Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 15, 2023

What magic ingredient did Dez add (not sure it was a drug), and does she actually see dollar signs, like Tiffany does?

It’s no drug, the secret ingredient is love, libido stimulation, just perfect for college-age kids, definitely judging by the sideways glances while the “kisses” were being had; check panel two closely.

Hope they don’t end up jaring like Jar Jar Binx!

Hmm, she grows her own ‘special herb’. Which she mixes with the large supply of tea, which she convinced her sommoleier to leave behind. Creating a brew with a speculative value of $50 to $60. Dont look now, but I think Dez might be a closet capitalist

Sixty dollars per box not jar.

Cringe

Well, so much for it getting interesting.

Now this song started playing in my head by Brian Ferry…“… Oh-oh, get that buzzLove is the drug I’m thinking of”… ヾ⁠(⁠ ͝⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ͡⁠°⁠)⁠ノ⁠♪ (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

Yes, Tiff is definitely her father’s daughter—one of the venture capitalists ruining this country today.

I wonder if the actual labor of making this tea will be outsourced to some Third World nation that won’t pay union scale wages.

First the mysterious student from the dark islands of the Caribbean produces her special voodoo tea. Then Tiff and Kip start seeing visions of Capt. Jack Sparrow leading a crew of zombies to the campus snack bar.

If the students can afford $60 / Jar, they don’t need tuition relief

See, it works!

Daz only put her kiss of love on the two cups they’re drinking out of. What’ll tht do for the dry leaf concoction in the bowl waiting to be jarred?

Oh, come on …….

How nice to see Dez’s satisfied smile for demonstrating the importance of adding love to her blend. The effect seems to be really phenomenal. But I think Tiffany and Kip’s attraction to each other gets subconsciously involved after all that talk of kissing and affects their taste sense. Dez is really good at preparing blends and atmospheres. Let’s hope they sell everything and Tiffany takes lots of photos to document the project.

Reminds me of the “Barney Miller” episode when the characters unwittingly eat hashish-laced brownies.

That Chic knows her stuff!

Tiff looks slim again.

They’re gonna make a fortune with all that tea.

Hmm, yeah, what was on her finger?

Anyone want to order a couple of large super supreme pizzas?

SHE’S A WITCH!!! BURN HER AT THE STAKE!!! SHE’S A WITCH!!!

Meh…. give me coffee.

Kip and Tif! Kip and Tif! Can I get a What What?

VOODOO WOMAN! 8^ )

Is Tiff eyeing Kip in panel 2?

$60 for a jar of tea leaves? Well, it’s probably cheaper than the equivalent amount from the local cannabis dispensary.

According to inflation and CPI statistics, $60 today would have been the equivalent of $8.57 back when I was in college. So yes, $60 is very affordable for today’s college kids.

Uhm… seriously…. perhaps it is the scientist in me…. or perhaps it is my “pipe smoking, doubting Thomas attitude”…. but this “love” infused tea has been rather silly….

Dez apparently has magical powers to transmogrify her tea leaves into a love potion? With no added pharmaceuticals? This is just rather “odd” if you ask me.

I can “get” how MARKETING can sway folks opinion of a product…. sometimes to my dismay…. but THAT would be the focus for Tiffany and her hoped for business acumen.

I guess MY takeaway from this week is that a) Dez does not and has not been dosing her tea, nor her brownies with THC as some have previously suggested, but that b) Dez is a rather d*mn good person at promotion of her own holistic ideals and would outshine most marketing majors any day of the week with her efforts. I wonder what Dez’s major of study is at Mooney? I am thinking the best bet as we have been getting to know her character…. would be psychology.

Somehow I’m reminded here of “Snake Oil Salesmen” of the Old West who sold unsuspecting suckers’ concoctions “guaranteed to cure all your ails.”

Lord only knows what was IN that so-called “medicines” except that it was a safe bet that alcohol was a key ingredient.

In the end, the stuff didn’t work.

And back in the day, many a “salesman” got tarred and feathered run out of town on a rail.

As for Dez’s tea?

She’s okay as long as she’s giving it away.

If she (And Tiff and Kip) start selling the stuff and making a handsome profit, she’s going to start making enemies in the form of envious competitors publicly demanding to know what’s IN that “tea.”

อร่อยอร่อย!

I doubt Kip and Tiff were serious. They were joking.

Dez can metaphysically change the tea with a shaka sign? Does that work?? Here, let me try it on my wallet!

This is a “mind over matter” exercise, and I guess it’s easy when you have a weak-minded audience. It’s that, or G&K have moved from sex to witchcraft as their latest obsession, or maybe Dez will be revealed as an alien from another planet?

Dez waved her hand over the tea and changed the taste? Not possible. I think Tiffany and Kip are just easily hypnotized by the suggestion.

Kip and Tiff sitting in a tree. K I S S I N G. First comes Love, then come Marriage, then comes Steph with a chainsaw!

As Jack Burton of the Pork-Chop Express would say, “It’s all in the reflexes…”

I’ll take a jar! ;-)

I’ll have what she’s having…

what a great arc this has been, joining together so many loose threads with themes of spirituality, business acumen and herbal teas and the bonding of an unlikely trio over it all Tiff, Dez and Kip… and not to forget the deliberate evacuation (albeit temporarily) of Steffie. And now we know a little more about Dez.

Wait until Kip has to take his pee test for his sports!

No one seems to care that Ivlax isn’t with us today. Wonder what that may signify to old Iv, who’s usually the first (and often the only) to file a comment. . .

Yeah they’re gonna bang.

Who’s going to pay $60 for a jar of tea?

$10,000,000 a jar. You only have to sell one.

You can buy A Kiss Of Love for $IXTY DOLLAR$! That’s a lot cheaper than they’ll charge you for it in Vega$. lol

So what drug is Dez secretly putting in the tea?? hehe I have a feeling that if it gets too popular, the college authorities will find a way to shut it down.

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Gotta love Tiff’s kissy lips in the 2nd panel. =)

Wonder if they’ll try and get FDA approval, or fill out an assumed tax license and all the other stuff that goes with selling anything.

True story: My friend and I went to Chinatown to get some tea prescribed by this acupuncturist. We get back, brew a pot, and I notice a cricket leg sticking out of the teabag. Medicinal.

$60.00 in 1990 would be the equivalent in purchasing power to about $138,56 today an increase of $78.56 over 33 years the dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.57% pre year between 1990 and today, producing a cumulative price increase 130.94%

I want some of that tea.

Taste test tried and triumphant takes thoughts to the top today.

Sixty dollars is too high Tiff. The idea is to price it to sell.

“There’s nothing you can know that isn’t knownNothing you can see that isn’t shownThere’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to beIt’s easy. All you need is love.”. The Beatles

Something is going to mess this up next week! We will find out what! Or who?

Sunday: Shannon thinks she says a naughty word, but it’s really “shot”.

:-/

Now, that is TEA!

It’s magic, you know: just add a little Love….

Dez knows her tea and how to make it work. People underestimate that secret ingredient (like they did), but it works every time.

Okay, VERY experienced tea, wine, and beer taster here (certified beer judge, among other things).

Time for a “double-blind” taste test! THEN we’ll see how it tastes!

[sings] LOVE is a MANY SPLENDORED THIIIIIIIING!

And that is exactly how the price jumps for something worth less than a dollar.

Love how Tiff’s eying Kip in the second panel lol