Tea & Coffee

[Dquincy]

Love the stuff.

Enjoying some herbal lemon and ginger tea at the moment. I do drink a big mug full before bed which inevitably means i need a piss during the night.

Anyone have a favourite?

[Offshore Toon]

Just black tea or coffee these days. Tea is much nicer than coffee.

[Giggles]

Just black coffee. Coffee is much nicer than tea.

[Pepe]

They are both shit. If I am dragged to a coffee shop for some reason, I got for the hot chocolate. :cool:

Tea is less shit.

[Reg]

I avoid caffeine but like camomile and whatnot. The flavoured ones are nice, honey or spiced apple. Lemon and ginger tea is alright.

[Offshore Toon]

I avoid caffeine but like camomile and whatnot. The flavoured ones are nice, honey or spiced apple. Lemon and ginger tea is alright.
I don't like drinking too much caffeine, but tea is pretty great. I tend to go through phases of drinking loads or none. Coffee if I'm really desperate to stay awake or need perking up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They are both shit. If I am dragged to a coffee shop for some reason, I got for the hot chocolate. :cool:

Tea is less shit.
Pepe is on the money.

[Giggles]

Pepe is on the money.

If he had a massive vagina, yes.

[Offshore Toon]

Pepe is on the money.
How is bringing up hot chocolate in a thread about tea and coffee "on the money?"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How is bringing up hot chocolate in a thread about tea and coffee "on the money?"

Because it's not shit unlike tea and coffee.

[hfswjyr]

Coffee makes me hyperactive, so never that.

Tea. A single cup of English Breakfast or Earl Grey with milk no sugar in the morning. As many cups of green tea or lemon/ginger in the evening as I like. This usually depends on how cold it is.

[Disco]

English Breakfast with a dash of milk from the second I wake up until I go to bed.

[Boydy]

They are both shit. If I am dragged to a coffee shop for some reason, I got for the hot chocolate. :cool:

Tea is less shit.


Pepe is on the money.

Children.

[Alex]

I've started drinking black tea exclusively at work now. I always used to drink it white but the sight of the frothy remains of the powdered milk stuck to the bottom of the cup when I'd finished began to disgust me, so I've binned that off. Obviously I could just boil the kettle and use real milk, but the machine is free and pushing button and waiting ten seconds is a lazy convenience, and one which means I end up drinking an absolute shitload of the stuff on a daily basis. Anyway, I think I like it more black, is the lesson I've learnt here.

I usually drink green tea at home now. I'm not sure how that started, but it did and I very much like it. Coffee can fuck off. I quite often wish I liked it, because sometimes the fancier ones look very nice, but I can never quite get past the smell.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Coffee I like for the taste rather than the caffeine. Tea just tastes of eating a clump of grass.

[Browning]

English Breakfast with a dash of milk from the second I wake up until I go to bed.

This pretty much sums it up for me. Not sure I can function without tea, but Coffee is usually shit.

[Offshore Toon]

Coffee can be done well. Coffee ice cream is great. Coffee with mostly milk and maybe a bit of hot chocolate/sugar is also delicious, but you can't be drinking them all day.

[Byron]

Don't like coffee, but I drink litres of tea a day. Usually Earl Grey or Darjeeling but I like most specialty teas. Black obviously.

[John Arne]

I have at least 3 iced-coffee's a day. Fucking love 'em.

[Ian]

They are both shit. If I am dragged to a coffee shop for some reason, I got for the hot chocolate. :cool:

Pepe has it.

[Kikó]

I'm a coffee wanker. There are some great coffee shops in London. The best uses Monmouth with Jersey milk.

I rarely drink tea but I'll do earl grey with milk.

[Adamski]

I'm a coffee wanker. There are some great coffee shops in London. The best uses Monmouth with Jersey milk.

I rarely drink tea but I'll do earl grey with milk.

:cool:

Latte in the morning as the shop across from my work gives me a free coffee a day as part of my bank account benefits.

Maybe a green tea in the afternoon and a regular tea at night.

Grind my own beans (@Giggles yeah bro) at the weekend and either have it just black or maybe froth some milk up for it.

We've got some excellent small batch coffee shops up here so I tend to just alternate the beans I buy.

[Pen]

Can't beat a good espresso. I usually only have two cups a day, and unfortunately they're espresso's only if I'm out somewhere.

