Pickles by Brian Crane for January 14, 2025

Duck, Duck, Goose

Roscoe doesn’t confuse Nelson — they’re intellectual equals

Growing up Catholic I was told fish wasn’t meat.

Fowl, not foul, Nelson, a bit of difference there!

“When they was no meat, we ate fish. When they was no fish, we ate fowl. When they was no fowl, we ate sand.”

Fie fowl poultry! Fowl includes both landfowl (chickens, quail, and pheasants) and waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans). Poultry can include any domesticated bird, such as chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks, but it doesn’t include game birds like pheasants or partridges

Play on words like Fill and Feel ;-)

Shakespeare wrote before standardized spelling. I’m sure his original copy read “Fare is fowl, and fowl is fare,” before some later editor screwed it up.

Homonyms abound

I love the precious Roscoe : )

We tried Impossible “chicken” nuggets last night and they were pretty good!

Roscoe walking with Nelson, after all this talk about chicken, is waiting for some chicken to eat.

Ah homophones, what fun!

I’ve had to quit reading the comics (& trying to comment) at 3am (mountain time) because I keep getting the annoying page saying “we’re sorry, the website is experiencing heavy user traffic right now” apparently everyone is here commenting at that time and it overloads the site (which seems odd, surely there aren’t that many people using gocomics at any given time? But I’m no programmer or computer expert so idk how many is too many)

He should get a dictionary……. maybe

Chicken is meat. You can specify what sort of meat, but meat it is.

Idiotic. Why lie to a kid?

I know it doesn’t make any sense!“Chicken is considered poultry. Poultry refers to domesticated birds raised for food, including chicken, turkey, duck, and goose, so while chicken is technically “meat” as it’s animal flesh, it falls specifically under the category of poultry."

Grandpa can make up his mind if he can remember what the question was.

With these two as his grandparents,Nelson is gonna be one effed up adult!

The application of gradients in the colorization of this strip is pretty good.

This arc is all fowled up.

Nelson has a good friend in Roscoe…….

Depends … if you use the Gefilte fish or Lutefisk recipe.

Hamlet’s father: Murder most fowl.

Third base!

Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS involved fowl weather.

Fowl on the play!