Do you like coffee?

I am particular about what I drink coffee or tea from. For some reason I hate straight sided builders type mugs. I can't drink tea nor coffee from them. So I don't like going to Starbucks. well that's one reason.
We have rented the same villa several times in Spain and I loved my coffee in a small white cup and saucer they had there. Thickish white china. I also really like UHT milk when on holiday in my coffee.

But to answer the question, yes I love coffee and use my small cafetiere a lot at home. And have a flat white or sometimes a latte when out. But I hate latte in a tall glass mug/glass.

Beer.

Desdemona 😅😂

I love a good cup of coffee but restrict myself to one a day and always in the morning. Otherwise it's tea or herbal tea. Or even what DH and I used to call kettle tea. In other words, hot water.

If out I go for a flat white, often with oat milk because I'm sadly becoming lactose intolerant in my old age. 🙃

Doodledog

I like iced (well, chilled) coffee, although I will happily drink hot coffee if that’s not available. I also drink tea, and don’t really understand the idea that people should like one or the other, but not both.

I take what I’m given, and don’t ask for one if offered the other. Unless asked by family or a close friend, the answer to ‘I’m making tea, would you like a cup?’ should never be ‘May I have coffee instead?’ or ‘Do you have decaffeinated hibiscus flower tea, please - oh, but only if it’s the one with hints of orange blossom’. The answer is ‘yes please’ or ‘no thank you’. Usually if tea is refused a host will offer coffee if they have some (and have time or inclination to brew it) but I think it’s a bit rude to assume the right to ask. The same applies in reverse, of course. Asking for a glass of water is acceptable, but nothing more (IMO).

Obviously in a cafe people can be as picky as they like, but in someone’s home unless specifically offered ‘tea or coffee’ or ‘a hot drink’ I assume that only what I am offered is easily or conveniently available. It’s a bit like being offered a biscuit and saying, ‘No thanks, but if there’s a bacon sandwich going I’d love one. With brown sauce, please.’

I do have a neighbour who pops in occasionally, she is the first person I have offered a cuppa or coffee to who asked if I had decaffeinated tea and oat or soya milk. Thankfully I did because my grown family often drink the same, but admit I was a bit put out, though of course she could be lactose intolerant and have an adverse reaction to caffeine.
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I love coffee and was put out each time I was pregnant as even the smell of coffee would make me feel sick.

Babs03

Doodledog

I like iced (well, chilled) coffee, although I will happily drink hot coffee if that’s not available. I also drink tea, and don’t really understand the idea that people should like one or the other, but not both.

I take what I’m given, and don’t ask for one if offered the other. Unless asked by family or a close friend, the answer to ‘I’m making tea, would you like a cup?’ should never be ‘May I have coffee instead?’ or ‘Do you have decaffeinated hibiscus flower tea, please - oh, but only if it’s the one with hints of orange blossom’. The answer is ‘yes please’ or ‘no thank you’. Usually if tea is refused a host will offer coffee if they have some (and have time or inclination to brew it) but I think it’s a bit rude to assume the right to ask. The same applies in reverse, of course. Asking for a glass of water is acceptable, but nothing more (IMO).

Obviously in a cafe people can be as picky as they like, but in someone’s home unless specifically offered ‘tea or coffee’ or ‘a hot drink’ I assume that only what I am offered is easily or conveniently available. It’s a bit like being offered a biscuit and saying, ‘No thanks, but if there’s a bacon sandwich going I’d love one. With brown sauce, please.’

I do have a neighbour who pops in occasionally, she is the first person I have offered a cuppa or coffee to who asked if I had decaffeinated tea and oat or soya milk. Thankfully I did because my grown family often drink the same, but admit I was a bit put out, though of course she could be lactose intolerant and have an adverse reaction to caffeine.
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It really wouldn't bother me in the slightest if a visitor asked for a variant of tea or coffee which I don't have. Ten to one they'd be quite happy with what I could offer them, and only asked for something different on the off chance that I might have had it.

In fact, I think that expecting visitors to 'take it or leave it' is a bit of an odd way to treat them.

I really might depend on the time of day; mid-morning might be a coffee but could be tea. If it's afternoon then definetly tea.

Only ever have Twynings Breakfast blend at home, Yorkshire tea at a push but the rest would never get across the threshold.

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I was another who went right off coffee the moment I became pregnant. In fact, I remember a colleague and close friend at work giving me a funny look when I turned down her offer of a coffee and asked for tea instead. Later, after I told people I was pregnant, she said she'd just known at the time. It seems to be quite a common thing for people to go off coffee when they're expecting.

