Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 28, 2021

There should also be a jug in there for him to make room for more Starbucks.

Pig might have had one sip of coffee too much.

I just never drink coffee.

they must’ve taken Coffee lessons from Garfield.

Any place that sells overpriced coffee and calls its employees “baristas” can only be pure evil.

Well, that’s me with my Starbucks order, mostly cuz’ we get it like 1 time, every year!

With that much of an addiction, I’m surprised he still owns that car.

I work as one of Santa’s elves at the mall at Christmas and am being whatever the Easter Bunny’s counterpart is (see my avatar) right now. We are set up directly beneath Starbucks. They know me and my order on sight.

IcanquitanytimeIwantIcanquitanytimeIwantIcanquitanytimeIwant.

Peppermint Mocha? If he drank something with more caffeine, his coworkers wouldn’t be complaining and he would make it to his son’s school much faster.

Better latte than never…

It’s scary when Rat turns out to be the sensible one.

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I prefer no coffee at all. But even if I liked it (and more to the point, it liked me) I’d never spend that amount of money for flavored hot water.

In the last panel – is this some kind of weird role reversal thing going on?

There is always a line of cars at both Starbucks and Dunkin", You can make it at home cheaper, and with K-cups it is easy!

why are they mad at rat

I feel like I’m splurging when I buy Maxwell House instead of the store brand.

there are support groups and therapy available for people like him…..

Coffee. Intravenously.

Also, Fred is wasting all his money in it.

I hate coffee. Saves me money from going to Starbucks

I make my own peppermint mocha at home, using candy canes left over from Xmas. Much better (and cheaper).

The only time I go to Starbucks is when I travel some where and add another one of their “been there” ceramic cups. Presently have 36 of them, maybe more.

37 Starbucks cups!?! That’s some serious $$$$!!!

I haven’t done a coffee run in almost a year. I don’t miss the coffee so much as I miss the “I have to get away from my desk for five minutes!” mocha.

And I thought his addiction was going to be watching cat videos.

I estimate the coffee I brew at home costs about $0.18 a cup.

That ‘r’ jutting out of the side of the 5th panel is like that extra pixel in the original title screen of ‘Super Mario World.’

Once you see it, that’s ALL you see…

That’s why I hate coffee.

Peop.e spend 8-10 bucks for an 8-10 ounce cup of coffee then complain about the price of gas. Do the math.

Direct hit, Starbucks stole the sonics and tastes burnt

Fred is very rich.

I have plenty of sugar and milk at home, but if I want the real experience, there’s lots of mud outside.

Nothing worse than a caffeine fiend needing a fix.

Oy! That would be the day I pay that much for coffee!

Neva gonna happin!

Fooled me. U was thinking social media. Sad thing is, a lot of people drink overpriced coffee, because they think it makes them look cool.

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Haven’t been to a Starbucks in years.

I went to a Starbucks……..once. I was stuck at an airport and they were my only choice for a coffee.

Do I get a pass if it’s from the local coffee shops and not a chain? I mean, I wind up with a free latte every few months anyway…

Reading PBS – what a great way to start off Sunday morning!

All I drink is water and communion juice.

Total number of times I have had Starbucks coffee in my life? Certainly under ten; probably under five.

Why buy Starbucks when I can make burnt coffee at home?

Some need a growler of coffee.

There’s a podcast that I used to listen to where one of the hosts would talk about how many times a day he went there. If you did the math, he was spending at least seven thousand dollars a year on it. After that, he’d usually go into how the listeners, mostly broke kids, weren’t donating enough money to the show.

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Moral of the story, you just can’t. God help me, please…..

I get migraines just from the smell of coffee, and most strongly from Starbucks. I cannot understand why anyone would want to put something that smells that horrendous into their mouths. It’s amazing, but I survive without coffee or tea and avoid caffeine. Migraines are nasty, but I have never had a cup of coffee. I tried one sip once, gagged.

Based on Pastis’s recent efforts, I thought he was talking about social media.

I like Starbucks.

I love coffee, but Starbucks is overpriced and not very good. There, I said it.

Lewis Black said it best.

I roast and grind my own coffee. I buy the green beans from private growers.

The PSL addiction is the most insidious, and the one with the most enablers.

I would have guessed it was his phone. Thinking of the woman who fell into a fountain in a mall while texting.

“I don’t drink tea. It gives me a headache.” – Pete Puma

I live in a country where coffee is one of our major exports and best-kept secrets. Most of the coffee grown for export here is Robusta bean which is used in all your freeze-dried and instant coffees and your “supermarket” blends. The Arabica coffees grown here are exquisite and the exports are used in high-end and gourmet brands of ground coffee or roasted beans. Excellent 100% Arabica coffees like Zaruma, Loja, or Ibarra area grown are inexpensive (here) but sometimes difficult to find.

The problem is that the average Ecuadoran is used to drinking instant coffee and rarely takes the trouble to brew a decent cup of coffee at home or in most of the small restaurants. While we have our equivalents to Starbucks in the major cities and tourist hot spots, the average citizen is neither the discerning coffee drinker nor the caffeine addict found in the States.

Just another day in Westeros.

Coffee - an essential ingredient to why Americans are so nice.

is my morning coffee what’s making me so horney/crazy ?:

To paraphrase Bill Bixby before he turned into the Hulk, “I haven’t had my coffee. You wouldn’t like me if I haven’t had my coffee.”

A spoonful of instant in a mug of water and a microwave is all you need. Probably 1/20th the cost of a Starbucks and tastes better, too.

Am I the only one who was reading each panel, trying to piece together a potential pun?

Starbucks is overpriced crap.

I made that observation at a meeting a while ago (pre-pandemic): as we sat down at the conference room table I noticed that everybody had a cup of coffee in front of them (it was mid-afternoon). “We’ve really normalized this addiction, imagine if everyone pulled out a mirror and snorted a line for a pick-me-up before the meeting started”

I am fred…I think I might be part of the reason peppermint mocha had to be sold year-round

Dunkin’ is much better. As is McDonalds, ironically.

While I will admit to a past coffee addiction Starbuck always tasted bitter and burnt, much like their employees. Starbuck is my last choice for driving coffee, now Dutch Brothers is great. I drink Tea now the joys of being retired and 60.

Starbucks? Yeah, an intewrvention was definately in order. They might actually save him some money.

Starbucks is over priced, nasty stuff. And, I don’t like their politics. ;)

How many stars has Fred accumulated?

Really thought it would be something more current than Starbucks—only I can’t think of any current addictive things that would spill out of your car. You only have so many screen-type devices in there.

That’s kinda me, except Cumberland Farms cups!

/A popular convenience/gas chain in New England.

Coffee is the nectar of the gods! I’m on my third cup this morning. Yum!

i drink my own coffee with flavored creamers and it is a lot cheaper than Starbucks. i had a free sample cup of their coffee and it was my last,

If it has anything other than water and coffee in it, it ain’t coffee. OK you can a add a bit of chicory just to pump it up a little.

It’s all about product (mis-)placement

Starbucks is essentially Baskin Robins; same sugar, different application, similar results.

When America was strong it was fueled by coffee, alcohol, and tobacco.

37? In a row?

That’s me and Chick-Fil-A. And a local restaurant that does the best wings.

I am happy to say that the one and only time I got coffee at a Star(lots o’)bucks was when I was at a wintertime convention in a big hotel with no other source of coffee on that day!

I don’t love coffee, but don’t hate it either.

You touch my Starbucks and I will kill you, slowwwwly.

Starbucks tastes like crap…

I have a confession… I also use caffeine. I started when I was 12. It controls my entire life.

I can stop drinking coffee whenever I want.