Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 10, 2019

I love the smell of coffee, but I can’t stomach the taste of it. It just tastes incredibly bitter to me.

either she brewed it wrong or she’s not yet acquired to the taste

I’ll be 55 in a few weeks, always hated coffee, always will.

Never was a fan of Coffee.

Coffee is great if you mix enough sugar and heavy cream into it to get it to where it’s like you’re drinking liquid Haagen Dazs!

You have to use cream and sugar for the first few years; then you graduate to black coffee.

Gee whiz:) I was drinking coffee when I was ten years’ old.

I don’t regularly drink coffee, but when I do it’s fairly much a milk shake with all the cream and sugar.

My day doesn’t start without it… BLACK!

Never acquired a taste for the stuff and have never had a cup in my life.

Got hooked, then discovered my body doesn’t process caffeine correctly and wound up with anxiety problems and had to quit. Now, no problems!

Nearly always black coffee for me – but not the bottom of the pot.

My ex-wife used to say that I like a little coffee with my cream and sugar.

Yes, Frank – if only you knew…

If that’s her reaction to coffee, then she better stay away from a bar on ’girl’s night’.

If that’s her reaction to coffee, then she better stay away from a bar on ’girl’s night’.

One cup a day w/: 1 tsp non-fat dried milk & 1 tsp sugar in raw…

A guy once told me. “I like my coffee like I like my women. Cold and bitter”

Why waste perfectly good coffee?

But it gets the taste of Gunther outta your mouth.

This is my reaction to coffee as well.

So. According to most “folks” here, they don’t like COFFEE, something many claimed they never even tried. Interesting. That’s explains a few things. But it’s cool, really. Each to His or Her own taste, I guess.

What’s disheartening is that our young herorine doesn’t like COFFEE. Tsk, Tsk, G&K, how could you? Or are We (Me) being sent a subtle “hint” of things to come?

“Luann hates COFFEE, but on the other both Tiffany and Gunther apparently LOVE COFFEE. Hmmmmmm, I wonder……., ;)

Note to Luann- your dad still has ears and could hear you! LoL

I once had a caffeine attack…high B.P…stomach attack etc. like having a stroke…never again…UGH…DAN-802

I was about LuAnn’s age when I started being into coffee. A few years later, it became black coffee.

I started drinking coffee pulling all-nighters in college.

How old is this strip? Luann and Bernice have been drinking coffee together at the Fuse ever since it opened, and at food courts before that.

A day without Coffee isn’t a day a all…It’s a nightmare.

“Spit Decision”

“Luann Doesn’t Get Grounded”

“Till You’re Brew, In The Face!”

“Hello, Father! Hello, Mud-der!”

“Never Toy With Folgers…You’ll Get Wound Up!”

“Sanka, To New Depths”

“It’s Eight O’Clock, Somewhere!”

“The Idea Of Macadamia? It’s Just Plain Nuts!”

“Your Problem Is, You’ve Got No Filter!”

“Nip And Yuck”

“Better A ‘Has Beaned’, Than A ‘Dithered Pause’!”

“On What Grounds!?”

“Never Underestimate The Value Of A Zinc”

“To Boldly Joe, When No One Has Joe’d, Before!”

“Never An Adult Moment, When You’re Around!”

or

“An Err Of Sophistication”

Bitterness without the sweets never works. Gotta add the sweets. But some take it straight like a jolt. Others like myself gotta have the sweets to make it all good.

me!!! gotta have my coffee!!

“And did you taste that!!? I did!!!!

well, I won’t stop, and filter!

and, if we threw it all away, things can only get better! (♩)

-Java Jones

I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 40. My parents brewed it strong and drank it black, and I thought that was the way you were supposed to drink it. Almost 20 years later, I drink it black, too.

Ok, time for morning Joe – black and sweet. My Italian grandfather got me started 60+ years ago when he stayed at our home for a while – always brewed a pot of espresso first thing in the morning and gave me a Demi cup, black and sweet – delicious!

No, Frank. Liking a cuppa coffee in the morning IS NOT a sign that Luann is an adult. When she has a full time job, and, starts paying her own bills, THEN she’s an adult. (Moving out to a place of her own, would be an extra added welcome step.)

Cream and sugar’s over here, kid…

I’m 50 and have never let a swallow of that vile smelling swill pass my lips.

She needs a cup a joe, black………..with lot’s a cream n sugar!;o}

Exactly how I feel about coffee, and I’m 56.

What was drunk before coffee?

Replacing something healthy like OJ with what is essentially a drug delivery system is what makes you an adult? Pretty sad.

For a long list of examples of bad coffee in fiction, and an extensive discussion of what makes coffee bad or… less bad, see https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadToTheLastDrop

Dad is so clueless, as usually drawn here, but the overall theme is sarcastic. Sunday foible.

Are the Sunday strips set in the era when Luann was about 15? Granted, everyone in the weekday college strips acts as if they were still in the 10th grade, but at least they maintain the pretense of being about college students. The Sunday strips don’t seem even to have that same setting.

Nothing wrong with not liking coffee. But bragging to her father about how grown-up she is now? The Evans won’t let their characters age out of junior high.

Don’t a lot of high school kids drink coffee these days? In the comics world it’s a given for the 16 year olds in “Zits”.

I’m 60 and I have never been able to stomach the taste of coffee. Give me a hot cup of tea.

I stopped drinking coffee in the mid 80’s when I realized that I was drinking it because it seemed to be expected. I don’t like the taste of coffee at all. How can anything smell so good and taste so bad. I’m with Luann on this one.

