One of the oldest rivalries of modern civilisation
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Topic: One of the oldest rivalries of modern civilisation
Posted By: The Pessimist
Subject: One of the oldest rivalries of modern civilisation
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 10:45
Meh... Coffee  black aswell, none of your impurities please 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 10:47
| Enjoy both, but prefer coffee. |
Posted By: Relayer09
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 10:53
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Best way to start off the day, well except for sex that is. ------------- If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 10:55
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Tea. But I love coffee as well. And no sugar or milk, which goes for both.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 11:13
| Being that I just downed about half a pot - coffee it is |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 11:53
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Must include creamer at work (otherwise it tastes like crude oil) but at home I grind the beans fresh and drink it black as night. Tea's okay but not in the same buzz category. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:08
Seconded   !Personally speaking, I prefer the taste of good tea, and for years I drank it much more often than coffee. Nowadays, I need coffee to wake me up in the morning and after lunch - I never have coffee later in the afternoon, let alone after dinner. |
Relayer09 wrote:Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:24
Agreed about the buzz category. I've never tried fresh coffee  Starbucks do the best coffee IMHO, is that fresh? i'm not sure...And personally i prefer sex to end a late night ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:29
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I'm Brasilian and I'm supposed to prefer coffee, no? But I do like more tea, well, not those Asian teas but the real ones from our continent, made with erva-mate or yerba-mate, that may be taken cold, warm or hot (depending on the type).
Not sure but I think that matte rivals coffee here in Terra Brasilis. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 12:53
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Tea for mea. Has to be hot. (What no sweet ice tea, boy? Are yew sure yer from the South ) Green, Earl Grey, Dhajeeling with spice masala. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 13:13
| Arizona Green Tea with honey, Ice tea. I'm not much of a coffee drinker. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 13:43
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Other... Coke. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 13:46
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Coffee! ^ And Coke. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 13:53
Coke? So that's why you're so hyper active Mike? 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 14:21
Of course I guess we both are talking about black, carbonated coke.. not about the white powdery one.... -------------
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 14:57
| Coffee because it's merely bad, not horrible. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 15:55
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tea, especially the finest oolong from Formosa. I need my coffee in the morning though for a kickstart -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 17:38
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My opinion switches but generally I prefer coffee. Haven't been drinking much lately since I have insomnia anyway so even when there is nothing to do I usually only get a maximum 6-7 hours of sleep, sometimes a lot less. I almost always have it with at least cream, sometimes sugar too if I feel like it, and cinnamon if I want to be really fancy. We have a pretty nice coffee machine, although if it were up to me we'd get less comercialized brands but it's still quite good. I like most t ypes of tea, usually hot. Green tea is great, I never even tried putting cream or sugar in it though. I drink a lot of chai too and usually I put cream in it, sometimes sugar. Splenda is a pretty good substitute, sweet & low and equal are disgusting. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 18:52
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Coffee,preferrably Jamaican Blue Mountain.I cannot stand tea,hot or iced. -------------  |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 18:55
Isn't that what James Bond drinks? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 18:58
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I choose Tea but that's because I like Buddhism. Coffee...Islam.... Tea...Buddhism.... Wine...Christianity.... Milk...Hinduism.... |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 19:40
Do you still drink 3+ POTS a day? -------------
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:20
Do atheists stick to water? |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:26
Water or just lots of alcohol. That's how you separate the two big lines of atheism. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:28
I knew I wasn't very religious. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:35
*sipping red wine* Me neither. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 21:49
You're all wrong...
We atheists prefer Coke. -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 23:20
EASILY.
 My wife is really getting on my case about it.I hardly ever sleep! ------------- |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 23:40
| Tea kicks the sh*t out of that coffee crap. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 01:40
Ah no! It's the satanists who drink coke! Sometimes mixed with blood. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 01:49
Oh that's erroneous. I've tried the Bathory treatment but I've found myself actually getting older rather than younger... So I prefer Coke Zero... which by the way tastes so good and zero calories and carbs... what else can I ask from the world?
And of course... I never drink.............wine. -------------
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 02:06
The full Bathory treatment requires 50 virgins and a bathtub; I hope you did not resort to that. Anyway - where would you get 50 virgins? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 02:07
I have enough problems finding just one... and not virgin...
 I have the bathtub though.... -------------
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 05:11
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Tea you mean, right? |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 05:22
| I vote neither, I like iced tea. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 05:31
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Going by taste, I definitely vote for tea. (Earl Grey by preference.)
