To have only just understood this pun...

[Cardboardeaux]

In a book I'm currently reading, a character talks about putting some coffee on the hob "to perk". I hadn't heard that use of the word "perk" before but it obviously derives from "percolate".

But then I realised... Central Perk (the coffee shop in Friends)!

Obviously I got the "Central Park" bit of the pun but it has taken me 25 years to get the "Perk" bit.

AIBU to think I can't be the only one not to have twigged?

I love a good pun, but ''Central Perk'' is a bit lame.. A bit like those old hairdresser 'joke' names like 'Curl up and dye'

Isn't a double negative a positive?

sorry but thought it was obvious.
That said, think it’s an age thing. Asked a 39 yr old, she’s never seen a percolator.

What is there to get about Birdseye potato waffles?

That they are 'wafflely versatile'? Or something else?

Well, to be fair, it's a multiple pun.

You've got 'Central Perk', which is a play on the name 'Central Park'.

Then you've got 'Perk', which is a play on 'percolate'.

And you could go even further and have a pun on 'Perk' as a benefit.

Yeah that waffley versatile was meant to be awfully versatile.

I'm not very good with puns generally

That’s another one I didn’t get then. It’s not great tbf!