Are you a coffee drinker or a tea drinker? Why?
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I love drinking it and smelling the aroma in the morning.
But most important, coffee is a social thing for me. I love making 'coffee dates' with my friends so I can sit around and catch up on current events.
There's nothing better than a latte, a friend, and some stories to tell.
my coffee house
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M$I like the smell of coffee, but I don't like the taste.
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Definitely, the smell of coffee is just great and a lot of people love it! Starting to learn how to enjoy tea lately..:)
Cup of tea :)
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When you add too much sugar, you don't get to enjoy the real taste of the drink :P
Lol:) Wasn't expecting that answer but still very funny...so sugar it is! haha
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Besides the unknown side effects of coffee and addiction (?) I dislike the taste and I believe its less enjoyable than a tea. Atleast in Europe we dont drink 3dl of coffee but small cups for energy.
own experience
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Tea for relaxing/sick/bed.
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Tea on the other hand! How dandy! Tea is great hot or cold and being a southern lass, I gotta have a crisp, cool glass of Mama's ice tea. Sweet, unsweet, earl grey, thai, I don't care. Tea is great, period.
So if I had to choose between one or the other, I'd probably choose tea. Lest the renegade southerns run me out of town for siding with the Yankees.
Personal experience
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The aroma and taste creates a flavorful experience.
experience
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At home I drink tea more, and when I'm out I drink coffee more. Although I do drink coffee at home too, and tea out if I'm in the mood or I know the place does great tea.
Reasons...
- Raised as a tea-drinker
- Easier and quicker to make a good cup of tea at home than good coffee
- Harder to get great tea out, but easy to get great coffee out.
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The bowl contains the beans that have been roasted.
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You usually use seedlings. The seeds fall from the trees and germinate. You dig them up and pot them, then in a couple of years you put them in the ground. A few years later you get your first beans. I got mine from a guy who dug around his trees and gave me 24 seedlings. It takes a lot of trees to make enough coffee for two people to drink all year. I have 26 trees now and I make enough coffee for my wife and I for about 9 months. As my trees mature, I'll get enough beans to last us throughout the year. The harvesting process is incredibly labor intensive. Gave me new appreciation for Juan Valdez and his burrow.
Oh wow!! I'd love to grow my own coffee..How long's the process from planting the seeds to harvesting and having it ready for drinking?:)
I like the fresh aroma from new-brew coffee.
And this beverage helps my brain so it can work
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I love all flavors of tea, but I am a tea snob in I do not like bottled teas, "fountain-mixed" teas (the ones you get out of the same dispenser as a soda) or even powdered teas.
I also do not like any type of sweeter but I do like lemon!
I also like those Lipton cold brew tea bags as I can pop one in my glass and not worry about sun brewing or such...
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Simple answer, anything more than that from me, would mean I've over thought the question.
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I even run a tea website, and have a page about switching from coffee to tea, which explains some of the reasons someone might prefer tea to coffee:
http://ratetea.net/topic/switching-from-coffee-to-tea/34/
But everyone is different: some people like the stronger boost that coffee gives, or just think that coffee tastes better.
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Then after I start drinking tea. Tea is a great alternative to soda because it still has the caffeine that we crave, but not as much. It is also a natural diuretic, while soda acts as the opposite of a diuretic due to it's sodium content. Tea is much more refreshing than soda and actually hydrates the body, whereas soda does not. Also, carbonated beverages, such as soda, hinder calcium absorption, so sodas are really not good for you at all, but tea is a wonderful, cleansing agent, especially the lighter colored teas, such as green tea. Long live tea!
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Tea just has got a lot of great benefits and thanks for sharing that with us..:) Yup, soda just drains the body and I'm not really a fan of it unless I'm eating pizza which for me (psychologically) helps digest the pizza. But it's just one of those meals where you just can't find anything positive health wise. Tea should be a great alternative. Pizza then tea after? Let me try that..
After analyzing data on 126,000 people for as long as 18 years, Harvard researchers calculate that compared with not partaking in America's favorite morning drink, downing one to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily can reduce diabetes risk by single digits. But having six cups or more each day slashed men's risk by 54% and women's by 30% over java avoiders.
