Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for January 13, 2025

Broomie, meet The Woman from Breaking Cat News..

Broomie, next time you ride a merry-go-round, you can just grab the ring from that jerk’s schnozzola!

Not all the jokes can be bangers, or remotely fresh.

Previous century? But, shes SUPPOSED to be 1500 years old! Of, course…she’s been 1500 since 1970…! Nuff said.

Even if they would sell you a plain coffee, they’d still charge you at least ten bucks for it.

Unfortunately, the world-wide price of coffee beans has gone up again, because of climate change!!!

I like Starbucks French Roast—with a generous serving of Peppermint Mocha Coffee-Mate.

I’m sure that there are other places that would be happy to serve you “just coffee”.

We will have to charge extra for that!

Cup of coffee, 10¢. All the refills you want. That’s my “century.”

There is an episode of Frasier where Martin (Frasier’s father) goes to the coffee shop that Frasier and Niles frequentt. He orders a black coffee and it pretty much goes like this. That episode is from the 90s, so it truly is a statement more about the pompousness of the drink, than about the age of the drinker. I would hazard a guess that a regular old truck driver would elicit the same response. I am a tea drinker, and I do not recall anything close to the idiocy of “half whip of this, a shot of that, a pump of whatever” being assigned to tea.

When I do go to Starbucks, which is rare, I order a “medium coffee”, just to pi-s them off.

You know, when I go to the coffee shop and ask for a coffee with nothing in it, they just give it to me with no commentary. Weird how that works.

Try getting just a coffee at a Dutch Brothers!

She is like me: I like my Hot Tea and Black Coffee w/o any strange ‘stuff’ in it. I do not do Starbucks.

This is how I know coffee is not really suitable for human consumption. Nobody seems to just drink the stuff; they always load it up with sugar and milk and frooty flavorings and such to hide its nasty taste. Kinda like rum.

You’re not alone, Broomie!

I have to say I’m with Broomy on this one!

Nothing is more disgusting to me is flavored, creamed, sugared,swirled, coffee! Eww

But, to each, his own!

Yup, been there and done that. They look at you like you’re crazy when you order a black coffee.

I have never been in a coffee shop. Still, I refuse to pay more for a cup of coffee than I would a meal. Jack Benny Forever.

I thought she was from the previous millennium plus one?

We used to visit a local diner. We were regulars, the chef would unlock the back door for us 45 minutes before it opened. The first one in of our group turned on the coffee urn, that was the best coffee ever. No one added any cream or sugar, even if that’s the way they usually drank it. The owner retired, the place closed, I sure do miss it.

Do espresso-only coffee shops actually exist or are they just a fantasy of grumpy old comic writers?

Every place I’ve been to had multiple carafes of drip coffee, a few even offered unlimited refills and one place near my old office had a cash basket so you could serve yourself.

One time I asked for “just plain coffee” at a Starbucks counter in a shopping mall. I watched as the kid spooned some instant coffee out of a jar and poured hot water in.

Never went back to that counter again. I prefer Dunkin Donuts coffee anyway.

I drink plain coffee. Just hot, and black. That’s it. If you drink it any other way, you’re not a coffee drinker and need to stick with soda.

Coffee should be prepared 2 ways, hot and black. Anything else is a dessert.

With all this talk about coffee it almost slipped my mine, it’s time to brew some.

Somebody’s lookin’ to get zapped.

I used to love coffee but I couldn’t sleep well, so I switched to Choffy Brewed Chocolate. I drink it black just like coffee. Tastes better and way healthier.

What if just dont drink coffee. Never even started. The barristas are sure cute though.

I just had the same conversation about getting a cup of coffee