basic poll.
tea or coffee?
will make for a lighthearted discussion and a break from all the heart ache found on this forum :)
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basic poll.
tea or coffee?
will make for a lighthearted discussion and a break from all the heart ache found on this forum :)
Never had coffee, can't stand the smell.
Love tea. Especially green tea.
I loathe coffee, but oddly like cappuccino and I prefer that over tea.
Tea is for grannies.
call me grannie sombie cause i love tea. i love coffee too though.
i like jasmine tea and columbian coffee.
is it really as bad as everyone makes out to have loads of tea and coffee?
i probs have maybe 4 cups of tea a day if im not at work, and maybe 2 teas 3 coffees if i am.
some people go all mental about it and handle it as it it was kryptonite.
weird.
Earl grey with a slice of lemonnnnnn and few spoons of sugar, yummmeeeeeeeeey :D When I was younger that was my trick to fight away the hangover. Few mugs like this in the morning plu one ibuprofenum pill and I was ready to have another party :) i still like the tea :)
Coffee hmmm Cafe Bonbon is good. It's a short coffee with condensed milk , yummmmymyyyyyy. When I'm in Spain with my bf, I always drink nespresso with condensed milk :) Voila this is cafe bonbon
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Ohhh and I like Lipton tea's yummey, i like forest fruits and strawberry Lipton tea. mmm :)
And once my sister brought me from London Whittard Peach tea. OMG this was the best tea ever, with real peach pieces omg , I still remember this great taste.
Once I also drank in France a tea that my bf bought at one tea shop in Lille. It was with little pieces of roses,but I didn't find the same anywhere else. Was delicious as well.
I love everything :)
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had that every day when me and the GF went to Vietnam for 6 weeks.
short with condensed milk is very very yum.
not great for hangovers tho. need to ol tea for that i agree :)
I usually drink coffee in the morning and green tea at night.
Coffee wakes me up and makes me happy, green tea chills me out and helps me focus.
I brew high mountain Chinese green tea and my coffee is french press and I get beans from a local roaster.
Café Noisette - Espresso with a little bit of milk/cream.
Have it pretty often and always the same, so the coffee peeps at uni know to get it as soon as I show up.
Hmm well your tea sounds more exciting than british tea.
Milk and two sugars is the norm, except posh people might have Earl Grey, lol
Tea for me - but then I'm English so it's in my DNA
I find myself drinking a bit more tea. Now that's it's COLD out I like to warm up a bit with a good mug of tea. A co-worker of mine has a TON of different kinds of teas, I'm liking a Strawberry Sizzle tea she has. Plus I do like green tea.
As for coffee on occasion I will have a mug, but only if it's a good coffee like Dunkin Donuts. If I do have coffee I'm more of a iced coffee drinker than hot.
I prefer tea over coffee any day of the week. Coffee makes your breath smell too. I love green tea with jasmine, and gyokuro imperial green tea. I also like white tea and oolong.
Here is another wrinkle for this poll/discussion: Do you tea drinkers prefer bag tea or cut loose tea (based on taste as well as convenience)?
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convenience all the way, HA! so bags i guess
maybe when i'm older and own a tea pot / need to make tea for more than just myself then it'll get all loosey goosey in the tea department.
Tea is healthier. So, Tea.
I prefer bag tea. I've never tried loose tea, so I don't know how I would like it. Although if I had the tea pot I just might try it 1 day.
cut loose, unless i'm in a hurry. i have both kinds in my cupboard.Quote:
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I used to only buy bag tea until I realized that the bag detracts from the flavor of the tea, usually making it slightly bitter. Anyway I do own a tetsubin, but when I only want to make one or two cups I just use a tea diffuser. The good thing about cut tea is that you can usually use it for more than one brewing.
What is your favorite kind of tea doppel?
yeah, bag tea does make the flavor a bit strange, i'd say more metallic than bitter. my favorite kind would be oolong tea.
