What is the state of the peanut recall now? Any product made with nuts since Iran-Contra? I've lost track. But it's frightening to think of some backwater peanut plant run by negligent yahoos having so much power over our economy's snack sector. For more horrors of mega-industrialized food, I recommend reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

For the second panel, I was trying to think of the grossest things one could possibly find in a food processing factory. What sprang to mind was the time I was in a grocery store in Pennsylvania, and I thought to look at the ingredients on a tin of scrapple. And there I saw it: the word "SNOUTS." Snouts, I tell you! That's where they wind up! As you can see, that moment left an indelible impression on me. Seeing as fresh snouts are apparently perfectly edible, I made the snouts in my cartoon rotten and slick with Astroglide, as though employees had been engaging in some very strange kink right next to the conveyor belt.