Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor

Post by Lynn McGuire
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 ?
Lynn

Spider-flavour would be better than the world's two most expensive coffees.

- Black Ivory coffee
Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected
from their waste. The taste of Black Ivory coffee is
influenced by elephants' digestive enzymes, which break
down the coffee's protein.

- Kopi Luwak coffee
It is produced from coffee beans which have been partially
digested by the Indonesian palm civet and then excreted.

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "This coffee tastes like poo!"
... then again, *ALL* coffee always tastes like poo, so you wouldn't
tell the difference. :-p

BCFD 36

2024-12-13 22:50:41 UTC

Right now I can't get Questionable Content to display on my Mac using
Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Admittedly they are all on an older
operating system, but I can't get it to display on my updated yesterday
iPad. I am annoyed.

--
----------------

Dave Scruggs
Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired)
Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired)
Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I
thinking?)

Lynn McGuire

2024-12-14 00:17:26 UTC

Huh. Works fine on Firefox 133.0.3 (64 bit) on Windows 11 24H2 for me.

Lynn

Bobbie Sellers

2024-12-14 00:27:49 UTC

I am using Firefox 133.0.3 (64-bit)and under Linux 6.6.5.
The artist is taking a holiday. But is eager to get back to work
especially in cubetown.
Clinton is very interested in AI at:
<https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5461#>

and use the keys for previous and next to move around.

bliss

Your Name

2024-12-14 00:52:22 UTC

Works fine on my aging Mac running High Sierra (10.13.6) with Safari
13.1.2 and Firefox 115.18.0. The site was a bit slow for me earlier,
but did work and seems faster now. Maybe they were having issues at
their end.

If you're using an ad blocker or other firewall, then that may be the
problem, although it does work with my ad blocker running.

Paul S Person

2024-12-14 16:28:55 UTC

Well, that's nasty.

I think you have three possible approaches:
1) A dumpster dive into whatever Settings Apple has graciously made
available to you.
2) Consideration of the possibility that this is an anti-Apple site
and is actively resisting Apple devices.
3) Consideration of the possibility that Apple has pulled up the
drawbridge and that, hencforth, it's devices will not display any
content not from Apple.

Here's hoping you find a solution!

It displays fine in Win 10 with Edge, BTW.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

Robert Woodward

2024-12-14 18:21:03 UTC

Post by Paul S Person

Well, that's nasty.
1) A dumpster dive into whatever Settings Apple has graciously made
available to you.
2) Consideration of the possibility that this is an anti-Apple site
and is actively resisting Apple devices.
3) Consideration of the possibility that Apple has pulled up the
drawbridge and that, hencforth, it's devices will not display any
content not from Apple.

It displays on both my Mac and iPad (both using Safari), though it has
been rather slow.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward ***@drizzle.com

Lynn McGuire

2024-12-14 02:53:46 UTC

BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per
year !

Yuck !

Lynn

Your Name

2024-12-14 05:17:55 UTC

BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per year !
Yuck !
Lynn

It's a *myth* that people swallow 4 (or 8 or more) spiders per year
while sleeping. We do not swallow any spiders while sleeping - spiders
are smart enough to stay away.

All sorts of stuff does get into the machinery that makes our products
(both in the harvesting and the manufacturing processes), no matter how
much cleaning is involved, but it's usually no longer noticeable by the
time it gets to the public.

Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Lynn McGuire

2024-12-14 05:33:31 UTC

Post by Your Name

BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per year !
Yuck !
Lynn

It's a *myth* that people swallow 4 (or 8 or more) spiders per year
while sleeping. We do not swallow any spiders while sleeping - spiders
are smart enough to stay away.
All sorts of stuff does get into the machinery that makes our products
(both in the harvesting and the manufacturing processes), no matter how
much cleaning is involved, but it's usually no longer noticeable by the
time it gets to the public.
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

I've seen my dog eat a small wolf spider. It bit her mouth on the way
down as she made a weird noise.

