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Brun and Renee

Brun, Renee and Elliott

Brun and Elliott

Faye and Bubbles

Faye, Bubbles and Corpse Witch

Faye, Bubbles and Detective Lavender

More Claire and Clinton shenanigans

More Claire and Marten shenanigans

More Claire, Clinton and Marten shenanigans

A change of pace - Dora and Tai!

A change of pace - Emily and Clinton!

A change of pace - Veronica and Jim (with obligatory input from Sam)

Pintsize week! With a cast of AnthroPC's!!

Grape Ape Dishwashing

None of the above

ALL of the above - with Spathe Pizza, Ham and Waffles

[Kugai]

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

[pwhodges]

THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT

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PLEASE TO PUT A PENNY

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IN THE OLD MAN'S HAT

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[BenRG]

Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]

FWIW, I think that we're going to have at least a few strips of Brun being Brun and making Eliot feel like he's on a whole different planet!

[Storel]

The pattern lately seems to be that the first three or four strips in a week deal with the same folks as the last strip of the previous week. Then for the last day or two of a week, we switch to someone else, who then become the main attraction next week.

So I'm guessing we'll have Brun, Renee, and Elliott for most of this week, and then someone else at the end -- might be about time for Emily and Clinton again, but who knows?

[TheEvilDog]

Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]

Then you shall be visited by the spirits of three banned forum members upon the night of Christmas Eve!

[Tova]

I don't really celebrate Christmas either! Yet it is strangely exciting! I can't figure out why! 

[Method of Madness]

Interesting! Tomorrow's comic is up, and today's comic isn't.

[TheEvilDog]

Okay, so for the sake of everyone, we shall forget that tomorrow's comic has popped up a day early!

[Thrudd]

But if tomorrows is today's then today's is next weeks, but only if your week starts on the Monday else you will be recompensed next Wednesday for a hamburger today 

[Is it cold in here?]

Now we know why Dora kept her roasting process secret.

Has Hannelore wrecked the Coffee of Doom brand now?

[scandina]

Does the text font look somewhat wrong to anyone else? Like it's fuzzed a bit or something?

[St.Clair]

Statistic is false; Floofy Hanners, made entirely of floof and adorbs, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[Gyrre]

Hey, now! That's extra protein. I'm sure spiders fed on various insects fed on assorted baked goods and coffee beans make the coffee taste extra good. 


Though, fried tarantula does taste quite a bit like smokey shrimp ("prawn"). Just don't eat the abdomen (it's gritty and bitter).


Edited due to a mix up of spelling systems thanks to tiredness.

[Penquin47]

So much floof!

[soren121]

Does the text font look somewhat wrong to anyone else? Like it's fuzzed a bit or something?

Jeph is using a new font, as of the previous comic.

[hakko504]

Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]

[BenRG]

Well, here we have it, folks: Hannelore has slipped into Faye's role at Coffee of Doom - She's the one who leads the establishment's attitude towards its customers. Additionally, she's the one who is Dora's in-house critic for the weird (and, frankly, FDA-defying) way she behaves sometimes.

That said... I genuinely wonder if no toasted spider in the beans will subtly affect the flavour of the coffee. She should ask Elliot to get the connoisseurs at TSB to fill out a form on the experience!

[Neko_Ali]

aaaaand I've lost my taste for coffee now...

[USS Martenclaire]

Spidercoffee - 8 times the bite of the next leading brand. Why not visit our website?

[JimC]

I genuinely wonder if no toasted spider in the beans will subtly affect the flavour of the coffee.

I find it hard to believe there could be a sufficient number of spiders roosting in the roaster to make any difference, making the assumption its used on a daily basis.

[Skewbrow]

But new spiders hatch at a remarkable rate!

.... and this observation was definitely not prompted by the fact that last night I watchd Bilbo and a party of Dwarves fight the Mirkwood Spiders (aided by a couple of elves) on TV.

[gopher]

Spidercoffee is superior to civet shite coffee at least.

[heyjames4]

Is this what Hannelore asserting herself in a relatively healthy manner looks like? It's heartening to see.

[osaka]

I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.

[Tova]

Spidercoffee, Spidercoffee,
I'm awake now, you can't stop me.
Make a brew, any size,
Activate, energise.
Look out, she's had three spidercoffees.

[Akima]

I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.

[brasca]

aaaaand I've lost my taste for coffee now...

I would too if the spiders were in the filter or some other part of the process, but these were the ones nesting in the burner which means they've been burned to a crisp along with whatever germs they were carrying. 

I would definitely drink a cup of Charlotte's Brood before I'd sample that coffee made with beans that cats pooped out. 

[cesium133]

I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.

She did, just in time for the orbital strike. Dora wouldn't let her hit CoD from space.

