Tea or coffee or Soda or something else?

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This is a light hearted discussion, as a spin off from the serious PI forum. :)

My preferred drink is water, with plenty of ice. That’s what I order in restaurants and o airplanes.

However, I do need some caffeine at breakfast and At tea time (this one is just a habit, not a need). I rarely drink coffee except on vacation. That too is rare. If the hotel room has a Keurig, I drink coffee. If the resort has a coffee maker, I heat up water in the microwave to make tea.

I like some of the herbal teas - (Camomile, Sweet dreams) but I hate Green tea.

Our discussion in PI had veered into tea- availability, cost, etc.

I used to buy Lipton tea bags at Costco in Tempe, AZ (east valley in the Phoenix metro area). After I moved to west valley, I couldn’t find those - I checked two different Costco stores. So I went back to the Costco where I used to buy, but they didn’t have those either. The Phoenix metro area is huge. These stores were apart by 25-30 miles. I could try stores that are 40-50 miles away, but it’s much easier to order from Amazon. May be it depends on States?

As specialty teas I like English teatime and Earl Grey. I bought a box of EG from an Iranian coworker a few years ago, but I realized that for my daily meals I prefer Lipton.

I rarely drink sodas. When I do, it’s Classic coke. It satisfies my need for caffeine but not in the morning. I like it with Pizza.

I see all prices going up everywhere, and they will keep going up. I may consider buying tea in bulk.
 
Coffee is my favorite flavor for ice cream, I love mocha-flavored layer cake, I love coffee in barbecue sauce, but I do not drink coffee, never have.

I’m a tea drinker through and through, but only decaf - English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast, but these days I rarely drink even those.

For health reasons I cannot have caffeine or anything listing phos- on the label, so goodbye Coke and Root Beer. Have never, ever drunk Diet sodas.

Alcohol does not float my boat; I have maybe 1 cocktail a year, maybe 1 beer a year, and I don’t like wine.

These days I’m strictly an 8-10 glasses of water a day girl with the occasional treat of a glass of chocolate milk.
 
During the day, my usual drink is seltzer water. I'll drink still water, but fizzy water is my favorite.

For morning caffeination, coffee with half and half is the only way. I love a good latte when I am at a cafe.
 
Coffee is my favorite flavor for ice cream, I love mocha-flavored layer cake, I love coffee in barbecue sauce, but I do not drink coffee, never have.
coffee yogurt! I like coffee ice cream too. But I don't much like to drink coffee.

I love black tea, Assam or something strong. With milk. Well, soy milk actually.

some seltzer but mostly just plain water
 
I've lately been doing the protein coffee (protein powder flavored like coffee and containing caffeine) as I've been prioritizing protein while losing weight. I also have a large green iced tea each night I work. The protein coffee, I usually just have on the nights I work as well. I don't do much caffeine on my days off, but occasionally will have an iced tea or diet coke if I'm eating out.
 
Coffee is my favorite flavor for ice cream, I love mocha-flavored layer cake, I love coffee in barbecue sauce, but I do not drink coffee, never have.

I’m a tea drinker through and through, but only decaf - English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast, but these days I rarely drink even those.

For health reasons I cannot have caffeine or anything listing phos- on the label, so goodbye Coke and Root Beer. Have never, ever drunk Diet sodas.

Alcohol does not float my boat; I have maybe 1 cocktail a year, maybe 1 beer a year, and I don’t like wine.

These days I’m strictly an 8-10 glasses of water a day girl with the occasional treat of a glass of chocolate milk.
8-10 glasses of water per day are considered healthy, particularly where I live (ina desert).
 
I'm a traitor to my southern roots as I drink unsweetened ice tea. I don't like coffee and broke my coke (in the south it's always coke) habit. I can't drink sweet tea. The further south you go, the sweeter it gets. I was in Georgia once and asked for unsweet ice tea and they just stared at me in confusion. :lol:

But, black tea is in trouble due to climate change and the tariffs are not helping. Tea plants are quite delicate and very sensitive to climate change. I, therefore, have a nice little stash that will last a good while.
 
I'm a coffee drinker. I have been since college .Even if the flavor has no body, even if I need to drink it black, I need it every morning.

I gave it up for Lent one year and drank tea instead. That experience was ... memorable.

I drink tea sometimes if I am in the mood for it, but it is not my morning drink.

