Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for September 07, 2020

ne’er thought o’ Andy as someone who drinks flat beer

@Number Three Today’s strip is slightly funny , our HERO Mr Andrew Capp will drink anything as long as it’s got alcohol in it and it’s free :o) my Avatar is a photo of Connie and me holding Princess Amy 18 years ago yesterday, can’t do that now she’s nearly as tall as me :o) , how was your week-end , our Manic Monday should be very busy as usual but we shall cope I hope , take care and BCNU pal

This strip is logical but not funny.

When the bars were forced to stay closed, the disposal [poured down the drain] of old draft beer needed to be witnessed by the tax folks.

A street person I know would find old donuts that just needed some time in the μwave to be edible.

It would Ale Andy to see good beer go to waste. So like the stout fellow that he is, he wouldn’t allow such a bitter thing to happen.

Andy will make sure all that beer is processed properly and recycled through his liver and kidneys!

Andy represents a true alcoholic hall of fame.

How could any beer in Hartlepool go out-of-code? :-o

Sell-by is just a date that means it can’t legally be sold anymore

Consume-by is a much more flexible date, and just about anything can be consumed for a few days past sell-by

Jack must have some really strong muscles to carry two crates full of glass bottles at arms length…

Does some beer have a “sell by date”. My yuengling doesn’t (I’m in the US). Perhaps some fancier stuff?

My beer says brewed since 1934 and it’s still good.

It would still be good tasting and the alcohol content would be there.

“Best Before” does not mean “Bad After.”

How novel to have a sell by date, unlike the rice infused dreck the world’s largest brewing holding company sells with a “born on” date.

With Andy around how does any beer reach its sell by date?

Here in the U.S. it is the distributers that deal with that not the bar owner/tender as they don’t care. The driver that delivers checks the older stock and replaces it with another batch. Don’t know what happens to it once it is back to the distributer.

The real question is how Jack’s pub, with Andy as a regular, could possibly have beer that has reached or passed its sell-by date.

Wait.. Beer has a “sell by” date? And if so, is it a law or just suggested to chuck it? I think I’m with Andy on this one.

Must be Budweiser. It expires two days after you buy it. And it tastes like that too.

He’s on a rescue mission.

Beer in the garbage is free of charge.

Andy doesn’t care. Clearly.

xxx

@Afficionado

Wow. So Princess Amy is now 18 years old? Or should that be “Queen Amy” now? Not sure whether 18 or 21 is the official adult age in Malta.

I turned 18 in 2012. When we had the whole Capp gang, they all had a party for me in the comment section. Number Six was drawing “The Mad Capps” at the time and he drew a strip where Andy & Flo were trying to get their son Buster to say his first words. As soon as they both left the room, Buster piped up with “Happy 18th Birthday, Number Three!”

Sigh. They were some excellent times indeed.

Stay safe, stay well and stay happy, pal.

Lame move by Jack to let Andy see this. Andy could just learn Jack’s schedule for throwing out beer, and collect all of it..endless free beer.

There’s a difference between “sell by” and “use by” AND “best by”…….

To Andy, any beer is good as long as it’s free.

My favorite beer advertising slogan is one that would turn Andy off in a Yankee minute…

“Stella Artois. Reassuringly expensive”

( and it smells slightly skunky ).

Beer isn’t like milk. With age, it doesn’t actually expire or become unsafe to drink. So Andy just scored some free drinks.

It says best before not bad after.