Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 15, 2017

I am in my ninth week of no caffeine. I’m taking B12 for the day, but it isn’t working. The problem is I can’t sleep many nights, which is why I gave up caffeine. My see my doctor about this later this week.

I’m with Mrs. Olsen on this one. Kids do not need caffeine, and it’s irresponsible of parents to start them off on an addiction.

And, just… why!!? Don’t they already bounce off the walls enough as it is? I know mine did. (But, those were the b.c. years.)

But, Mrs. Olsen is right in step with today. Everything from coffee to antacids to burgers to head ache remedies is either oversized or extra strength. Very little is regular anything – that is, if you can find it at all.

How old is she? We certainly had cola when I was a kid.

@Brass Orchid – Exactly. I am about her age, and discovered Mt. Dew as a kid.

How do you drink the bottom six ounces without drinking the rest?

In my day a 16 ounce coffee to go set you back twenty-five cents at the local Toddle House…

One of life’s little puzzles: The smaller the container, the higher the amount of caffeine.

when i was a kid, 8 oz. was a regular cola, 12 oz. was large, still a lot of sugar and caffeine but who cared back then? both my parents smoked and there was no warning then…

oh, and KoolAid. one packet and cup of sugar in 2 qt.

Not quite getting Frazz’s point in pointing out cups of coffee were smaller when Mrs. Olsen was younger. How does that relate to what the kid or Mrs. Olsen said? In some ways, since I must be not getting the joke, it seems Frazz’s comment is just taking a jab at Mrs. Olsen. Is Frazz being “pro” kids drinking caffeine? Or is Frazz being “anti” kids drinking caffeine? Or is Frazz being “anti” whatever Mrs. Olsen says?

Coca Cola was created in the late 1800’s. She can’t be that old.

Also Frazz, in her day people were respectful of their elders – kids and even 30-something prodigies such as yourself.

Frazz10 hrs ·It’s always trendy to pick on Starbucks. Hey, I’ve found it tempting, too. It’s always fun to take on Goliath when Goliath is too busy selling you stuff to menace you back. But it strikes me as a little unfair, too. Give me an independent every time there’s a choice, but there’s a lot to like about Starbucks. Their coffee is really pretty good, they seem to listen to their customers — they listened to me when I thought they over-roasted their coffee and made all their carefully selected bean varieties taste too much the same, and all I did was think it — their stores are clean, and they treat their employees well enough that the employees seem to treat their customers well as long as the customers don’t behave like their $4 makes them superior to the person turning it into a cappuccino a little slower than they’d like because they didn’t leave the house on time. And honestly, juggernaut though they may be, I get the impression Starbucks made good, interesting coffee so popular they created way more opportunities for independents than they put out of business.

But I do kind of blame them for the giant cup. A standard cup of coffee really did used to be only six ounces.

Then again, it was six ounces of American pre-Starbucks swill.

I don’t drink anything with sugar in it. Glad there is diet versions.

(sigh) I really hoped that with…you know, that ‘cat guy’… not posting, it would no longer be necessary to point out that this is a COMIC STRIP, or that if you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. If all you want to do is b****h about it please go elsewhere.

I would also like to point out that no one here seems to think, among the comments that actually pertain to the strip’s content and not the pro vs. anti caffeine debate, that there’s anything wrong with Mrs. Olson butting into the kid’s business, or that everything was better when she was a kid.

To those of you who think it is cool to put down your elders and their opinion and memories of when they were young……if you live long enough you’re going to be an old folk too, with your against the flow opinions too!

If an adult drinks a coffee, its effect wears off in about four hours. When a child drinks a coffee, it takes about twenty hours to get rid of it. Children are not miniature adults, their body chemistry is different.