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Tea, Earl Grey, hot!
Except, I prefer to have mine with milk. Earl Grey for me is a breakfast tea, I grew up with it virtually EVERY breakfast for eighteen years. I love it, I don't want to live without my Earl Grey. It also works very well with Digestives. 
Apart from this tea, I have eight other varieties in the cabinet above the stove. Three of those are green, one is green/black in a mix and one is red. All taste great, except maybe the Gunpowder coz it is a bit coarse on the tongue, but that one is still nice.
I didn't buy myself a tea percolator for nothing you know! 
Hugs, smith:
-L
PS: Gus seems to be a really lucky guy, such luscious complexion that girl has! 
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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marc
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I like Earl Grey as well..... in the evening mostly.... but you can have the moo
For brekkie I prefer Orange Pecoe
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I have never been able to handle the taste of coffee, just a bit too strong for me.
For REAL tea (with caffeine) I'm now drinking Lipton's green tea (orange, passionfruit and jasmine flavor). But am limited to just one cup a day by my doctor. Most of the time it's Celestial Seasonings decaf mandarin orange green tea.
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marc
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Ohhhh....
That sounds yummy.....
I shall get some....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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No caffeine, very little tannine acid (much less than ordinary tea), and tons of goodies like minerals and antioxidants.
Also, it has a nice color and it has a natural sweetening agent too, which enhances the taste.
Take care!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Neither, actually. I've never been big into coffee, even on cold days. And, well, this is kinda embarrassing to admit.....I'm alergic to tea. It's wierd and uncommon, but it's true. I'm living in the south, where iced tea is pretty much the house wine at some restaunants and the pride of some lady's kitchen arts, and I have to turn it down or get like violently sick and possibly die.
If it's cold out, hot cocoa does it for me. All other times, well, i'm hopelessly addicted to Vanilla Coke. I was mixing them at home even before Coca-Cola came out with it. Gets my sugar fix and my caffeine jones going every time.
Stop by one day and I'll buy you a cup. Cheers, all!
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Mmmm. I have some bad memories of coffee. See this one time during either finals or midterms (cannot rememebr now) When I was a sophomore I decided that I needed to study! So I drank I believe it was 6 or 7 cups of coffee not realizing any problem with it. So ya know some of you who have apparnely drank too much coffee now its not a pleasant feeling. Turned out I loked od;ed on caffeine that night and was shaking really bad and puking my guts up for 4 or 5 hours. Looking back on it is seems kind of humourous at the time I thought I was dying though. I mean I'll put it this way I was shaking so bad that my mom couldnt stop me from shaking. She is much bigger then I was and she couldn't help at all.
So that is my long tale about why I no longer drink coffee. I know their is decaf also but just the idea of coffee is very unappealing. I have such yucky memories of pukign it up...
It was ok though because I love tea. So I too have become a full fledged addict of that and orange soda *drools on his keyboard*
Love
Peace and Tress
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Mmmm you should try lemon and lime and hot water and lemon. It is actually something shem told me to sue to help get my voice back (which it worked beautifully for). However I ahve grown quite addicted to it. No tea just citris and honey sooo good.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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I like both drinks, but which I'll have when is slightly complicated.
I love tea. It is so refreshing. I make myself a BIG mug of tea for breakfast, which has got to be my favourite drink of the day. I also love the British tradition for afternoon tea around 4pm.
But I also like coffee. Coffee wins hands down on the aroma front, although sadly the taste of coffee never quite lives up to the promise of the smell of freshly ground beans. I don't drink much coffee at home - it tends to be something I drink when I go out. I particularly enjoy a cup of filter coffee after a nice meal at a restaurant.
At work I have the drink which emerges when you press the "coffee" button in the morning and the drink which emerges when you press the "tea" button in the afternoon. Both are fine so long as you don't think of them as coffee and tea.
Good Earth Sweet & Spicy Red Tea sounds intriguing - tell us more! I would guess that you drink that without milk? Does it come in tea bags or do you brew it in a pot?
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Just never liked the taste of coffee... I sometimes drink "special coffees" like something called Wienercafé, which has has coffee and cocoa in it, I think.
