Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 30, 2020

At least the baby bird is getting a home cooked meal.

One early bird special, coming up!

Or a Dug Beetle larva

Hope it’s not the middle finger .

is Rat afraid the fingerprint contains the coronavirus or something?

The problem is not so much that a finger touched the plate as what else was it touching to leave the print.

Can’t be easy staring at food that seems to be invisible!

Rat was served finger see-food.

Just think of how penguins feed their babies.

Pig the plate is empty … What food ? … Croc Power !

Is finger-printin’ delicious a real thing? I had only heard of finger-lickin’ so far!

And then there is the Dung Beetle!

It’s the cook’s signature dish. He’s illiterate.

In other Pearls Before Swine news, Mr. Pastis’ Twitter feed modestly points out that he called this year:

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2019/12/29

https://twitter.com/backaftathis/status/1065478406521974784?lang=en

Today is National Bacon Day

I’ve heard that Alicia Silverstone fed her kids like baby birds!!!

I had pancakes at IHOP and the top one had the waiters thump print in it. I was hungry, so I ate around it,

Never read such a comic while eating your evening snack! belch

LOL! That bird was not impressed by your problems, Rat!

What food? Pastis forget to draw food – LOL

I was at a conference once at a fairly upscale hotel once, haven’t breakfast with friends.

The server brought me my coffee; I raised the cup and just as I was about to take my first sip, I noticed the lip prints on the cup had a shade of lipstick that I never use, mainly because I don’t wear lipstick.

The following morning we all went for breakfast elsewhere.

Or a newborn koala.

How can Rat stare at his food when there’s no food on the plate to stare at?

However bad it is, there’s always someone who has it worse!

Why comparing yourselves to others isn’t worth it.

But there is no food.

Lord! Rat is this fussy? HA!

Thanks Steph, I needed this one.

Couldn’t be bothered to actually draw food on the plate?

What food?

I once had to eat French Fries without salt…

Why is the baby bird complaining? My mother never served me breakfast in bed.

Pastis has drawn spaghetti before. Why couldn’t he just always have the characters eating spaghetti at the diner? Or just draw a big blob like Watterson did in Calvin and Hobbes.

*throws up

Just keep your mouth shut about the dirty fork.

Technically true, Pig. But it was the birdie who was intrusive here….

There is no food on that plate

uh where is his food