I think green tea with Sushi and the likes, but other than that tops once a month.

[Magic]

They are both shit. If I am dragged to a coffee shop for some reason, I got for the hot chocolate. :cool:

Tea is less shit.

Can always spot a fucking mong a mile off. Mocha and hot chocolate are typical fare for the disabled.

[Magic]

Milk with coffee is pointless. Ruins the taste.

[Dquincy]

I'm a coffee wanker. There are some great coffee shops in London. The best uses Monmouth with Jersey milk.

I rarely drink tea but I'll do earl grey with milk.

I frequent Monmouth quite often in Borough Market. Agreed it's the best place for coffee in London...that i know of.

I'm a coffee man, have a machine and bean grinder at home. Love the stuff, but I'm sure caffine has no affect on me. Doesn't perk me up, nor to i feel slumber if i go without.

[Dquincy]

Just black coffee. Coffee is much nicer than tea.

Tea (not herbal) or coffee without milk is an interesting one. Is it really better? As the ladies say, once you go black...

Espresso aside i rarely go for an americano.

[Giggles]

:cool:

Latte in the morning as the shop across from my work gives me a free coffee a day as part of my bank account benefits.

Maybe a green tea in the afternoon and a regular tea at night.

Grind my own beans (@Giggles yeah bro) at the weekend and either have it just black or maybe froth some milk up for it.

We've got some excellent small batch coffee shops up here so I tend to just alternate the beans I buy.

I've gone as far as roasting my own beans in the past so yeah bro indeed, but nowadays 90% of my coffee drinking is on the road from petrol stations anyway so there's no point. The thing with decent coffee shops is that they're always in the middle of towns with fuck all parking so I never bother.

I wouldn't have the neck to ask for the free one.

[Mazuuurk]

Coffee is the shit.

CY@!

[Byron]

I'm a coffee wanker. There are some great coffee shops in London. The best uses Monmouth with Jersey milk.

I rarely drink tea but I'll do earl grey with milk.

You're dead to me.

[Adamski]

I've gone as far as roasting my own beans in the past so yeah bro indeed, but nowadays 90% of my coffee drinking is on the road from petrol stations anyway so there's no point. The thing with decent coffee shops is that they're always in the middle of towns with fuck all parking so I never bother.

I wouldn't have the neck to ask for the free one.

I know, you mentioned grinding before I'm sure.

90% of the people in the coffee shop in the morning are getting the free one, must be some kickback from Barclays they get. It's just a flash of the voucher on the app and minimal chat, ideal.

[Adamski]

Milk with coffee is pointless. Ruins the taste.

If I'm having instant I'll sometimes put milk in it because instant is a lot bitterererer.

[Giggles]

I know, you mentioned grinding before I'm sure.

90% of the people in the coffee shop in the morning are getting the free one, must be some kickback from Barclays they get. It's just a flash of the voucher on the app and minimal chat, ideal.

I just find the main highlight of some shop mongs day is to try publicly embarrass anyone looking a freebie. That's why I've over €2000 worth of vouchers lying in a drawer at home too :cool:
You need a brasser neck than I have to go up against them.

[Kikó]

You're dead to me.

I will happily ruin your tea.

[igor_balis]

Fucking love coffee. I'll usually get espresso (ideally ristretto) when out. At home its burr grinded beans in a caffetiere. I'll put milk in at home but mostly cus its too hot without and I'm usually rushing around like a spaz in the morning. Tea is alright but I can take it or leave it. If I'm really hungover I'll sometimes have a sugary white tea monstrosity.

[Adamski]

Get an Aeropress igor_balis, light years better than the cafetiere.

[Pepe]

I'm a coffee wanker.

Shocker.

[Disco]

I just find the main highlight of some shop mongs day is to try publicly embarrass anyone looking a freebie. That's why I've over €2000 worth of vouchers lying in a drawer at home too :cool:
You need a brasser neck than I have to go up against them.

You don't strike me as someone who would give a shit.

[Kikó]

Shocker.

No, really.

[Magic]

If I'm having instant I'll sometimes put milk in it because instant is a lot bitterererer.

I always check beforehand. I never have it through my own free will.

