Tea vs Coffee
 

I lean towards coffee, but like both, hot or cold. Have been told you should drink green tea, and I do, am now, but don't think I could not drink coffee, as has been suggested to me by more than one physician I know.

They had a washing machine and a coffee maker they chipped in to get in the space where I worked when I got to the ship. Was sort of strange, standard issue Maytag, out of the way, by the hull, chained to the deck. Drained into the bilges, engineering space, so the hull is right there if you lift up the deck plates. Only hooked up to cold water, if you wanted warm, you dump in a bucket of hot water. Very handy to wash some clothes underway. Clothes line up above the boiler. Hot AF up there, stuff dried in about 5 minutes.

Coffee maker was a stainless steel, two and half feet tall, foot and a half in diameter, sight glass in the front so you can see how full it is, attached to table with wing nuts. You used about 3/4 cup of grounds for that thing, made enough for a dozen guys to go a whole shift wthout needing to make more

What do you think, is it that big a deal, coffee or tea, given moderation of course

Like them both. I drink coffee morning only using a 1-liter French press. I do switch to tea at times. I have a carafe of iced tea sitting in my refrigerator too.

I do like expresso and occasionally will have one if I'm dining out.

I'm sipping a mug of green tea currently. Waiting for my espresso machine to warm up.

While I absolutely LOVE coffee/espresso, tea makes me happy every single time.

There is a reason tea is the number one beverage in the world (not counting water!).

I drink two cups of black coffee in the morning. Not at any other time.

I will have iced tea with lunch if I am at a restaurant. I am not a big fan of hot tea. I use no milk, sugar or sweetener in either.

I'm a fan of both....hot coffee in winter, cold brew in summer. Always black, no sugar or cream. Tea sporadically.

I'm a fan of neither. As a kid in H.S. when I'd go with friends, I'd order hot chocolate when they ordered coffee. I've never liked the flavors and really don't taste anything in coffee except for a bitter taste with a ghost of a coffee taste. That beng said, I do have a cup of coffee with my wife in the mornings. I put sweetener and heavy cream in it for flavor. My wife makes me a pitcher of a mixture of green tea and "Good Earth Sweet and Spicy" tea she puts in the fridge for me to drink when I'm thursty. Both are just something to drink. If I didn't have them, I'd just drink straight water. For that matter, I've never liked the flavor of milk since I was a kid.

Like my coffee black unless I am having it for dessert. Iced tea has to be unsweetened but hot tea has to be sweetened.

If I have a dessert coffee I use heavy cream and Torani syrup. Not the sugar free, but the real cane sugar. Sugar free is bad for you.

The "creamers" are bad for you too if they are the ones with carrageenan. Unless you are constipated, then they work like they should!

Tastes change over the decades. When the wife gets up I grind some medium roast beans in our old cast iron burr grinder and make a liter of coffee in a French press thermos carafe. Mid morning she will have hot water and honey while I have a mug of green tea. By mid day we are over to a mixture of medium roast and decaffeinated. By supper time de-caf only maybe more green tea in the evening.
The only time we put any milk or cream in a hot beverage is when it's not fit to drink otherwise. I want to savor the flavor of the coffee. :cool:

Best
Les

Every morning I have an espresso. Then on my drive to office I have tea (PG tips from England).

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). Anybody else have that issue?

Preferred coffee prep is French press - nothing better...

Same here. It is delicious but I drink it for more than the taste. It lifts the morning fog. Two cups is the right dose. Coffee is brought to us by Angels sent from God.

This is well-known, and the reason some of my friends do not drink coffee. Coffee is Evil.

French press was my method until I bought a Nespresso Pixie, which gives us European-style coffee. About 4 ounces per 'cup.' Strong. Delicious. Splash of cream. Takes about 40 seconds from the moment I walk up to it at 5:00 am. Using one hand.

We are doing a Dry January right now, and I am drinking a fair bit of tea. Earl Grey. I won't be going back to cigarettes. Done with that, finally. Alcohol yes, but I find it's also pretty easy to do without.

I drink one cup of Folger's coffee, black, in a Contigo travel mug every morning. If it's hot tea I'll sometimes have some Sleepytime tea before bed. Ice tea is regular, unsweetened.

I found one of those Contigo mugs walking the dogs, I love that thing.

Supes, the cancer sticks are the most addictive thing that exists, good luck.

I’m probably the opposite of a coffee snob. When I get up in the morning, I pop a donut shop pod in the Keurig and make a cup.

I'm a bandwagon coffee and tea drinker.

I go to Starbucks or Peet's or Blue Bottle and I order a mocha. Last time I had black coffee was probably in my 20s. And it's decaf most of the time. Half-caf if I'm at work.

I drink boba green tea from a local boba place. Filled with sugar of course. Sometimes when I'm sick I get their hot honey lemon green tea.

I have a kettle that I hardly use, and some bags of tea somewhere in the pantry that are probably expired.

I just can't be bothered to prepare my own.

One cup of FP Starbucks House Blend with a teaspoon of 1/2 and half when I get up. And a cookie or something for the coffee to hang onto in my stomach.

I went on a green tea spree once and had a whole gallon of sun made tea. Once cooled, after 3 glasses over 3 hours it was like speed. I should do that again. If liking speed is good for me, let's do it!

I live on coffee. I have a french press and a nespresso machine. Probably 6-8 cups a day. Yes, every year my doctor raises her eye brown when she comes across that on the clip board.

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For me its three or four double espressos every morning. But if I can't get beans that I like then I'll just go without.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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! :D

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.

Morning person?
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What's the antidote?

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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......

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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! :D