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Post by boosette on Apr 12, 2009 1:44:56 GMT 10
As an American, coffee culture is something of a birthright for me, but tea remains one of my favorite things to drink. I love English & Irish breakfast tea with milk and sugar, masala chai, earl & lady grey, white, green, jasmine, iced, flavored, rooibos, mate (even though they don't come from the tea plant) - if it's hot leaf juice, I love it.
I still drink coffee (even prefer it, sometimes) but yeah. ♥ tea.
Y'all?
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Post by anilaurel on Apr 12, 2009 1:56:28 GMT 10
I love a nice cup of tea when I'm tired I've never been able to stand coffee. Orange pekoe is my favorite
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Post by boosette on Apr 12, 2009 2:37:25 GMT 10
Orange pekoe is tasty.
(Coffee requires at least a tablespoon of sugar and three of milk before I can drink it; I've never had truly amazing black coffee.)
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Post by opalgirl on Apr 12, 2009 4:40:11 GMT 10
Tea!
As a Canadian - and one living, perhaps, in one of the regions where 'leftover' British influence has hung on the strongest - I have a bit of a cultural 'birthright' to tea.
- Orange pekoe is good. Also, just the smell of it reminds me of supper time at my grandparents'. Prefer it with milk and a small amount of sugar.
- Green is okay, but I don't think the last cup I had was brewed properly - it tasted like water.
- Peppermint tea is <3.
- Earl Grey isn't served here, commonly - unless you ask for different, it's orange pekoe, under various brand names - so I've never tried it.
- English and Irish breakfast teas are usually expensive, so I haven't tried them either, even though I want to.
I have to say, though (I think this may be a regional thing; dunno) that tea served with cream instead of milk? Is gross.
Also, coffee. I admit it, I like a cappucino every once in a while, but 'real' coffee? Nope. It smells okay, but I don't think I could drink it.
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Post by Mirage on Apr 12, 2009 4:48:39 GMT 10
I was basically living on tea a few months ago, but for me it's like a recurring phase that goes between obsession and "eh, too much work" (yes, that is a pathetic show of laziness).
I believe in Chinese tea <3
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Post by thepurpletyrant on Apr 12, 2009 6:44:25 GMT 10
I <3 tea. I usually have at *least* two cups of caffeinated tea by the time I get to school in the morning (7:45). Most of the time it's green, simply because we don't have a whole lot of caffeinated tea in my house aside from that. I love earl grey and English breakfast. I love tea with a sort of citrus undertone. Peppermint is fabulous and I've been known to drink a whole box of it in two days. My wonderful sister bought me teas for Channukah including a cinnamon chai that I love to drink with milk. Basically, I just love tea.
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Post by chocolatefridays on Apr 12, 2009 13:44:05 GMT 10
I'm not a fan of tea, even though I'd like to be. I do love chai. My friend gave me some chai from a box (?) that you mix with milk, so it's probably not even close to authentic, but it really made me want to like tea more.
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Post by ubiquitous on Apr 12, 2009 16:48:20 GMT 10
I'm not a massive fan of either tea or coffee, to be honest, (I'm not big on hot drinks unless it's winter) but I do drink and like tea more than coffee. I do green tea reasonably often, and when I do, it's usually several cups in a day.  Other types of tea I tend to just drink occasionally though. Chai, I usually only drink in a social setting or if I'm sick (with ginger). But I make it heaps, cos my 'rents like the way I brew it. |
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Post by samantha on Apr 12, 2009 17:48:28 GMT 10
It's English Breakfast for me. Although every now and then I like a vanilla flavored one.
Although I'm much more of a coffee and hot chocolate person. White hot chocolate FTW!
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Post by ubiquitous on Apr 12, 2009 17:53:33 GMT 10
Hot chocolate is wonderful. Especially the Italian/European-style ones  |
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Post by samantha on Apr 12, 2009 17:56:34 GMT 10
Hot chocolate is wonderful. Especially the Italian/European-style ones Definitely! (And may I add that I can not stand instant coffee.) |
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Post by Carbon Kiwi on Apr 13, 2009 0:13:26 GMT 10
Oh yummmm hot chocolate.
But I also do love tea. I drink quite a bit of green and peppermint, especially when I'm working on uni stuff (coughallnighterscough, shhhh don't tell). I want to try rosehip and some more lemony types. I also like strange varieties--one of the favourites I've had is blueberry and vanilla!
Coffee I can stand but it's generally less coffee and more "cream and sugar with a side of coffee" given I take French Vanilla Coffeemate AND far too much sugar. In the end it's more worthwhile for me to just drink tea, given I can drink that plain or with milk or with milk and sugar. =).
(The strangest part is that I won't drink hot drinks--I have to let them cool down, and when I'm in a hurry I cheat. Yes, I use the ice cube trick. Hide me from the crowds, folks! Laughter.)
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Post by boosette on Apr 13, 2009 0:17:05 GMT 10
Speaking as an honorary Southerner, there is absolutely no shame in iced tea. Especially in good iced tea.
(omg this thai restaurant I used to go to made iced tea with - I kid you not - popcorn notes. It was so so good and I can't find it anywhere.)
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Post by Carbon Kiwi on Apr 13, 2009 1:17:50 GMT 10
Oh, certainly, Iced Tea is fabulous!
My problem is that I cheat with hot tea to cool it down--just plop in a few ice cubes to drop the temperature when I'm impatient and don't want to let it sit there properly to cool down, giggles.
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Post by opalgirl on Apr 13, 2009 3:13:31 GMT 10
Iced tea is something I've never been able to get behind; of course, I haven't had it since I was small, so I might have to try it again.