Though the scientists give the customary "more research is needed" before they recommend you do overtime at Starbuck's to specifically prevent diabetes, their findings are very similar to those in a less-publicized Dutch study. And perhaps more importantly, it's the latest of hundreds of studies suggesting that coffee may be something of a health food -- especially in higher amounts.
In recent decades, some 19,000 studies have been done examining coffee's impact on health. And for the most part, their results are as pleasing as a gulp of freshly brewed Breakfast Blend for the 108 million Americans who routinely enjoy this traditionally morning -- and increasingly daylong -- ritual. In practical terms, regular coffee drinkers include the majority of U.S. adults and a growing number of children.
"Overall, the research shows that coffee is far more healthful than it is harmful," says Tomas DePaulis, PhD, research scientist at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Coffee Studies, which conducts its own medical research and tracks coffee studies from around the world. "For most people, very little bad comes from drinking it, but a lot of good."
Consider this: At least six studies indicate that people who drink coffee on a regular basis are up to 80% less likely to develop Parkinson's, with three showing the more they drink, the lower the risk. Other research shows that compared to not drinking coffee, at least two cups daily can translate to a 25% reduced risk of colon cancer, an 80% drop in liver cirrhosis risk, and nearly half the risk of gallstones.
Coffee even offsets some of the damage caused by other vices, some research indicates. "People who smoke and are heavy drinkers have less heart disease and liver damage when they regularly consume large amounts of coffee compared to those who don't," says DePaulis.
There's also some evidence that coffee may help manage asthma and even control attacks when medication is unavailable, stop a headache, boost mood, and even prevent cavities.
http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food
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Nice...great help on the benefits of coffee..:) At least we get to know more about the benefits of it after years of people saying that coffee is bad. When it comes to helping stop diabetes, I just think we should just lessen the sugar that we add.
Speaking of sugar and diabetes, are those artificial sweeteners like Splenda, Equal and others a better alternative to white sugar? Hmm..maybe we should open up this topic as a new question..
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In the morning, I'm a coffee drinker - no question about it. Strong, robust, black -- French roast if possible. I have shared most of what I know about brewing coffee in How to Make Good Coffee, if you're interested. Why coffee? I don't know exactly-- it just gives me the kickstart I need to get going.
With lunch, I like iced tea - freshly brewed, no sugar added. I find unsweetened iced tea the most refreshing drink around, and drink it all year long.
If I take a cookie break mid-afternoon I 'll have a cup of Earl Grey tea.
If dinner is followed by a chocolate dessert, I'll have coffee with it.
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Green tea is good with anti oxidants. That is what they say. I love it anyway.
I need my morning coffee to start the day. It make me feel wide awake.
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I like tea more for a few reasons.
First, I think that the flavor of tea is better. Coffee tends to be very harsh, very bitter, and if I'm drinking it, I almost always require lots of cream and sugar. With tea, there is not the bitterness to me. And there are some nice sweet, floral, smoky, fragrant notes in tea that I don't always pick up on in coffee.
Second, I find that the caffeine in tea affects me different than the caffeine in coffee. I am super-sensitive to caffeine, and more than a cup a day will get me jittery and give me some, how to put this politely, "tummy troubles." When I drink tea, these effects are much less noticeable for me.
Third, iced tea is so much better than iced coffee. I'll drink a lot of iced tea in the summer, with a little bit of lemon, sometimes sweetened. Iced coffee is nice, but you can't down a pitcher of it in a day. It's not nearly as thirst-quenching and refreshing as iced tea.
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Haha yup! you can't down a pitcher of iced coffee in a day. You'd be filled with caffeine but with iced tea you can. But the iced tea here in the Philippines, I think, is different from other countries. Ours is 94% sugar if we buy those in the grocery. Rarely do we find someone who just puts ice in our tea and add a little sugar or lemon. That's something we have to start getting used to since it's much healthier.
Green tea has been shown to have a role in the prevention of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, cataracts, and to help boost your immune system.
But I take coffee in the morning and have tea in the afternoon or evenings, because I can't give up the aroma :P
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Haha cool pic! yup! there are a lot of stories shared over coffee and I just love it! Most of the time I'd rather have coffee after dinner than have alcohol hehe