Tea or Coffee?

[PyreneesPlot]

Tea bag tea first thing. Milk
Fresh coffee midmorning. Black or a cappuccino from the machine.
Leaf tea in the afternoon - earl grey, lapsang or gunpowder - nothing added.
Evening - instant coffee or t bag tea or fruit tea or espresso... Anything goes!

But rarely more than 4 cups a day and I often skip the first one.

[julesapple]

My mate asked if he could put a tea bag in my mouth then fill it with the water.
Must think I'm some kind of mug........

I'll get my coat.

***Groooaannnnnnn***

I'm the same has to be tea first thing in the morning.

I love fresh coffee but never have time to make it.
A little while ago I found in sainsbugs coffee bags made by lyons.
Just like a tea bag throw it a mug wait 5 minutes.
Makes lovely coffee.

My machine uses coffee bags, brilliant things...! I use the ones from Lidl, £1.69 for 18.

[Glutton4...]

Latte. Large. With a Muffin!

If I'm at home it's G*ld Bl€nd with milk. No sugar.

Himself has Tea, so strong it melts the spoon, and makes the mug gunky. At work they make all the teas then bung all the bags in his mug. *Pukes

[mothhawk]

tea: Lady Grey made in a pot, one teabag for a full pot, I drink it black, no sugar, so like it fairly weak and generally drink all four cups or remove the teabag and reheat later.

coffee: instant for work days, decaff after mid-morning, fresh made filter for days off or percolated in my practically antique electric percolator (does anyone else still do that?) when I have several days off as it makes a huge potful. I like coffee with a splash of milk and a dash of vanilla extract or peppermint essence (mmm).

Chocolate: one heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder in hot milk, no sugar, but as coffee, with vanilla or peppermint.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Tea, all the way! Grew up with loose leaf Typhoo as it is has its origins in a Birmingham pharmacy. That and grandparents were proper Bollywoods.

I do rather like tasting teas. I don't really like the earl greys of the world. Bought myself a teapot last year from covent garden. Autumn demands Chai. Have some Darjeeling and Assam someplace. Assam os like rocket fuel!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Don't like Pg T*ps loose leaf. That too is like rocket fuel. Plus it's a blend, rather than a singular variety.

[ladylottie]

I only drink tea at home (PG tips decaff tea bags) and only drink instant coffee when I'm out (a weak decaff of any sort but not filter or fresh).

I don't like filter or fresh coffee because it's never hot enough - I like a scalding hot cup of whatever it is I'm drinking!

Oh yes, no sugar and only a splash of milk for tea & coffee.

[Bren In Pots]

Co-op 99 fair trade loose leaf tea for us made in a ceramic tea pot, we've used the same tea for 37 years now and its the same brand as my Mum and Mr Pots mums used.

According to my Gran Tea bags are made from sweeping up's she told me that when I was a kid and she didn't lie so it must be true

I do drink decaff coffee just one cup after tea made in the filter thingie.

[darcyvuqua]

According to my Gran Tea bags are made from sweeping up's she told me that when I was a kid and she didn't lie so it must be true

there tasy sweepings tho aint they

[Florence Fennel]

PG Tips tea bags in a teapot first thing in the morning served in a bone china cup and saucer, tiny bit of milk, no sugar. Has to be 'mashed' properly - can't stand it if it's fortnight (too weak) or it can't manage to climb out of the pot.
Nescafe coffee later in the morning, in a bone china small mug, or a small bone china cup and saucer.
At work I have Lady Grey, Assam, English Breakfast or fruit tea served in a one-teapot-cup and saucer affair without milk, or a small china mug of Nescafe with.
As a general rule, I can't drink coffee after 11, it's tea after that and I drink neither tea nor coffee after the sun's over the yard arm. It's time for something else then and I don't mean Horlicks or hot chocolate.

[Florence Fennel]

We used to have Rington's tea when I was young, delivered by a little van.

[Bren In Pots]

The Rington's Tea man tried to sell us some tea told him we always used Co-op 99 loose so he left us a sample to see if that would change our mind but it didn't. Seen him on the street the other day so someone must have bought from him.

[veggiechicken]

Does loose tea go off? I have packets and packets of it as my husband would drink nothing else (teapot etc) and we brought a load back from a tea factory in Sri Lanka. It clutters up my cupboard but I can't bring myself to just throw it away! Very few people that I know use loose tea.

[zazen999]

Aw bless VC. Can you donate it to the WI?

I just crept back in here to say that when I am having my coffee - it needs to be in a mug with a white inside. Otherwise it just doesn't work.

[cptncrackoff]

I have a tassimo!

I cant stand instant coffee, the tassimo isnt that cheap to run, but...

Cart noir crema intenso
Kenco columbian
costa americano
Are all in the cupoboard and are heaven in a mug!!

I also have chai latte for the tassimo, its good!

If i have a 'made' cup of tea i live '1706 strong breakfast' nice and strong!