how do you like your coffee ? tea?
 

my hot bevarage habbits are many, probably due to the culture of my city(constantly having a coffee or tea is mandatory)


I'm an ex starfux employee so am pretty much a slave to melusine making my coffee, though I do have a couple variations, depending on how much caffiene I need

espresso I do a single shot grande with almond(favourite) or vanilla and soy milk

brew I do south american or african only, no asia pacific bs unless its after dinner (with the exception of christmas blend) soy misto with vanilla

....or if i need to wake the fuck up I'll do a grande brew with about an inch of cold water.

at home in the morning I french press kenya or house blend and have it with steamed soy..


At cafes I am not affraid to be a "can you make this again/poor half out and add more milk/ etc" type of person.. if it tastes awful im not going to drink it. Though if they dont get it right the second try, I let it slide and go for three spoons of raw sugar.


maybe Im a little over explanitory with the coffee, but I used to make a living being a nerd for it so the star skillz are still wearing off.



I'm also a tea lover, and secretly dream of one day having my own cafe/bar which serves an array of superb tea based beverages, and is the local haunt for everyone who is remotely interesting..

earl gay or an organic rooibos are both equally yummy.

no coffee for me. sometimes green tea with a bit of sugar (not too much, otherwise its just like drinking warm sugar water) or fresh mint tea.

coffee: milk, no sugar
tea: a lot of sugar and if its black tea some milk too

do you drink brewed leaves or matcha? do you have a favourite type if its leaf tea? I used to drink a lot of matcha but around the same time started having bad panic attacks again after about 6 years free of them, so stopped :confused:

I drown my earl grey tea in milk. raw sugar or a little honey. my god, it is almost heavenly.

i hardly ever drink tea, but if i do its with teabags (all we have at home). the fresh mint tea is what i usually have in the restaurant next door at night, and its just mint leaves in hot water, but so good.

do you make it yourself? yum..

I drink peppermint tea but need to be in the right mood. Always when I have an upset stomach it helps.

a good tea is so wonderful to have. have you ever bought green tea flowers? If not you should get some, just because they're lovely. You do need a nice open tea pot or a glass one to enjoy it properly though. They're tied up into little balls, and when you put them in the hot water, they slowly open up and have little amaranth flowers inside. Its very zen. :D

does anyone else have that smell to memory association? I hadn't made rooibos in a very very very long time, and I just made a cup, and instantly I feel a certain memory or time so much, just because of the fragrance..

oh yes. its awesome. I never thought that tea and milk will go well together a few years ago. but it tastes like biting into a sweet cloud

that looks so cool... i think i saw something like that in a pippi longstocking movie, but i didn't know it was an existing thing.

anyway my dietist once said i should be really careful with tea, coffee or anything containing caffeine or theine, it slows down the intake of iron in your blood, something you can really miss as a vegetarian. im not too sure what kinds of tea she was talking about.

yes again.
peppermint tea combined with the smell of some "kräuter" bathing water.
recalls all the evenings I spent at my grandmas house when I was a minime

Earl Grey with honey? Eww.

Fer me, Earl Grey requires a light touch. 2% milk and sugar.

Coffee: sugar and high fat milk. I usually just do milk but I just bought some heavy cream. That is good stuff! Should be brewed strong: almost but not quite strong enough to hold the spoon upright. Don't waste my taste buds with water scared by coffee.

Oh yeah---only fair trade coffee for me.

Speaking of which, my cup is empty. Time for a refill.

really? I never knew that. Green tea doesnt have a lot of caffiene but I dont knw about theine? All teas have tannins but I dont think thats what you're talking about.

Iron shouldn't be too much of a problem though unless you have another medical condition aside from 'vegetarianism' hehe. I am on off vego, and had a friend who had never eaten meat in her life, we drank tea all the time. Iron is something you can build up though, so if you were having problems you could stop drinking tea, take iron tablets for a few weeks and you should be alright again.