Lynn

Scott Dorsey

2024-12-14 18:39:59 UTC

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

BillGill

2024-12-14 20:07:57 UTC

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.
--scott

Well, every June in Florida motorcyclists eat plenty of Lovebugs.

Bill

Your Name

2024-12-14 20:44:47 UTC

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.
--scott

Not if you wear a full helmet, as you really should do. If you fall off
wearing just a head helmet, then scrapping your face along the hot
tarmac/concrete is not a pleasant experience.

Dimensional Traveler

2024-12-15 00:52:15 UTC

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Titus G

2024-12-15 01:42:59 UTC

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.

Bugs between Dimensions are no longer a popular SF story.

Ted Nolan <tednolan>

2024-12-15 04:12:35 UTC

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Post by Your Name
Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
choice. Many animals also eat insects.

Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.

Somedays you're the face shield, some days you're the bug..

--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

Dimensional Traveler

2024-12-14 06:55:13 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire

BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per
year !
Yuck !

Well, the name of it IS "Questionable Content"....

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Robert Carnegie

2024-12-14 23:15:34 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire

BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per
year !
Yuck !
Lynn

Is this set in a science fiction future
where more of us eat bugs for protein
than at present?

As in the famous slogan of "Incy's" restaurants,
"Where's the bugs?"

Christian Weisgerber

2024-12-14 23:15:35 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire
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 ***@mips.inka.de

Your Name

2024-12-15 04:54:38 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

You should probably be more worried about what was on the feet of the
workers when they stomped the grapes in the traditional / old ways. ;-)

Paul S Person

2024-12-15 17:10:42 UTC

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

"federweisser translation english" prompts Bing to provide

"new wine"

as the English translation.

"new wine definition" is ... amazing: it has endless websites
explaining Jesus "new wine in new wineskins" and related matters.
Skillfully hidden is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/new_wine], whose
first definition

"Wine that has fermented for a short amount of time."

is probably closest to Federweisser, at least in some parts of Europe.
It also notes that, in English at least, this comes /directly/ from
the New Testament.

I should note that "unfermented wine"
[https://glosbe.com/en/en/unfermented%20wine] isn't much better,
\which is a surprise to me -- I would have thought "grape juice" would
be much the same thing.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

William Hyde

2024-12-15 21:46:07 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
"breakfast wine".

William Hyde

Scott Lurndal

2024-12-16 14:26:37 UTC

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
"breakfast wine".

beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau

Christian Weisgerber

2024-12-16 18:50:39 UTC

Post by Scott Lurndal

Post by Christian Weisgerber
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?

I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
"breakfast wine".

beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

Yes, but _beaujolais nouveau_, a type of _vin de primeur_, is a
different thing from the _vin bourru_ I had in mind.

Specifically, _vin de primeur_ is a quickly produced wine that is
put on the market right after harvest and fermentation without
having been aged.

_Vin bourru_ is must (grape juice) that is in the very process of
fermentation.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber ***@mips.inka.de

William Hyde

2024-12-16 21:00:47 UTC

Post by Scott Lurndal

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
"breakfast wine".

beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

Oh yes, in my younger days I happily consumed barrels of this. But it's
not quite the same thing (nor is my "breakfast wine" apparently).

One of the things about BN is that it goes bad very very rapidly. In
Texas a local hotel restaurant was selling BN which was years out of
date. It was a foul and toxic brew by this point, but people were
drinking it because it was wine. And French!

According to the waiter, they still had cases of the stuff. Some wine
salesman must have been very happy.

William Hyde

Scott Lurndal

2024-12-16 22:14:43 UTC

Post by Scott Lurndal

Post by Lynn McGuire
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?

I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
"breakfast wine".

beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

Oh yes, in my younger days I happily consumed barrels of this. But it's
not quite the same thing (nor is my "breakfast wine" apparently).

True. I once visited Bargetto winery (thirty years ago now), just
after the gewurtztraminer crush - they served the fresh crush
(chilled) in the tasting room. The best fruit juice I ever tasted, bar none.

I didn't notice any ladybugs, but I expect the juice was filtered.

Scott Dorsey

2024-12-16 23:30:59 UTC