What the morning rush was like
The owners of Bean There are a mysterious pair, and I’m not sure that we’ll discover their inner lives any time soon.
Also: who is that handy man?
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Yes, I spotted that poster for a certain mustachioed man.
Also, is that a green-haired dopplegänger of the author in panel 2?
Also also, I believe one of the marks of a quality coffee shop is the scorn you get from the staff.
yes, if reading webcomics has taught me nothing else is that no one with a pleasant demeanor works in a coffee shop, except Hannelore
We used to have a record shop like that in Copenhagen. I loved it. They sat around smoking cigarettes and drinking beer and scowling disapprovingly at most customers’ purchases. I did get an approving nod on two occasions when I bought respectively a Nina Simone and a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins album.
I wonder what happened to those guys when the owners closed the shop. I hope they’ve found other service jobs where they get to scowl derisivley at customers and that they’re doing well.
Handy Man x Solver crossover would be crazy đź‘€
Someday they’re going to need someone who knows how to pick a lock.
I believe James Taylor taught us that what he really fixes is broken hearts.
And DAMN there’s Dan T. two and a half hours before me beating me to the 1970s mellowcore reference!
I’m not the kind that uses pencil or rule
I’m handy with love and I’m no fool
I fix broken hearts, I know I truly can
Amazing Lottie. She’s able to work so fast that seem there are four of her. I like the seriousness of this cattetteria. I wonder if the handy man remembers Lottie, or if she remember him and his lovable girlfriend. It’s funny to think that if Lottie ends up in the hospital, she might see Susan again.
As I tell people, our author is dedicated to the rare early 20th century futurist art form of The Multiplied Man.
Unique Lotties of continuity in the space.
Is that a hat or a fancy new haircut that the handy man is sporting??
I will call Graham for all my handyman needs.
I’m going for it being a hat. Can’t miss with perfect hair.
I think the yolk is on that customer. Or it might have been had he insisted on having a zabaglione before its time.
Crisis on Infinite Charlottes!
Into The Lottieverse!
I’m still waiting for the return of Six-Armed Lottie. https://badmachinery.com/comic/behind-the-curve-on-love/
I’m heartened to see (per comments at link) that a true six-armed Lotte is out there in the dating pool! (or was at time of writing; since captivated by real-life Nero one suspects)
Caffeine-Assisted Assistant Multiplicity!
Is that the back of Claire’s head at the bottom of the central panel? Or just some other random brown-haired bespectacled person?
Wow! In panel two we’ve got Lottie, Charlotte, Chibi-Vampirella and…err…has there been a fourth yet?
We did get “Kidz Bop Tura Satana” courtesy of Dean Thompson in https://badmachinery.com/comic/parfait/
Also, courtesy of Shauna long ago, “alabaster idiot” and “pallid dingbat”.
And, of course, “La Grote”.
Yes, will we ever find out any Moore about the turtlenecked proprietor?
Doesn’t sound like John’s planning to Cook anything up.
I’m pretty sure several of the customers standing around are also Lottie. Surely, from her detective days, she’s a master of disguise.
I think the closest Lottie’s ever come to a disguise is wearing a hat in hopes the librarian wouldn’t recognize her. And it didn’t even work, because she doesn’t have a volume knob.
It’s possible that any or all of the customers are Scout Jones, though.
(Whose distant future we’re now less than ten years away from.)
You are all so fixated on this Handy Man that you’ve failed to show any appropriate levels of delirium over the *other* flyer cameo.
You know, the one featuring one of Sex Magik’s Priestesses To Watch.
Everyone these days says “Can I get a…?” (Zabaglione, pint, whatever)
When I were a lad, it was always “Can I have a …?” – when did that change happen?
I’ve wondered about this because I refuse to say get, it gets my back up. I think it’s another one that stems from the popularity of the sitcom Friends (which you may remember).
I always say “Can I please have an X”. And make eye contact.
This last panel has to be one of the funniest in the past months.
That other customer looks absolutely SHOCKED at this exchange. Not sure whether she’s shocked that a customer could be so clueless as to make such a request or that the response would be so harsh!
She was planning to order a Zabaglione, too!
The frantic hand-gesture suggests to me that she sees this as a truly horrifying faux pas.
Lottie takes the proper temperature of the ingredients VERY SERIOUSLY!
I was led in the past to believe that refrigerating eggs was a practice peculiar to us Americans. Was I misinformed, or have circumstances changed?
In the supermarket, or at home? At the supermarket, the UK does not refrigerate, but at home… I can remember my family keeping eggs in a basket 35, 40 years ago but I think they went in the home fridge for everyone in the UK around 1988 and the salmonella uproar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella-in-eggs_controversy#:~:text=The%20salmonella%2Din%2Deggs%20controversy,affected%20with%20salmonella%22%20in%201988.
The controversy goes deeper with talk of “egg-washing” and “cuticles” https://spoonuniversity.com/news/heres-why-other-countries-dont-refrigerate-their-eggs#:~:text=Americans%2C%20along%20with%20the%20Japanese,with%20soap%20and%20hot%20water.
After a lifetime of wondering why I couldn’t hard-boil eggs, I finally figured out, just a couple of years ago, that eggs freeze *well* above 32F / 0C and that if they are allowed to freeze, good outcomes are excluded. But we Yanks do have to refrigerate our eggs because of the unimaginably unhealthy (not to mention, inhumane) conditions in our egg farms. If you suppose that I exaggerate, Google “debeaking”.
Chickens are jerks; also, I do think it is true that the main vector for the Salmon-Ella is the shells and not the stuff inside… I’ve been eating eggs raw for awhile now and never got sick, despite that *one time* that I don’t want to talk about – and I’m always careful with the shells.
The thing with Hen eggs is that under normal conditions she will lay one egg a day for say 7-10 days. She doesn’t refrigerate them she just leaves them in the nest while she goes out galavantin’. Then when she’s laid a clutch she’ll sit on them. The really interesting thing is that those eggs will all hatch within an hour or so of one another despite being laid 7 days apart. We find they cook better if they are not too fresh.
I confess I don’t know who the Handy Man is.
I do know, however, that he’s Moonwalking very, very quickly.
It’s McGraw (from Giant Days.)
I was going to comment on the last comic: Please let the next page be of Charlotte at the coffee shop” but I didn’t want to seem demanding. (People pleaser, I know) But I was REWARDED ANYWAY!! This is what I needed to see today. Exactly what I needed to see. Lottie’s alter ego is an upmost coffee snob. I just love it. I would read a whole comic of only her coffee shop hijinx. Like Friends but (insert quip here it’s too early).
So the two owners just stand around and watch Lottie work while drinking coffee? Seems like a good job if you can get it. I hope one of Lottie’s cases leaves her with a building where she can get all the choice packets her heart can handle.
I believe they are making the drinks; Lottie is taking orders & payment and delivering the finished goods.
At least one of the Lotties appears to be making drinks.
One of the Lotties is making the lattes.
Seems about right.
It seems singing aloud has spread to Tackleford. The church of satan must be better connected than I thought.
They’re not in Tackleford. They’re in Sheffield. And the sing appears to be in walkley.
I thought that walkley might be British English for, like, singing while you walk? Origin of the short lived Walkley Talkley?
According to Wikipedia, Walkley is a subburb of Sheffeild.
I know what zabaglione is (or at least I thought I did), but is this something you can procure from a British barista?
Never post before googling, I guess. I had no idea that espresso was considered a substitute for Marsala.
You’re not going to get it at Costa but I’ve seen it in high-end places and ice cream/gelato shops.
pretty sure the proprietors are the original fred and velma from the 60s