BLTs Taste So Darn Good is the first Pearls book. It was named after a line Pig said, "But BLTs Taste so Darn Good!" The book introduces most of the main cast. It also features the extra six first comics for The Washington Post, as they requested comics a week earlier than other newspapers. The cover features Rat and Pig sitting at a diner, with Pig eating a BLT (which was not in the comic that named the book).