Tea or Coffee?

[cloakable]

I dunno why I've posted this, but I'm curious. Which do you prefer? I personally drink both.

[int]

I prefer tea. It tastses better and has less caffeine.

I love a good green tea too.

[ohnoaninfp]

I am not a big fan of coffee. Once in a while I will have a cappachino or something like that. Coffee normally makes me sick though. Tea is ok but I dont drink it that much either.

[cloakable]

I prefer tea. It tastses better and has less caffeine.

Yeah, I thought that be a reason, 'cause caffeine is a good stimulant. Thats the main reason I like it, it's good for studying.

[Sam172]

Tea, hands down.

English Breakfast Tea, Ceylon, Assam (to a degree) and Scottish Teatime are all great black teas.
I also have a penchant for Gunpowder and Chun Mee Green Tea.


No sugar, and a moderate amount of milk in my black teas. Though I do drink it with soya milk these days....

[Hypnos]

Lattes for flavor (Peets!), and tea at Japanese restaurants.

[Utopmk]

Tea. Not many people drink it like we do in the south. I've never had a cup of hot tea, but I've probably had a million glasses of sweet, iced tea. I think it's weird that people can drink it hot, and without sugar.

[SensEye]

Egads! Kids nowadays. Coffee and lots of it. :D

[jimkopelli]

I'm gonna have to go with our heathen American sweet tea, too. There's this line, around the Mississippi, where, upon going into a restaraunt, you don't have to request sugar with your tea. They don't do sweet (excuse me, real sweet tea, they have that Lipton crap that comes out of the fountain drinks machine... bleh) tea on the west side of the line. On the east side, you don't get sweet tea, you get <heavy southern accent>sweet tea.</heavy southern accent> Pronounce that Sweeat Tay. I'm not sure about the vowels there, but that's it. Some people call it hummingbird tea, for the amount of sugar in it. I got hooked on that when I lived in NC, and I can't drink it any other way. Guaranteed diabetic coma, every time. Good stuff.

Edit: I don't bother with coffee, unless it's in a freezy drink format. Yay for Starbucks, boo to their prices. Walking by and smelling is still free, though... ::inhales deeply, and chokes on a bean::

[Jezebel]

Depends. Is cappuccino considered a coffee? Because I LOVE cappuccino, but I don't like plain coffee at all. I love going to the coffee house and getting a good cappuccino and do that a lot when I'm able to. I also like tea, both hot and cold, with and without sugar.

[Claverhouse]

I mainly drink tea, being English ( although the Irish drink loads more than us ), but only decent tea. I would drink more coffee, but I make it pretty badly ( from a cowboy version of O Henry's: put the ground coffee in a pan, heat, add cold water, heat, when boiling throw in more cold water to precipitate the grounds: it tastes like mud ) and soya milk curdles in coffee ( over here I use a concentrate called Plamil, but basically all soya milk has the flavour of cardboard anyway ). Instant coffee is the pits.



Claverhouse :ph34r:


I'm told there are people who add sugar to either: these are probably from a different species.

[BritainOphira]

I'm gonna have to go with our heathen American sweet tea, too.
I will third the vote. Bad iced tea is probably the only thing I dislike about going too far north. As for hot tea, it must be green, with (you'll never guess it) sugar.

[HairlessBluetick]

BOTH. I love chai tea and chrysanthemum tea, but coffee is practically my God, so ... I put both.

[Birdsnest]

Coffee. I like it brewed just right using the French roast Starbucks or Peets.

I have also grown to like the Southern Sweet tea, but just on occasion. Sweet Tea goes really good with a Southern porkchop sandwich smothered in carmelized onions. When I went to Las Vegas for training with some of my Southern female co-workers, it was so amusing to watch them ask a Western place for Southern tea. First, the water has to be warm, and you drop the tea into it. Then you need to add an unbelievable amount of sugar and stir it for 5 minutes until there isn't a trace of granule left, then you add the ice cubes. Its like a ritual almost like if its not done just right, its not drinkable. They had to get the Las Vegas Buffet waitress to come back 3 times with all the ingredients for Sweet Tea.

Back to coffee. I love starbucks and am in heaven in one of their shops. If you haven't tried their Caramel Machiatto you are missing something.

