My sister and I one day fell out, and what do you think it was all about?

[conuly]

Poll #19226 She likes coffee, and I like tea, and that's the reason we couldn't agree

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 99

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Which do you like?

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Coffee
52 (52.5%)

Tea
83 (83.8%)

Herbal teas
52 (52.5%)

Cocoa
62 (62.6%)

Plain water
66 (66.7%)

Tea should be

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Loose leaf
42 (42.4%)

Bags
52 (52.5%)

Thrown in the harbor
5 (5.1%)

And what sort of tea do you like?

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Green
49 (51.6%)

White
29 (30.5%)

Oolong
33 (34.7%)

Pu-erh
7 (7.4%)

Black
79 (83.2%)

Herbal
49 (51.6%)

I'll take none, thanks
9 (9.5%)

What do you put in your tea?

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Lemon
13 (13.8%)

Milk
37 (39.4%)

Condensed milk
1 (1.1%)

Sugar
29 (30.9%)

Honey
24 (25.5%)

Other
7 (7.4%)

None
47 (50.0%)

Iced or hot?

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Iced
14 (16.7%)

Hot
64 (76.2%)

Sun
6 (7.1%)

So, what do you put in your coffee?

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Milk
27 (37.5%)

Half-and-half or cream
30 (41.7%)

Sugar
19 (26.4%)

Egg (!)
0 (0.0%)

Condensed milk
5 (6.9%)

Vanilla extract
3 (4.2%)

Other
21 (29.2%)

None, I drink it black
17 (23.6%)

Coffee should be...

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Piping hot!
46 (80.7%)

Cold brewed
6 (10.5%)

Whatever, just so long as some animal pooped out the beans before I brewed it
5 (8.8%)

Clicky?

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I like coffee
22 (24.2%)

I like tea
39 (42.9%)

I like the boys
9 (9.9%)

The boys like me
21 (23.1%)

Comments

[schneefink]

I like all kinds of fruit tea best.

[conuly]

You and the girls would get along!

[sabotabby]

I'm mostly a coffee drinker (6-8-cup/day habit) but I'm way less picky with tea. My weakness is London Fogs or London Ontario Fogs.

[conuly]

Never even heard of it...!

[hamimi_fk]

I've been pretty much an equal opportunity consumer of tea though I prob have a lot more kinds to try (and variations!), but generally I like green tea best. =) (Sugar and honey is a must!)

And sometimes, in the absence of something sweet to add to my coffee (it has to sugar or I can't drink it, milk/creamer/half-half too but can be optional), I've substituted honey. It's not too bad. =)

[conuly]

Honey is always not too bad.

[julian]

I like hot coffee in winter, and cold in summer.

[conuly]

I read that backwards at first and was moderately perplexed.

[kshandra]

Does rooibos count as an herbal or not?

[conuly]

Anything that is not actually tea is an herbal infusion.

[konsectatrix]

Milk and honey tends to happen with a strong black tea or oolong. I brew my tea as strong as possible and drink multiple cups a day.

Green teas and ginger infused black tea get honey only.

I like sweet tea and had to learn to ask for it specifically; a lot of northern iced tea is unsweetened and this is disturbing.

Coffee is typically passed up, altho I will occasionally have a bit of coffee in my cup of cream and sugar.

Chai also happens, especially in winter. It must be brewed in milk, and should be spicy and sweet.

I forgot that I like to brew sage and lemonbalm with honey sometimes before bed, so I guess I should have ticked the herbal option, tho there's no actual tea in that.

[conuly]

Yes, most herbal "teas" aren't really tea at all, but people get pissy when you point that out, even the people who are all "raaaaar, decimate means destroy one tenth!" and whatever.

[archangelbeth]

Where is the option for "Why doesn't coffee taste like it smells? Gah, gah, get that nasty taste away from me"? *sniffle*

[conuly]

That's why I don't like coffee.

Oddly, coffee ice cream is okay. Not my favorite thing ever (that's mint ice cream, or maybe ginger or cinnamon) but still.

[wendelah1]

I'm from California so I love iced tea but I also drink hot tea. I don't want to have to choose but I guess iced if I am forced to do so. Why can't I have both?

I like everything. Except red wine. It give me heartburn.

Not that you asked.

[conuly]

Because if you have both then what you've really got is lukewarm ice cream. Who do you think you are, Goldilocks?

[pauamma]

In addition to coffee and water, I also drink grapefruit juice.

[conuly]

Sorry, couldn't squeeze that in.

[gatheringrivers]

Depending on the tea, I use
* (Lemon OR cream OR coconut milk) AND stevia
* Stevia AND vanilla AND (lemon OR cream OR coconut milk)
* Stevia only

All depends on the underlying bitterness, "woody-ness" or sweetness, respecitvely. (One of the teas I like is Yerba Mate, and that has a very strong "wood/bark" undertone, which I've found vanilla can mask.)

