Tea or coffee?

[Berti]

ahh the nectar of the gods..........I made the right choice then :)
I like assam/ irish breakfast, depending on time of day. and rooibos orange or rooibos honeybush.
SOMETIMES I drink coffee when out, because the stuff they call "tea" over here, is a glass of hot (not even boiling) water with a teabag alongside it!!!!!!!!!!!!! the bastards.......

coffee makes me feel like I got the entire railways going HI SPEED through my body and I start doing weird things......... ;)

[snapdragon]

Tea - lots of it - Yorkshire Tea, Assam, English breakfast

Goat milk at home - lemon when out and about avoiding cow juice- I usually carry a small squirty bottle of lemon juice in my back pack
with sugar
if all else fails apple juice works too

coffee gives me a backache, but I do have it occasionally

[Thomzo]

Very occasionally a milky coffee with Co-op fair trade coffee. Otherwise tea, tea, tea, reasonably strong with just a splash of milk and no sugar. So who's got the kettle on then?

Zoe

[circlecross]

used to drink far too much coffee, filter or own ground filter, with a gazillion fags, or a HUGE pot of tea... with a gazillion fags.
Woke up one morning , thought "I have had too much" (of coffee AND fags,) and gave up both.
Drank tea, then found redbush tea, which I prefer to tea, but drink both. Then when preggers, after years of not drinking coffee, out came the caf. Weird I know as most people find they can't tolerate coffee, but my little wired world guys obviously needed something!
Don't drink decaff (except redbush obviously) as I think it is worse?


Ahhh as we speak the dh has made me a cup of builders tea (a better class of builder, a grand design one maybe) of Co-op Fair trade tea, with milk, and a dash of FT sugar

[Sky]

Coffee ... far too much of it but I love it.

[Smallholder1]

Definitely a tea person; fair trade, organic, white, no sugar thanks!

Also drink a lot of herbal teas and I love green tea with lemon.

[Millymollymandy]

Coffee, instant, mix two thirds cheapest stuff I can find with one third mega expensive Nescafe (about €4 more expensive!).

[mrsflibble]

Tea. Has to be decaff too due to depression. can't stand tetley or sainsbury's red label, T***o's isn't too bad and asda rocks. I like a blend of "normal" and earl grey, and since I found out that twinings make a decaff earl grey which doesn't taste like a cat's pee'd on a bergamot plant and handed it to me, I'm happy.

I also like Chai but can't seem to make it very well at home; it never tastes like the chai my indian housemate at uni used to make.

I will drink coffee on occasion but it has to be the real stuff, i can't stand instant. I own a percolator and keep ground coffee in the freezer for when i fancy a cup.
I prefer it cold though. 2 shots of home made espresso, 1/2 pint milk and 2tsps vanilla sugar.

[ina]

What I really hate are all those coffee shops that don't sell proper coffee anymore...

I'd like a cup of black.

Well, there's Americano - that's bitter espresso watered down. Yuk.
Latte - well, not exactly black, is it!
Espresso - too strong, too bitter.
Capuccino - wouldn't be so bad once in a while if they didn't all make it with sugar nowadays.
And I can't remember the names of all those other fancy coffee-flavoured drinks, as I tend to avoid these places...

And then they try to tell you that Americano is the same as filter coffee - NOOOOOO!

[Super.Niki]

TEA!!!! I am a TOTALLY tea obsessed person... I actually ahve a drawer full of tea at uni... goodness I'm sad.....depends on the mood as to what type

normal mood: Twinnings Green Tea Blend (60% green tea with 40% black tea... it's gorgeous)
Sainsbury's Fair Trade for when I'm in need of something strong
Yorkshire Tea when a nice cuppa infront of the telly is in order
chai (kinda tea it's in my drawer...) when I'm in the mood for chai... atleast once a day!! :D

All with milk and 2 sugars please!! At least 1 cup every few hours...

other than that it's herbal teas! Tea for going sleepybies or for when I'm not feeling very good....all with no milk and a spoonful of organic honey! yum!

as for coffee.... can't be instant (doesn't agree with me!:() but I got strong organic fair trade from sainsburys and it's looovely, at least one cup a day! :D

goodness... I need to get out more!

[Edit] PS Smallholder1, love your avatar! Sir Guy! :D

[Thurston Garden]

Coffee in the morning. Tea in the afternoon. That's the way it should be done

A near neighbour and us club together and buy coffee beans from a chap near Salisbury who roasts to order. Works out at £1.30 per 100g. inc postage. We choose different beans from his menu each time. Grind 100g at a time and make it in an espresso pot on top of the Rayburn.

As for Tea, it tends to be whats on offer and I buy lots of it!

[gigglybug]

Tea!!! I love it but I have to watch how much I have. To much and I'm a horror to live with.

Peppermint tea is a close second, and I can drink that till it comes out of my ears

[Dori]

English breakfast tea, or any herbal tea. Not a coffee fan at all!

[multiveg]

As a teenager, I had a fascination with Gunpowder tea. Can't stand Earl Grey though.

When I lived in Belfast, I discovered an interesting brand of tea and I immediately thought of a dear friend with whom now I have lost touch. I sent some to him in the post (was x-rayed first to check it wasn't containing anything untoward). Anyway, he loved it. The brand - Pratts
Occasionally go through spells of herbal teas. Raspberry leaf tea - that was yuck at first, but got to be quite tasty in the end.

Can't stand the smell of coffee.

[mrsflibble]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm peppermint tea with local honey.
*pootles off to kitchen*