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Tea

Coffee

Some magical third drink that slipped my mind whilst writing this

Both

[DJ]

Sure is getting British in here. I thought vast majority of Americans prefer coffee and Americans are a majority on this board

[Vector]

I drink both, but very infrequently due to a. expense and b. extreme jitter-magic.

A lot of oolong and some greens can be infused at least twice, so you can get a fair run of cups with just a bit of the stuff. Comes out a hell of a lot cheaper than coffee in the long run at least, especially if you just hit your local chinatown or whatever.

Ah, but the math department gives out free coffee on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I only need about a tablespoon to make myself extremely high.  I don't actually buy coffee--it'd be an enormous waste.  Only tea, which I occasionally reinfuse, though masala chai is not so great steeped twice (at least the kind that I've been buying).

In any case, it's mostly the extreme jitter-magic that is an issue, with cost a sort of secondary paranoia.

I like my coffee like I like my women.

Roasted, ground up and steeped in hot water? You're a sick bastard.

I almost sigged this.  Almost.  You were so close.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Also, has nobody here heard of hot tea? :/
We usually reuse bags about 6 times before we throw them you

[Nadaka]

Also, has nobody here heard of hot tea? :/
We usually reuse bags about 6 times before we throw them you

The only reason I drink hot tea is because I don't add ice and don't always wait for it to cool naturally.

With the way I make tea, I get about a gallon out of 3 tea bags, not much left to reuse from that.

[PCpaste]

I actually don't like my tea iced...

[Vector]

Also, has nobody here heard of hot tea? :/
We usually reuse bags about 6 times before we throw them you

I drink my tea hot, but the bags I've had were pretty much unusable for a second cup.  Literally no flavor at all, except for vaguely cardboardy-ish water, so that it'd be more efficient flavor-wise to just boil up some water and drink it straight.

My dad, on the other hand, will often keep teabags for a few days, so that he'll put a few of his used ones in a pot on the stove and reboil them, over and over and over.  It gets disgusting pretty quickly.

[RedKing]

I like my coffee like I like my women.

Roasted, ground up and steeped in hot water? You're a sick bastard.

I almost sigged this.  Almost.  You were so close.

Damn! Where did I go wrong?



As far as the lack of hot tea in the US, it's a cultural and climate thing. Too warm most of the year for hot tea, and when it's not, it's trickier to find than coffee or cocoa. Which is itself a product of geography--coffee and cocoa are grown on a large scale in the Western Hemisphere, tea isn't. I will say that hot tea has made inroads over the last decade or so. But a lot of that has been green tea and roobois (red tea) as opposed to the black and oolong teas that Brits go in for.

[Vector]

Eh, I'm just not much of a sigger.


Also, I think that some of the coffee preference has to do with the insane American work week for those who are trying to parvenuify themselves (this is a lot of people).  Tea doesn't give you as much of a kick.

[ein]

Caffeine doesn't actually have any effect on me.
If I need a boost of energy, I drink a bunch of orange juice and eat a survival ration.

[Criptfeind]

No caffeine for me. Poll needs a neither option.

I only drink water and sometimes lemonade (although most lemonade is so weak I can not stand the stuff.)

[Bauglir]

I like my coffee like I like my women.

Roasted, ground up and steeped in hot water? You're a sick bastard.

No, no, no. Covered in bees.

As for expense: Instant coffee was my solution. Got a plastic jar thing for about $3.50, had enough for 30 or so cups at the rate I make them (twice as concentrated as the instructions indicate is correct). That's a very, very rough number, but it's lasted me through 2 weeks of daily coffee plus 2 finals weeks and a brief coffee-honey-banana smoothie binge when I had a 10 page, 20 source paper I needed to research and write in 2 days. And I've still got about an eighth of it left, so take that for what it's worth.

And it lets me make it with a milk base instead of water, but that doesn't exactly help expense.

[Nadaka]

No caffeine for me. Poll needs a neither option.

I only drink water and sometimes lemonade (although most lemonade is so weak I can not stand the stuff.)

I think "magical third drink" covers water.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

We get 50p bags of cheap ass teabags

[RedKing]

I like my coffee like I like my women.

Roasted, ground up and steeped in hot water? You're a sick bastard.

No, no, no. Covered in bees.

The judges would also have accepted:
"Strong, dark and Turkish"
"Bitter, black and mail-ordered from Ethiopia."
"Dangerously close to my crotch while driving."

[Nadaka]

... slightly inappropriate...