The only soda I drink nowadays is seltzer or ginger ale.
 
Coffee in the morning; black tea in the afternoon. Any tea turns my stomach in the morning. I think I can't handle the tannins on an empty stomach.

I try to drink a glass of water with each cup of coffee or tea, both for hydration and dental hygiene. Water helps to reduce teeth staining. My dentist tried to convince me to drink coffee and tea through a straw, which reduces staining even more, but that ain't happening.

I quit a serious diet soda addiction 10+ years ago. I will allow myself one every so often as a special treat, but won't keep it in the house. I love iced tea, but it's hard to find unsweetened (including with artificial sweetener) tea and I'm too lazy to brew it myself. Peach tea is the most popular flavour in the UK, and I hate it. Lemon tea only!
 
I generally have iced tea in the morning. I usually make pitchers of unsweetened, flavored black tea that I brew. I currently have three pitchers in the refrigerator. Starting around noon I tend to drink flavored seltzers. I'll take plain water with me if I'm out walking.

I generally only have hot tea if I'm out with friends or if I don't feel well. If I have a really bad cold or virus, I revert to my childhood and drink hot chocolate and ginger ale.
 
I grew up on Lipton tea (both hot and cold) and still enjoy it cold. For hot my cabinet is stocked with Celestial Seasonings India Spice Chai. I also add a little milk or half and half.

I love Dr. Pepper Zero but have to limit it. I like lemon-lime zero calorie sparkling water. I’ve never been a traditional black coffee drinker but do enjoy the flavor in cappuccino offerings.
 
I grew up on Lipton tea (both hot and cold) and still enjoy it cold. For hot my cabinet is stocked with Celestial Seasonings India Spice Chai. I also add a little milk or half and half.

I love Dr. Pepper Zero but have to limit it. I like lemon-lime zero calorie sparkling water. I’ve never been a traditional black coffee drinker but do enjoy the flavor in cappuccino offerings.
I always drink hot tea. I don’t care for ice tea at all. I love ice water though. I do like lemonade - any flavor.
 
I'm a tea drinker, no coffee for me. Otherwise, water, usually flat but occasionally sparkling, and the only soda I drink is ginger ale when my stomach is upset, and it has to be all natural like Q Ginger.

And now I'll be judgy. The proliferation of drinks to go and bottled water is trashing the planet with single use plastics. Somehow we managed to survive just fine in the last century without the need for a daily Starbucks or Dunkin', energy drinks, or liter-sized bottles of soda. Now it seems like people have a drink in one hand and their phone in the other. (And don't be fooled by paper cups for coffee - they're lined with plastic.)
 
I don't like tea out, I brew it myself so I always have had my morning hot drink before I go out.

The habit of buying coffee on the way to work or wherever has puzzled me but now its so expensive. One day I had to be out and I got a small iced chai at a coffee place and it was over $5. I'm like once a month, maybe, but how can people afford to buy coffee or something out everyday?
 
I don't like tea out, I brew it myself so I always have had my morning hot drink before I go out.

The habit of buying coffee on the way to work or wherever has puzzled me but now its so expensive. One day I had to be out and I got a small iced chai at a coffee place and it was over $5. I'm like once a month, maybe, but how can people afford to buy coffee or something out everyday?
I'm happy to know this wasn't just me. I hate coffee anyway, but I couldn't imagine buying something that cost more than $2 for a beverage.

I drank a lot of water in the States.
 
I'm truly shocked at how many of my US colleagues go to Starbucks multiple times a day. Some of them must spend $20/day on coffee, perhaps more. And there's free coffee in the office! Not just nasty machine coffee (which I will drink) but an in-house barista. I guess it's good that other people keep the economy going....

To Bittybug's point, I'm also really dubious that these "sippy cup" style cups are better than straws for the environment. Recyclable / compostable or not, it's so much waste.
 
I don't like tea out, I brew it myself so I always have had my morning hot drink before I go out.

The habit of buying coffee on the way to work or wherever has puzzled me but now its so expensive. One day I had to be out and I got a small iced chai at a coffee place and it was over $5. I'm like once a month, maybe, but how can people afford to buy coffee or something out everyday?
I too brew my tea myself. I don’t like the tea they serve outside.
 
I used to drink a 16 - or maybe even 20?? :yikes: - ounce bottle of pepsi every day. I quit that like 15 years ago by switching to a bottled iced tea that was lightly sweetened, then to unsweetened iced tea. Occasional iced soy lattes or mochas - all because I did not like hot beverages at all.

