Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:35 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:35 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="2006"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 1962 Lines: 26 On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire wrote: > Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor > https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458 > > Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ? My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine. And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there. I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled. *) I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser Is there no better-established English name? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de