I wonder if this is the case for other people:

I only started drinking Earl Grey after watching Star Trek Next Generation "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"

yeah i know, the iron level in my blood was so low it was hardly detectable. i'm off al tea now, and on iron supplements, its a lot better already, also because im watching my food a bit more.

on a side note: who likes hot chocolate? i discovered an amazing place here where you can get all kinds of fresh hot chocolate: just warm milk with chocolate, fondant, regular or white, with praliné, honey, whipped cream, cinnamon,... anything you'd want. one glass of the stuff is enough to make me feel like ive had a whole meal, but it's amazing.

its amazing isnt it.. I love when it happens, and you're not expecting it.

Earl grey or gin both make me think of my old house and beautiful ex housemate. so does sandalwood a little, but the house had a slight damp stench, so I that one never seems quite right.
Rooibos apparently makes me think of AIM with floatingslowly and staying up posting on floats and girlguns forum, because it was all I used to drink constantly back then.
Any time I walk into a starbucks, I feel like I'm back at work with my friends.. that one is slightly disturbing because I know that it is MEANT to be marketed that way.

that is so so cute

but not the case for me. I've always loved tea since I was tiny tiny. Been through anti tea phases, but always come back. And earl grey is just.. well its heavenly. How any tea drinker can resist is beyond me.

i love hot chocolate, my work is gonna start making some for the colder months starting saturday

my coffee when i have it has to lots of milk, pretty much latte style (2/3 milk), but it's been awhile

tea, english or irish breakfast tea, milk and one sugar

the thing gets interesting when I remembered a smell of some instant tea I drinked like a baby day in day out. I would LOVE to drink something of it again. the company still exists, and the smell and the taste reminds me of that tea. but it seems they changed something in it. because there is definately something missing. I wonder how strong such memories can be

that sounds so delicious..

but I'm allergic to chocolate. well.. I think it is a nickel allergy in reality, but this includes chocolate. :(

There is a little chocolate shop just around the corner from me who sell hot chocolate from a little carousel in the mornings, it is the consistency of thickened cream, and INCREDIBLE. I only get small ones though, otherwise I feel ill and break out in skin rashes or whatnot.

I wanted to drink my coffee black after ive watched twin peaks. unfortunately I cant stand it.

It's so strange! Your mind knows that it can relate to the memory, but still that it isnt quite right.

Haha you should ask them..

there is black coffee, and there is sludge water though, you might love it if you had the right one?

^^^yes really if theres one taste I am hunting, then its that one, plus fanta mango, which disappeared in germany at the end of the 80ies

i'm so sorry for you!

well the place is actually a coffee house, breally good. they have amenu full of different kinds of coffee you can get, so i guess you'd like it ;-)

no, really not. Ive got the best coffee I can get right now, directyl from an cameronnian from his on plantage (?)
and I still prefer it with milk.

fanta came in mango?? I guess I'm too australian and too young to know this. There is no way I could stomach fanta now. So much sugar. When I was in high school I LOVED it.

what is a cameronian? :confused:

do they have breakfast also? or cake? either one of those and I'd be there for hours in the corner drawing and reading and such.

I think the best is Coffee outside, cool temp., open fire, sober early morning at base camp. Woods, trees and the like.

sandwiches, cookies and some cake, yes. me and my classmates go there if we have an hour off. there's a big table in the middle where ou can always join and talk to people, or just read a paper.

This sounds great too! I havent been camping since I was .... 14? I think I'm going in a few weeks. It will be hilarious, but fun! Need to remember to take coffee.

haha, a guy out of cameron, I dunno if its the right name of the state in central afica, hahaha

and yes fanta came in mango. but it seems that it disappears completely.
it was the time when fanta s logo looked like this

One of my favourite vegie restaurants has a big table like this too, its odd at first sitting and eating with a bunch of people you don't know at all. But kind of cool. Most of them are hippies or artists so its interesting at least.

My geography is pretty bad, I shod have googled it hehe.

the pic just comes up saying google can't find it. :(

... its almost mango season here... oh yes. mangoes! that smell makes me think of being a little kid and eating soooo many mangoes at my nannas farm.

Yes yes, must bring the Coffee, and some sort of brewing pot. The extra weight is definatley worth it. Let's all go camping, some times I just go in the back yard. No lie. Coffee and Sunrise. Hand and hand. Lovers.

same here, the place is crowded with musicians, artists (mostly from my school) and writers. it's cosy though.

that sounds like fun place to be!