The Caffeine Collectives

[Billy]

...a mug of common everyday tea is hard to beat.

There is so much snobbery in coffee drinking...

Marry me!

[Billybob Dylan]

Both.

Pot of coffee every morning. Cup of tea as soon as I get home of an evening.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

I'm a coffee man. Buy beans, use a cafetiere. Milk no sugar.

I do drink tea, but can manage without it. Recently I've been having a late night herbal tea (instead of a late night scotch).

[Nolamike]

Coffee.

Like Sloop, I don't really care about what coffee I drink, I just want it strong and black, and neither flavored (french vanilla? Ewwww) nor made from instant crystals.

If given the choice, I drink a coffee/chicory mix, which cuts back on the caffeine and adds an extra delicious bitterness to the cup. But like I said, I'll drink pretty much any old coffee.

[Sneelock]

coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

[harvey k-tel]

I have one cup of regular, store-bought coffee done in a french press every morning after I walk the dog. I'll occasionally have a second cup around 11:30am or so if I've been working.

[the hanging monkey]

I used to drink a lot of tea and coffee...mostly tea.

I became caffeine intolerant about 10 years ago and avoid anything with caffeine in these days, even Coke.

I don't miss it to be honest, apart from a mug of tea with a fry-up. I drink either hot chocolate or decaf these days.

[Goat Boy]

Coffee is shit.

I'm surprised at you.

I reckon you could get into it. Try a proper cappuccino one of these days. There's nothing quite like it.

Fuck off!! No chance, man.

[Loki]

Coffee.

But not much - I'm quite sensitive to a lot of drugs, and if I have more than one large cup in the morning, I get irritable. And you'd have to scrape me off the ceiling.

I like hot tea, but even tho I have a strong stomach, something about it makes me queasy. If I could drink it with milk that might not happen, but I prefer it plain or with lemon. I do love iced tea, with sugar and lemon. I wish I could get into the habit of drinking decaf green tea like Shawn - it's so good for you, they say.

I'm with the girls on the coffee breath thing - I always attributed to the milk/cream, but maybe it's [also] the coffee itself?

For years I always heard caffeine kills vitamins in your system, so I was glad I can't tolerate much of it. But lately I'm hearing quite the opposite - that caffeine actually has good properties, and one article I read made it sound like it can do almost anything but cure cancer. WTF? Coffee's a health drink now?

And what's with those people who can drink coffee right up til bedtime, and then pass out, no problem? How do they do that? If I have a coffee at dinnertime, I'm up all nite for sure.

[Hugh]

Coffee.

I like hot tea, but even tho I have a strong stomach, something about it makes me queasy.

I drink my tea without milk or sugar and I love it, but a strong cup of tea on an empty stomach can leave me feeling really sick almost instantaneously.

Nothing has that "Aaaaaahhhhh" factor like though. It hits the spot like nothing else.

[Beebsy]

Easiest. Poll. Ever.

[Polishgirl]

Easiest. Poll. Ever.

Even easier than the " chocolate or mutton stew?" poll?

[The Great DeFector]

Coffee is one of the honeys of the gods, after sambuca, stout and pepsi max. I've cut down to one cup in the morning. I shouldn't be drinking that, but i can't resist. I love coffee me.

[mentalist (slight return)]

I need a coffee in the morning as well, it's an absolute must. Actually I need one right now!

I like tea too, black with lemon and sugar, like my Jewish grandma used to make.

[Beebsy]

Easiest. Poll. Ever.

Even easier than the " chocolate or mutton stew?" poll?

Ew.

[The Red Heifer]

I do neither. Coca Cola is my coffee.

[Bungo the Mungo]

Coffee is shit.

I'm surprised at you.

I reckon you could get into it. Try a proper cappuccino one of these days. There's nothing quite like it.

Fuck off!! No chance, man.

Oh! OK then....

[Magilla]

I like both just fine, but I tend to drink coffee more often. I'm pretty fussy about tea, I prefer Earl Grey far ahead of other varieties. I'll drink Bell or Dilmah or whatever if that's all there is on offer, however.
Also, I can easily have three cups of tea in a row.

With coffee, I'm not fussy. I'm ok with instant coffee and will use it if I can't be fucked using a plunger or percolator. But it is nice to have plunger or perc coffee, too. Unlike tea, I'll sometimes have two cups of coffee in a row, but never a third.

In the mean-time, some music:

[Loki]

I have one of those Bosch Tassimo one-cup deals, which works out perfectly for me. It also does tea and hot chocolate.

[The Driver]

Where the fruit/herbal tea option?

Always one rabble-rouser...

Two, actually.