Tea vs. Coffee

Tea Vs. Coffee

  • Tea

    Votes: 48 46.6%

  • Coffee

    Votes: 23 22.3%

  • I don't like either

    Votes: 16 15.5%

  • Both

    Votes: 16 15.5%
  • Total voters
    103
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I used to drink a ton of coffee, but it's so overpowering and gets sickening no matter what you add to it. Coffee also has a lingering aftertaste. The main reason I drank so much of it was for the energy.

Lately though I've been sticking to mostly tea, with a cup of coffee only once or twice a week at most.

But I've been drinking tea a lot, I have a cup every morning, and after every dinner. I notice it helps clear out my palet, gets me kinda relaxed.
Sometimes I even have 3 cups of tea a day. I often drink bitter tea.

I dunno if drinking that much tea is healthy for you..
 
I've hated coffee all my life, but this fall I have started drinking it a bit, and it's really not that bad.

I still prefer tea, though.
 
Samon said:
Coffee. Nescafe Black Gold. Heaven in a cup. Vote over.
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I used to love coffee, but it's just too much sometimes, sometimes a more mild taste is better. Coffee can be so overpowering.

And during exams week, all I drink is coffee to stay awake, and by the end of the week I want to puke at the very thought of coffee. But tea, tea has so many flavor variations, and it still tastes good even when you don't add anything.
 
Tea is disgusting, coffee is great when it has cream and sugar in it.

Mmm, Pumpkin Coffee from Dunkin Donuts.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
I used to love coffee, but it's just too much sometimes, sometimes a more mild taste is better. Coffee can be so overpowering.

And during exams week, all I drink is coffee to stay awake, and by the end of the week I want to puke at the very thought of coffee. But tea, tea has so many flavor variations, and it still tastes good even when you don't add anything.
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I drank some energy drinks during finals last year, it may have helped little. Natural waking/sleeping/studying is the best though.
 
Tea for the win. In addition to the water I drink, I try to drink 48 fluid ounces of tea every day as well. Not the cheap stuff, but quality loose tea leaves, whether it be black tea, green tea, or oolong.
 
Earl Grey + milk + sugar = yum

Coffee is good, but not straight up, I might go to Caribou or Starbucks and get a nice ice mocha
 
Both are so much made of win, I can't stand it. I better go sechs a deer.
 
Raziaar said:
Tea for the win. In addition to the water I drink, I try to drink 48 fluid ounces of tea every day as well. Not the cheap stuff, but quality loose tea leaves, whether it be black tea, green tea, or oolong.
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You should try rooibos tea, it's more than twice as healthy for you than green tea, it has no caffeine, and it actually tastes good with no flavoring.

I will happily drink both though, any coffee, but only rooibos tea.
 
Both suck.

The smell of coffee, however, is delicious.
 
delusional said:
You should try rooibos tea, it's more than twice as healthy for you than green tea, it has no caffeine, and it actually tastes good with no flavoring.

I will happily drink both though, any coffee, but only rooibos tea.
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I disagree. I haven't had rooibos, but I know a bit about it. First of all, I love black teas, green teas and oolong tes without flavoring. I don't add sugar, and I don't add milk because milk negates the health benefits of tea.

Second, I believe rooibos isn't even made from aamellia sinensis, which is what defines a tea. I know it's still called a tea, but it's made from an entirely different plant, aspalanthus linearis.

I don't know what you mean about it being twice as healthy as green tea... I have never heard this?
 
Tea is also much healthier for you. Green tea especially!
 
Raziaar said:
I disagree. I haven't had rooibos, but I know a bit about it. First of all, I love black teas, green teas and oolong tes without flavoring. I don't add sugar, and I don't add milk because milk negates the health benefits of tea.
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Yeah, I don't use milk. If I sweeten it, I use only honey. Honey is better than sugar.

What is considered a black tea?
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Yeah, I don't use milk. If I sweeten it, I use only honey. Honey is better than sugar.

