POLL: Tea or Coffee?

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Heya!

/me jumps up and down

It's me! at the moment, I'm hyper because of caffdeine, sugar and lack of sleep and as I discussed the properties of caffeinated drinks with Headbanger in the chatroom I came up with this topic:

Tea or coffee?

For me it is tea, strong and with lots of sugar. Sure, I can go for an espresso every now and then, but I have an addiction to tea. Ten mugs a day, minimum. Sweet, hot and strong. I hate Earl Grey, and positively love vanilla, lemon or fruity tea. Green tea with mint is also incredible.

So, what about you?

Ara
("I feel like kicking that pigeon" me at an amusement park)

 

tea, no milk and three sugars.

rarely drink , much prefer coca-cola for my caffeine hit.

 

Coffee. Almost black (there's a fine limit between strong enough and too strong). Nothing in it. And eating chocolate while drinking it is the best.

 

Coffee. Black. Espresso if required - Espresso is to coffee as crack cocaine is to sugar...

 

I used to be a strictly black coffee man, but I must have mellowed with age.

Now a mug of strong tea, white with one sugar is my usual at home.

At work, the black coffee still sees me through the day.

Incidentally, did you all know that there is actually more caffeine in tea than in coffee? Honest guv' it's the truth. It's just in a form that isn't absorbed into the body as easily. So there!

 

Yeah, I also read that there is more caffeine in apples than there is in coffee...

 

If coffee was discovered in modern day it would be a prescripted medicine

Ara
(Did you know that a chimp has bigger testicles than a gorilla?)

 

Yeah Ara - its about sperm competition between the gorilla (a species in which a single male controls a harem of females, and so does not have to worry about the females mating with multiple maales so much - therefore he puts less effort into sperm production) and the chimp (a polyandrous species, where females mate with multiple males, so the male which produces more sperm per mating has a better chance of fertilising a female).

The god aludes to this in his midichlorion/mitichondrion spiele elsewhere on these pages, though he concentrates on sex diomorphisms...

there are also other interesting results of this type of differential evolution... a male which is watched whilst he copulates will tend to prroduce more sperm (suspecting the voyeours of mating before/after his own); male drosophila (fruit flies) have produced glands which secrete spermicidal solutions, thus killing any sperm in the female which is not his own.

Interesting stuff...

 

Tea - I'm pretty flexible about the blend, but I got hooked on Assam while I was in Scotland! I've gotten pretty snobby about my tea now too! I haven't used a tea bag in three years, I only buy the thicker leaves (orange pekoe, etc..)and strain through a filter! A little more work, the the taste is worth the wait!

 

Coffee... except for when I had too much of it, then I switch to red bull. Sometimes I drink tea.... but that is only on very special occasions.

I have to say tea tastes better though.

[This message has been edited by Headbanger (edited May 27, 2002).]

 

Tea, with lots of sugar, strawberry and vanilla. But maybe one cup a week.

More than 2 cups a day sends me to bathroom every 15 min.

 

Coffee (strong, with cream and 1 sugar) in the mornings or early afternoon. *Big* pot on the weekend Never in the evening though.

Tea (orange pekoe or early grey, with milk and 2 sugar) in the evening, or late afternoon. Herbal teas (chamomile, etc) evening and night.

 

Espresso in the morning (I don't sleep much, and I'm stupid enough to compensate with lots of caffeine, which of course results in me being pretty much all over the place mentally until about lunchtime)

Cappuchino in the afternoon (My unfortunate caffeine kick from earlier in the day fresh in mind, I somehow convince myself that it was the colour of the coffee that made me freak out, and that adding milk makes it a whole lot safer to drink. This is probably the reason why I don't sleep much in the first place)

Tea? That's some sort of health food stuff, right?

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Tea with milk and three sugars... at least

And BICCIES!

 

Tea is my staple drink, and I like it pretty much any way, except with milk. Caffinated, herbal, it's all good.

Coffee is not so much a casual drink as it is a necessity in my life. (especially when playing a certain game into the early morning hours) At least 2-3 cups a day, towards the evening. It has to be black with a pound of sugar. The stronger the better.

 

Coffee, with Irish Cream in it, mmmmm......

Though nothing beats a good Cappuchino..

/me scurries downstairs and makes coffee

 

Coffee for everyday aid and help to get up. When I wan´t to be nice to me I prefer tea: Yasmine tea (the only flavoured tea I accept), BOP Assam (the morning alternative, strong enough aroma to wake me up), and eventually: FTGFOP Darjeeling 2nd flush is my absolute favourite ... I only needed scottish water here (ours is rather hard = chalky) to be perfectly happy. However, in the morning I need a strong taste to kick-start me. Tea is for afternoons and evenings

[This message has been edited by Ragusa (edited May 27, 2002).]

 

COFFEE!!!!

On a bad day ... a "Red Eye" which is a shot of espresso in a Venti Cup of Coffee.

On a normal day ... 3-4 large coffees.

It's Not an Addiction!

 

I have taken my own paladinly vows to never indulge in any of the following:

Alcohol
Drugs
Cigarettes (and cigars, and tobacco in general)
Fast Food (eg. McDonalds, Burger King)
COFFEE!!

I have never had drugs, coffee or fags, my last amount of alcohol was in 1998, and my last fast food meal was last year. Since I have taken these vows I have not broken one, and as such my answer would have to be:

Tea!

Although I very rarely drink it, I'm an OJ man.

 

Hmm neither actually. Except on occasions i've had coffe powder and cola which is very good for staying awake.