I drink pitch black dark roasts, myself.
Unless I've committed a research fail on Islam and Muslim dietary restrictions, coffee is allowed but not endorsed. It's not advised to drink it, but it is not specifically prohibited either.
I drink pitch black dark roasts, myself.
“On my way to my Goli’s after-school care”?
I thought her daughter lived in Oregon with her father?
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie189/
Ffff…. yeah, continuity check fail. >_< Thanks.
Quick, re-letter to: “on my way home from school”
So, did you draw Mina from that angle in the last panel on purpose? :3
It’ll make more sense when I get the backgrounds done, but she’s going back into the classroom.
…Maybe I should’ve drawn the door at least.
Come on, it’s totally on purpose! Look how determined she was to get him off school property! 😉
Mina got back!
I’m a coffee regular girl myself, in the way that Massachusetts does coffee regular, so cream and two sugars.
Blasphemer!! Coffee should only be black and strong without any additives that can take away from flavor.
Blasphemer! Coffee should be tea! 😉
NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN!!!! Tea is for the British and the sick. Coffee is for the strong of fall nations, except Britannia
actually Coffee is a varient of “herbal” tea, as it is “plant material in hot water”. it’s just that you like your coffee tea, black as tar
which is the incorrect way of drinking tea, as tea started as a convenient form of herbal medicine, and as such is intended to be a light brew, and the herbs reused for 3 or 4 brewings, so as to prevent overdose, in the patient.
Japanese style Tea, is prepared by placing some leaf, in a cup and pouring hot water into the cup. the leaves are reused up to four brews. the Japanese prefer the second and third brews, for the lighter and sweeter taste.
I wish to hear more of this Japanese style, because that’s not how I recall the tea ceremonies I attended during college. I’m being serious, not sarcastic – I’m interested in all things Japanese and have never heard of this before, so please say on.
I’ve always thought tea was like water that had too little flavor added. Japanese tea-ceremony tea, though, has the leaves powdered and stirred into water, so instead of just flavor, you’re actually drinking the tea leaves too. It’s a bit bitter, but that’s made up for by a tiny treat at the end, so this style of tea is the only one I like. (Unfortunately, it’s also really expensive to get over here… and my whisk got moldy, so I need to go buy a new one.)
Tea should be ice cold and served over ice.
Um, I have no idea how that happened. That “over ice” should be “very sweet”.
Oh Todd, you poor dense guy. Then again, he may not be trying to read too much into it and offend her.
Dunno; his expression in panel 5 looks kinda “read-y” to me.
Bwahaha. I don’t even drink coffee, but I’ve seen enough Turkish coffees to know what Todd’s into.
Also, for added pedantry, it should be ‘café’, no ‘cafè’.
And Mina is not good at subtlety.
I don’t drink coffee ’cause I can’t stand the taste.
Amen brother! I have NEVER liked the taste of coffee. Here in Rhode Island we have something nobody else in America has… coffee syrup! So you can make coffee milk! Yuk!
the turks do it right!!!
they follow this rule: Coffee should be Black as Hell, Strong as Death, and Sweet as Love! (IE: love is a bitter mistress)
I heard it as…
Hot as Hell, Black as Night, Strong as Death, Sweet as Love
I like it Hot as Hell, Black as Night, Strong As An Excitable Full-Grown Puppy*, Sweet as Love. Because I usually drink one cup for breakfast and a second halfway through my work shift and I really need to sleep when I get home!
*Because they’re only one year old and still think like a one year old but they have the mass of a full grown adult dog and will easily knock you off your feet without intending to.
YES! I need real Turkish coffee again…I miss it.
I don’t know about the roof of his mouth.
Based on my personal experience, he should be more worried about the damage to his intestines. I go “number two” 5-8 times a day now. 🙁
Only the insane and the deranged can enjoy the liquid suffering that is commonly known as an official Turkish black roast coffee. I had the overwhelming masochist displeasure of drinking the mercuric substance myself. I swear their bitterleaf tea is much sweater and that thing can make your nasal hairs curl in sour agony.
It does, however, seems to make you wax poetic even years after the fact.
“Only the insane and the deranged can enjoy the liquid suffering that is commonly known as coffee.”
Fixed that for ya 😉
You sir have just earned yourself a month in the time out corner. There isnt anything more glorious than a cup of strong black coffee in the morning. The aroma and the taste; nothing can compare to that bit of heaven in a cup
Except for everything else. 😀
All right. I give up. I was going to find the page from “Girl Genius” where, hopped up on caffine (sp), Agatha babbles; “I get it! The idea is to get it to taste as good as it smells!” But you can’t go through the archives by title any more. Oh well. You get the idea, coffee smells wonderful and tastes nasty!
Oh wait… here it is!