"Tea, coffee?"
"Yes my dear, can you tell me where you source the beans from?"
"Err...Heinz"
"Mmmm, I think I'll have water"

[Dquincy]

Does coffee make you shit more?

[Dquincy]

Anyone shit their pants before? I knew a guy at school who did.

[Giggles]

I shit a lot, but I've never stopped the coffee long enough to see if it slowed me down.

[igor_balis]

Anyone shit their pants before? I knew a guy at school who did.

I get really sweaty, especially when I've had a lot of caffeine and alcohol. One night I got really drunk at the tiny living room sized pub in town, including plenty of jagerbombs. My arse was so sweaty I convinced myself I'd shat myself (I definitely hadn't, but my paranoia kicked in and I just assumed it was really clear, liquid shit), and flushed my pants down the toilet. Worst idea ever.

Poor matriarch of the pub ended up having to fish them out of the toilet, and because I blushed so heavily when someone asked who'd done it, I've now got a reputation of a pant shitter despite never shitting my pants. The horrors of hyperhydrosis and being a total fucking spastic, there.

[phonics]

Coffee is dog shit. Black Tea is for perverts.

[Dquincy]

How many are you having a day? Giggles

Shits.

[Dquincy]

:D Excellent story. igor_balis

Way better than mine. The school boy i knew simply wasn't allowed to go to the toilet in class, so he took a shit in his trousers whilst sat at his desk.

[Giggles]

Two good ones and maybe an afternoon freshner the odd time.

[Raoul Duke]

Morning coffee, afternoon tea. In the evenings I'll usually have a Chai with honey and soy milk.

I'm a bit of a coffee ponce, but I've been stuck using the work cafe's Costa machine for 6 months. It's hellish. I'm trying to get them to buy us a decent coffee machine for the office. At the weekends I'll have a cafetière or an Aeropress.

If I get something from a shop 9/10 times I'll have a latte.

[Dquincy]

Costa really is the worst of the coffee store chains.

Had a salted caramel cappuccino from there once. Nearly vom'd. True story.

[Kikó]

Starbucks is the worst and it's expensive.

[Giggles]

I don't mind a Costa but I prefer Nero out of all the chains. We don't have it here though, it's all just Costa, Starbucks, and Insomnia.

[niko_cee]

I think Costa were the first UK chain to acknowledge the existence of the flat white, so credit where credit's due. Surely Starbucks is the yardstick for shit coffee, if we're in the business of pointlessly denigrating the mass producers. Why are all their size options massive?

[Dquincy]

Pret is the best. Good coffee, great chocolate croissants, and good lunch selection.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't mind a Costa but I prefer Nero out of all the chains. We don't have it here though, it's all just Costa, Starbucks, and Insomnia.

A stunning run of correctness there. Costa do a fine job on ubiquity alone, but Nero is the best stuff of the chains.

If you put some coffee beans in your car's water tank for an hour or so that would produce a superior cup to what Starbucks churn out.

[Kikó]

Agreed. Nero do a decent espresso.

[Offshore Toon]

Pret is the best. Good coffee, great chocolate croissants, and good lunch selection.
Pain au chocolat.

[igor_balis]

costa is pretty rubbish. the other blend they do for an extra 20p definitely improves it. nero is actually alright i reckon. starbucks is by far the best if you're after some chocolate milshake frappe bullshit, which is me when i'm hungover enough.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pain au chocolat.

I asked for one of these the other day and the (eastern European) girl looked at me quizzically, I sighed and said 'A pain au chocolate', she looked oddly again and said 'a hot chocolate?' and so I pointed at it.

'Ah,' she said, 'a payne of chocolate'.

[igor_balis]

oh yeah learn to refresh, you basically all agreed on that about 10 minutes ago

[Giggles]

All this agreeing is unnerving. Where's Magic to tell us we're all cunts?

[Offshore Toon]

I asked for one of these the other day and the (eastern European) girl looked at me quizzically, I sighed and said 'A pain au chocolate', she looked oddly again and said 'a hot chocolate?' and so I pointed at it.

'Ah,' she said, 'a payne of chocolate'.
It must be a Jersey thing but I can't help but think 'retard' when somebody calls it a chocolate croissant. My mate did it and has since had the piss taken out of him, but he's also brought up that Sainsburys are calling them chocolate croissants as well. Everything is being dumbed down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A croissant is called a croissant because it's in the shape of a crescent. Calling anything else a croissant is like saying cheese is rice.