Wow! I’ve been drinking coffee since I was four— on Sundays, with sugar and cream. Quit the cream when I was 16. Tried to quit the sugar once, no joy. Really. NO joy. Agave works tho, not that I approach 70.

The more you call yourself an adult the less likely you are one. Actual adults don’t need to say it.

I was like that for years. Couldn’t stand the taste of the stuff. But when Keurig introduced those pod machines, I bought one (at the much missed Elder Beerman Department Store), indulged in a few of those designer flavors, and now I wouldn’t be without it! The Ink Spots knew of which they sang when they recorded Java Jive.

I prefer to drink coffee when it no longer tastes like coffee.

Once the caffeine kicks in you’ll be back for more, Lu…

I could never stand that stuff

First coffee stories are fun. When I was growing up my dad drank coffee with cream and 1 sugar, and mom drank tea, black. They always made both. I thought coffee tasted and smelled terrible, but like to drink tea, black like my mom. Then at age 16 I was working in a restaurant and it was my job to make the coffee in a big urn. I used to take a cup to the chef (an older lady, extremely crotchety with a heart of gold) to test it, and she’d tell me when it was good enough. It wasn’t a requirement, I just couldn’t taste it myself. Well, one day she was in such a bad mood I didn’t want to bother her. And the scent of brewing coffee had started to grow on me. So I fixed a cup just like for my dad, one cream, one sugar, and tried it. I was shocked that I liked it very much. Later, in the fall, I was a senior in high school and asked my dad if he minded making enough coffee in the morning so that I could have a cup. He responded just like Luann’s dad. It was kind of sweet. I really enjoyed being a coffee drinker from that point on. The comfort of it got me through some tough times almost immediately.

Luann and Quill drinking coffee at Weenie World in 2014:

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2014/5/26

The Sunday strips must be re-runs from high school? Since all they do is berate Luann about her messy room, etc., they are “timeless”.

I have to chime in and say I love coffee—strong and black! My Appalachian grandparents fed it to me with a spoon when I was a baby! But these days I can’t handle all that caffeine so it’s strictly decafe for me. : (

Tomorrow, building code violation fun with Brad and Toni and TJ! (And with Frank and Nancy, who are legally responsible for the house that’s in violation!)

Just like my daughter. Every time she tried something new and said “mmmm”, I knew she would never eat/drink it again. Willingly.

Coffee is great. Starbucks does NOT make good coffee. They say if it ain’t burned it ain’t coffee. Sad…

I used to drink coffee with lots of cream and sugar. A friend told me that if I drank it black for a week, I’d never go back to cream and sugar. In fact, it took me only a day or two. Now I drink Starbucks dark roast, like Komodo Dragon. Coffee flavored anything is great. Espresso is still a bit beyond me. Maybe I should try it with sugar and cream. The caffeine doesn’t keep me awake, but I’ll get a little hand tremor that tells me, “Enough coffee, kiddo”.

Coffee sucks!

After all that buildup during the week, she’d better be an adult in more ways than one….

tomorrow: will Luann FINALLY remove that ugly jacket????!!!!!

Cream and sugar helps

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the java in me, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup. (Ahhhh)

I like to say that I like my coffee like I like my men, strong and black, but really, I don’t like my coffee that way:)

Not a coffee drinker. Way too bitter and gives me heartburn. The only coffee I use is a wee bit of espresso powder in my baking when making brownies, chocolate cake, cookies, etc. Really brings out the chocolate flavor.

I drink my coffee black. Don’t need sugar ‘cause I’m sweet enough as it is….

They’re literally recycling punchlines now: https://www.gocomics.com/luann/1999/01/10

This reminds me the first time I tried the coffee, the pipe and even the sandwich with raw onion.

Ah-h yes. Coffee where you boil beans and throw them away and drink the water…

I lived in Seattle (Starbucksland) for 14 years and never acquired a taste for coffee, but I liked the smell and can make a very good cup per my GF…

The most dangerous drinking game is seeing how long I can go without coffee.

Try using some sugar.

This installment of Luann was sponsored in part by Mordock999, of the GoComics message board, and coffee-lover extraordinaire!

In today’s episode, Mordy is portraying the part of ‘Frank’, the father. ;)

Yep. Smells Good. Tastes like Battery Acid.

Lol, I love coffee but I hate withdrawal so I don’t drink it too often. To drink it though I add sugar and if I have, creamer. My fav kind of coffee is caramel and french vanilla. You can never go wrong with flavored coffee. As for black…yeah…never tried it, and I never will. That’s a coffee that I can NOT tolerate.

Luann doesn’t just drink coffee, she drinks triple espresso (which is like coffee to the sixth power):

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/1/14

When Adam and Eve awakened in the Garden of Eden, a fresh pot of breakfast coffee had been provided by the Proprietor.

Poor, weak Luann!

When I was working, I lived by coffee and the department’s coffeemaker! Always had a large mug at hand.

Now, I am retired and don’t drink as much, but I still can’t imagine starting my day (even as late as I choose to start it) without coffee!

Maybe in the end it speaks more of Frank’s coffee making ability than anything else. Perhaps she’s more used to what they serve out at specialty shops, and her Dad’s stuff tastes like swill in comparison.

Home coffee is yucky. For some reason, the store – made coffee tastes better. It could be because they brew all day long and keep the temperature set at hot. It is the same way how ranch dressing always tastes better in restaurants than they do out of containers from grocery stores. There are mysterious and unlisted ingredients in some foods

Waste!!

I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a pre-teen.

coffee always reminds me of dirty ashtrays and cigarette butts

I didn’t like coffee until I was over 50

I know just how she feels. I am 49 and despise coffee.

You guys add lots of sugar as well to get rid of bitter taste

I used to need cream but now I like it black as night.