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070525#.U9Oex0BpKSo
Friends don’t let friends drink decaf, and I wanna know; “pitch black dark roasts myself” well? Black, or with cream and/or sugar? If you can’t drink it black, it’s not made right.
I only drink it black, no cream no sugar. The trick that works for me is to buy good-tasting coffees instead of… whatever dentist offices use.
When you say good-tasting, is it still bitter? I mean, is bitter meant to be one of the highlights of coffee, so it occurs even in the best coffees, or is it an unfortunate side-effect of improper materials or brewing?
I’ve been wondering this about beer, too. My friends took me out for a beer night where I sampled many varieties, and found only one palatable beer (a sour beer called Geuze), which is to say I could drink it all and preferred it to anything else I’d drunk that night.
Right after finding out that I liked the sour beer, my friends thought to ask: Do I like coffee? Hate it. Do I like bitter things? Can’t stand ’em. Do I like sour things? Enjoyable in most cases. And one friend turned to the other and said “We could’ve avoided this whole evening.”
I’m glad we didn’t, as it was quite fun and memorable. But although I’m clearly not a beer drinker, I’m open-minded, so I’ve kept an ear out for better beers to try, and one thing I’ve heard repeatedly online is that the beers we have over here are horrible compared to the ones in Europe, so I should eventually try one of theirs. And I just have to wonder, are even the best beers bitter, or not?
I’m not sure about bitterness, but it depends a lot on the coffee you drink. I never cared for the taste of the general stuff (Folgers, Maxwell House, etc.) I don’t really much care for Starbucks either, although my sister swears by it. What I usually get are the whole beans from either dispensers at the grocery store (the kinds that come in flavor varieties) or a local place in town that’s good but too expensive to buy from regularly. The ones I like best are dark roasts that have a smoky flavor to them when ground and prepared.
But bitter? It’s not bitter to me, but I’m weird about flavors. I can’t stand beers with a lot of hops though, like IPAs. WAY too bitter if they overdo the hops. My preference is for flavored craft beers, usually fruity ones. Redd’s Apple Ale and Shock Top Orange being favorites. Or flavored vodka, but with those its too easy to forget you’re drinking alcohol. XD
Unless of course caffeine causes you panic attacks, like it does for one of my friends.
Eh, 50% milk and 2 pieces of sugar for me.
Not a fan of bitter things.
Like the old trucker asked, “If you wanted hot milk and sugar, why did you order coffee?”
Do the Turks do it like the Cubans – tiny sip of coffee followed by two or three large gulps of water to wash it down? Coffee with a chaser. 😀
I’ll admit it, I’m not a coffee purist. I enjoy the taste, but I enjoy sweet things too, and the sugar I add gives it (me) the bit of extra energy I need to actually wake up in the morning. I try to get beans that I can do black, it just isn’t my preferred method (though it works really well if I ice it right after brewing, chilled I can do black just fine)
When I was in Turkey, I was told that Turks like their coffee ‘sweet as love, black as night, strong as death’. To my immense gratification, they also like their hot chocolate that way!
Revengy again?
Sorry if I don’t recall but what was the first revegeny thing that he had done?
He fired the first gym teacher and threatened to fire any teachers who disagreed with his decisions back when Selkie was first hurt. 🙂
Thanks. I had not considered them revengey. A bit extreme and a bad way to go about trying to keep everyone from getting fired via the Bull’s wrath without explanation until that part. I suppose people just see things differently.
He reminds me a bit of the principle from King of the Hill. He did stupid things for the sake of keeping his job hassle free and the school but ultimately that cost him his job.
AH, Turkish coffee…
A real elixir when properly prepared.
A real poison when poorly brewed.
My granma learned how to prepare Turkish coffee for my grampa’s business associates (whom happened to be Turkish) and since then I’ve been drinking either Turkish or espresso, hot as hell, black as night, and sweet as life.
My fiancée, however, didn’t like bitters, so I used to prepare her coffee black as a banker’s heart, hot as a desert summer, and sweet as a stolen kiss.
It’s a date!
It has been far too long since I’ve had Turkish coffee.
I must be missing something what with no-one else commenting, but… plan your address? Is that using the word like the president’s address, or? It reads oddly to me. Maybe the word’s used more in that way in america.
Address is another word for speech. Ex- “I’m going to be addressing the student body about the proper technique for drinking coffee.”
dat ass
Revengey huh? That’s good news since it most likely guarentees that he’ll drag Tom down with him. On the note of coffee, I don’t drink any.
I can’t wait for the day in this comic when one sarnothi overhears Mr.trunchbull call them predators and calmly says: “Well duh, aren’t you humans the top predators on YOUR food chain? You make it sound like a bad thing.” Then merrily skips away.
XD
I vote Zuko. The disarmingness will be exponencial.