[conuly]

That icon never gets old :)

[firewhispers]

I love coffee. My day doesn't start until I have my cup of coffee, lol.

[conuly]

I get that. (Okay, I don't get that at all, but.)

[dine]

I drink more coffee than tea (or cocoa), and enjoy both hot & iced coffee.

[moem]

I'm all about that tea, 'bout that tea, no coffee.

[conuly]

And now I've got a worm in my tea ear.

[steorra]

I didn't answer the coffee questions because I don't drink coffee.

For the second question, I answered "bags", but the real answer is more complex. I think looseleaf tea is usually better but I don't care enough to want to deal with the hassle on a regular basis.

For "And what sort of tea do you like?" I just marked black tea, because that's the tea I *love* and drink almost all the time, but I do enjoy pu-erh, oolong, and green tea, just not generally as much. I don't generally drink herbal tea, but the one kind I do enjoy and sometimes drink is rooibos. (But I'll generally pick black tea over rooibos if there's an option.)

Also I have strong opinions about the proper making of black tea, but not about other kinds of teas. (I'm still learning to drink green tea.)

One of these days I need a tea userpic...

[conuly]

I didn't answer the coffee questions because I don't drink coffee.

Sensible.

I'm still learning to drink green tea.

How do you feel about green tea ice cream?

[thewayne]

When my new job started the first of December, it has been my daily ritual since I get up at 0:dark30, to stop at the minimart on base and use my new 20 oz vacuum-steel tumbler to get approx one quarter vanilla cappuccino and the rest hot cocoa. That gets me through the morning.

At my wife's observatory, one of the co-worker's on her telescope bought and donated an expensive cappuccino machine to the observatory. Does amazing things, including properly pressing the ground beans into a puck. The night staff astronomers love it. The day staff? Folgers on the Bunn does it for them.

[conuly]

Bah, day staff, who cares about them? They got a good night's sleep, let them drink water!

[loligo]

Since developing a severe dairy allergy, I drink my coffee with coconut oil, whipped up with an immersion blender. I like this so much better than the various nut-milk creamers, though I do use those in black tea.

[conuly]

Fascinating! I'll suggest that to my sister.

[zesty_pinto]

I disapprove of this poll's inability to cater to my distaste towards coffee! Coffee haters are people too! Excuse me as I picket a Starbucks and order a bunch of teas under the name "I. Hait Cofay" so the baristas make my point!

[conuly]

LOL.

[redbird]

Usually black tea (Assam is my favorite, and there are some nice Darjeelings out there), but I like a few green teas and the occasional pu-ehr.

I mostly take my tea either with milk and sugar, or black, but sometimes sugar (or honey) and lemon, if milk is unavailable for some reason. I didn't pick both "lemon" and "milk" because I wouldn't combine them.

Iced tea when hot isn't available (it's handier for travel) or on hot days when hot tea would overheat me.

I picked "loose," but that's mostly because my favorite kind of Assam is sold loose (by a place on Christopher Street); my next-favorite tea is Twinings Irish Breakfast, which I'm happy to have in teabags.

My answer for "coffee should be" is "given to someone else": one of my beloveds is a coffee drinker.

[alessandriana]

All... of the above? Except Pu-erh. I'm not a big fan of that.

[larryhammer]

I start the day with coffee, then switch to tea to make managing caffeine levels easier (to avoid jitters, but also coffee after mid-afternoon means late bedtime, which as an older parent I can't afford). For teas, I mix it up by mood, different blacks and greens.

Drink of choice for meals is iced tea, which as far as I can tell has no caffeine effects for me. Unsweet, please -- we fridge brew it at home, usually a bag each of basic black and peppermint.

[randomdreams]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA seems awfully appropriate.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It always astonishes me, how people are SO set-in-their-ways that they only like one thing, one exact way. Seattle is totally 'Latte Land'; you wouldn't believe the picky precision of some folks' coffee orders. It inclines me to think they would all benefit from a year or so of drinking dandelion-root coffee that they have to dig, roast and brew themselves.

I like coffee, tea, chai, herbal tea, hot chocolate and hot apple cider. I'll take my coffee either black or with milk and sugar (but NOT with artifical sweetener or whitener, ick,) or with honey, whipped cream and Irish whiskey if it comes to that. I like either sugar or honey in tea, but don't have to have it. I don't really care how either the tea or coffee is made, but I do strongly object to single-use plastics such as Keurig, and styrofoam in all its evil forms.

[conuly]

If I like tea or coffee a certain way, and I can always get it that way, why would I change it?

Sure, if I can't get it the way I like it most, but when I *can* get it the way I like it most, and I'm paying exorbitantly for the privilege, I may as well.