QOTW #5: Tea and Coffee
Assuming you like at least one of them, which is your favorite tea or coffee? What kind?
Personally, I really enjoy both, but I'd probably miss coffee the most if I had to give one up. Plain, old black coffee (or with a little cream) would be the variety I would probably hate giving up the most, although I also enjoy a Latte from Starbucks or an I.C. Mocha from St. Louis Bread Co. (a.k.a. Panera Bread) as well as various other varieties.
On the other hand, at dinner, at a restaurant, I will usually order iced tea. No sugar and no lemon. Despite my preference for plain old tea, I usually prefer tea with sugar and lemon if it is bottled tea (unless it is really good bottled tea, such as the unsweetened Nestea I finished a little while ago). Arizona Tea Co. has a good bottled sweetened tea. I also occasionally enjoy peach or lemon tea, such as that offered by Lipton (either bottled or mix) or Snapple. But overall, I'd rather have plain old tea.
In fact, if I had the opportunity to drink as much tea or coffee, and those where the only two things I could drink, I'd probably drink more tea than coffee. Yet, I'd miss coffee more, weird, huh?
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RE: QOTW #5: Tea and Coffee
I really don’t drink either, though I do enjoy iced tea now and then during the summer. It must be plain, though. No lemon. No sweetener. Plain.
RE: QOTW #5: Tea and Coffee
Coffee evokes the strongest feelings, because of the greater presence of subtle chemical components which lead to (mild) addiction. Of all the things I miss about living in the Netherlands is Dutch coffee. There’s nothing like it in this world, as far as I have found. Belgian coffee is a close second, with some German brands not too far behind. I couldn’t begin to pay the price of the import version here. Gevalia, for example, is hardly in the same class (not to mention the company hires spammers to advertise for them).
I like plain old Lipton iced tea, brewed in boiling water, a bit stout. I always sweeten with saccharine, because it disolves better than sugar, hot or cold, and stays dissolved. I can live without carbonated beverages, and might forget tea for awhile, but I’d become dangerous without at least one cup of coffee each day. Military basic training is a good time to discover what creature comforts really matter, and coffee is king.
(Oh, and FreeBSD 5.2.1 is really good with coffee…
RE: QOTW #5: Tea and Coffee
I’ll warn you right from the start, I’m not a snob but my entry will sound like it. You must believe me.
I have never liked coffee, I prefer tea of the herbal variety. Flavored Celestial Seasons type stuff, mainly the zinger flavors. (Even make it iced - Rasberry Zinger is great) But the one tea that I really like, (remember I warned you) Tazo Green Tea - full leaf in their infuser bottle. Tastes great.
Ok, there I said it. Please no snob jokes.