[Nepiophage]

Quote from  US FDA Defect Levels Handbook (allowable limits for food contamination)

"Coffee Beans, Green
Insect filth and insects
( MPM-V1)
Average 10% or more by count are insect-infested or insect-damaged"

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/SanitationTransportation/ucm056174.htm#CHPT3

[theMarc]

I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.

*endless internal screaming*

[Zebediah]

Long-time residents of Pittsburgh complained that Iron City beer lost much of its flavor after the city cleaned up the rivers.

On the other hand the rivers are no longer health and fire hazards, so it may be a fair trade-off.

[Neko_Ali]

Is it possible to live on just air alone? Oh wait. The air is polluted too. *holds breath forever*

[cesium133]

Fun fact: during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London, several people who lived far from the poisoned well died from cholera and it turned out it was because they preferred the taste of the water from the cholera-tainted well. The source of the outbreak turned out to be from dirty diapers used by a baby that suffered from cholera. 

So, uh, I guess the moral of the story is that if the most you have to worry about is spiders in your coffee, things aren't that bad? 

[Shmee]

Is it just me, or does Hannelore's body language seem sort of... crushy towards Elliot?  It seems more big-eyed/"aw shucks" than usual.

[BenRG]

Elliott does fit into the body type that Hannelore finds attractive (large, muscular and heroic-seeming).

[Is it cold in here?]

I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.

Maybe the side of Hannelore that sponsored a home for orphaned drumsticks will win out over the one that looked at her orbital bombardment app when she first found out about the spiders.

[Neko_Ali]

Elliott does fit into the body type that Hannelore finds attractive (large, muscular and heroic-seeming).

Now we just need to contrive a way to have Elliot in a sexy fireman costume for Halloween when he comes to pick up the beans to be sure.

[Gyrre]

Fun fact: during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London, several people who lived far from the poisoned well died from cholera and it turned out it was because they preferred the taste of the water from the cholera-tainted well. The source of the outbreak turned out to be from dirty diapers used by a baby that suffered from cholera. 

So, uh, I guess the moral of the story is that if the most you have to worry about is spiders in your coffee, things aren't that bad? 

Extra Credits did a 5 part installment on the Broad Street Pump for their 'Extra History' series. They followed it up with a two-parter on Mary Seacole.

[Kugai]

At least the Spiders aren't Radioactive 

Elliotts face in the last panel is priceless.

[Gyrre]

Long-time residents of Pittsburgh complained that Iron City beer lost much of its flavor after the city cleaned up the rivers.

On the other hand the rivers are no longer health and fire hazards, so it may be a fair trade-off.

Yeesh. Pretty sure I wouldn't want to drink anything made with water one could easily set on fire.

I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.

*endless internal screaming*

Then I recommend not looking up the story behind why one wine company now seals a whole pig in their wine casks.

EDIT: nvm. Turns out it's a retelling of an old urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp

[Method of Madness]

I can't find anything about it (most results are for Whistlepig whiskey). Care to PM me the vineyard?

[osaka]

I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.

*endless internal screaming*

But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.

But yeah you had to remember to buy bottled water.

[JimC]

But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.

Not quite as simple as that. Whilst boiling will kill off bacteria, it may not have any effect at all on toxic chemicals the bacteria have already produced.

[Tova]

But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.

Not quite as simple as that. Whilst boiling will kill off bacteria, it may not have any effect at all on toxic chemicals the bacteria have already produced.

The delicious chemicals, you mean. 

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

[Shmee]

I can't find anything about it (most results are for Whistlepig whiskey). Care to PM me the vineyard?

I too must learn more about this porcine wine.

[celticgeek]

The delicious chemicals, you mean. 

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

I remember someone saying that the person who ate the first oyster must have been SOME Hungry.

[St.Clair]

The delicious chemicals, you mean. 

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

I remember someone saying that the person who ate the first oyster must have been SOME Hungry.

Agreed; much more likely, IMO, is that the first tasters of many of these things were in the situation of "well... I can try eating this, and maybe die, or I and/or my family will literally starve."

Most of us - most - are fortunate to have never been in that position.  But a lot of humans through history, up to the present day, have not been so lucky.

(there's probably a few drunken dares involved, too.)

[Akima]

Extra Credits did a 5 part installment on the Broad Street Pump for their 'Extra History' series.

I studied Messrs. Snow and Whitehead in Maths!

Then I recommend not looking up the story behind why one wine company now seals a whole pig in their wine casks.

In China there is 蛇酒 (shéjiǔ or "snake wine") which is a big bottle of baijiu with a dead snake in it. If your wallet (and stomach) can stand it, there is also snake-blood cocktail, where the bartender kills a live snake in front of you , and mixes its blood with your drink. Nope, nope, nope...

[macloud]

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

EVERYONE - ACT BUSY!!
[shuffles random papers]

[TheEvilDog]

Guys, my deja vú has just kicked in.