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Post by zbilja on Apr 13, 2009 19:47:18 GMT 10
I adore iced tea, but when I make it myself, it tastes funny ( very funny, I might add), but the shop-bought stuff is waayyy too expensive to drink on the scale that I'd like to! I think my favourite tea is jasmine-flavoured green, with a little honey. Chai, anyone? |
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Post by boosette on Apr 13, 2009 22:38:43 GMT 10
Chai is awesome. (Chai also means "tea" in at least two languages - I think you're thinking of masala chai, milk tea with spices?)
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Post by Cass on Apr 14, 2009 1:37:00 GMT 10
I do the same thing with the ice cubes, and then my tea gets all watery and ick.
I like unsweetened green tea- my piano teacher is Japanese and once brought me back a box of matcha (?) green tea and I was in heaven for a couple of weeks until it was all drank. (Drunk?)
And I like Earl Grey and English Breakfast. Irish Breakfast is also good, though a little too strong unless I put sugar in it.
Chai always tastes good but the smell is just too strong for me.
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Post by fissijo on Apr 14, 2009 3:44:28 GMT 10
At work I drink Rooibos by the BUCKET load, I love it so much. At home it's probably English Breakfast Tea I drink the most.
I also drink coffee by the gallon as well, I love a freshly brewed black coffee with just a little bit of sugar.
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Post by Carbon Kiwi on Apr 14, 2009 4:53:06 GMT 10
Laughter. I think I've been lucky with my tea--I don't end up with watery and icky.
Oh, Chai! I absolutely adore chai. I haven't had it in far too long.
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Post by Rojo on Apr 14, 2009 5:41:02 GMT 10
Personally, I can stand neither the taste nor the smell of tea. I love the smell of coffee, but do not like the taste of it, either. hot cocoa ♥ |
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Post by rainstormamaya on Apr 14, 2009 6:45:27 GMT 10
I live on tea. English Breakfast with milk and one sugar (Or mint tea, if possible...) I did try coffee once, since it smelt nice, but found it very bitter. |
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Post by ubiquitous on Apr 14, 2009 20:43:53 GMT 10
I like unsweetened green tea- my piano teacher is Japanese and once brought me back a box of matcha (?) green tea and I was in heaven for a couple of weeks until it was all drank. (Drunk?) Chai always tastes good but the smell is just too strong for me. People put sugar in green tea? Omg!! Matcha! I so want to try that, but I can't find it here.  I think sometimes people put lots of cinnamon in it. :S I absolutely cannot drink store bought chai, or the stuff in cafes for that reason. |
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Post by boosette on Apr 15, 2009 7:18:33 GMT 10
When I was training myself off soda, I went to white tea with three tablespoons of sugar and gradually reduced the sweetening until I was drinking it plain - when I first started I needed a ton of sugar in everything.
(there is appx 3T sugar in a can of soda, in the form of HFCS.)
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Post by pineappleyness on Apr 15, 2009 9:40:31 GMT 10
I don't like tea at all, but I do love coffee and hot chocolate. Not such a fan of plain coffee though, I prefer things like mochas and vanilla lattes. Apparently they're really bad for you though. |
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Post by samantha on Apr 15, 2009 9:48:52 GMT 10
I don't like tea at all, but I do love coffee and hot chocolate. Not such a fan of plain coffee though, I prefer things like mochas and vanilla lattes. Apparently they're really bad for you though. I have a theory. Anything that tastes good must be bad for you. |
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Post by pineappleyness on Apr 15, 2009 10:00:51 GMT 10
Yeah, I think that must be true.  |
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Post by Fate on Apr 15, 2009 10:43:14 GMT 10
I wouldn't say they're really bad for you. It's the dairy and sugar that really does you in, but they're are options to make it more figure friendly. Ask for non-fat milk, ask for sugar free syrup, ask for no or easy whipped cream.
You might also try a coffee misto with you favorite syrup. A coffee misto is half brewed coffee and half steamed milk. Add some vanilla or mocha to that and you have a yummy alternative.
*works at a Starbucks*
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Post by zbilja on Apr 15, 2009 15:15:58 GMT 10
I did try coffee once, since it smelt nice, but found it very bitter. Black coffee = eurgh... My coffees usually consist of about 3 teaspoons of sugar (don't tell my mum, though!) and 1 part coffee to about 3 parts milk... As a result, I stick to green tea. Apparently if you have 4-5 cups of green tea a day, you lsoe fo the risk of developing cancer by 80%. Pretty good news for green-tea lovers! |
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Post by Mina on Apr 17, 2009 21:13:33 GMT 10
I am very picky with drinks
I don't like the taste of most tea's or coffee and I never even drank milk (except for in hot chocolate) even before I developed lactose intolerance.
But I do like peppermint tea and various Fruit infusions/fruit teas that include no 'real tea' whatsoever.
I especially love the Twinings Fruit Infusions but they are very hard to get in my country - I either have to drive over to another City with a British specialities shop and pay a lot, or ask the next person to visit the UK to bring some back for me - well I also buy some whenever I am in the UK, as it is not that far and I go pretty often.
One of the greatest fruit infusion teas from Twinings is Mango, Orange & Cinnamon, I am also quite a fan of Raspberry, Strawbery & Loganberry as well as Lemon Burst - and the other variations are very good too.
I also adore a German tea called 'Suesser Teufel' (Sweet devil) - tasting like raspberry and chili.
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Other types of tea I tend to just drink occasionally though. Chai, I usually only drink in a social setting or if I'm sick (with ginger). But I make it heaps, cos my 'rents like the way I brew it. 
