Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 23, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    I guess salt is considered a spice a Minnesota.

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    Don’t say Spam in front of a pig WA!

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    BasilBruce  over 1 year ago

    After all that climbing, Pig must be hungry. He could go to the diner and have some Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam.

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    retrocool  over 1 year ago

    always look on the bright side of life

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    sirbadger  over 1 year ago

    One of my relatives told me about something else they ate during World War II that was similar to Spam. I don’t remember the name of it.

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    B UTTONS  over 1 year ago

    Go forth and spread the SPAM, just remember it is illegal to spam.

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    blunebottle  over 1 year ago

    Rather misleading that they call it spiced ham. There’s no spice at all, just pork, ham, salt, potato starch, sugar and sodium nitrite.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    I had originally heard that it stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.

    Which is right?

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    Imagine  over 1 year ago

    In that case, I will stop deleting it from my computer.

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    rshive  over 1 year ago

    Great answers first require great questions.

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    iggyman  over 1 year ago

    Canned cooked pork the internet says! I used to love it, but too salty for me now!

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    Marc Schiffres  over 1 year ago

    Not since they tried to rebrand it a few years ago…

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    Doug K  over 1 year ago

    Spam could be Pig’s stage name.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I hate the stuff, I consider it… Sh!t Passing As Meat.

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    raebrek  over 1 year ago

    SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.

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    Charles  over 1 year ago

    Salt Pork and hAM.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Now Pig can take over the internet with annoying unwanted advertisements.

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    JRobinson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    No it doesn’t… Guess we now know the difference between a Wise A$$ and a Smart A$$. (Also love how Pastis can spell the word properly in the strip, but the website prevents it in the comments!)

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    bookworm0812  over 1 year ago

    Pretty close to the truth in the fall. Spam puts out pumpkin spiced fake meat. That’s disgusting.

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    unfair.de  over 1 year ago

    When you’re sitting all day in the clean air of a hill and suddenly some meaty pig post-exercise stands upwind from you spiced ham comes natural.

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    phritzg Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve been told that SPAM stands for Squirrels Possum And Mice.

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

    What kind of contraction is that?

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    Goat from PBS  over 1 year ago

    I did not know that before. Wow.

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    Ichabod Ferguson  over 1 year ago

    SPAM: Squirrels, Possums, And Mice

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    Lotus  over 1 year ago

    Baked beans are off.

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    Comics are the first thing to read  over 1 year ago

    I’d ask what scrapple stands for.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Try this instead; “Self-Propagating Auto-Mailer”

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    GATORx81  over 1 year ago

    It used to…now it’s “Sizzle, Pork, And Mmm,” according to the ad.

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    HOTLOTUS1  over 1 year ago

    salt is a preservative

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    david_42  over 1 year ago

    More like the wisdom of the eggs.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    Pig is empowered….he’s so special!

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    Rotary12 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Speaking of Spam, when are you coming to Minnesota again?

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 1 year ago

    While true, this doesn’t account for Turkey Spam, which should be called, “Spurkey.”

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    On a personal note, I find Spam disgusting.

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    James Gifford Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Spiced Ham and Shoulder Meat, actually…

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    Bookworm  over 1 year ago

    Due to my advancing age and apparently deteriorating health, any food stuff that has any shape, appearance, texture, flavor, aroma, or any appealing trait as a foodstuff in any way whatsoever – I can’t have it anymore. :>(

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    bchellam Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Actually, I once read that SPAM is an Army abbreviation for “Shoulder of Pork and Ham.”

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    Cerabooge  over 1 year ago

    A pig’s version of “Soylent Green is people”.

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    Flossie Mud Duck  over 1 year ago

    I’ve always considered Spam, along with Velveeta cheese, to be non-food products.

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    CaveCat87  over 1 year ago

    Did he somehow knew that Pig was going to ask him about Spam?

