Tea vs Coffee

[A930Rocket]

I’ve never drank coffee, unless a cold mocha Frappuccino a couple of times is considered coffee?

The only time I have tea, is sweet tea at a restaurant.

[Bill Douglas]

Coffee for me. Umm, the last cup of tea would have been with my mom, so that would have been over 25 years ago.

And the coffee has to be good coffee or I'd rather go without.

[Por_sha911]

[look 171]

Black coffee. Drink it up to about 1-2 pm from morning. Hate flavored coffee. Started to do unleaded twice a week, because I should cut some caffeine out. Only drink tea when I have Japanese or Chinese food. I don't dislike tea, but seem that no one serves the typical simple stuff. I dislike all the fancy tea from teas shops or starbucks. Do they even have tea at starbucks? I like the loose tea leaves in my tea just like the way its been done for the past 1000 years.

[Baz]

I brought my Mom's Keurig machine home yesterday. Along with a mostly full large box of Folgers K-cups.

I've never been a big coffee drinker but every once in a while enjoy a cup, so thought I'd see if these would suffice, as long as they were just sitting there in an empty house. Mom went into assisted living in April of last year so there's some things she won't be using anymore.

Anyway......I ran a couple cups through as a dry run before trying the 3rd one and it tastes just fine.

Hard to beat the convenience.

[flatbutt]

I start every day with a mug of black tea with milk and honey and have done so most of my life. During the day I green or white tea depending on my mood.

I drink coffee infrequently but enjoy a nice espresso as a finish to a dine out evening.

Other than that, I don't get the coffee craze.

[recycled sixtie]

I drink three cups of regular tea per day(Tetley) and coffee once a week when I go golfing.

Moderation is everything. I had a friend who drank about nine cups of coffee a day and then he had a heart attack. He was in his fifties. His doctor told him to cut back on the coffee.

I do not drink alcohol anymore as it triggers atrial fibrillation.

Cheers, Guy.

[LWJ]

I am revisiting this thread over a double shot cappuccino made New Zealand style with a dusting of chocolate on top. Damn. Like liquid crack. Makes me smile. Something I look forward to every single day.

Dixie? Love the quote.

[Por_sha911]

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/coffee-lovers-rejoice-drinking-more-coffee-associated-with-decreased-heart-failure-risk
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drinking-coffee-linked-to-healthier-hearts-and-longer-lives

[GH85Carrera]

I never drank coffee until back in the 1970s our local PCA region started a monthly breakfast. Everyone else ordered coffee, and I ordered a Dr. Pepper. I likely was one of the youngest people there, but I felt like a child.

The next breakfast, I ordered coffee, black. Not bad, and I finished my cup. Then and now I always order a glass of water with breakfast.

Now a many decades later, I drink two cups of Folgers drip coffee in the mornings with breakfast, black, and switch to water after that. I tried some Starbucks once when it was free and almost did a spit take. Charbucks is nasty. I can't imagine waiting in line and paying several bucks for nasty coffee that has to have flavorings in to too make it palatable.

And I drink Iced Tea that with no sweetener.

I have not had any soda in several decades.

[Bill Douglas]

I haven't drank tea since my mom died, um, 25 years ago. We used to drink weak black tea together.

Now I have two double shot lattes each morning, and maybe one at ten.

[Brian 162]

My mother let me try coffee when I was 5. That was 1965. I started working at a gas station when I was 13 and the guys would get me coffee. Cream and sugar. I’ve been drinking it since, straight black and strong. I make a pot every day. I’ll also have double espresso when out for dinner.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

A Mexican coffee made at your table side is a good show.
The key is the proper glass to melt and create a brown sugar coating inside.
The Tequila, Kahlua, whipped cream and caramelized brown sugar combo is a sweet treat.

[WPOZZZ]

A latte or two to start the day. Sometimes a Viet or Thai ice coffee in the afternoon. I used to like tea as well, until my urologist said that could be the cause of my kidney stone farm.

[gacook]

I drink one cup of coffee in the morning; water the rest of the day.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by fanaudical

I like both, but have moved recently to drinking coffee on days where I don't go to work and mint tea on days that I do. I am finding the caffeine in coffee is making me more irritable / agitated in the morning at work (or maybe it's just work).

It doesn't make any difference to me - tea, coffee, water, beer - I'm always irritable / agitated in the morning. I attribute it to it being morning.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It doesn't make any difference to me - tea, coffee, water, beer - I'm always irritable / agitated in the morning. I attribute it to it being morning.

Not a morning person I presume.

After we got married my wife was just aghast at my morning routine. The alarm goes off, and seconds later, I toss back the covers, raise my legs up, lock my abdominal muscles, Lean over the edge of the bed, and bounce out of bed, in a good mood ready to go. My wife is not a morning person and I learned long ago, to not talk to her at all until she has dragged herself out of bed and had her breakfast.

I don't understand it at all. A new day is upon us, get up and go!

[mjohnson]

Raised on instant coffee (10yo) with cream and sugar around my grandparents' worn-out checkerboard picnic tablecloth covered kitchen table. Maybe some soggy stale 'nilla wafers...

I carried that through HS and into college, graduating into actual good beans. Still filter coffee though and delicately seasoned as to pretty much be melted coffee ice cream.

Enter grad school and the eventual Mrs mjohnson appears. Northern CO farm girl, as unsubtle as you might imagine, pointed out that she'd had her coffee black since she was 7yo. And it was from that perc on the stove that's been at great auntie's house forever. I was advised that if there wasn't cream or sugar that the stain on my skirt wouldn't be so bad in the wash...

Now, with age, an aging GI system and more, we're down to two shots of espresso every morning. Black. "Ice cream coffee" only happens on road trips when we get to the cool 7-11 coffee station.

For post-0900 day drinking, tea. Upton imports has a great "Baker Blend" that is assam with just a pinch of lapsouchong(??) for only a little hint of smoke.

[Por_sha911]

Morning person?


What's the antidote?

[Baz]

My parents had morning coffee - prepared with an electric percolator. I remember watching and listening to it's sounds.....how futuristic it sounded while percolating......



My parents told me and my brother that drinking coffee stunted your growth.

We had a family living behind us which included a boy our age - and he drank coffee - and they were all on the short side....so no way was I going near that stuff!