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chewyspaghetti

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As I sit enjoying my morning coffee, I was wondering how everyone else takes their coffee/tea?
The hubs laughs as me because I take one shot of espresso with 4 spoonfuls of sugar, and the rest of the coffee cup full of steamed soy milk (no foam). He says it's coffee flavored sugar water.

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JennyK (NC)

I was not a daily coffee drinker until a little over a year ago, when I began working in a 9-5 office job.

Here at the office we have plain old Folgers made in a traditional drip maker. Ugh. It's not very good but I only drink 1/2 to 1 cup per day.

We have hot chocolate packets, so my usual is half a packet of sugar-free hot chocolate mix, two mini-moos, fill with coffee.

Last weekend I finally bought myself a Keurig, so I will soon begin carrying my own coffee to work. The possibilities make my head spin, so I don't know yet how I'll doctor it!

I'm almost always on the verge of being late to work, so on days where I'm ready a few minutes early, I treat myself to a Starbucks cafe misto (half coffee, half steamed to 120 degrees (whole) milk). I add one packet of Splenda and off I go.

And that's how I roll ... LOL!

Sarah

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I drink a cup or two of coffee in the morning. I take a teeny tiny splash of milk and that's it. I like bolder coffees from Asian and African regions. Not a big fan of South American beans for some reason.
I drink tea and water for the rest of the day. Occasionally I'll put a bit of honey in my tea, but not all the time.
Right now I'm sipping on Yogi's Green Tea Rejuvination sans honey.

Inge

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Smile Khris;-)
I drink non-fat milk with my breakfast, tea is more of a day-time drink for me. Real tea fans will probably laugh in my face, I take mine very weak, it looks more like coloured water, dishwater I think it's called;-)

Not a fan of coffee, although it smells amazing!

londonkiwi (now back in NZ)

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I am a bit of a coffee snob having worked as a barista for a couple of years during university. NZ is coffee addicted and there are lots of independently owned cafes and local roasters, so I have come to expect fantastic coffee - unfortunately, it is very hard to find great coffee in London...if I am ordering a coffee I love a flat white

But back on topic. I prefer filter coffee made in a cafetiere or french press with a dash of milk and a small spoonfull of sugar.

In the afternoon I always drink tea. I prefer Earl Grey, with a little milk and sugar.

Maya

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I can't stand coffee although strangely I love coffee flavored foods. For tea i drink black 95% of the time, either Darjeeling or Assam (or a blend), 2 tsp. of sugar and a splash of milk. Unlike Angie I prefer whole milk but only for this purpose. Skim tastes like nothing to me in tea. I drink from either tiny Indian china cups or tall but thin American cups. Can't stand seeing tea drunk in mugs or disposable cups.

I like white tea as well and take it with 1tsp of sugar in my handleless Japanese tea cups. I also like rooibos but it technically isn't a tea and I'm a huge snob about real tea vs. phony herbal concoctions pretending to be tea!

rae

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I can no longer handle any amount of caffeine. Even two fingers of caffeine-free leaves me feeling ill and depressed days later -- horrible, because I LOVED coffee. Now I drink something called Cafix, which I buy from Whole Foods. It is made of barley, rye, chicory, and beet roots... not exactly like coffee, but pretty good when I add my hazelnut creamer!

Tricia

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Maya - "I can't stand coffee although strangely I love coffee flavored foods" - me too! I love coffee ice cream, but real coffee, even the smell, is nauseating to me.

Instead of coffee I do Diet Coke. I know it's bad for me but I'm trying to cut down. The rest of the time I drink water, sometimes with some Crystal Light in it.

Michelle

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I like bold flavours, so my two current favourite teas are a strong peppermint tea from Africa and a coco chai rooibos tea. I'm also quite partial to green tea; one of the best natural headache remedies I've come across, and believe me I need them! I've never been into coffee, though like Maya and Tricia and I adore coffee and mocha-flavoured food.
And sorry Maya; I drink my tea out of a mug for lack of other appropriate cups, though I know it's uncooth!

