billr sends this in: “A mystery”.
If the name Juan Valdez doesn’t ring a bell:
1985 100% Colombian Coffee “Juan Valdez – This is how you pick the richest coffee” TV Commercial
How Old is Juan Valdez?
billr sends this in: “A mystery”.
If the name Juan Valdez doesn’t ring a bell:
1985 100% Colombian Coffee “Juan Valdez – This is how you pick the richest coffee” TV Commercial
Comics I Don't Understand 
My best guess is that its a pants joke – older people tend to wear their pants higher up.
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Interesting, madmup. My thinking was a bit more literal. Speaking as an elder, how foolish it seems to grasp a hot paper cup near the bottom. Balance and safety will be so much better near the top.
The aspect that’s missing from that, I acknowledge, is that it doesn’t give us the reasons why younger people would want to grip it lower down.
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Not being a coffee drinker, I’m perhaps not qualified to even guess, but that won’t stop me: kids get strong, small coffee that only fills the bottom of the cup, so their insulating sleeves go there; old folks get regular, which fills the whole cup. Not sure why middle-age is in the middle, though.
Having written that, the pants seem to me like a good bet for the real answer!
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Hm, and I went to find the original, which got me the AI interpretation too. Not sayin’ I buy it but it’s maybe interesting:
This comic strip uses visual metaphors to poke fun at how coffee consumption and caffeine tolerance change as people age.Here is the breakdown of the humor and the elements shown:
☕ The Visual Joke Explained
The “Young Cup”: Shows a very small amount of actual coffee at the bottom. This implies that younger people often drink large, heavily diluted coffee drinks filled with milk, syrups, sugar, and whipped cream.
The “Middle-Age Cup”: Shows the coffee level rising to about the halfway mark. This represents a balancing act where a person needs more actual caffeine to get through the day, cutting back slightly on the sugary extras.
The “Old Cup”: Shows a cup filled almost entirely with strong, straight coffee. This reflects the idea that older individuals drink their coffee black or with minimal additives, relying purely on the maximum strength of the caffeine.
Oh, and there are no comments on the original page.
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Madmup probably has it right. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw it. Kids wear their pants low, middle age wear them more normal and old folks tend to hitch them up to their nipples.
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