And this is not coffee, but its frozen Hot Chocolate recipe fom ABC News:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/recipes/Serendiptiy_3_Chocolate_040901.html

Starbucks menu:

Cappuccino
Espresso, steamed milk and foamed milk

Caffè Latte
Espresso and steamed milk

Vanilla Latte
Espresso, vanilla and steamed milk

Caffè Mocha
Espresso, cocoa, steamed milk and whipped cream

White Chocolate Mocha
White chocolate flavored version of our classic Caffé Mocha

Mocha Valencia
Valencia orange Caffè Mocha with added espresso

Caramel Macchiato
Foamed milk marked with espresso, vanilla and real caramel

Caffè Americano
Espresso and hot water

Espresso
Our espresso roast - smooth and satisfying

Espresso Macchiato
Espresso gently marked with foam

Espresso con Panna
Espresso topped with whipped cream

[file cabinet]

coffee if its decaf.. caffeine == bad

[Vagabond]

Coffee. In galons. :D

Tea is OK too, but coffee is my No 1.

[Metimbo]

Coffee. In galons. :D

Tea is OK too, but coffee is my No 1.

How did I guess?

Mmm....Coffee....more coffee.......... I SAID MORE COFFEE YOU IDIOT!!!

sorry...
~Tim

[spirilis]

coffee == nasty

Twinings Earl Grey looseleaf tea brewed in a mug == too much caffeine, makes me lose concentration due to my head feeling pressurized

[Jkrs]

Tea, of course. Most varieties of green are pretty good (there's an interesting change in the taste when it's steeped in lukewarm or cold water), and the best black tea I've had so far would have to be the English breakfast. That might change soon, as I've recently been gifted with a packet of loose-leaf darjeeling.
Don't much care for Earl Grey, as it's difficult to taste anything through the oil of bergamot.

Coffee smells good, but tastes disgusting. c.c

[jimkopelli]

We have to have two pitchers of tea going at home, or we run out. 1 gallon hot water, three tea bags. (Tetley. Yes, I know it's the cheap stuff.) Let sit until cool or opaque or both. Stir in one cup of sugar. (We've been trying to wean ourselves... but my little brother always doubles it. Go Bill.) Chill in fridge. It takes a while, but it's worth it.

[Strephonade]

Too much coffee makes me feel like I caught my head in a vise. No caffeine makes me feel like I tried to stick my head through the armhole of a sweatshirt. Tea is better--I love all kinds of tea.

[Salad]

Teeeeaaa!!!!!!!

[Claverhouse]

Don't much care for Earl Grey, as it's difficult to taste anything through the oil of bergamot.


Ain't that the truth.


Anyway, [ bitterly ] bergamot tastes faintly like cloves.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Arioch]

Tea. Give me my tea and biscuits.

[spirilis]

I really like bergamot, hence why I like the tea. Weird.

[EternalCynic]

Tea. I don't like coffee unless it's a frozen mocha sort of thing (I think someone else said something similar)

[CthulhuLuvsU]

Tea is the only thing I can drink in large quantities, therefore I'd have to say its my preferred drink.

Unfortunately its a diuretic.

[Claverhouse]

Tea. Give me my tea and biscuits.

Wow: Moorcock.

An' Hairless Bluetick has one of Leonard's finest... We are being spoiled.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Arioch]

Tea. Give me my tea and biscuits.

Wow: Moorcock.

An' Hairless Bluetick has one of Leonard's finest... We are being spoiled.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

I like Moorcock. I really enjoy his books and wish I had more of them.
I think Elric makes the perfect anti-hero. So sophisticated and elegant.

I should reread those books again. Now that I think about it I wonder....

Did Moorcock wish to reflect the demise of older, more elegant and sophisticated values for newer ones in the real world in his Elric series?

I'm probably looking to deep for meaning in this but it bears mentioning

[s]

Organic Ruta Maya with breakfast and mid-afternoon pick me up. Tea for evenings unless I need to stay awake... in that case more coffee.

[Six]

coffee with loads of milk...

I used to drink black tea... also with milk... British, I guess ;)

but then I found this instant Espresso which saved me some minutes in the morning... so I switched to "Coffee". if you can call this Coffee which every Coffe-lover probably wouldn't...

still love tea though... (no earl grey... as much as I love Star Trek... :sick: )

[Avengardh]

Chai, all I need is Chai *tut tut tut tut*

Yes, I just had some....coffee is good when it's not caffeinated...I act weird when I have caffeine on my system...I love the taste of both rosemary tea and chai, and frappuccinos, yum.

~*Aven*~

[Birdsnest]

Good article about Starbucks, and they talk about their Caramel Machiattos too:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6100243/site/newsweek/