Ele

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I have my tea *very* strong (none of that dirty dishwater for me!) with a splash of milk and no sugar. I had sugar when I was a kid but weaned myself off it many years ago- and now I can't stand a sweet-tasting hot beverage. For day-to-day drinking, I love my PG Tips, but will have Earl or Lady Grey if I'm having "tea" (with scones) in the afternoon.

I'm not really a coffee drinker, though I'll have the odd small cup on the weekend. (Living in England, aka The Land of the Horrible Coffee, might have something to do with that- I drink more when in Canada!) I love the taste but not how dehydrated it makes me feel But again, just a small splash of milk and no sugar!

Fiona- You have tried Monmouth coffee, right? It is the *only* coffee I like drinking in London.

londonkiwi (now back in NZ)

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Ele - Yes, Monmouth is one of the main reasons I go to Borough Market every Saturday. I also love Flat White on Berwick Street and Sacred on Ganton Street. Flat White and Sacred both have NZ/Australian involvement

AlexSue

I'm trying to get back on my coffee-drinking (it makes me super jittery), but when I do drink coffee, I usually add a little skim milk and a splenda packet, or if I'm feeling indulgent, I'll get an iced caramel macchiatto from Starbucks (with skim milk). I love trying random mixed coffees at local places too! On a daily basis, I mostly drink water or tea- I don't know if there are Teavanas outside of the Midwest, but I bought a really delicious mixture of Roobios Chai and Matevana.

Isabel

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I am with Rae....caffeine just makes me feel lousy ( though it is not a problem in chocolate, for some reason ! ) Caffeine was never allowed in our house growing up because my sister is severely epileptic.

I drink faux-coffee : generic, decaf every once in a while to warm me up.It probably would rival Inge's dishwater . I LOVE green tea, again decaf, with nothing in it.

The real question for me is : How do you like your oatmeal ??? I am sooooo boring, I know. I put brown sugar in sometimes, or chocolate chips, or vanilla soy milk, or blueberries, you all get the picture.

Debora

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I was never a big coffee drinker until my husband started spoiling me by making a pot every morning. Now I can't get going without it. We drink Jacobs Kronung coffee, a German brand that we got hooked on when we were stationed overseas. We get it now in the stateside military commissaries. I like my coffee in a mug with no sugar and half and half.

As for tea, I have to have a cuppa every afternoon. It's a mid-day treat that I look forward to. No mugs for my tea, though! It has to be in a tea cup with low-fat milk and a pinch of sugar.

Also, no caffeine for me after 6 pm or I'll be up all night surfing YLF!

Kristine

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I have a cup of coffee every morning, with Silk (soy) Creamer, vanilla or hazelnut. Then I switch to decaf green tea for most of the day and Sleepytime or mint tea at night. I prefer tea in glass mugs because the color and steam is so pretty.

Stylin

I sell loose tea so I am rather spoilt for selection! In the morning I start with Irish Breakfast, strong with milk and a tsp of sugar. Mid-afternoon, its either Earl Grey or Genmaicha - my favourite green tea, and after dinner I like Rooibos Chai. I usually take my tea in a cup but a mug will do just fine as long as I get my tea!

Misia

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Black coffee or sometimes with a bit of honey, and after supper any herbal tea will do the trick!

Queen Mum

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I drink 2 cups every morning with 2 packets splenda in each cup. I really should lay off the splenda.....

marianna

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I'm addicted to earl grey and drink countless cups per day. Most often I drink it black, but if I want something sweet I add a bit of sugar and a splash of nonfat milk or half and half. I drink tea throughout the day, but it's customary in my home to have tea after dinner... not sure if it's a Russian thing but it's always been the norm.

I drink tea much more often than I drink coffee, but I do drink coffee occasionally. I have a Keurig which is an amazing tool. I never put sugar in my coffee. I will either drink it black or with a bit of half and half.

I do enjoy fancy espresso drinks, though those are too expensive for my current lifestyle.

shana

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I haven't had any coffee since I was 5 when I used to drink copious amounts of black coffee with lots of sugar every morning! It's long story but I guess I've had enough for a lifetime! The smell makes me sick now to the point where I've convinced my husband to take his morning coffee at work rather than at home.