What is considered a black tea?
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Black, green, white, oolong teas are all just different classifications for the ways the tea undergoes processing.
 
Raziaar said:
Black, green, white, oolong teas are all just different classifications for the ways the tea undergoes processing.
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I assume black tea is stronger than green and white?

(I've had white, I don't like it as much as green)
 
Flavor wise, they tend to be stronger, yes and contains more caffeine. Don't expect intense flavors though, it's still mild. I enjoy the subtleties of tea.
 
I hate coffee, so it's tea for me. I usually drink green tea or peppermint with sugar and honey, epecially when I'm sick.


Most of the time I like to drink hot coco.
 
I prefer the taste of coffee to tea, but I drink tea most often for some reason(3+ a day). I only drink coffee at college (because the vending machine tea sucks), when I'm traveling (service stations wooo) or when I need to stay up late working. I like coffee milky with lots of sugar and tea dark with little sugar, so tea seems the healthier option :P

I've never tried green tea or anything like that. It's not something my parents buy so I've never had the opportunity
 
The variety of teas are quite amazing. If you acquire a taste for the subtleties, it's impressive how much difference there is in all the many types of teas. Everything from Darjeeling to Irish Breakfast, to Earl Gray and Hojicha...

The types I currently have...

Green:
genmai cha - Delicious roasted flavor from the crispy puffed rice.
hojicha - My favorite of the bunch. Wonderful roasted flavor.
green pekoe - One of my more herbal smelling kinds. Mild but nice flavor.
citron green - Very citrusy scent, flavor isn't very lemony though. My least favorite but still decent

Black:
irish breakfast -
yunnan gold -
spring darjeeling -
golden monkey -
assam harmony -


I bought these samplers from www.adagio.com very nice prices for the samplers.
 
I drink a lot more tea than coffee. Iced oolong tea probably the most. If I have coffee it is usually some kind of espresso drink, not drip coffee.
 
Nothing beats the smell of fresh coffee. The proper filtered stuff from grains like your grandparents have :P

That stuff is just...phwoar.

I dunno, drank loads of coffee last year of uni, now ive been drinking loads of tea for some reason. Coffee also used to make me...shake like i hadnt eaten in ages or something, made me really weak sometimes, its weird.

I couldve sworn i read somewhere that coffee and tea have similar levels of caffeine in them..cant remember though.
 
tea has no narcotic effect. coffee rules, how else can you do an all night film marathon?
 
Tea has about the same caffeine level as Coffee it's just absorbed into your system much slower. Used to be a heavy Coffee drinker but pretty much gave it up over a year ago because I felt it made me snappy at work. Big on the Teas and have a variety in the house, plus we get free tea/coffee/juice in the office kitchens which is cool (no vending machine crap where I work ;))and there is always a range. Majorly big on Lapsang souchong which is a light tea and has a smoky taste to it. Not to everyones tastes, but good when you get into it. :smoking:
 
If you don't want the caffeine in tea, you can do a really short steeping and then throw the water out. Most of the caffeine is released in the first infusion.
 
Coffee. Preferably a big latte. Dash of hazelnut sirop optional.
 
Coffee, strong and hot.

The only tea I've ever really enjoyed was green tea I personally made at a Japanese tea ceremony, boiling and stirring the leaves myself. I can't get behind tea in a bag...don't like the stuff. It's got a real watery, diluted flavor to it.
 
Darkside55 said:
Coffee, strong and hot.

The only tea I've ever really enjoyed was green tea I personally made at a Japanese tea ceremony, boiling and stirring the leaves myself. I can't get behind tea in a bag...don't like the stuff. It's got a real watery, diluted flavor to it.
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I don't like most tea in a bag because it's very very bitter. With loose tea leaves, I can blend them longer if I want to without drawing out so many tannins that it becomes bitter. Tea dust sucks. That's what is in most tea bags... the leftover tea dust from the processing that is scooped into bags.
 
Hey, tea and coffee are on the same level here. Both are awesome, both taste like angel came, what more do you want?

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to update.
 
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