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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Mr. Air on October 22, 2009, 03:16:11 PM
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Well rumors have it that British people are fond of tea and since BKP is a English company and there's a healthy overweight of Brits at this forum I'll pop this question out of interest.
Do you prefer tea or coffee? Or do you stick to other hot drinks like hot chocolate, rum toddy, etc.
Personally I don't like coffee. I can drink it, but I don't enjoy the taste and my stomach doesn't like it as well. I'm no big tea drinker either, but in general I like tea.
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Coffee - black and strong only. As to tea - I only like darjeeling, afternoon tea or Earl Gray, preferably brewed in a tea pot and definately without milk - the stuff sold in bags with milk added is fine for servants but not for gentlemen like myself
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Tea at home, coffee when I'm out. For some reason I never enjoy bought cups of tea.
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Tea - english breakfast. I dont like poncey earl grey or anything like that. Peppermint is nice in small doses though :oops: Coffee is ok but its just not the same as a nice cup of tea.
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I'm a coffee person. I like my coffee strong. 2 tea spoons of coffee, 2 tea spoons of sugar with milk of course :)
I do drink tea on the odd occasion but I much prefer coffee.
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i like both. I prefer coffee, but i can't drink it as much as tea. i agree about drinking "proper" tea which elliot is talking about... assam, darjeeling, ceylon... all good stuff. Leaves, too. I drink tea bags when I'm being lazy, though, it's not like i'd refuse to drink tea made with bags or anything like that. :D
and you're a ponce, tom. :lol:
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Coffee, with a splash of milk. But it HAS to be the good and strong stuff made with an espresso/hot water and the best beans.
We have a bean-to-cup machine at home as we're such addicts :oops:
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Tea - splash of milk, no sugar.
Coffee is for snotty suited city fannies to put in fancy pants cups to ride the tube to work with. These people also wear trainers while on the tube at the same time as their suits, probably because they are so 'on the go'.
Nick Griffin probably drinks tea. so it MUST be British!
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coffee - strong and fresh.
finally got a decent espresso maker the other month and now i am used to it i am happy that i can easily ebat most coffe shops for espresso
ii used to be a litre of freshly ground and brewed coffee a day but now i much prefer 1 or 2 double espresso's and a couple of decent instants whislt at work
i even roast my own beans occasionally - roast, leave overnight, grind and brew - nothing gets better
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I hate that suit and trainer combo thing - it was started by city girls - you used to see them changing into their high heels just round the corner from their office. Sometimes quite a nice sight.
Personally, I leave my suit at work, wear my jeans on the train and change into my prof togs when I get in.
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i like your style.
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Tea all the way for me. Milk, no sugar thanks :)
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Coffee.
I dont dislike tea, rather like it actually, but I almost never drink it.
Strong coffee too. Two heaped spoons of coffee, 1.5ish tablespoons per cup of strength 5 or higher, extra shot or two if its from a coffee shop.
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Coffee for me.
Stronger the better (which is why I like Turkish so much).
Milk is sacrilege.
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no, i dont like hot drinks
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I like coffee but not instant coffee.
Tea is better though!!
I love tea.
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Love both but I can only drink coffee about two times a day otherwise I start feeling sick.
When I used to go to work we had a tea round going so we used to go through about 8 cups of tea between 9-5 :?
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Can't stand coffee.
I like most traditional (not green / herbal) teas that I have tried, but I do prefer them weak, as much sugar as I feel like on the day.
Has to be out of a good cup though, won't taste right out of cheap ones
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Here in Brazil is very hard someone drink tea... tried once to get tea and milk in a coffee shop and it was really weird... how do you get the milk on the tea???
So I usually drink coffee, but hate the expresso coffee...
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(which is why I like Turkish so much).
You do realise that's a sex act (of the scat variety PDT_047 )
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Tea of course. I dislike coffee immensely and like Elliott I am fond of the real thing. Darjeeling too for me-the champagne of teas. I am not so fond of the far out stuff like Lapsang Souchong. Assam has nice body to it. I used to love a cup of Keemun in the afternoon. I rarely drink tea made by anyone else though except Mrs 38th who had to go through an extensive training course and a rigorous practical examination but qualified well and now gets to make tea for me as a special treat( for her). For quickness I have to resort to those bag thingies at work but I get the organic Tetley which is not bad at all.
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indeed, my wife (he he!) is a tea drinker, but she has been trained to make coffee over the last few months... she can do milky frothey shitee for herself but has got the espresso running nicely now for me
i was taught to use a kettle as soon as i could reach it, my parents must never have made themselves a drink from the age i was 8. As a young teenager i was a normal two sugers an milk coffee drinker, hated black. when i was 15 i was going scottish, two of everything... coffee, sugar and milk slowly i adjusted to just black coffee, then i wanted the best black coffee i could get (what some call americano) and that was fine for a while
now i am a contant espresso (and no cr@p shitee, illy or better) drinker, whats left - crack next!!
