Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 18, 2022

All things good and holy

Pocketbook.

Your time.

Commercial manipulation.

Have a candy bar and be done with it, like every sane person.

Italian, for sure; it should be “Caramellatteccino”.

Coffee.

I would go with: My tastebuds. It soulds like something way to sweet for me. And I hate coffee.^^

The coffee shop menu

My budget.

Surplus income.

Coffee. Black. If you want cream and sugar, go to a candy store.

Vowels.

Lots of folks talk as if there are rules about ‘real’ coffee. Seems to me that we generally prefer coffee the way we first tasted it and liked it. Some had straight up black and strong. Others had variations, including sugar or cream/milk, or both.

Dad liked RR coffee, boiled in a pot while the crummy [caboose] rattled the rails. Strong enough to float a spike as he put it. This was 1930’-50’s. Mom, on the other hand, saw how a shot of that RR elixir caused her only child to climb the walls and commit general mayhem, and added sugar. That worked for me for years, until I tried USAF chow hall coffee. Almost peeled the enamel off my teeth, so I added milk. Now drink a cup a day of each of those. Reminds me of family and home and far away places.

Yeah. And I really don’t care for the additive laden stuff sold at exorbitant prices to people who complain about the cost of living. Seems somehow self-defeating. But to each his/her own.

Your pancreas?

All four.

$tarBuck$ is sheer genius: using coffee to increase the adult diabetes population.

Stuff like this is why if only drink tea.

De gustibus non est disputandum

Remember the brouhaha about Starbucks giving their drinks froufrou names, like Frappuccino? But we were all happy drinking milkshakes called Blizzards, and eating burgers called Big Macs or Whoppers.

LMAO!! I mean what the hell is it??!! Asks the gal who does enjoy a ’Bucks breve flat white extra hot (no sugar, thank you very much).

Why does it have to be an abuse of anything? If people like it, who cares? Another bad assumption by the kid.

arteries.

I’m so glad I don’t drink coffee.

Wait! Something’s wrong. Where’s Scherzo to gripe that an eight year old kid shouldn’t be drinking coffee of any sort, or be at all familiar with the more exotic commercial abuses of the drink? Is everything okay in the Land of Dyspepsia?

Nothing. No abuse of anything.

I think this actually sounds quite good! The ingredients, that is, not the name.