Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 23, 2022

How can she afford Starbucks on a teacher’s salary?

Once again he starts with a false assumption and so his question can’t be answered.

Many weeks, we buy a bunch of “salad turnips” at the farmers market. About $3. Sometime in the next few days, I process them into a dozen little round turnips for my week’s salads and a double handful of triple-rinsed greens. Takes a bit more than 1/2 an hour. Then I steam the greens and eat ‘em for lunch with some butter and lemon juice. Very satisfying, tasty. But it takes nearly an hour from start to finish… and I eat my bowl of spinach greens in about 3 or 4 minutes. I can buy frozen greens, microwave them hot and serve ’em with butter and lemon, so how can it be worth it to start from scratch? Because, I kind of LIKE working to make a treat for myself (spouse could share if she wished, but says “Keep those nasty things AWAY from me!”). And it IS significantly better than the easy way. The same sort of calculation applies to pretty much everything if you cook for your own consumption, including (I presume) coffee. (I don’t drink it: It smells okay, but the taste is horrrrrrrible… for me.)

Life isn’t worth living without coffee. … or …

Making, thinking about, and drinking coffee is such a waste of time.

The same people who complain about those that drink an expensive cup of coffee drive around in $60,000 pickups.

Plenty of time to stand in line at barista-bucks though.

Who said life was too short for instant coffee? Where did that even come from?

It takes me about ten minutes to make an eight-cup pot of coffee.

I make mine at home with a Keurig using a reusable basket/cup and a decent quality medium grind dark roast. It beats the pants off of McD and Tim Hortons. As for the Starbucks of this world, if I’m going to drop double digits on a quaff, it’s going to be golden and foamy…

Last year I decided to spoil myself with an automatic coffee maker – wake up and it’s ready. Starbucks? I treat myself when traveling a few times a year

$ cup coffee maker takes aprox. 5 min. It takes me aprox. 4 min. to do the dishes by hand. Put coffee on, do dishes, drink coffee.

Tea [The favourite flavour of the moment] Hot.

She goes to Barstuck’s for her joe fix!

Even though I don’t like the taste, I still know that you can do other things while coffee is brewing