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[MickyB]

You mean...tea is meant to taste of something?

Strong, black coffee is where it's at.

[macaw]

Coffee is an acquired taste, but I've never met anybody who didn't like tea the first time they tried it as long as it met their requirement for sweetness. Tea needs to be brewed long enough to develop its flavor, three to five minutes depending on type of tea leaves

We get tea from two places: Special Teas and Grace Rare Tea. I rarely drink coffee as my husband dislikes the smell of coffee when it is brewing and he can't stand the taste of it.

[fred]

Disagree.

Coffee tastes great.

Tea tastes awful.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[macaw]

You must only have had Liptons tea to drink, Fred

[Aberlour10]

here the recipe how to get Lipton Tea better

"Polish mountaineers tea" : 9/10 Lipton Tea, 1/10 polish spiritus 95%

Robert

[the saint]

It is a known fact that a nice brew (PG Tips/Tetley) is the cure for all known illnesses, diseases, and general life problems - especially when your mum makes it and serves it up with a nice digestive biscuit. But maybe its because I'm Emglish and we drink the stuff by the gallon.

Oh and by the way - herbal teas, fruit teas, infusions, earl or any of that other crap that masquerades for tea whenever I leave these dear shores does not count. It has to be a proper brew up. In fact when visiting English friends abroad, Teabags are the biggest single request I get.

Coffee is minging.

[the saint]

MickyB, on Nov 23 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

You mean...tea is meant to taste of something?

Strong, black coffee is where it's at.

Call yourself an Englishman Micky? You philistine!!

[pbleighton]

Tea tastes better, but coffee has the kick....

Peter

[sceptic]

Tea is spot on,

coffee, we would discuss

Particularly that greek or Turkish coffee, that NASA use to hold the heat tiles on the Shuttle

A substitute for paint stripper

Overpriced air freshener for an Abatoir

It is what people drink to take away the taste of the bad wine they buy when eating at fancy restaraunts

I could go on all night, it may have some medical use, testing stomach linings or perhaps a colonic dye for radiotheraphy, it just pales into insignificance against a good brew

[hrothgar]

I don't drink any hot liquids if I can help it.

Back before there was dirt, I used to do a lot of downhill sking. This inevitably involved freezing my ass off on some mountain in the middle of Maine, followed by desperate attempts to warm up in the ski lodge. Said lodge normally served really bad hot chocolate and instant noodle soup in lttle styrofoam cups. Said liquids were inevitably heated to a temperature that was entirely unsafe. But we drank it anyway, cause we were that cold....

However, ever since i've been VERY unwilling to drink anything thats warm and in a cup.

[akhare]

I am a chai snob myself and suspect that the remarks disparaging tea are based on those Lipton "dip dip" varieties . IMO, for best results black tea leaves must be boiled in water for at least two minutes (preferably with a dash of cardamom, ginger and other spices thrown in) and then filtered and served with steaming hot (Soy) milk and sugar to taste.

I do like the smell of some coffees though, but don't particular care for the flavour. However, I don't mind drinking the version prepared in Southern India (with a chicory blend). Back there they jokingly refer it to "meter coffee" -- they blend it by pouring the steaming hot liquid at over an arms length and manage never to spill a drop!!!

[Echognome]

Coffee without a doubt. Good coffee doesn't need cream or sugar. Similar to how all the English are complaining about the dipped tea bags so commonly found in the U.S. I will complain that the English view Nescafe as coffee.

Yes they have Starbucks all over London and in some other areas. So I'm sure in some places people get a pretty decent coffee (if they don't order a grande caramel frappacino), but I bet they haven't experienced a cup of Peet's coffee!

[GeeGee]

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(As an aside, at our club we provide tea, coffee, chocolate drinks and herbal teas. It's only when the opponents bring a cup of one of the last two to our table that I start to genuinely feel sick. Are these valid tactics?)

Geoff

Good idea. I shall have to bring a durian to a life tourney. :>

[Al_U_Card]

Its the chemist in me, I swear.

Tea has more caffeine than coffee. It is chelated (held) by the tannens and is released only very slowly into the bloodstream where it is less likely to cause diabetic "crashes". Coffee's cafeine is, however, immediately available and when combined with a sugar source tends to cause the blood sugar level to rise and then fall to a lower level than before because of the "double whammy" effect produced by the sugar source. Unsugared coffee is the way to go as long as the "donut" is take 10 or so minutes before or after.......good luck with that one!

[pclayton]

I can't live without coffee.

I have a few weird rules. I cannot drink coffee out of a clear container or a black mug (it doesn't taste the same to me). I also never fill up my mug more than 1/2 way for two reasons. One is I tend to drink it slow, so it always gets cold, and the 2nd is for safety reasons. I received a 2nd degree burn when I was in college; I had a cup of Mcdonalds grade coffee; at the temperature McDonalds used to serve it at and spilled it near my ...well, you can guess where

Tea is OK, but the sensation is I'm drinking flavored water. I don't think tea goes particularly well with food either.

[Gerben42]

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I have a few weird rules. I cannot drink coffee out of a clear container or a black mug (it doesn't taste the same to me). I also never fill up my mug more than 1/2 way for two reasons. One is I tend to drink it slow, so it always gets cold, and the 2nd is for safety reasons. I received a 2nd degree burn when I was in college; I had a cup of Mcdonalds grade coffee; at the temperature McDonalds used to serve it at and spilled it near my ...well, you can guess where 

So you were the one who sued McWho for the hot coffee? Sorry but that lawsuit was just too ridiculous.

Some people like tea, some like coffee. This is a good thing otherwise there would be a shortage. So in general, I prefer tea and please most of you go ahead and prefer coffee, as long as there are enough tea drinkers to keep the market alive.

P.S.1: no milk in my tea please.

P.S.2: coffee is also water with a flavour, just a different one.

[pclayton]

Gerben42, on Dec 1 2006, 02:08 PM, said:

So you were the one who sued McWho for the hot coffee? Sorry but that lawsuit was just too ridiculous.

Just another lawsuit in the Land of the Free.

Can't say I was the plaintiff in that one.

[Winstonm]

If tea was any good there wouldn't be a Starbucks.

[GeeGee]

If coffee was any good there wouldn't be a Starbucks.