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State Of The Art

by Paul Taylor on August 13, 2018 at 11:37 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Katherine
Location: Gilchrist Home

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  1. Ntp
    August 13, 2018, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

    Squirrel soup.

    • Gyrre
      August 14, 2018, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

      As I understand it, squirrel is best for stewing.

    • Syncline
      August 15, 2018, 7:16 am | # | Reply

      ‘Cutting Edge Pest Control’ includes Mom being a deadly shot with an MIB -issued pistol.
      The week the burglar broke in, _everyone_ got tired of chilli..

      • Mike
        January 24, 2023, 10:28 pm | #

        Katherine does >not< need the pistol. The squirrel is proving that the dumbest of a species is not equipped to survive a dangerous situation.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      August 15, 2018, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, never underestimate the abilities of a squirrel. Who esle do you know that can run full speed up & down a tree with its nuts in its mouth?
      0.o

      Seriously though, check out how awesome squrrils are with a pair of BBC documentaries, named Daylight Robbery & Daylight Robbery 2. You’d be surprised what they’re capable of.

      • Sean Murphy
        September 13, 2018, 9:55 am | #

        Love those shows!

    • Jay Crandall
      August 11, 2019, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Tree rat chili.

  2. Patricia
    August 13, 2018, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

    Oh man, I hope it’s no one Scarlett knew!

  3. Dave
    August 13, 2018, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

    It’s good to know that some things never change.

  4. MadiX
    August 13, 2018, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    Kath never struck me as being the Brunswick stew type.

  5. The Aussie Bloke
    August 14, 2018, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Kath: 2
    Squirrels: 0

  6. B0mar
    August 14, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Hey! it was raised on Organic Vegetables, is completely Gluten Free, and, as near as I know Non-G.M.O.
    Now, as to being humanely killed …

    • Gyrre
      August 14, 2018, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      Flattening it’s skull still counts as “humane” if it’s done quickly, right?

      • Sean Murphy
        September 13, 2018, 9:57 am | #

        It does with humans, at least…

      • Bratty Roger
        August 20, 2023, 9:16 am | #

        @Sean Murphy
        🙄
        Only if said human wasn’t expecting to have his head flattened 😵‍💫

  7. Mark N
    August 14, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Although I would think there was a possibility of a pet squirrel. At least she does not waste a kill.

    • Joe Crouse
      August 14, 2018, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      Pet Squirrel were actually very common in the early 20th century. into the 1960s.

      • Bratty Roger
        August 20, 2023, 9:46 am | #

        Apparently that’s what this kid had in mind before paying a visit to his grandmother’s “First Self Righteous Church” 😏
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU 🤣

  8. Marshall
    August 14, 2018, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    You could have given the squirrel a name, would have only had the one entry, but still. Maybe Stuart?

    • FreeFlier
      August 14, 2018, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

      El? And them make it a squire?

      /flrrd/

  9. Soozcat
    August 14, 2018, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Pass the burgoo.

  10. T1p2
    August 14, 2018, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Relevant
    http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/

    • Syncline
      August 15, 2018, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      Yeah! I dimly remembered that. So Aussie was right – Squirrels 0, Kath 2

      • Enigmatick
        August 15, 2018, 12:25 pm | #

        I would’ve thought it Kath: 3. Or did the first time “only counts as one!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist the LOTR reference….)

    • TazManiac
      August 15, 2018, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

      It’s even better to begin back a few strips to add to the relevancy:

      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/bettersociallifethanme/

    • Bratty Roger
      August 20, 2023, 9:07 am | # | Reply

      Katherine wasn’t as … shapely then as she became after adopting Atsali & Castela 🙄

  11. Colin McKenzie
    August 14, 2018, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    Really the best thing to do with squirrel is to make burgers.

    • Carl-E
      August 14, 2018, 7:18 am | # | Reply

      One squirrel does not make enough burgers for two.
      Stew is really the only viable option.

      • JD Bell
        August 14, 2018, 11:23 am | #

        In my youth we used to bring home three to five squirrels and Grandma would fry them like chicken, cutting them up and breading them and then frying them in lard. Gravy and Mashed potatoes, or sometimes country fries. Better than rabbit or quail.

    • geryhame
      August 14, 2018, 11:52 am | # | Reply

      Squirrel does NOT taste like chicken. That’s what the big boys tell me.

      • drealm2459
        August 14, 2018, 12:04 pm | #

        they are right. nothing tastes like chicken.. it’s the fact that chicken tastes like everything else….

  12. The Old Wolf
    August 14, 2018, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    “Be sure to remove the two small glands found in the small of the back and under each foreleg, between the ribs and the shoulders.
    Stuff and roast squirrels as for Pigeons, page 475, barding them, or use them in Brunswick Stew, page 470, or prepare as for Braised Chicken, page 467. Season the gravy with:
    Walnut catsup
    and serve with:
    Polenta, page 177”

    From the “How Poor Are You” cookbook, which includes all sorts of recipes for things like beaver tails, possum, bear (nasty meat!), coon, and many others.

    • joe crouse
      August 14, 2018, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      HEY! Bear can be tasty or nasty depending on what its been eating. Bears being omnivores well they will eat trash. Trash bears are nasty Bears that have been eating a lot of fish tend to be oily and smelly and gamy tasting. Bears that have been fed up on berrys and nuts and such. are tasty.