I taught myself to drink hot coffee before I started traveling because 1) my workplace had coffee that was bad but free vs my $5/pop iced coffees and 2) I figured I'd get laughed out of Europe for trying to order iced coffees. Over the years travel made me really love coffee, in part because cafes are the best people watching. I now love a strong, hot cup of coffee in the morning (milk, no sugar). Unfortunately, in the last 2-3 years I have discovered that I really should only drink 1 cup of caffeine a day. This makes me sad, and sometimes I ignore it, but that means I am bouncing off the walls later. Oh well.

And finally - I have managed to accumulate a LOT of tea. In summertime I make hibiscus iced tea (unsweetened) and drink it with lots of ice all day long. But I also have spices to make chai lattes at home from scratch, and I went a little bonkers in Taiwan and have at least a year's worth of leaf tea. I don't drink hot tea with milk unless it's a chai latte, so sometimes I decide on tea instead of coffee in the mornings. For afternoons/evenings, I have dried bael fruit that I make into tea.

The price of coffee is insane right now. I am almost out of beans in my fridge, and I am trying to talk myself into drinking tea at home until this whole tariff nightmare is over.
 
I love tea. Oolong and Chai are my favorites. I also drink a crap ton of pop. Diet Dr. Pepper is my favorite. Squirt when my blood sugar gets low. I try to drink water as much as I can, but sometimes it weirdly makes my blood sugar low. Then I drink some regular pop, and I'm full of fluid, which makes me have to pee. 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
I used to drink a 16 - or maybe even 20?? :yikes: - ounce bottle of pepsi every day. I quit that like 15 years ago by switching to a bottled iced tea that was lightly sweetened, then to unsweetened iced tea.

At one point I drank over two liters of diet soda every day :scream:. There were some days I probably had four liters.

I also disliked hot beverages and really hated coffee - the smell, the taste everything. I was desperate for caffeine while working full time and going to business school full time, so I started by literally holding my nose while drinking coffee. It started with milk + splenda, then shifted to just milk, then just shifted to black. An acquired taste if there ever was one. Now I love the smell.

Drinking coffee allowed me to quit diet soda at least, and there are some health benefits to coffee v. none to diet soda.
 
Home-made green tea ice tea with hand-squeezed lime juice. I also drink two diet cokes a day.
 
I grew up drinking tea (we had a tea cabinet). Tea parties as a toddler had real tea. I drank tea most of my life. I switched over to coffee when I cut dairy (I always drank some coffee - mostly lattes - but I was a tea drinker) because I love black tea with milk. I don’t love tea with dairy free milk. Oat milk is probably the best with tea but I hate oat milk lol. I do drink more tea in the winter (though I probably had 4+ cups this week).

There was a time I ordered coffee out a lot. Lattes or coffee with breakfast. These days? I just prefer my own coffee. It tastes better. I spend a little more on good coffee and it’s just better than what I get elsewhere (funny enough, I get my coffee from a local coffee shop. I grind my own beans. I prefer the cup I make vs a cup purchased from them). If I do get coffee out (rare these days), I try to bring a reusable mug.

Other than coffee and tea? I drink a lot of seltzer. I need to be better about drinking flat water, but plain and bubbly? I can drink it all day.
 
every day I have 3 black coffees, pour over method no sweetener, made from espresso beans.
I usually have a couple of cups of tea, my current favorite is roasted buckwheat genmaicha. my favorite is usually from that family.
I drink water at home but it has to be filtered and very cold. I dont like water from plastic bottles or many tap waters.
I like the flavored seltzer from spindrift, my current favorite is fuji apple.
I make unsweetened ice tea. My current favorite is the Harney's Bangkok.
 
@BittyBug what brand of sticky rice oolong are you drinking? I've been sticking to Harney's for most things since Covid, the mean lady I got my tea from before that I think didnt reopen.
 
Espresso from my apartment building machine with half and half in the morning, and the same over ice from our office machine at lunchtime.

When I'm home, after breakfast it's flavored sparkling water and brewed tea. All but black tea plain, and black tea with half and half. I love green tea.

I live in a small apartment with a 3/4 size fridge where the only tall space for a pitcher for cold tea is on the door, which I need for other things, and the freezer is too small for the amount of ice I like with tap water.
 

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