[igor_balis]

my mum lolled at me until I stopped calling them chocolate croissants when i was about 8

[ItalAussie]

The coffee was one of the things I missed most about Australia when I moved away. That and the beach.

The quality of coffee is just so high here, and the market is dominated by independent cafes, rather than chains, and the overall market quality means that if you serve bad coffee, you don't get any customers. The tea here is frankly piss compared to the UK (moving to the UK taught me what tea is supposed to be), of course, but the coffee is just leagues better.

[Dark Soldier]

My cousin gave me a cup of this African coffee once, said it was ultra strong and I'd get an instant buzz off it. It just tasted like coffee. I don't get that caffeine buzz though. I also hate tea, and rarely drink coffee as is. Water, with the odd cherry coke please.

[Dquincy]

I asked for one of these the other day and the (eastern European) girl looked at me quizzically, I sighed and said 'A pain au chocolate', she looked oddly again and said 'a hot chocolate?' and so I pointed at it.

'Ah,' she said, 'a payne of chocolate'.

Maybe she was waiting for you to say "please", you rude arsehole .

[Dquincy]

You all owe me an apology. It's a chocolate croissant. And they are delish.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/43/d7/5f/pret-a-manger.jpg

[Magic]

Every independent > Nero > Starbucks > Pret > Costa

[Giggles]

Every independent > Nero > Starbucks > Pret > Costa

Yeah but every independent has the floor space of a broom cupboard, is full of tossers, and never ever has a car park.

[Magic]

Pret is full of utter cunts and Costa is full of utter cunts who wish they were in a Pret instead. Fuck em all.

[Magic]

Yeah but every independent has the floor space of a broom cupboard, is full of tossers, and never ever has a car park.

That's the charm. Though I must admit an early morning/late evening is vital these chains exist.

[Offshore Toon]

You all owe me an apology. It's a chocolate croissant. And they are delish.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/43/d7/5f/pret-a-manger.jpg
Apologies, my boy.

[Dquincy]

Forget about it, brah.

[Magic]

Rainforests are cool.

Fuck me.

[Dquincy]

Well, they're not uncool.

You're uncool.

[Offshore Toon]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81hb9Pu7ppL._SL1500_.jpg

This stuff is good. It basically saves you using two teabags instead of one.

[Shindig]

I would never describe tea as malty. I can't say no to a croissant at the moment. Screw going into a coffee place, though. Especially in this charade of a city. You can't move for them. Even the places that aren't coffee establishments advertise they do them in big capital letters.

[Disco]

Not tried the Assam ones but normal PG tips are horrible, although not as bad as Yorkshire Tea which tastes like plastic.

[Magic]

Normal PG is Assam too. All black tea is Assam.

[Dquincy]

To decaf or not decaf, that is the question.

[Disco]

Normal PG is Assam too. All black tea is Assam.

They're the ones differentiating it not me.

[Boydy]

Not tried the Assam ones but normal PG tips are horrible, although not as bad as Yorkshire Tea which tastes like plastic.

You fucking what?

[Magic]

All 'make' tea is shite.

[Disco]

You fucking what?

PG is horrible and Yorkshire Tea tastes like plastic, I thought it was pretty clear myself.

[Byron]

Disco is quite right here.

[Dquincy]

Yorkshire tea is shit.

[Shindig]

I'm fine with PG, given that I can't be arsed to do the Ringtons thing.

[Giggles]

Not sure if they have them on the mainland but I was just in a Lavazza on the Belfast to Antrim road (by the cake selection they're a relation of Bewleys coffee shops in Ireland) and the coffee wasn't too bad. About Insomnia level.

[Magic]

I've just bought Lidl's own Colombian Roast coffee beans, see what they are like.

I'm a bit of a hot drink pervert.

I have:

Normal Assam (this is the organic, unbleached stuff, non-branded apart from Clipper)
White Tea (Clipper)
Rooibos (Redbush Tea Company)
Oatflower, lavender & limeflower (Pukka)

For my coffee as I grind my own beans I try varied ones, independent coffee shops mostly but I tried Taylor's and they were ok.

Also shout out to Horlicks but :sick: @ hot chocolate.