Coffee and tea question.

[rary]

I usually drink tonic water in a pub if I'm driving. Don't you hate it when, having asked for a tonic, they look you up and down and ask "Slimline?".

I don't know I have never been asked that when I order tonic
What I generally get is "certainly young man"

[rary]

^^^:d:d:d:d

Tell me why I can't put 4 smiles in a row?

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[rary]

.......because you're thinking of putting the kettle on and making a pot of tea perhaps, you old weirdo.

And cut out the old

[1Bee]

If I get a chance (rarely) cup of tea first thing after about a pint of warm water.
Start the working day with a coffee. If I get anywhere near a Starbucks it'll be a Caramel Machiato. I like my coffee strong, but with plenty of milk and quite sweet.
One or two cups of tea if I remember to (also rare)
Then a diet coke about 3pm ish.
Then either diet coke (if I have jobs to do in the evening) or 'squashy lemonade' with evening meal. That's a tiny dash of french fruit cordial (peach or strawberry are favourites) a good glug of water, topped up with diet lemonade. Yeah, I know.

We two sizes of glass in the cupboard: coke glasses or ones from !kea. So when Husband is assembling the drinks with dinner the conversation goes....
"What do you want to drink? Diet coke or lemonade?"
"Diet coke please."
"Diet coke, diet coke or !kea Diet Coke?"
"Diet coke, diet coke."

This quite bemusing for guests.

[Philthy]

EDIT - Don't like Milk either - so cocoa, hot chocolate and all those hot drinks are off the menu too.

With you there, VC Black tea is too bitter for me so tea is out completely.

I drink regular instant coffee pretty much throughout the day, black no sugar. Quick and easy. For as long as I can remember. Even as a kid someone's parents would take us to Wimpy or a pizza place, I'd shun the coke and instead ask for coffee with my burger...
I'll drink fizzy water in the afternoons too. If I have a meal out I always like to end on a coffee but again black filter is all I ever ask for. Don't do coffee shops (the regular expose`s on how much fat and sugar go into those creations is enough to put me off).

I like herbal tea too but tend to go through phases of drinking that. My favourite is the Pukka 'Three Cinnamon' - just cinnamon bark and a bit of licorice root. Sometimes I like to make up a jug of it, stew it literally until the water has gone cold, then stick it in the fridge to chill further. In summer I find it to be a refreshing drink with natural sweetness.

[Kirk]

My parents only drank tea and it was awful stuff, I thought. The only coffee you could buy then was this liquid coffee called "Camp". May still be for sale? That was awful too. Put me off them for life! (Should clarify - put me off tea and coffee, not my parents).

I still don't drink tea and only drink weak black coffee, no sugar. Can't stand fizzy drinks and drink red wine diluted with water.

You always knew I was "different".

EDIT - Don't like Milk either - so cocoa, hot chocolate and all those hot drinks are off the menu too.

Cannot face tea for the same reason as it seem VC. Parents drank tea sort of constantly, father always had a pot of the stuff next to him when in the house.

Just the thought of it ups me off. Gets real bad when someone assumes I will drink tea and I just cannot.

Might be the smell of it as to me it smells of semi boiled dried leaves. Maybe my sense of smell is better then it should be. But the thought of any tea has ever appealed to me.

So it is coffee for me and also fairly simple squash.

Cut back on milk as I was just about pouring that down me. a 4pt bottle lasted from getting back from work until about 8:00pm. Realised it was a bit OTT.

[rary]

With you there, VC Black tea is too bitter for me so tea is out completely.

I drink regular instant coffee pretty much throughout the day, black no sugar. Quick and easy. For as long as I can remember. Even as a kid someone's parents would take us to Wimpy or a pizza place, I'd shun the coke and instead ask for coffee with my burger

You will have to explain to VC who Wimpy or what a pizza place is. To her Wimpy is the name of a builder, and she won't have a clue what a pizza place is, these places didn't come into this country when she was a lass, in fact they weren't in the country till I was a teenager so they would be too late for VC

[chris_m]

"After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"

D. Adams

[veggiechicken]

You will have to explain to VC who Wimpy or what a pizza place is. To her Wimpy is the name of a builder, and she won't have a clue what a pizza place is, these places didn't come into this country when she was a lass, in fact they weren't in the country till I was a teenager so they would be too late for VC

Of course I remember Wimpy Bars - my favourite was a Bender in a Bun.
At this very moment I'm cooking some Quorn sausages - wonder if I can make a Bender with them
Don't think my Mum knows what a pizza is though, pizza, pasta and rice in anything but a pudding is definitely off the menu.
.............and she only drinks tea or cocoa - never coffee or alcohol!!

[JanieB]

Shall we rename this to the vc v rary thread/argument

[Philthy]

My mum is an exclusive tea drinker too. It's a 50/50 split at my workplace for tea / coffee. Everyone seems to stick exclusively to one or the other even if they would drink both. Apparently I make awesome tea but lousy coffee which has always struck me as a tad peculiar

[rary]

I started drinking coffee at work, there were vending machines with free drinks and tea out of vending machines tastes vile,though when I went hill walking it was always tea as it is more refreshing, in my early day of working, it was a double sided tea box which was filled half and half with tea and sugar, and strangely enough as I remember it it was the most refreshing drink even though it was sweet and strong

[veggiechicken]

Shall we rename this to the vc v rary thread/argument

Call it whatever you like but rary and I don't argue - we're too nice for that.

[DWSmith]

Call it whatever you like but rary and I don't argue - we're too nice for that.

Could it be called banter? Do Bantam chickens banter? Are you a Bantam VC?

[Lumpy]

But would that make a Raa-ster out of our beloved Rary?