Tea and Coffee

[JudgeNot]

Symph - your taste in coffee/tea shows you are a true purist.
Or is that "Puritan".    

[ebia]

Symph - your taste in coffee/tea shows you are a true purist.
Or is that "Puritan".    

A purist doesn't use teabags.

[Tibby]

A true purest would suck on the tea leaves straight from their garden! True purists eat the used coffee grounds and, using there body as a filter, make the next batch of coffee with the urine.

[ollie]

I usually just drink water.  Not even soda.  I splurged the other day and had lemonade.

I don't drink coffee at all.  Not only is it not condoned by my faith, it tastes awful.

I don't drink anything with actual tea leaves in it.  BUT I love peppermint tea with sweetner and a bit of half and half. I saw some the other day with some spices and rose petals, but it's expensive so one day when I'm feeling rich.  I also like lemongrass tea provided I can find it with no tea leaves added.  Finding tea for me is hard b/c I don't want the actual tea leaves in there (again has to do with my faith), not to mention as an anemic I don't need the tannin.

"I don't drink coffee at all.  Not only is it not condoned by my faith"

Romans 14:1.  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
 2.  For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
 3.  Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Ollie

[Willowbirch]

Tibby asks:

What are you?

Sheesh, Tibby! She's a female human.  
 

[lovemy3kids]

Although I live in the coffee capital of the world, I do not drink coffe.  No caffeine for me thanks.  I do enjoy Green Tea and other Herbal teas.  

[Soldier4Christ]

I use green tea, also. There is something to it that seems to help with the body pain that I experience. Unless you use the decaffienated kind it does have half the caffiene that coffee has and some herbal teas have more than coffee.

[Patzt]

What do you guys like in your Tea and Coffee?

I love just a little milk in my hot tea.

The tea has to be made from freshly boiling water poured into a tea pot with loose tea leaves in it.  (The tea I use is Fortnam and Mason from London England brought to me by a friend who visits that store regularly).

I warm the tea pot before making it and then the tea steeps for 5 minutes before I pour it into a china tea cup that also has been warmed.

 

[Patzt]

I forgot to say that I also love good coffee.

I worked in Tim Horton's Donuts Shop for a few years on the night shift making the muffins and biscuits, etc. and I guess I just got a love for good coffee then.

I have a Bunn Coffee maker and make a pot a day.  But the coffee has to have 18% cream in it to be any good for my taste buds.  Few restaurants seem to use 18% so it's always a treat to come home and have a really good cup or mug of coffee.

 

[Symphony]

Boy, this Tea & Coffee thread is getting murkier and murkier--pardon the pun.  


Yes, PR, I have the green tea just about daily - for the supposed therapeutic qualites--bioflavanoids, or whatever they're called.  

I also really enjoy ordinary orange pekoa black tea, but steeped for only a few seconds.  As soon as the tea deepens to a rich amber color, out comes the bag.

For me it becomes bitter if I leave the bag in it longer.

Unless, sometimes, I going to have "white" in it(as they call the milk or cream in London?).  Then I don't mind how long the tea is steeped, or how strong it becomes.  But I only use skim milk in it, if I do.  

When you say cream, Patzt, is that whole, dairy cream?  Or the sythetic stuff?

And how do you know if your serving has 18% in it or not?

That's interesting, in a Tim Horton's Donut Shop.  Donut shop coffee does seem always to be so good.  I'm not sure if there is that chain in U.S.

For me, it was Dunkin' Donuts, but the closest one is 100 miles, so it's been awhile.  

Muffins and biscuits.  Oh, now, biscuits are to me just very fine cuisine.

Did you use a generic franchise mix, or from a recipe?

I've never heard of US donut shops serving biscuits.  Maybe in the South they might.  

But I do enjoy a good biscuit.   And to me, a good biscuit is one that can be eaten plain, with no butter or condiment, and it's still delish.  Microwave it for 20 seconds, if its day old, and I'm all set.

     

[Patzt]

When you say cream, Patzt, is that whole, dairy cream?  Or the sythetic stuff?

And how do you know if your serving has 18% in it or not?

That's interesting, in a Tim Horton's Donut Shop.  Donut shop coffee does seem always to be so good.  I'm not sure if there is that chain in U.S.

For me, it was Dunkin' Donuts, but the closest one is 100 miles, so it's been awhile.  

Muffins and biscuits.  Oh, now, biscuits are to me just very fine cuisine.

Did you use a generic franchise mix, or from a recipe?

I've never heard of US donut shops serving biscuits.  Maybe in the South they might.  

But I do enjoy a good biscuit.   And to me, a good biscuit is one that can be eaten plain, with no butter or condiment, and it's still delish.  Microwave it for 20 seconds, if its day old, and I'm all set.

     

Hi Symphony...  For me it MUST be 18% Table Cream.  It says that right on the carton.  Most coffee shops serve 10% Coffee Cream but 18% is so much better to my taste buds.

Tim Horton's apparently have a few donut shops in Florida and along the northern border of your fine country like New York State and Michigan and Ohio but in Canada there are thousands of them.  In my city of approx. between 95,000 and 100,000 people, we have 38 Tim Horton's!!!

We had a huge bag of mix to which we added all the fresh ingredients like grated carrots, etc. for the Whole Wheat Carrot muffins.

Biscuits are in three flavours...plain, raisin and cheese.

I really liked working there for minimum wage!  Strange how sometimes you do enjoy your work but make peanuts!!!

[Symphony]

Oh, I see.  Yep, we have raisin biscuits, too(with cinnamon).

Hmm.  18% table cream.  Hm, we don't have that classification here, that I know of.  

Typically grocers carry whipping cream, and half&half--the latter is what most use for their coffee.  It's half cream and half milk.

In restuarants or a donut shop it will be eitgher h&h or a "creamer" synthetic product(and not very good for you either).  h&h is typically upscale, but a few fast food places do serve it.  McDonalds does.

That's nice you enjoyed working like that.  That
s the important thing.  

So did you wait on people, or just bake in the back?

You probably had to be there long before they opened in the morning, or maybe they were 24 hr, huh.