard that “Milk Duds, with their self-deprecating name and remarkably mild flavor are the most apologetic of the boxed candies”.

Panel two…you do have options, yes or no.

I’d say it went about as well as it could have gone.

Twinkies are sometimes what other Asians call Asians that are “to American”. Usually if they can’t speak their native language.

The ding dongs are already in the room, ‘politicing’.

They’re ALL “ding dongs”.

Whatever happened to good breeding…and pure ethics…and nice manners??

Why is it everyone now…is a pain in the ass…?

Whatever happened to class?

Kander&Ebb—CHICAGO

You invited the ding-dongs.

“The other side TOTALLY does that!” -pretty much everyone

Twinkies and cockroaches – equally likely to survive a nuclear holocaust (but probably not the zombie apocalypse).

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I think I can identify the twinkies, here.

You seem to have invited two ding dongs.

I think you found the ding dongs.

A bunch of mixed nuts.

Storm Battle Creek! The Moon Pies really won!

Rama Lama Ding Dongs, please. I’m boycotting Hostess.

Ho Ho!

They need a mediator – in this case, maybe should call it a Hostess

Go with Sara Lee, “Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.”

You did, pig. You did.

“This isn’t an argument. It’s a contradiction.”

If they both Defund the Ding Dongs, bring out the Devil Dogs

I think he invited the ding dongs…

Don’t know which would be worse.

I would have suggested Ding-a-Lings, but that has already been taken by a 1970’s robot from the Topper toy company

Throw em all out! Only loonies throw twinkies instead of eating them.

Ding Dongs are better for throwing.

One step at a time.

If he’d gone with Ring Dongs, those two would have argued about whose was bigger

I love that Pastis remembered to add the filling holes on the Twinkies!

The only ding dong in this ’toon is you, Pig. Just stand aside as the Great Twinkie War rages on….

Cream pies!

It looks like he already went with Ding Dongs.

Ha ha, yes, every issue that people are upset over is just something silly like this, and people who are concerned about issues are just big silly heads. Caring is for suckers, kids!

My Family all worked for Wonder Bread/Hostess over the decades. My Pops made fruit pies for years the good ones made with real food.

you invited a pair of Ding Dongs to debate about Twinkies.

He did go with ding dongs

I was about to suggest Oreos, but chances are one of them separates the cookies to eat the icing first and the other just eats it as is.