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Two questions in one today:
- Do you prefer tea or coffee?
...and by tea, I mean proper, English-style black tea with milk and optional sugar - none of this weird fruity cr*p they have here in the US, and certainly not the Liptons, bottom of the tea warehouse floor sweepings, "ice tea" that they also, blasphemously, claim is tea.
..and by coffee, I mean any old cr*p with enough cream and sugar in it.
- Does tea really taste better in a proper porcelain or fine china cup?
...I can drink coffee out of any old mug (as long as it's big enough) but I prefer my tea out of porcelain or fine china, if possible.
Note: People who only drink soda and/or water need not reply.
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modified 31-Jan-19 13:25pm.
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Forogar wrote: porcelain if possible
Over here porcelain receptacles have a very different purpose. For drinking we tend to go for china.
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Quite right, of course. Correction applied.
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I drink tea at home (different kinds depending on what I decide to buy, black, green, old or new, Chinese or Indian or Japanese...)
Mostly lightly sweetened with no milk (mostly).
If I make chai, I add milk.
I drink it in a large china bowl.
I drink coffee at the office; 1 large cup in the morning made with the espresso machine.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Forogar wrote: the Liptons, bottom of the tea warehouse floor sweepings
I take it that you've never tasted the Israeli Wissotzky tea. 
Forogar wrote: Do you prefer tea or coffee?
Both. Tea with a dash of milk in the morning with breakfast, Coffee (Turkish, black) during the rest of the day.
Forogar wrote: Does tea really taste better in a proper porcelainchina cup?
Tea tastes fine in anything but paper cups, which are an abomination in the sight of the Lord. 
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Quote: never tasted the Israeli Wissotzky tea
Nope. Surely it can't be worse than lipton's!
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Coffee is a morning ritual and is not optional. Sweetened iced tea (yes Lipton) is the only way I will drink it. During the day/evening, if it's not tea, it's Mountain Dew.
I have never drank tea from a porcelain cup, but can't claim preference of one container type over another.
I also dislike the fruity cr*p they serve in some areas of the US.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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So you have all these criteria for tea, but:
> and by coffee, I mean any old cr*p with enough cream and sugar in it.
So, coffee can be crap but tea has to be qualitee? What's up with that?
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Quote: coffee can be crap but tea has to be qualitee? What's up with that?
I'm English... yes, that covers it!
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Regarding Liptons, yes we do have actual English tea available at least where I live in the US.
Regarding coffee, you should really expand your perspective. Coffee favors (OK, favours) differ by variety and growing region. I prefer Guatemala, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sumatra depending on my preference at the time; and only the Arabica not the Robusta variety.
I only add sugar to low grade coffee. And similar to tea, none of this fruity, favored c***; though sometimes I will add a Star Anise pod to the grounds.
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Everyone here that cares what they drink their tea out of lost 50 man points.
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Is that measurement signed or unsigned?
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Coffee in the morning (2 Cups). Half and Half and one sugar. I like my coffee strong enough to allow me to see the future. 
Tea in the afternoon. Earl Grey. No milk/cream, and no sugar. Occasionally I will add honey.
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Coffee should be strong enough that the spoon stands up until it dissolves. Saves having to take an iron supplement.
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Forogar wrote: Note: People who only drink soda and/or water need not reply.
What about booze? Specifically, straight outta the bottle?
Asking for a friend.
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I drink whatever my wife puts in front of me. If I start to argue, I have to make it myself -
and that tastes a damn sight worse.
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In work I use proper leaf tea (I currently have caddies of English Breakfast, Asam and Kenyan), made in a 2 pint pot with an in-built strainer. I use a large (1 pint) mug - china cups do not hold enough. I also do not use any of that milk or sugar rubbish - straight tea, strong enough to hold up a spoon on its own.
At home I have a similar setup.
As for coffee - it is the Devil's diarrhea and I will not have it near me!
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Tea shall smell like an old harbour on a midsummer day, of tar and smoke. And it shoudl be as strong as the dockers. In other words: Lapsang Souchong that has been allowed to stand for between seven and ten minutes.
Then I must confess a mortal sin: I drink Lapsang Souchong with milk. Every tea expert in the world (with the possible exception of one or two Englishmen) says that you can have milk in your tea as long as it is not Lapsang Souchong. Yet I drink it with milk (but no sugar).
Tea is for evenings and weekends. Coffee is the working hours drink. It just "is there", in one quality or another. In the coffee corner, in the canteen. Quality varies from gruesome to tolerable - you drink it from habit, not for pleasure. Sometimes during the advent season, I bring my own coffee maker and coffee grinder to work, with a bag of Blue Java and some cardamom fruits so that we at least for a couple of weeks a year can have really tasty coffee in the coffee corner. (One cardamom fruit per full coffee pot, 3-6 seeds ground with the coffee beans, adds an aroma that fits very well with the slightly bitter Blue Java. Don't use more; it should add aroma, not "taste".)
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Can't stand tea; weak, wet and insubstantial stuff. I drink about 2 cups per year, normally to avoid offense when offered by someone who doesn't know me and isn't a coffee drinker (so you can be sure that any coffee they make will be about 3 years old and disgusting), and occasionally just to verify that it's really as awful as I remember.
Coffee - I used to drink up to 8 a day (decaf, instant stuff). Have seriously cut back on that now, largely because I take sugar in coffee (used to be 2, now 1 spoonful). So now typically 3 or 4 coffees a day: 1 decaf on waking; then either 2 lattes when out in the afternoon (free refills a godsend, but 3 in one hour make me feel ill) OR a couple more instant decafs late morning and early evening. Having cut down on coffee I'm still struggling to replace it with other liquids so tend to end up dehydrated (like this morning, when I woke with a migraine having had just 2 coffees yesterday). Need to drink much more water. Am trying to achieve that currently by having warm Ribena...  takes me back 50 years but hey ho. Can't drink alcohol anymore as any amount at all gives me palpitations. Oh, the joys of getting older.
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DerekTP123 wrote: Can't drink alcohol anymore as any amount at all gives me palpitations. Oh, the joys of getting older.
I think it was Mark Twain said "It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky"
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DerekTP123 wrote: Can't stand tea; weak, wet and insubstantial stuff.
You should try double strength Lapsang Souchong that you let stand for ten minutes. I guess that is about as close to black coffee as tea gets...
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Milk in tea??? No wonder the Colonies revolted!
Coffee, good quality coffee. I prefer to roast my own -- so much better than anything commercially available!
Tea? Earl Grey. I liked it long before Jon Luc made it popular. I also like herbal teas ... which, regardless of the name, are not "tea".
BTW, I prefer coffee black and bitter -- it sets the correct tone for my work day. 
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Neither. I prefer beer (Franconian beer with proper taste, not just bitter dishwater) or some nice mayweed tea. Not from Lipton indeed, there's way tastier stuff. Ice tea is cool though, you know, make a bottle of actual tea, cool it down, viola, ice tea.
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"wannabe limey snob" = Canadian or Australian ????
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