Strange Brew by John Deering for March 11, 2018

We can simulate 31 coffee flavors.

Pay for it all with a green money like substance.

For shame! Real water at a “Like Substance” bar.

Right next door to the “Frozen dairy dessert”

He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee.

Got to admit Deering’s nailed it here. At most gas station “coffee” bars the only resemblance to coffee is the color.

How about some coffee flavored coffee?

Now that’s a real Strange Brew

There’s been some improvement – the fair trade organic Nicaraguan coffee is a good deal at 99 cents a pint.

Truth in advertising.

Some wag wrote, in marker pen, on one of these type of coffee machines: “made from free range coffee beans”.

I first heard this joke 50 years ago: black cup filler and coffee whitener.

I first heard this joke 50 years ago: black cup filler and coffee whitener.

At one place where I worked in Seattle (where people worship coffee), our office was stocked with a premium brand of coffee. Then the company was bought out. Instead of us buying good coffee and stocking it ourselves, they hired a contract service that provides coffee to airlines.

They claimed it saved $165 a year. Now instead of grabbing some Java and going back to his desk, a developer would go from cube to cube saying, "Hey, I’m going downstairs for a latte, are you coming with me? Most of the office would empty. This happened at least twice a day.

Yup the bean counter can point to the $165 – the lost productivity did not show up on his spreadsheet.