I drink lots of tea - I prefer loose leaf, black, with sugar only. I used to drink it more traditional chai style where you use really strong, powdered tea mixed with boiled milk and water (about half/half). But with lactose intolerance rearing its ugly head in my early twenties, I gave it up.

I also like green teas (especially pu-erh) which I drink plain. At night, I like to drink some fruit/chamomile or fennel tea (none of which is tea, I know!), with a bit of sugar.

cciele

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I used to love coffee (strong and black), but my stomach doesn't like it anymore So no caffeine or even decaf coffee for me. Instead I drink Teechino (another one of those faux-coffees), mint tea, or vanilla rooibos. All straight up.

Louise

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I love the smell of coffee but can't develop a taste for it. So i'm a tea drinker, earl/ lady grey if i'm feeling 'posh' or just bog standard tea most of the time, weak like dishwater with a splash of sugar and milk x

londonkiwi (now back in NZ)

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I started drinking coffee when I was 17 in France so I started on the good stuff!

I have always been careful to never drink it as a "wake up" so I tend to wait until I get to work (or in NZ on my way to work) before I have my first one.

One of the things that I like about my only "proper" coffee of the week is that Monmouth rotate their beans, so you taste beans from all over the world and you can definitely pick the African from the South American from the Asian after a while - like tasting wine

Told you I was a snob...this is one of my favourite topics!

rute

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Mine is a black expresso with no sugar! We drink very strong coffee here!

londonkiwi (now back in NZ)

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Rute - and it is fantastic coffee in Portugal too - black with sugar was how I drank mine when we were in Lisbon.

Angie

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Hah! Nice thread! LOVE the smell of coffee but cannot stand the taste in any form. Isn’t that weird?

I am a TOTAL teapot. Drink multiple cups throughout the day. I like my Twinning’s earl grey tea hot, strong and sweet (one sugar) with a tiny bit of fat free milk. Unlike Maya – no full cream milk please as it makes me feel ill. I’m very fussy about the lip and the size on the cup too. Must be fine bone china and very dainty – otherwise my entire tea experience is ruined. Sometimes I have English or Irish breakfast but nothing herbal. Must have loads of caffeine.

Beth

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Angie, I'm the same. Coffee smells delicious, but to drink it? Not for me.

I'm a tea girl. I love Lady Grey and Earl Gray, English breakfast, or plain old PG Tips.

All with two lumps of sugar and a dollop of milk/cream.

Maya

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How many cups does everyone have in a day?

At my peak I was drinking probably 8 cups a day but I have cut back pretty severely to 3 cups--one in the morning, one when I get home from work, and one at night. On weekends I still drink around 5 or 6 cups though...mostly loose since I have the time to make it and clean up afterwards.

Every year when my mom goes to India, she brings back boxes of Twinings Assam tea, which is not available in the US (other than some overpriced specialty gourmet stores). She is going again next week and all I can think about is tea and new pashminas (oh yeah and family too)! It is the BEST bagged tea I have had. American Twinings tastes very weak and watery and I find their Earl Grey revolting--it's all bergamot and no tea! But Indian Twinings is special. Twinings is the only bagged tea I can bear to drink.

Dusty

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I'm an herbal gal all the way; I gave up caffiene (chocolate included) my junior year of high school. It used to be an evening ritual for the hubby and I to have a cup of tea every evening but neither of us has gotten used to the taste of equal in our tea and we got out of the habit. I like my tea fruity or cookie flavored with sugar and only put milk in (I'm used to skim now) on the odd occasion when I have decaf chai. I'm very uncultured and drink it out of heavy turquoise stonewear mugs.

MNsara

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Great thread as I am an espresso lover here - I love my morning Bialetti pot of espresso, with a heaping spoonful of turbinado sugar and fair amount of 1/2 & 1/2.

We have four coffee drinking adults in our house and we each have our own coffee maker (3 Bialetti's of different sizes lined up remind me of Goldilocks & the 3 Bears . . .)

We think our passion for 1/2 & 1/2 came from our Norwegian side (they never fear rich foods) and have been known to make emergency 1/2 & 1/2 runs late at night for morning coffee.

I usually go to bed looking forward to my morning coffee

If I need another hot drink in the day, I make a strong black tea with a bit of, you guessed it, 1/2 & 1/2!

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