Hot chocolate, in winter, fruit juice in summer. I've never liked coffee.

I’m afraid this is me.
But I also find the suggestion of meeting for ‘a coffee” more of a sort of shorthand than a literal reference to the drink.
It’s like meeting “for tea” - it establishes a time of day. And in the same way , meeting for coffee more than suggests morning - mid morning.
We do it for other things too, don’t we, “let’s meet for a drink “ ( not going to be Ribena) or even “you must come to lunch”
So much of socialising is to do with eating or drinking, isn’t it?

I love tea, but I do feel a bit peeved when I go out for a coffee with friends and they’re all choosing fancy drinks (Choca Locha Bocha Do Da with a wotsit syrup) it does make it more of an occasion! But a pot of Yorkshire Tea with a drop of milk can’t be beaten 🫖

I love tea and coffee. Unfortunately although I love proper ground coffee , it doesn't love me and I can't drink it after early lunchtime. If I do my sleep is badly affected.
I also love "real " tea brewed with proper tealeaves so I will gladly drink that if I am drinking "out".
Real tea is too messy to make all the time so I'm afraid that at home it's tea bags and instant coffee.
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AGAA4

I love coffee and was put out each time I was pregnant as even the smell of coffee would make me feel sick.

It was being pregnant 49 years that put me off tea, as it made me sick. Never went back to drinking tea

I have always been a coffee lover and hate all kinds of tea, china tea in particular! My sister is a tea drinker and has a load of different ones from lapsang suchan and gunpower etc, but for me my favourite is an americano with the smallest amount of COLD milk. Absolutely hate the taste of hot milk in coffee or in any other way. So I usually drink Tesco decaffinated at home, which still tastes of coffee unlike the horrible Taylors weak rubbish. But when I am out I have the luxury of wonderful fresh coffee. I care about how it is served so I take my own china mug with me, and only like coffee served in china, put up with earthernware but wont tolerate horrible cardboard mugs. So for me lovely coffee, with that wonderful smell, and 1 sweetener and a very little milk in the said china is the cheering and calming thing for me. Oh, and I want to pour it myself so that I know exactly how to make it and for me it is a bit like the chinese tea ceremony. In the morning when I am struggling with a lot of pain , and cannot have any painkillers until I have had something to eat - and when in a lot of pain feel quite sick and dont want anything to eat!! So the aim in the morning is to get to the peak of the morning. That is when I have managed to get showered and dressed and made my lovely first coffee and have it all ready just before 6.55am so that I can sit listening to the wonderful J S Bach, comfortable and in the summer looking out at the garden and watching for birds and squirrels etc. At the moment it is horrible and usually too dark to see anything, so I just sit and close my eyes and concentrate on the music, or sit and think what I might be doing that day. I do occasionally enjoy an alcoholic drink ranging from dry cider to a single malt , but if the choice was alcohol or coffee , then coffee wins every time. When things are tight I will do without, or get something I need to have from a charity shop, but I never intend to have instant coffee. This is my last great pleasure and I hope to enjoy it until the day I die!

I drink coffee….love it. Some of my friends who are not great fans of coffee have started drinking mocha. Half coffee, half chocolate. It’s rather good

kittylester

I'm meeting friends 'for coffee' this morning. But I hate coffee and have boring tea.

What do you drink when you go out for coffee?

I don't go out for coffee.

I love espresso, no milk or sugar. Several daily, until after lunch.

I drink PG Tips when it's too late for coffee. Caffeine calms ADD.

Caffeine calms ADD

That’s surprising, Norah - I thought it was a stimulant?

I like good coffee, no milk, no sugar. But I hate huge cups of tasteless coffee, and Starbucks is the worst, and bitter too.
I have 3 cups every morning.

I’m not a big tea drinker and always have it without milk; this from being a child in a home where only sterilised milk was drunk and it was awful in tea. I drink tea now only at home, and it is Tick Tock Rooibos, or one of a growing collection of Pukka herbal teas DD keeps introducing me to! I could open a shop! I love coffee and drink far too much of it. I’m not fussy, fresh or instant.

LucyAnna5

^Caffeine calms ADD^

That’s surprising, Norah - I thought it was a stimulant?

Agreed.

There seems to be no logic, but it's true - at least for me.

Actually, now I think about it, Ritalin (prescribed for children / ADHD) is a stimulant.
If coffee works for you 👍👍

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.

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.

Coffee first thing in the morning