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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 21, 2017 7:43:21 GMT
When my wife and I were over the road, we got hooked on Starbucks coffee, well, mocha. Last year they built an Ingles in Greeneville with a Starbucks inside it, so we get mocha every Friday, at 5 bucks a cup. Now tellin my dad I pay 5 bucks for a coffee went over like a cow in a hurricane. So, since I knew he would never try starbucks, for his Christmas gift, I got him a Starbucks gift card... ...I think my mom used it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 11:03:14 GMT
Sorry to break this to you Charles, but Lyons Tea is made in the UK and shipped over here now. ... as there's a reason Irish tea historically tastes different than the usual PG grey water muck, but after years of looking and googling, the closest in taste is Yorkshire. It might just be down to our water over here? Yorkshire Tea is nice though...
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 21, 2017 19:16:18 GMT
Water is a funny thing. Total tangent but a friend of mine wanted to open a bagel shop here in NOLA, so she brought down two master bagel makers from NYC and after a couple of days they reported back to her that she could never make good bagels here because the water was too heavy. So local water systems can very much play a part. Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled debate about coffee or tea.
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Post by Ela on Feb 21, 2017 20:19:36 GMT
The main purpose of coffee and tea is CAFFEINE. I like a good cup of coffee, and generally have a cup first thing in the morning. But I also like tea, and will sometimes switch off and have tea. I have both coffee and tea with milk, no sugar. Teabag first, water second leave it stand for a minute followed by a dash of milk, I rarely have sugar, sometimes have peppermint or fruit tea instead. Only one minute? You must make a weak cup of tea. My daughter and her significant other drink English breakfast tea. They boil the water, put the water and tea in the cup, and time it for exactly 4 minutes. It comes out perfect.
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Post by number13 on Feb 21, 2017 22:07:07 GMT
'A nice hot cup of tea.'
Drink it in the lab from a white UNIT mug, drink it in a Tibetan monastery with yak butter floating in it, drink it in the TARDIS. Tea. The choice of the Doctor.
(Coffee is only drinkable with sugar and if you do that, squiggly black lines appear all over your face and big silver men come for you... )
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Post by mrperson on Feb 21, 2017 22:26:24 GMT
Both. I tend to drink coffee during the day and tea in the evening.
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Post by mrperson on Feb 21, 2017 22:26:54 GMT
Coffee is only drinkable with sugar BAH! Good coffee is perfectly fine black.
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Post by number13 on Feb 21, 2017 22:33:18 GMT
Coffee is only drinkable with sugar BAH! Good coffee is perfectly fine black. For medicinal purposes...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 23:25:00 GMT
Good coffee is perfectly fine black. For medicinal purposes... No, no, no... a drink for medicinal purposes is called Jameson's!
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Feb 22, 2017 0:55:18 GMT
For medicinal purposes... No, no, no... a drink for medicinal purposes is called Jameson's! Surely you like a drop of Green Spot?
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 22, 2017 1:06:43 GMT
BAH! Good coffee is perfectly fine black. For medicinal purposes... that's called moonshine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 1:19:00 GMT
Neither!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 11:45:05 GMT
No, no, no... a drink for medicinal purposes is called Jameson's! Surely you like a drop of Green Spot? Occassionally...
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Post by aztec on Feb 23, 2017 18:42:58 GMT
The main purpose of coffee and tea is CAFFEINE. I like a good cup of coffee, and generally have a cup first thing in the morning. But I also like tea, and will sometimes switch off and have tea. I have both coffee and tea with milk, no sugar. Teabag first, water second leave it stand for a minute followed by a dash of milk, I rarely have sugar, sometimes have peppermint or fruit tea instead. Only one minute? You must make a weak cup of tea. My daughter and her significant other drink English breakfast tea. They boil the water, put the water and tea in the cup, and time it for exactly 4 minutes. It comes out perfect. I do sometimes drink stronger cups, but the quicker I make a cup of tea, the quicker it can be drunk, giving me more time to make more cups of tea to follow it with
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 23, 2017 19:24:36 GMT
Does sweet iced tea count? Cause bout all I drink is either coffee or tea, but not a drop of hot tea.
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Post by aztec on Feb 23, 2017 19:49:32 GMT
Does sweet iced tea count? Cause bout all I drink is either coffee or tea, but not a drop of hot tea. I've never tried Iced tea, but doesn't it contain more sugar and/or fruit juice than tea? Which kinda defeats the purpose of drinking tea i.m.o, if I wanted a refreshing cold drink I'd just drink some orange juice or a lager or something.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 23, 2017 19:54:56 GMT
Does sweet iced tea count? Cause bout all I drink is either coffee or tea, but not a drop of hot tea. I've never tried Iced tea, but doesn't it contain more sugar and/or fruit juice than tea? Which kinda defeats the purpose of drinking tea i.m.o, if I wanted a refreshing cold drink I'd just drink some orange juice or a lager or something. a half gallon of iced tea gets a cup n half of sugar. As a mountain dew drinker, tea is nowhere near as sweet. As a kidney stone regular, add lemon and it helps keep them in check.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 23, 2017 20:10:48 GMT
I have big cookout twice a year, round here the cold refreshment consists of sweet tea, lemon-aide, water and beer. We make bout 4 gallons of tea, 2 gallons of lemon-aide, and buy bottled water. It's BYOB. I'm buyin the ribs, chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs and my wife is makin baked beans, tater salad, cole slaw and grilled corn on the cob, so folks can buy their own beer. Sweet tea has always been a relatively cheap alternative to soda. I would advise you try it at McDonalds if they have it, but it's a hit or miss there, sometimes it's way to sweet, other times it's pretty good. My wife enjoys hot tea, she keeps a water pot on the stove all the time, I just don't have a taste for it. Only hot drinks I enjoy are coffee, mocha, coffee, hot chocolate, coffee, and coffee. And in the winter i'll drink 3 times as much coffee as I do in the summer.
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Post by elkawho on Feb 24, 2017 4:18:43 GMT
Does sweet iced tea count? Cause bout all I drink is either coffee or tea, but not a drop of hot tea. I've never tried Iced tea, but doesn't it contain more sugar and/or fruit juice than tea? Which kinda defeats the purpose of drinking tea i.m.o, if I wanted a refreshing cold drink I'd just drink some orange juice or a lager or something. That's in the south. Up here in the north we don't have "sweet tea". I tend to get unsweetened iced tea and then sweeten it if needed. The southerners think we are insane.
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Post by Ela on Feb 24, 2017 4:42:21 GMT
Right, when southerners say "sweet tea" it's really sweet. Personally I don't drink "sweet tea", even when it's ice tea. I brew hot tea strong enough that adding ice won't dilute the flavor.
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