# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 394
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/394 "2021-01-02T01:50:20Z")
Yeah, the adenovirus thing is a pretty obvious current event topic. Funny, but I wonder if Randall lurks here. We have a current thread about adulterated coffee. Did Randall pick coffee as the thing to switch in his comic because of that? > [@Anyone remember this episode of (I think) "Roger Ramjet"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-episode-of-i-think-roger-ramjet/929131): > > It’s the 1960s. An American couple is seen waking up to breakfast. When the husband tastes the coffee his wife has prepared, he recoils, claiming it tastes like glue. She belts him (with a rolling pin?) and the scene ends. This starts happening all over America, reaching crisis levels. It is eventually learned that the bad guys were putting a chemical in coffee which caused trading stamps (which at the time some coffee companies were including as premiums, in the coffee cans) to dissolve into … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574)._