QOTD: Mon 5 Nov - How Do You Take Your Tea/Coffee?

[Andit]

Not a fan of coffee (although I love the smell of coffee brewing) - Coffee Crisp is about the extent of my coffee indulgence

Only drink tea when it's really cold or I'm under the weather - then it's plain (black or herbal, doesn't matter)

Usually I just drink tap water (yep, I'm a cheap date )

[VeeVee]

Not a coffee person, if I do have a coffee I like pumpkin soy latte or just a soy latte with half a teaspoon agave from Starbucks.
In my tea, usually nothing , but sometimes honey and lemon.

[gracesmommy]

double double coffee, tea is just milk

[xox2010]

I don't normally drink coffee - only lattes. But if I do, it's black. Same with tea. If I'm sick I will put honey in the tea, but that's it.

[glowworm2k]

green tea plain, gave up coffee about 7 months ago

I was never into coffee, but switched from black tea to green about 8 years ago and now drink it religiously.

I always think it's funny when you order a cup of green or herbal tea at tim hortons or McD's, etc.... they always ask me if I want anything in the green tea. I invariably find this question absurd, and sometimes if I'm feeling a bit cheeky, I'll ask - with a completely straight face - for two packets of ketchup on the side. This is normally met with funny stares, but they do normally give me the ketchup packets without asking questions. (The ketchup packets are then stored and put in lunchbags when we are taking leftover sausages or similar stuff to work, they do not go in the tea! )

[MrsSunshine]

both are usually 2x2.

[glowworm2k]

I also have some strange hot drink preferences for stuff not usually considered a normal hot drink:

If I'm sick: a cup of boiling water with two teaspoons of lemon juice

If I'm really cold or when I don't have enough money to buy a cup of tea (which has happened more often than I would like in the past): a cup of boiling water (nothing added). I will also order this when a restaurant doesn't have any tea except black and I don't want a caffeine buzz.

If I've been feeling tired: a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of blackstrap molasses (for the iron and the deliciousness)... this is actually quite a tasty drink and I sometimes just make it as a nice pick-me-up in winter

[Hondamanic]

My Coffee's i take double double with milk but my tea's is with a teaspoon of honey with no milk

[danger_dan]

If I'm sick: a cup of boiling water with two teaspoons of lemon juice

Nothing strange about this, my lady asks for this every time she's got a sore throat, and isn't feeling well.

[alicia]

If I've been feeling tired: a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of blackstrap molasses (for the iron and the deliciousness)... this is actually quite a tasty drink and I sometimes just make it as a nice pick-me-up in winter

This one sounds yummy... but my question is, what on earth made you think "hmm, I think I'm going to put molasses in boiling water and drink it"

[littlenom]

I take one milk one sugar in coffee, and in tea I like honey and milk . I buy honey from a local beekeeper and it makes everything taste so much better!

[Mia001]

usually, in coffee, milk or (if i have) some drops of cream....in tea...nothing or a 'splash' lol of lemon juce

[kazm-l]

Green tea is plain
English Breakfast tea - well, if its freshly brewed and steaming hot and i really want it...like NOW!!... then i may add a splash of milk and on occasion a hint of sugar.
But mainly i take it black.

I rarely drink coffee - i think i have it in a resto that doesn't have great tea(cos i really don't like orange pekoe!) so thats maybe once or twice a year. In which case, i add milk or cream - depending on what is in front of me, and a little sugar.

[vesper]

I want to honey in my coffe like some of the sophisticated folk on here do. I'll do that today.

[Andit]

Then there's Alexander Pope:

"Coffee - which makes the politician wise
And see through all things with half-closed eyes."