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im all about the coffee,
when i was in london last year it was nearly impossible to find good coffee from cafes though. I think NZers make them pretty well, some barista here though are way to into it and believe its some sort of artform. if it was as amazing as they thought maybe they wouldnt be earning minimum wage.
only good cafe i found in london was in soho called flat white. run by NZers so gave double shots as standard (the way it should be)
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addicted to coffee, trying to give it up, down to 2 cups a day, was 1 the other week but then I got that cold/swine flu going round and went sod it!
if you gotta add sugar, then you don't like it! there should be a law to stop those 3 sugar people
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(which is why I like Turkish so much).
You do realise that's a sex act (of the scat variety PDT_047 )
Black coffee, no sugar. Strong, fresh and black.
I like ice tea, but I only drink hot tea when I am sick. (I know that I must really be sick when I don't want coffee.)
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now i am a contant espresso (and no cr@p shiteee, illy or better) drinker, whats left - crack next!!
Chewing the coffee beans and blending in a sip of hot water in the mouth... :P
Seems like there's a bit overweight of coffee drinkers. Maybe the classic British gent, who likes to gently sip his tea and strolls around with hat, coat and umbrella is about to become extinct...
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Generally tea at home (but the coffee pot goes on weekend mornings). At work I have coffee (well it's brownm but that's where the resemblance ends), got to get it out of a machine as we're not to be trusted with a kettle and it's bloody aweful.... but not as bad as the tea. Don't know what scares me more, drinking the cr@p or the fact that I'm actually getting a taste for it.
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indeed, my wife (he he!) is a tea drinker...
:D
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Maybe the classic British gent, who likes to gently sip his tea and strolls around with hat, coat and umbrella is about to become extinct...
He exists - but not among the greebo guitar players on this forum - Perhaps if you went the The Chap website? :D
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tea for me, definately! don't like coffee, unless it has a liberal dash of whiskey added :)
most of my tea is drunk at work, which means whichever scummy teabags they've bothered to buy. at home i've always drunk various loose teas, i'm no connoisseur but i like a decent cup. at the minute i'm drinking a lot of earl grey, but starting to get bit sick of it.
i take a bit of milk, or a slice of lemon. don't combine, cause the milk'll curdle!
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Maybe the classic British gent, who likes to gently sip his tea and strolls around with hat, coat and umbrella is about to become extinct...
He exists - but not among the greebo guitar players on this forum - Perhaps if you went the The Chap website? :D
Perhaps I should go have a look? :wink:
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Tea at work and coffee at home, generally. I don't know why, just habit.
And it's all bog-standard stuff - PG Tips and instant coffee, I'm no connoisseur.
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Tea (with milk & sugar)
I don't drink coffee at all, can't stand the stuff...
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Another cup of cr@p work coffee (but this time in the powerstation that they tried to shut down over the weekend). Marginally better than the other office, but still wrong.
Always have white coffee out of the machine, but always have dead strong black coffee if it's the propper stuff (or a latte if I'm feeling girly).
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Coffee. Made in the stove-top dalek (espresso pot). We've got a five-cupper that makes two half mug's worth, top them up with hot water, yummmm... :D
At work I drink Nescafe Original (er 2-3 spoons in a mug), but otherwise I don't touch instant anymore.
I do drink tea, but it must be strong and must have a dash of milk (one teaspoon's worth). I hate warm milk, absolutely loathe it, makes me retch, but I don't like tea without milk... so I have to be very careful about tea, I usually only say yes to it at home. It also tastes a lot better in a china cup or mug... :lol:
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Coffee. Made in the stove-top dalek (espresso pot). We've got a five-cupper that makes two half mug's worth, top them up with hot water, yummmm... :D
I do the same but top up with hot milk instead of water, and usually froth up the last 50ml or so of milk with one of those little electric whisk things for a nice fake cappuccino type affair.
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Coffee. Made in the stove-top dalek (espresso pot). We've got a five-cupper that makes two half mug's worth, top them up with hot water, yummmm... :D
I do the same but top up with hot milk instead of water, and usually froth up the last 50ml or so of milk with one of those little electric whisk things for a nice fake cappuccino type affair.
The missus does that to her half sometimes - although she hasn't thought up the whisk bit yet (we've got one that would do it...)
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Are there any good instant coffees? I used to just do with Nescafe Gold but since I started drinking my coffee black with no sugar I've realised how $%&#ing awful it is :lol: The milk and sugar were masking the true flavour, which turns out to be shite.
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Instant coffee is universally disgusting.
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Maybe, but it still has caffeine in it so it does the job.
I've never had "real" coffee that tastes all that great either, and I can't be bothered with faffing around grinding beans and all that. Plus coffee from percolators (or whatever the current fashionable device is called) never seems to be hot enough.
