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Your favourite coffee and tea?

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nanna8 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:57:50

I always get a skinny flat white except if it is very hot and then I get an iced coffee. Never never never drink ‘instant’.
I like Earl Grey tea but also don’t mind green tea. English breakfast at a pinch but it must be Twinings.

MissAdventure Tue 02-Feb-21 20:30:36

My mum drank mellow birds. smile
I've just remembered.

Hetty58 Tue 02-Feb-21 20:33:11

Good strong Yorkshire tea and Gold Blend coffee - and plenty of both!

MissAdventure Tue 02-Feb-21 20:34:59

Ooh yes!

Pittcity Tue 02-Feb-21 20:35:58

Pure Assam, strong with milk no sugar or Lift lemon tea with honey. I only drink coffee when out but prefer a mocha or chai tea latte.

BlueBelle Tue 02-Feb-21 20:36:08

Instant coffee whatever’s on offer lately it’s been L’Or decaf don’t drink tea

rafichagran Tue 02-Feb-21 20:36:47

Yorkshire tea and illy coffee for me.

HurdyGurdy Tue 02-Feb-21 20:41:53

I'm not over keen on coffee, but if I'm going to have one it will be cappuccino with a generous sprinkling of chocolate on it.

I only have Clipper Fairtrade everyday tea, and I've always got a few teabags with me to make sure I enjoy my tea wherever I am grin

MiniMoon Tue 02-Feb-21 20:53:25

Yorkshire tea, with Co-op 99 tea bags a close second.

I rarely drink coffee, so don't have a favourite.

paddyanne Tue 02-Feb-21 21:34:36

I use instant for every day ,its Percol espresso or Italian style .Taylors if I can be bothered making "real" coffee ,I keep my ground in the freezer .Black sugarless tea ,just whatevers on special offer in the supermarket though I have green tea and umpteen fruit teas in the cupboard.I'm quite fond of lemon and ginger with extra lemon in it .

nanna8 Tue 02-Feb-21 22:15:01

I tried Yorkshire tea when we were over in the uk just before the Plague. I found it a bit strong, it must be an acquired taste. They do sell it here in our local supermarket so a lot must love it. My mum was from Yorkshire and she always liked a strong tea with an Eccles cake.
Some of the fruit teas aren’t bad.

geekesse Tue 02-Feb-21 22:24:04

Coffee: double espresso

Tea:
Morning - Lady Grey
Afternoon - Lapsang Souchong
Evening - Redbush (not really tea, of course)
(I also keep in stock English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Rose Pouchong, Chai and Fortnum and Mason Royal Blend)

MissAdventure Tue 02-Feb-21 22:26:49

Yorkshire tea is an acquired taste, I think.
Tetleys make a pretty strong brew, but it's not the same richness of Yorkshire. Lovely! I really want a cup now, and I'm too lazy to go and do it!

Hellogirl1 Tue 02-Feb-21 23:01:20

I like my tea very weak, no milk or sugar, and mostly buy plain old Tesco everyday teabags.
I only drink instant coffee, I like Nescafe, but mostly buy Tesco`s own brand. Birds is like drinking gravy, and I hate gravy!

MissAdventure Tue 02-Feb-21 23:05:22

I like a drink of bovril.

Dinahmo Tue 02-Feb-21 23:09:05

Loose green tea, never tea bags. Espresso after meals, large strong coffee made in a cafetiere mid morning. No instant in the house except for a small jar of instant espresso powder, essential for making Nigella's cappuccino pavlova.

Allegretto Tue 02-Feb-21 23:11:17

Twinings tea bags or Earl Grey. I ring the changes with ground coffee beans, but usually Colombian or Kenyan, made in a cafetière.

MissAdventure Tue 02-Feb-21 23:15:50

Do you have particular cups for particular drinks?
I've had to make my tea in my coffee mug, and it unsettled me a bit.

Mogsmaw Tue 02-Feb-21 23:47:21

Husband makes me a pot of Earl Grey every morning. He has brought me tea ever morning we’re together since I was pregnant with our first child (32 today). He orders the loose tea by the kg. It’s trumpeter and it’s lovely.
I’ve taken to making a pot of other tea most afternoons. They are loose teas from whittard, I’ve developed a taste for oolong, the gingersnap chai is lovely despite the name. When I have an empty jar I’ll get some of the whisky tea, it’s delicious.
I’m really not a coffee drinker and the menus in the coffee shops are so complicated I just stay away. Although once a lovely young girl at a railway station stall said to just describe what I fancied and she’d make a recommendation. I was so surprised, these places had always seemed so intimidating, like a secret society, she was so kind and understanding, it was lovely.

vegansrock Wed 03-Feb-21 06:22:15

Green tea or herbal, three ginger, peppermint, turmeric, no cow bodily fluids thanks.
Can drink gold blend with Oatley barista frothed up like a cappuccino, but prefer a proper Illy coffee in one of those little Italian stove top coffee makers.,

CanadianGran Wed 03-Feb-21 07:57:35

I use a tassimo coffee pod, and purchase whatever pods are on sale. Fresh and hot, much better than instant.

Admittedly I'm not much of a tea drinker, but now and then will have a green tea with ginger or lemon. Black tea seems bitter to me, and needs a bit of honey.

Mollygo Wed 03-Feb-21 08:46:46

Douwe Egberts Pure Indulgence for DH. I only ever drink cappuccino when I’m out and about.
M&S Assam tea-before lockdown started, Earl Grey and Booths Builders Tea.

Hellogirl1 Wed 03-Feb-21 23:22:12

Apologies to the Earl Grey lovers, but to me it`s like drinking calamine lotion. And real coffee is far too strong for me.

shysal Thu 04-Feb-21 07:39:54

I dislike all hot drinks! I did try the Pukka Night Time tea after reading about it on GN but it was like dried herbs from the kitchen cupboard. The berry version was just about drinkable but only cold.
Give me plain Oxfordshire tap water any day. smile

Lucca Thu 04-Feb-21 07:48:14

I’m finding that night time pukka very helpful. I dont like the taste either but I add a small spoon of honey

grannyrebel7 Thu 04-Feb-21 07:54:47

Any coffee for me, but I'm really fussy about my tea. I like Thompson's tea which I think is the Irish brew that Gagajo referred to. I like to make it properly in a tea pot, so it has a good chance to brew until it's really strong. I've only ever found it in Tesco's though and they haven't always got it. DH hates tea and will only drink latte.