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    Geezer  over 1 year ago

    From Wikipedia:

    Hormel states that the meaning of the name “is known by only a small circle of former Hormel Foods executives,” but a popular belief is that the name is a contraction of “spiced ham.” It has also been speculated to be an acronym for “Shoulder of Pork And Ham.”

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    I haven’t had spam in over fifteen years but now I’m craving it. And of course I just gave up the meat of mammals for Lent.

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    Spiny Norman Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Spam,spam,spam,spam……….Somebody had to do it.

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    larslarson  over 1 year ago

    I thought it was acronyms for Shoulder Pork Arm Meat? Spicy ham! Who’da thunk it.

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    T Smith  over 1 year ago

    When I was a kid, there was a lunch-meat called spiced ham. Ground ham, formed in a loaf, did not taste like Spam.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 1 year ago

    Did he say, ‘Move to Hawaii?’

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    waes-hael  over 1 year ago

    Pig should’ve asked for “wisdom” not “knowledge.”

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    Stonedog Premium Member over 1 year ago

    When I was a kid my older brother told me SPAM was “Substance Posing As Meat”

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    David_the_CAD  over 1 year ago

    Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit.

    Wisdom is not adding tomatoes to a fruit salad.

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    phredturner  over 1 year ago

    Learn something every day here

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    johobe Premium Member over 1 year ago

    How long have you been sitting on that one. Sheer profundity.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    Deja Vu :)…

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    I was told, “Sam-I-Am Porked A Mother.” Is that wrong?

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Conversely, “spork” does not stand for “spiced pork”.

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    Dianne50  over 1 year ago

    I remember as a child Mom serving us SPAM and fried corn meal mush for breakfast. I wouldn’t eat it then and I won’t eat it now.

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    Curiosity Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A long time ago I read an article on the origin of SPAM. According to it Hormel came up with the idea when they had great success with canned ham, but needed something to do with the rest of the pig and in particular the shoulder. What they did was grind it up, add a little bit of spice (mostly salt it seems), cook it in a can and call it Spam. So the Shoulder of Pork was masquerading as Ham. Wish I could find the article, but I do remember investigating it enough to decide it appeared to be legitimate.

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    Cactus-Pete  over 1 year ago

    It’s Shoulder of Pork and Ham, not a single spice in it.

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    Buoy  over 1 year ago

    Pig could use a little spice in his life.

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    stillfickled Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve said before- sliced thin, slice of cheese and lots of mayo between two pieces of whole grain bread.

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    The Orange Mailman  over 1 year ago

    Portmanteau or Acronym?

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    garibaldi.hank  over 1 year ago

    SPAM is an acronym: Special Processed American Meat.

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    goblue86  over 1 year ago

    From the guys that brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000, we have Rifftrax (https://www.rifftrax.com/)/

    And this gem shot at the Hormel Plant in Austin.

    Enjoy (best viewed BEFORE lunch).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagPzmaVc38

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    soaringblocks  over 1 year ago

    I ate Spam for 20 years when i lived in Hawaii and never knew this. lol

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    Wizard4168  over 1 year ago

    Despite all the stories, “Spam” is just a made-up word. It doesn’t actually stand for anything, backronyms notwithstanding.

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    paullp Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve eaten Spam once in my life, sometime in the last couple of years. I was curious about all the fuss over it, and wondered what this All-American “ham” was all about (that’s in quotes because I’m not sure it actually qualifies as ham).

    I like ham. There are a variety of good deli hams out there, and sometimes my wife and I buy a “ham steak” in the meat section of our supermarket, and I broil it for dinner. As for Spam, it was tolerable, but overall it was a bland, low quality ham. So I tried it in order to find out what I was missing, and the answer to that was “nothing.”

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    Sisyphos  over 1 year ago

    Careful, Pig lest you become the wisdom of the ages, which is to say, Spam….

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    DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Well, when you’re a pig… Nah, it’s too easy.

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    Swirls Before Pine  over 1 year ago

    Actually, Pig holds the ingredients of Spam.

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