I like lots of teas, really... 'Irish Breakfast Tea' is good, just like 'English Breakfast Tea' too... and 'Lady Gray' and then they sell something called 'Bride of the Emperor' here, which is really good too. And I also like green teas. Oh, and I got to taste japanese rice tea a few weeks back, it tasted almost like popcorn or rice cakes. Was really weird
Setras
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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The Good Earth Sweet&Spicy red tea is wonderful. It smells like cinnamon and you feel like you're drinking cider Yum....It's tea bags and I don't put anything in it. I can buy it in the grocery store here.
http://www.goodearth.com
Another favorite is Red Rose Tea. I liked it when I was little cause each box contains a tiny china animal and I'd make Mama take all the tea bags out so I could get the elephant or the lion or the gorilla and put them in my "zoo". Haha...the tea is good too.
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Coffee, black. For breakfast anyways. I usually love a hearty, darker coffee like French Roast. For years I drank an entire pot every morning but not anymore. My doctor frightened me off drinnking that much. I switched to drinking half regular and half decaf and now only drink three cups in the morning. As for tea, I prefer it iced. Arizona brand makes a green tea with gensing and honey that I have ripped off. I simply make my own blend. My wife and daughter prefer it to the Arizona and we nearly always have a pitcher in the fridge. For hot tea, I usually prefer Earl Grey or English Breakfast, prehaps with a drop of honey, but never milk.
What is hard to believe about coffee is that espresso drinks have less cafeine than drip brewed coffee even though they taste stronger. It's all in the brewing process. The flavor components are released first and at higher temperatures while the cafeine is slower to be extracted from the bean. Since the beans in a drip brewed coffee are in the water for several minutes, more cafeine is extracted. Espresso is brewed by forcing steam through the beans quickly, therefore it contains more flavor, but less cafeine. This is why people can consume Starbucks or other espresso drinks in the evening and still get to sleep.
Think good thoughts,
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Well, for the entire time I was in Australia I had neither anyway, growing up as a Mormon both are considered things 'best avoided' due to the caffeine content. I used to be (and still am) quite big on hot chocolates, though, or cold milk based drinks like Milo and Nesquik.
Here in Japan I'm being a little more liberal with the Mormon rules, but I'm still not really much of a big tea or coffee drinker. I have tried it all, but still not a big fan. If I do drink either I prefer it to be flavoured or with milk. Black coffee is a little too strong for me, but occasionally I will use it as a remedial thing for work, if I forget to sleep the night before. Cafe Au Laite (how do you spell that? In Japanese it is just phonetic! Ca-fe Ou Re-i) is okay, but I'd prefer a chocolate flavoured drink, personally, it lacks the bitter and occasionally burnt taste coffee has.
As for teas, well, in Japan people usually just drink Oolong, Wheat Tea, Milk Tea or Green Tea, especially hot and I find none of them overly appealing. In Japan however, iced teas are VERY popular, especially during the hot humid summers, they come in all the above listed kinds, as well as flavoured teas. My favourites are lemon tea and peach tea, although really I think I just prefer fruit juice, if I want something with a bit of a milder taste than juice I'll buy a tea, though, juice can be a bit sweet at times. As Andy said, Lemon and Honey with hot water can be good (I hate it cold, though) but I've only ever really drank it when I've had a cold, or been close to having one, but I'm sure it is quite nice normally, I just prefer my hot drinks to have milk in them, it is more comforting, especially if you use all milk and no water.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
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I want to try all of the delicious brews mentioned above, altho I must admit to liking quite a few of them already.
Iced peppermint tea is a fav.
Swiss chocolate almond and French vanilla coffees are great.
And the Hard Rock Cafe in Singapore has a terrific red iced tea with a clove in it that's wowza! I'm going there on Sunday night for dinner while on my visa run.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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marc
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Although I haven't done so in a long time.....
I sometimes put two or three whole cloves into the pot to steep with the tea. It has a wonderful down deep warming quality to it.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Hmm... I'm soaking in coffee with a cup of tea in my hand!
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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I don't really drink either coffe or tea often, but my choice is tea if I had to pick.
Earl grey and one I found called "English tea time" is really good.
Sometimes Green tea is good as well, mostly midday for mme on that.
Drink up,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Tea vs. Coffee 
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I'm just like Captain Picard. 
You should try Rooibos then. 
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