QOTW #5: Tea and Coffee
Assuming you like at least one of them, which is your favorite tea or coffee? What kind?
Personally, I really enjoy both, but I'd probably miss coffee the most if I had to give one up. Plain, old black coffee (or with a little cream) would be the variety I would probably hate giving up the most, although I also enjoy a Latte from Starbucks or an I.C. Mocha from St. Louis Bread Co. (a.k.a. Panera Bread) as well as various other varieties.
On the other hand, at dinner, at a restaurant, I will usually order iced tea. No sugar and no lemon. Despite my preference for plain old tea, I usually prefer tea with sugar and lemon if it is bottled tea (unless it is really good bottled tea, such as the unsweetened Nestea I finished a little while ago). Arizona Tea Co. has a good bottled sweetened tea. I also occasionally enjoy peach or lemon tea, such as that offered by Lipton (either bottled or mix) or Snapple. But overall, I'd rather have plain old tea.
In fact, if I had the opportunity to drink as much tea or coffee, and those where the only two things I could drink, I'd probably drink more tea than coffee. Yet, I'd miss coffee more, weird, huh?
I really don't drink either, though I do enjoy iced tea now and then during the summer. It must be plain, though. No lemon. No sweetener. Plain.
Coffee evokes the strongest feelings, because of the greater presence of subtle chemical components which lead to (mild) addiction. Of all the things I miss about living in the Netherlands is Dutch coffee. There's nothing like it in this world, as far as I have found. Belgian coffee is a close second, with some German brands not too far behind. I couldn't begin to pay the price of the import version here. Gevalia, for example, is hardly in the same class (not to mention the company hires spammers to advertise for them).
I like plain old Lipton iced tea, brewed in boiling water, a bit stout. I always sweeten with saccharine, because it disolves better than sugar, hot or cold, and stays dissolved. I can live without carbonated beverages, and might forget tea for awhile, but I'd become dangerous without at least one cup of coffee each day. Military basic training is a good time to discover what creature comforts really matter, and coffee is king.
(Oh, and FreeBSD 5.2.1 is really good with coffee…
I'll warn you right from the start, I'm not a snob but my entry will sound like it. You must believe me.
I have never liked coffee, I prefer tea of the herbal variety. Flavored
Celestial Seasons type stuff, mainly the zinger flavors. (Even make it iced - Rasberry Zinger is great) But the one tea that I really like, (remember I warned you) Tazo Green Tea - full leaf in their infuser bottle. Tastes great.
Ok, there I said it. Please no snob jokes.