I had oolong that was infused with jasmine and it is really good. I no longer drink bagged teas unless I am going to drink tea with dinner and don't care so much about the taste.
never tried it with jasmine, but it sounds like something worth trying. i always drink my tea straight up.
i also do not drink tea with dinner, but instead in the evening. i drink ale/wine with dinner P:
I tried to be a hardcore tea drinker by drinking it straight, but I just don't enjoy it as much.
maybe it's not the tea itself that you enjoy. i think putting jasmine and honey and all that stuff that seems to be popular is like putting A1 sauce on a filet mignon. you drown the original flavor with a blend of others... the best part about oolong tea is the aroma. it takes me a good hour to get through a small kettle because i sniff it so much!
I actually love tea, and the right amount of sugar accents the flavor much like salt does to savory foods. I think in time I will drink it with no sugar though. Its probably just like with wine. Everybody always starts out drinking sweet desert wine, but all eventually move to drier more bitter wines. I don't know any wine drinkers who didn't make that transition.
really?? i started out on merlot and that's always been my favorite. i do like some of the sweeter wines, like lambrusco, but not very often.
it's the same way with beer. i started out with the really heavy, dark stuff. i won't drink anything lighter than amber/bock color.
i'm not sure if i would say it's an acquired taste, though it can very well be.
Well you're different in many senses of the word, lol. Most start light and then go to heavier/darker/less sweet. That seems to be the natural progression of most things. Walking, drinking, weight lifting, reading.... and on.
interesting.. i never viewed it as a progression, like weight lifting. there are some kinds of wines/beers/teas that i absolutely do not like and would never, ever drink them. i don't understand why someone would progress into something that they don't at first like.... less for acceptance's sake.
I think that most people's palates are more likely to accept something familiar first until they appreciate something new for what it is by itself. Most people like sweets, which is why I believe that most people start out putting a lot of sugar in their tea/coffee or why most people start out drinking sweet alcoholic drinks. They look for a likable characteristic in something that they aren't accustomed to, and then if they truly like the new tea/wine/whatever they gradually learn to enjoy it without the familiar added characteristic.
I used to dump loads of sugar in my tea, but as time went on I discovered loose cut tea, and enjoy the flavor of the tea more than the sweetness. I probably use 1 or 2 teaspoons not depending on the kind of tea. I used to use 5-7 years ago, lol.
tea all the way.
i can't drink coffee...it makes me feel sick. last time i had a cup of coffee was about 8 years ago and i threw up...haven't had a cup since. i guess that's a good thing. i see coworkers needing to drink coffee every morning and i'm glad i don't have that problem. stains the teeth and makes your breath stink.
i grew up with my family putting milk and sugar in their tea. i used to do the same until i went to college and was introduced to green tea and its health benefits. so gradually i started drinking green tea and became more open to other types of herbal teas. i don't put sugar in any of my tea anymore...completely takes away from the flavor of it, and some teas just taste darn gross when you add sugar to it. my personal opinion is that sugar is unnecessary with tea. tastes perfect without it.
Except Lipton or Nestea (made out of lemon or peaches), I can't drink tea, especially if it's hot. It makes me puke, literally :P
I'm not such a big fan of simple coffee either, but I drink plenty of frappuccinos & other combinations. Oh! I love adding alcohol to frappuccinos. Yummy *drools*
Does anyone have a good matcha latte recipe?
coffee ... black.
... but tea when I'm sick.
Tea <3
Nearly never drink coffee.
I gave my aunt an espresso maker for xmas 3 years ago and she brought it back because she never used it. So I've been perfecting my latte skills for a couple days.
Matcha is just powder that you can put on/in anything. I'd think you'd just add it to you latte while making it or after.Quote:
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Tea, but only over the colder months, in the summer i dont drink any hot drinks.
I prefer it with 2 sugars but normally have it with none :(
Hot tea all year long for me, even if its 100 degrees outside. I usually drink tea at night though, or cheap tea with dinner.
Hot coffee black or creamed, never sugar.
Espresso if I'm in the mood.
Iced coffee always creamed and always sweet, the stronger the better to compensate for the sweetness. Iced Americano's, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I prefer my tea iced, and out of a container flavored artificially with peach.
Liptop Ice Tea orange flavour is so ****ing good. Yummy :) peach is good too. I like also forest fruits :) But lemon ice ite , niet :/
ha ha! you said liptop!Quote:
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