Do you like coffee?

I love coffee, but friends and relatives who don't tend to go for hot chocolate, smoothies and juices.

I hate instant coffee, but really enjoy a proper coffee. We had a coffee machine that you could heat the milk, but due my shaky hands I stopped using it as I’d burned myself too often. This Christmas our AC’s bought us a great bean to cup machine that makes several types of coffee and froths the milk itself. It cleans after each cup. I just have to put milk into the jug, water to carrier and the beans into to machine and press the button, I love it.

During my childhoods in the 40s, my mother would use a liberal coating of Germolene for any childhood scrape.
I see that Rooibos tea was mentioned in an early reply.
That tastes just like Germolene smells. Are they related?

Black coffee always - not decaf as that makes me headachy and nauseous.

My morning wake up drink is coffee - just one cup. I then switch to tea for the rest of the day. When I go to a cafe I normally drink coffee, either a cappuccino or a flat white. For some reason I never enjoy a cup of tea in a cafe.

I have never in my life drank tea or coffee. If I go out with friends, it is a sparkling water or a diet Pepsi. (Or preferably a glass of wine!) I was on a tour of Sri Lanka and we went to a tea plantation, we were served tea and when I said I didn't drink it, they brought me a cocktail! The others were very jealous!

I like black tea with no milk or sugar. It's ridiculous to be charged £2 for a teabag and some hot water when I go out.

I drink a hot chocolate.

I absolutely love coffee and drink it throughout the day. Not a tea lover

I am the opposite to you. I love coffee, but never drink tea as it gives me a tummy ache. I have only had one cup of tea all this year. I would be very disappointed if I went out for coffee and was only offered tea.

I have hot chocolate.But I’m always disappointed because it’s never hot enough! I drink my coffee black and I’m too tight to pay a fortune for black coffee .Tea is also not hot enough for me once the milk is in either so in all honesty I prefer a pub ( the coffee in there is hotter anyway) at lest I can have a soft drink which is what I’m going to start doing in coffee shops .

Oreo

Wow, that’s a severe reaction indeed. Am guessing you’ve tried skimmed oat or other milks as well?

Oreo Oat milk looks like milk. I think I have this instinctive reaction, which is quite seperate from how I physically react to milk because my primary school education, and later a prolonged hospital stay was made hideous by people trying to make me drink my daily free bottle of free milk. Food intolerances, especially mild ones were just not understood then.

School milk was often stood on the radiator to warm it through, which made it even more revolting to drink. I became adept at taking my milk and then disposing it somewhere undrunk, but sitting at the table during school lunches, one had no escape and in hospital,.

One nurse discovered that I would casually wander down the end of the wardwith my midmorning milky drink and tip it out of the window (it was a ground floor ward) and would sit over me. In the end, the Ward Sister discovered what was happening and told this nurse in no uncertain terms that if I did not like milk, I should not be made to drink it. I was 13 by then. Instead I had a cup of tea from the nurses teapot. I suspect that the Ward Sister shared my aversion to milk.

I only drink tap water at home, hate the taste and smell of coffee, tea and any other hot drink, also hate alcohol!
When out for a meal I always ask for a jug of tap water, when just out for a drink I have a bottle of still spring water, which seems a waste of money, but I am a cheap date!

I only drink sparkling water, nothing else.

I went off hot drinks when my sister-in-law died horribly of oesophageal cancer at age 43 after a short lifetime of drinking extremely hot tea.

I don’t drink instant coffee, I am a coffee snob. Usually a skinny flat white, sometimes a skinny cappuccino and if I feel like something more milky a skinny latte. I don’t like the taste of full cream milk in coffee. With tea I usually have twinings Earl Grey or English Breakfast . I like it weak so avoid my Mum’s favourite, Yorkshire tea. Sometimes when it is really hot I get an iced coffee. I buy lactose free milk for my cats and if I run out of the usual milk I use that. Not much difference in taste.

Wow, that’s a severe reaction indeed. Am guessing you’ve tried skimmed oat or other milks as well?

Oreo Unfortunately my reflex reaction to anything that tastes like milk is so ingrained, that unless lactose free milk is as devoid of flavour as skimmed UHT, my stomach will still crunch up as soon as I smell it.

We ate out somewhere new today and the waitress brought the box with the condiments to the table and the tomato sauce and mayonnaise were in unlabelled bottles that looked just like the bottles that free school milk came in and the mayonnaise was a very pale cream and looked like yoghourt, I had to turn the box round and put it on another table because just the sight of it started my 'milk reaction'.

Buy lactose free milk Monica
I vastly prefer tea and drink gallons but have an occasional coffee if it’s decaf.

On balance I probably prefer tea, but only if it is skimmed UHT milk, that tastes of nothing. I am mildly lactose intolerant and I can taste any other milk and it makes me feel queasy.

As a result, I drink coffee, which I do not particularly like, but it is hot, and I drink it black so do not need to worry about what milk is in it.

I love the smell of coffee but I'm always disappointed by the taste. If I meet a friend in a cafe I always have tea and then if I have a second drink some pop. My Oh is the opposite and has one of those complicated coffee machines at home and always drinks coffee when he is out.

It depends upon where I'm drinking. I don't like ordering a hot drink in cafes I haven't been to before, just because the quality can vary so much from place to place. Sometimes the tea is so weak that I'm tempted to ask, "Is that a hair on the top or a crack in the bottom?" I generally order herb tea, as they leave the bag in the pot and I can steep it until it's suitable for my own taste.

I’m happy to drink a variety of teas (not fruit teas, though, which I find quite insipid - unless they have some real tea mixed in), and I drink coffee (except the really milky latte types, which I don’t care for - I do enjoy a cappuccino if it’s made with strong coffee, though). So, really, I’m not a one or the other person, but I like them to taste of what they’re meant to be, if you see what I mean 😁.

Coffee first thing in the morning

I always hated coffee until I went to Italy and discovered real coffee. If I'm meeting friends and there is a proper coffee machine I always have a cappuccino, if we are having lunch I have an espresso afterwards. After a Tai Chi session my friends and I go into a local cafe that only sells an instant cappuccino out of a packet, but I've found it's quite nice and probably better than the tea would be.

I'm mostly a coffee drinker, but like a cup of rooibos as well.

But it is funny how we say 'Let's meet for a coffee at 3:00" when we really mean 'lets meet for a visit'.

I read above someone complaining about getting tea with a teabag while out. Is this not common? I don't think I've ever seen tea served here in a teapot with loose leaf tea. It is always served either with a mug and teabag, or a small 2-cup pot and teabag.