Going by addiction to caffeine though, I definitely am a coffee drinker.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 13:34
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Coffee tastes bad and tea does not. Don't drink either often but tea is good. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 13:49
| I never drink coffee, but tea almost every day. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 17:49
ProgArchives and World of Warcraft are your best bets ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 18:17
Vegans work just as effectively as virgins  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 21:59
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PG Tips
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 22:05
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Tea for me.... iced.. hot... liquid, solid, or vapor.. .doesn't matter you can drink it.. snort it.. 'chew' it.. hell.. maybe even cook with it. The greatest of all God's creations.. well.. next to Rickenbacker basses that is. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Prof.
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 01:21
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You cant do any better and a hot cup of tea while listening to the soothing tones of King Crimson, and perhaps reading a quaint little book.
Black Teas are my mind source of the rare element 'give a damn'. Earl Grey is good, Lady Grey is also a nice change. The greatest tea in all creation is 'Chrismas Morning' by Stash. Assam, Ceylon, Sumatra, Jasmine, and Keemun. If brewed right its a little smokey and rich, but the Jasmine gives it a sweet aftertaste.
And of course no milk/sugar. Im a purist at heart.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:58
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At home I drink tea ... several pots a day - Yorkshire blend, little milk, a pinch of sugar.
I would never add milk to green or white teas, and certainly not to Earl Grey - a touch of lemon's okay.
...don't get me started on ice tea or herb tea or tea made with bits of twig, forest floor scrapings infused with some exotic fruits
 For years I couldn't drink coffee because it gave me migraines, until I discovered that it was only instant coffee that did that, so if I'm out I'll drink filter or expresso coffee because I've yet to find a café/restaurant that serves a proper cup of tea (the water has to be boiling when added to the tea - most places use water that is off the boil which is best for coffee, but not for tea) ------------- What? |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 05:31
Finally someone who understands.....  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 05:32
Finally someone who understands.... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 05:53
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Tea for me
Other than 'Builders'* I like:- English Breakfast,Assam,Earl Grey,Yorkshire Tea,Gunpowder and Dhajeeling.All loose-leaf if possible Tea up! * Bog standard tea bags ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 08:22
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I love both. I always start the day with tea, PG Tips or Twinings English Breakfast tea.
I'll have a few cups of coffee during the day too. If I'm at home, any half decent Caffetiere coffee will do, strength 3 or 4. If I'm out I'll have a Cappuccino or Latte. Wont drink instant coffee at all. 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 08:43
never any sugar in my tea! ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 09:06
| I also belong to the 'no sugar' school of tea drinkers. Actually, I never take sugar in coffee either - at home I put a little milk in my coffee, while I generally drink bar-made espresso black. I only put sugar in iced tea, together with other goodies such as lemon or orange slices, cinnamon sticks and fresh mint leaves. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 09:18
My sugar intake is dropping. I use to have a little tea with my sugar  , now just a few grains to take the edge of bitterness off is all I need. Coffee - always black and very strong, sugar depending upon how bad the original brew is - if it's muddy or burnt then plenty of sugar - otherwise sugarless.------------- What? |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:20
I also put no sugar into my coffee. however, you may try something else: how about freshly ground black pepper? at first this may sound absurd, but it is not at all. the aromatic oils in the pepper take away the bitterness of the coffee without sweetening it. it has to be freshly ground though, else the aromatic oils are gone ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:28
I might try that actually No sugar for me as well it ruins the taste for me.I tend to put a spot of brandy in black coffee as well on special occasions (when i have brandy ), the ethanol tends to amplify the flavour. But that's a very polish thing to do, we do love the strong stuff!------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:34
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I've had black pepper on strawberries and that works, so pepper in coffee sounds interesting. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 11:29
Sugar in tea is just wrong!  Plus I'm diabetic anyway.
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Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 24 2008 at 12:15
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coffee. ------------- 
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Posted By: proggrl
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 08:33
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This poll needs a "Both" option! :)
I probably drink more coffee these days just for the wake up factor. Tea - Mostly herbal or iced, plain please, no diluting it with sugar or cream. I save that stuff for the coffee. Admittedly, tea is far tastier. :) ------------- The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious. |
Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 13:11
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Normaly, I like tea and coffee equally, but recently I mostly drink coffee. For me too, no sugar or milk belongs in both. Only on my crazy days I have a little coffee to my sugar.
What annoys me the most is that some bars brew the coffee, let it get cold and say that it was iced coffee.. drinking this.. mess.. is like bitter water. Bah!
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 25 2008 at 14:39
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I've a very sweet tooth. I've got my sugar down to one teaspoon per cup tea and coffee) Having given up the ciggies, weening myself off sugar is to be my next health drive.
I remember my dad putting 3 sugars in his tea, when I was a kid. He could probably have stood the spoon up in it!
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Posted By: burtonrulez
Date Posted: June 30 2008 at 13:39
| In the immortal words of Jean-Luc Picard, 'Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.' |