I get the impression that coffee's more popular than tea

[becki1701]

TEA!!! ftw

 

[danny la rouge]

To me it's like the difference between bread and cake.

Tea is like bread = a staple item that you love and couldn't imagine living without, and is wholesome and good.

Coffee is like cake = a bit frivolous, something to treat yourself to rather than for every day consumption.

I see it like this: coffee is Life Itself. Tea is a drink you'd have with fish and chips.

 

[Iam]

I see it like this: coffee is Life Itself. Tea is a drink you'd have with fish and chips.

 

[becki1701]

I see it like this: coffee is Life Itself. Tea is a drink you'd have with fish and chips.

Tea with fish and chips?? Are you insane.

Apart being wonderful on it's own....it goes particularly well with a fry up....or just toast....mmmmmmmmm

Tea with Fish and Chips

 

[Herbsman.]

Rass.

Tea heathens.

 

[danny la rouge]

Tea with fish and chips?? Are you insane.

No; I'm Right.

What would you have with fish and chips?

 

[rutabowa]

there aren't lots of threads about tea in the same way as there aren't lots of threads about drinking water, everyone i know just drinks it constantly as a matter of course. coffee is a newcomer novelty, though, so people discuss it more... it\s a bit more exotic.

 

[danny la rouge]

coffee is a newcomer novelty, though, so people discuss it more... it\s a bit more exotic.

Well, it's been available all my life. And I'm 43.

 

[rutabowa]

No; I'm Right.

What would you have with fish and chips?

i would have a can of coke but tea would go equally well, the hot cuts through the grease.

 

[rutabowa]

Well, it's been available all my life. And I'm 43.

i'm talking RELATIVELY

 

[becki1701]

No; I'm Right.

What would you have with fish and chips?

Coca cola or some such beverage...I don't tend to drink with my dinner...gets in the way of the food

 

[rutabowa]

To me it's like the difference between bread and cake.

Tea is like bread = a staple item that you love and couldn't imagine living without, and is wholesome and good.

Coffee is like cake = a bit frivolous, something to treat yourself to rather than for every day consumption.

i agree with this too

 

[danny la rouge]

Coca cola or some such beverage...I don't tend to drink with my dinner...gets in the way of the food

Two kinds of wrong. First, coca cola doesn't go with anything. Second, tea obviously goes with Tea: hence the name.

 

[danny la rouge]

Oh, and I always drink with meals. Don't you have water with your meal?

 

[danny la rouge]

i'm talking RELATIVELY

I can only really go on my lifetime.

Although there's a history of coffee culture in my neck of the woods. The Scottish Enlightenment was hatched in the coffee shops of Edinburgh.

 

[Badgers]

Poll?

 

[becki1701]

Oh, and I always drink with meals. Don't you have water with your meal?

Nope

Well..sometimes, but only if I happen to have wanted a drink at the same time as food is ready

 

[Homeless Mal]

No, I think tea retains and always will retain it's popularity. I grew up drinking tea in Australia and always have tea in the house, but I don't have coffee. I mainly drink coffee when out with friends as I find it too strong and thicka drink to have too much of, unlike tea which I can drink til the cows come home.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I just found out that Twinnings do a Chai variant, happy days!!

 

[Herbsman.]

 

[Strumpet]

I love both for different reasons and different times.

 

[Cribynkle]

Tea's better but not many people make it strong enough so I only really drink it at home.

 

[Groucho]

My uncle Groucho only drinks herbal tea - he says proper tea is theft.



(come on... 50+ posts and no-one had done it yet. )

 

[Chz]

In an ideal world, where everything is the best that it can be, coffee is better. But mediocre tea is worlds better than mediocre coffee, so I need both.

 

[isvicthere?]

What else are you going to grind from? An elephant? A pig?

Alas! A superfluous preposition! I meant that I prefer to grind my own, rather than buy ready ground.