Tea or Coffee?

[Hardbopjazz]

I can do either, but if I have a cold I can't even stand the smell of coffee.

As far as tea, I don't drink the inexpensive tea bag brand. I need to use a two chamber percolator. The top chamber is the tea leaves and the bottom the water. Once it boils I add the water to the top chamber and let sit for 5 minutes. I don't add anything to the tea.

With coffee I can’t drink the cheap stuff that offices usual have in their various departments. I tend to go for Starbucks and drink just black. It all has to do with the flavor.

[jlhoots]

coffee

[Hardbopjazz]

coffee

LMAO. The image tell it all. Wired on caffine.

Edited May 24, 2011 by Hardbopjazz

[JohnS]

Being British I'm a tea drinker but I wouldn't want to go without my mid-morning coffee or the occasional after dinner coffee (Mt Izalco El Salvador at present).

[JSngry]

Tea, iced, unsweetened, with a touch of peach, ideally.

That pisses off UK-ers & Southerners alike, but it's so damn tasty that I really don't care!

[Dave James]

Coffee all the way, although you wouldn't catch me dead in a Starbuck's. They have the most bitter tasting coffee on the planet. Just awful. We have lots of independent roasters here in Portland. That's the only way to go.

[jazzbo]

Coffee mostly. I'm addicted to the coffee roasted here in Austin (and sold via the web) under the Ruta Maya brand (there's a coffee house here). It's coffee grown by a collective of organic farmers in Mexico. The medium roast is to die for; I make mine using a #2 Melita filter cup. And I add a teaspoonfull of whipping cream to the bottom of the (12 ounce) mug. I'm not sure I can comfortably leave the house in the morning without one. Generally I have only one mug a day.

I do like a good English Breakfast tea, or Chai tea. If the Chai tea is good, it's one of my big afternoon drinks.

Edited May 24, 2011 by jazzbo

[GA Russell]

I drink coffee all day long.

After 6:00 pm, I am fond of (believe it or not) the Walmart/Sam's organic decaf.

I have liked almost all of the Gevalias that I have tried over the years. I am looking forward to trying something from a local roaster not too far from my home.

Like Dave, I am not a fan of Starbucks. I have read that years ago they made the deliberate decision to over-roast their coffee in order to disguise the differences in taste between one batch and the next.

[Rooster_Ties]

Coffee, though I came to it rather late.

Didn't like either at all until the year after I got my BA when I was 23 -- on a trip to Barcelona, where I got to enjoy Café con leche for the first time -- which is about a 50/50 mix of very strong coffee, and foamed milk. Then, I began to like coffee, now and then, but only in the evening maybe once a week, as a desert drink.

It's only been in the last 5 years (when I was almost 40) that my wife and I even bought a coffee maker for ourselves, and started making coffee in the mornings most days.

I still don't care much for tea. I can drink iced tea if I have to, but I pretty much can't stand hot tea.

Now, I do rather like the milk-based tea-drink Chai, either hot or cold.

[Utevsky]

Tea, please! Black or herbal, almost any variety will do, but I especially like Ceylon, Earl Grey, Ju-Pu, and Pu-Erh. I'm so miffed because the right wing jerks chose to name their stupid movement after this refined beverage!

[A Lark Ascending]

Tea...though preferably not stewed in Boston harbour water.

A PG Tips tea bag in a cup with boiling water poured on it. Leave the tea bag in as I drink it. No milk or sugar (though I'm happy with a tiny splash of milk).

Like coffee too but try to limit that.

[sidewinder]

I cannot function first thing in the morning without a whole pot of tea ! Usually the one purveyed by the Monkey.

Followed several hours later by a pot of Starbucks House Blend..

Edited May 24, 2011 by sidewinder

[Brownian Motion]

Fair trade organic coffee to begin the day and for the rest of the morning, switching to Tetley tea for the afternoon. Glass thermal mugs my preferred vessels.

[paul secor]

Tea for me. Usually green tea or mint herbal.

[tjluke68]

Tea for me, too. Typically 8-10 cups per day. I "naturally" decaffeinate the loose leaf tea by pouring out the first batch after letting it seep for 30 seconds. Makes long car trips even lengthier due to the pit stops...

[Tim McG]

Coffee here.

I have only three requirements for my morning Cup of Joe:

1. Hot

2. Black

3. And in a cup

[LWayne]

I am a coffee man. Enjoy the variety of flavors and different concoctions.

Besides, a good friend here in Pittsburgh owns his own coffee shop. And he is a jazz drummer.

Tea would be un-patriotic...

LWayne

[.:.impossible]

I'm not particular.

[papsrus]

Coffee in the morning and after dinner, with cream & sugar.

[Jazzmoose]

After a lifetime of being a coffee fanatic, a year or so ago I switched to tea. Now it's five or six cups a day. Milk and Equal (or actually a generic substitute) not optional.

[John L]

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee! I travel and live all over the world, and good coffee is the one comfort that I will not give up. I bring a suitcase of it with me everywhere I go.

[aparxa]

Hot chocolate.

[kinuta]

Mainly Italian roast coffee but I like Chai and have developed a taste for Matcha, powdered green tea.

Matcha ice cream and especially Matcha parfait are irresistible.

[7/4]

After a lifetime of being a coffee fanatic, a year or so ago I switched to tea. Now it's five or six cups a day. Milk and Equal (or actually a generic substitute) not optional.

After a lifetime of being a tea drinker, a few years ago I started drinking coffee. black, no sugar!

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Kenya AA .....black