      • jdreyfuss
        August 14, 2018, 9:45 am | #

        Just remember not to eat the liver or other fatty, filtering organs. Top level predators tend to carry a lot of fat soluble vitamins and for large enough animals the accumulation can be toxic to humans.

      • TazManiac
        August 15, 2018, 6:09 pm | #

        Not only that- Bear meat can kill you. Be sure to cook it ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

        No Bear tartar, not even Rare Bear…

    • A different dave
      August 14, 2018, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm… I don’t have that one. I do have a collection of ‘varmint’-type cookbooks/recipes. Squirrel is surprisingly easy to prepare.

  13. jwhouk
    August 14, 2018, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    Tastes like chicken.

    • jwhouk
      August 14, 2018, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      In case you were wondering about that reference:

      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/

      (link is in name above)

  14. Grondiouse
    August 14, 2018, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    Fricassee that suckah!

  15. Michael
    August 14, 2018, 5:38 am | # | Reply

    Roof rabbit. But that dish usually makes meow before.

    • FreeFlier
      August 14, 2018, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      Tree rat.

  16. GrantCMcCormick
    August 14, 2018, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    Well, the squirrel ate her plants, and now her plant is eating the squirrel.

    • Fatuncle
      August 14, 2018, 7:21 am | # | Reply

      Good one!

    • Graymalkin56
      August 14, 2018, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

      Excellent! Bravo!

  17. txmystic
    August 14, 2018, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    She’s even got the same narrow-eyed look of annoyance she had last time this happened…

    • GrantCMcCormick
      August 14, 2018, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

      As previously seen on Wapsi:

      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/

  18. Cortanis
    August 14, 2018, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    … why do I get the feeling that Kath is plotting squirrel genocide?

  19. Jenny Everywhere
    August 14, 2018, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    Brunswick stew. That’s what’s for dinner.

    What’s Brunswick stew?

    Hush and eat your squ…dinner.

    https://www.grit.com/food/recipes/squirrel-brunswick-stew-recipe-zerz1502zcwil

    • MidnightDStroyer
      August 15, 2018, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      Why is it surprisng me that you, of all people, would wind up here too…
      😉

  20. Graybeard
    August 14, 2018, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    Calling it “supper” rather than “dinner” is interesting.

    • Dave
      August 14, 2018, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/Map%20supper1.jpg

      Could be a regional thing. In some areas and subcultures, there’s still a distinction. “Dinner” can refer to the main meal of the day, even if it’s at noon, with “supper” bring a lighter meal in the evening. Or, the term “dinner” can be reserved for a formal meal, while “supper” is a simpler, casual affair. In this case the later distinction might be the one in play.

      In either case, Pickle probably picked it up from Katherine, and I don’t think we know where in the country she was raised. The dialect map shows a region of dialect distinction in the upper Midwest, so she (or Paul?) has roots in that area?

      • drealm2459
        August 14, 2018, 12:11 pm | #

        potatoes, taters, spuds or tubers from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum. all the same.. just put it on the table so I can eat.

      • drealm2459
        August 14, 2018, 12:14 pm | #

        P.S> Pickle has “roots” when ever and where ever she wants to. she really good at roots.

    • All-Purpose Guru
      August 14, 2018, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a regional thing. Friends of mine from Alberta always call it “supper”.

      • Killjoy
        August 14, 2018, 7:30 pm | #

        Great Lakes region gets both, kinda.

        Supper or dinner for the evening meal, dinner being a bit more formal.

        Noonish meal is usually called lunch, but might be called “dinner” if a formal event.

        And then there’s my friend who refers to any meal mid-afternoon as “lupper” (in the style of brunch).

  21. Wolf-who-Watches
    August 14, 2018, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Crunchy flufftails. /licks chops/

  22. Joe Crouse
    August 14, 2018, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    Squirrel is good eating, though City Squirrel have issues notably being crackheads and Junkies… (this may be only a local thing but the squirrels in Baltimore regularly test positive for cocaine and crack and heroin.)

  23. Robert Nowall
    August 14, 2018, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    A garden is just a salad bar to these creatures.

  24. Moleman
    August 14, 2018, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

    “Want some varmint?”

  25. TheJabberwonky
    August 14, 2018, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    Squirrell, it’s what’s for dinner…

  26. Xerxes Aragon
    August 14, 2018, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

    Bushy-Tailed Rat Stew

    • Joe Crouse
      August 14, 2018, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

      where I live you have to define that better. Nutria also has a fuzzy tail. So you have to define as Tree Rat or River Rat. (Muskrat has a hairless tail so cannot be defined as having a fuzzy tail)

  27. Treesong
    August 14, 2018, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

    Squirrel–it’s what’s for supper. ©The Squirrel Industry Council

  28. Centaur71
    June 4, 2019, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    What’s for supper? Tacos Sciuridae with Rodentia sauce

  29. Hadrian
    June 14, 2021, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    Skwerl chitatap! Hinna hinna!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAszCSoO1s

  30. Bratty Roger
    April 26, 2022, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what that squirrel, in th third panel, is eating 🤔

    • Centaur71
      December 2, 2024, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      His last meal apparently…

  31. Mike
    June 3, 2023, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    I’ve noticed that when someone says something is ‘state of the art’ they almost never say what the art is…
    Also I’ve received a message from the Chicken Liberation Front: “Eat More Squirrel.”

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