At one point we were seeing a fair number of story arcs across multiple days, but in this period PC seemed to be mostly focussing on telling a daily joke. I wonder how this changed through his career (prior to drifting into political diatribes and decreasing popularity in the late 1930s). Its kind of hard to tell in gocomics as the order isn’t always that of the original strips.
When I was growing up in the UK they gave us little kids camp-coffee as an alternative to the real thing. I recall liking it mainly because it was sweet – the bitterness of actual coffee came as an unwelcome surprise and I don’t think I really drank coffee until I discovered the very sweet starbucks double shots much later in life.
Right, rare and ‘limited supply’ sells – once saw a guy selling regular bottled water in a parking lot with a sign “Champagne of the Andes”.