do you prefer tea or coffee?

I like coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon.

However, every cup of tea I have ever bought in the USA has been poor quality - for example, not made with boiling water. Also, it seems, made with poor quality tea-bags. Admittedly, this is based on very limited experience, but, on the whole, Americans don't like tea because they don't make it right

Wondering if you've much time down South. I once ordered hot tea in South Carolina, and the took their ubiquitous pitcher of iced tea, poured a cup, and whapped it into the microwave!

BB

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TBerk

Anything with caffeine does.

Love them both. I do coffee in the morning (used to do tea exclusively in the morning but had to make a change), tea in the afternoon; sometimes chai, sometimes black tea (Earl Grey or Irish Breakfast are my favorites, but also use Darjeelings, Russian Caravan, and others on occasion), sometimes green tea. Variety I guess would characterize my use.

I drink both coffee and tea. I seldom drink tea away from home except in Asian eateries. I drink Earl Grey, Lichee, and Russian-type teas.

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strangely, although I've aways been quite fussy about my coffee, I do drink more tea than coffee - and here's the rub - I'm quite happy with a cup of PG tips or Tetley.

I'm not sure if you get these brands in the US, but PG tips and Tetley are big teabag manufacturers i.e. cheap, mass produced and charmless. I actually don't like any of the specialist darjeeling and earl greys. To each their own?

Tea at night. Coffee all the time.

Spot on, fellow Englishman. :-)

I start each day with a cuppa tea made from said tea bags (I drink coffee at all other times, but breakfast tea is a must) - and I find when I do occasionally purchase loose leaf, green tea (normal tea to you and me) and make in a pot or cafetiere...it tastes exactly the same as Tetley/Typhoo bags. I've come to the conclusion that the difference in quality between real coffee and instant or coffee bags is far, far more noticeable than the difference between fresh tea and tea as you and I drink it.

We are English, along with the Indian's and other parts of Asia..we are the master tea drinkers...and we all 'do' tea bags.....simply because they are great.

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, RichA at snipped-for-privacy@none.com wrote on 11/11/04 5:43 PM:

Yeah, I'll bet that's high quality.

"coffee bags"??

I prefer tea, and learned to like it early on, in my teens (now in my 50s). Somewhere along the line I was introduced to fine coffee and really went whole hog for it. At a point where I was drinking 4-5 strong cups in a morning, I started to worry what this habit might be doing to me.

So, I'm back full-time with tea, and enjoying it more than ever.

Occasionally, I'll have an espresso drink at a coffee bar. I live in NYC and am not pleased with the coffee offered at most places, even Italian-run coffeehouses. When I visit the West Coast cities, I'm nearly always pleased with the coffee there, and make a point of having some when I visit.

Joe Kubera

Joseph snipped-for-privacy@mb-m21.aol.com11/12/04

Probably eating your insides out.

Good move.

Please don't take offense: Especially Italian-run coffeehouses.

Joe, what's a "West Coast"?

Michael

It's west of Brooklyn, and even west of that island west of Brooklyn, what's it called, Manhattan or something?

/Lew

They are called pods.

I prefer coffee myself but, when I am flying, I always drink TWA's Tea.

"TWA tea" ??? Hmmm ...