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Caffeine doesnt seem to really affect me at all, other than if I have alcohol + energy drink I get pretty unpleasant heart palpitations :?
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I seem to be immune to the supposed effects of caffeine i.e. it doesn't make me more alert or keep me awake (in fact I drink it before I go to sleep!).
I avoid Red Bull and things like that, not because I've actually had problems but the heart-palpitations stories are disturbing. I have borderline-high blood pressure anyway, or so my doctor tells me, so best to be careful!
But if I haven't had a cup of tea or coffee by late morning every day, I get a blinding headache. Having said that, I don't drink loads of it - 4 or 5 cups in a day, max. But.... I am a caffeine addict. :(
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Instant coffee is universally disgusting.
Instant anything is usually universally disgusting.
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anyone see that thing on the BBC this week with a guy making his own instant coffee?
for those who missed it you basically make real coffee, then spray it into a super hot container so the water turns to steam and your left with coffee powder
But if I haven't had a cup of tea or coffee by late morning every day, I get a blinding headache.
sounds like caffeine withdrawal to me
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Tea in the mornings and when i get in from work. I have a pint of tea in my giant personal mug that no one else is allowed to use. I and only I can make tea the way i like it and when your brewing in the big mug it requires 3 tea bags until its dark brown. i've had my tea like this since i was around 12 :lol:
I drink real coffee which I make in the mornings for my flask as the coffee helps keep me awake at the wheel.
I also drink a lots of water as all that caffeine can make you thirsty!
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I drink both, though I have cut the caffeine a lot over the last couple of years. Alta Rica is a really good instant coffee (I have had friends in the States look for more coffee in the perculator after giving them Alta Rica). I like PG tips and Tesco Earl Grey tea, though I have others. For a while there was a Twinings Green Earl Grey that I really liked. I still like the occasional Lavazza Espresso which I make in an Itallian espresso pot, however since I cut the caffeine I try to drink only decaf after 3 pm. My favorite coffee to brew is the Tesco Fair Trade or Sainsbury's Machu Picchu.
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Does anyone else have mug preference?
I don't seem to like the uber cheap ones, and have a preference for a specific Dunoon one :?
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Does anyone else have mug preference?
I don't seem to like the uber cheap ones, and have a preference for a specific Dunoon one :?
I don't care what they're made of. At home I have a Bugs Bunny one, at work I have one with the cover art from The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep. :lol:
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Does anyone else have mug preference?
I don't seem to like the uber cheap ones, and have a preference for a specific Dunoon one :?
At home I have several mugs but at work I have something special. A few of us declared a "mug war" about 4 years ago and my buddy Rich landed a killer punch when he found a Charles and Camilla Wedding Commemorative mug. There was only one way to top that and five quid on eBay got me a super-ornate Andy and Fergie Wedding Commemorative Wedgewood masterpiece of tat. I've used that ever since and get quite a few comments in the kitchen to this day. It still makes me giggle.
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I don't mind too much about the pattern on the mug just so long as the handle is on the right hand side. Mind you, the thickly glazed ones suck tone in my experience.
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Mind you, the thickly glazed ones suck tone in my experience.
That's true and the pre-'86 corporate buy-out Wedgewood mugs are much superior to the later ones. :)
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Mind you, the thickly glazed ones suck tone in my experience.
That's true and the pre-'86 corporate buy-out Wedgewood mugs are much superior to the later ones. :)
Your so right but you just try and tell anyone and they'll laugh at you.
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Does anyone else have mug preference?
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I like tea in the Wedgewood/Royal Doulton design of cup - Doesn't have to be Wedgewood or even bone china but a mug is just wrong - But then I don't have milk in tea.
As I only drink espresso - it has to be an espresso cup, although in a coffee shop I prefer a proper paper cup to those little ones.
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My 24 CTU mug is always the best for tea :lol: Just the right size and is related to 24, therefore it's good.
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Just the right size and is related to 24, therefore it's good.
What is about the 24?
Here in Brazil it's not a good number :lol:
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24 as in Jack Bauer of course!
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I've got a 'DC mug for my coffee :D
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I used to have one of those mugs where the ladies clothes dissapear when you put a hot drink in it. Don't know where it's gone.
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Coffee is dirty, tea a much more civilised drink :)
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My usual mug at home holds about a pint and a half.
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My usual mug at home holds about a pint and a half.
Sounds like a jug to me :D
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Yeah, we have smaller vases :lol:
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I prefer a mug, cups just don't seem to hold enough. I don't like styrofoam cups at all (try leaving a black coffee in one for a bit - it leaks through, which means that it is dissolving something into the drink). Paper cups for coffee work fin, though I have to say if you get macchiato (or even espresso and cappuccino sometimes), in Italy it is in a glass. Since it tastes so good there I have to think that glass must be best.