Yeah yeah, I know they both have caffeine, but the tea seems to give me a much longer sustained energy boost, and the flavors have more variety. I used to be a big tea drinker years ago, I guess I forgot how much I liked it.

Of course I still have a cup of Joe in the morning.

i've been thinking of doing the same... i usually drink 3 medium iced coffees from dunkin donuts a day, and it's really starting to mess with me

I enjoy spearmint tea probably loads more than I should. I can't find loose leaf spearmint tea anywhere around here, though. I've never been able to enjoy coffee, even after being a barista for almost a year. I can appreciate the taste of a well brewed / poured coffee or espresso drink, but something about it just tears my body apart and I'm doubled over in cramps in less than 5 minutes.

For my birthday last year a friend gave me a jar of mugwort tea. It's supposed to be a dream enhancing tea, but it just gives me bellyaches. =[

Tea also has so many health benefits besides the energy boost. Along with all the antioxidants and whatnot, it actually fights cavities. It is made of win.

I am something of a tea dork. I just started a tea review blog. :rolleyes:

Coffee sucks. Hot tea is greatness.

Iced tea of any kind of vile, especially that "sweet tea" shit Southerns think is so goddamn great.

coffee gives me unbelievable indigestion

then again i haven't had any coffee since i quit drinking so much so maybe my stomach can take it

Iced tea of any kind of vile, especially that "sweet tea" shit Southerns think is so goddamn great.


*shakes head*

you used to be cool, man

Coffee sucks. Hot tea is greatness.

Iced tea of any kind of vile, especially that "sweet tea" shit Southerns think is so goddamn great.

Agreed. I don't understand what the point of that disgusting concoction is. It would be more expedient to just pour sugar syrup directly into your gullet, since you can barely taste the tea anyway.

Iced tea of any kind of vile,

eat my balls pal, unsweet iced tea rules all

Agreed. I don't understand what the point of that disgusting concoction is. It would be more expedient to just pour sugar syrup directly into your gullet, since you can barely taste the tea anyway.

well it would just be sugar water if you removed the tea, but yes, i agree.

eat my balls pal, unsweet iced tea rules all

Yes! Unsweet tea for the win. I drink Ito En's unsweet jasmine tea every day and keep huge pitchers of unsweetened gunpowder green around in the summer.

Iced tea of any kind of vile, especially that "sweet tea" shit Southerns think is so goddamn great.
I disagree. I mean I do not like the south's "sweet tea" but iced tea can in fact be very refreshing. Especially if you fresh brew it. I use Splenda in mine

i used to drink about a gallon of reguar unsweet tea a day

Nimrod, if you keep eating Splenda you're gonna have a world of health problems.

eat my balls pal, unsweet iced tea rules all
And yes, another in favor of unsweet iced tea. When I still lived in the grueling California summer heat, I'd brew my beloved spearmint tea in the sun all day, then pop some ice cubes in that baby and glug glug glug. So refreshing.

Nimrod, if you keep eating Splenda you're gonna have a world of health problems.

I don't really use it all that often. It's either that or Equal, and I don't really have iced tea on a regular basis

I disagree. I mean I do not like the south's "sweet tea" but iced tea can in fact be very refreshing. Especially if you fresh brew it. I use Splenda in mine
I'm just not a fan, though of course I understand why many enjoy it.

I can't drink coffee in the summer.

unsweetened iced tea is awesome. as is iced coffee.

i went the opposite way though. i used to drink tons of tea and a little coffee, and now it's the other way around. don't really know why.

nearly everyone i know puts sugar in their iced tea and act like i'm some kind of crazy person for liking it without sugar

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I can't drink coffee in the summer.
I used to be the same when I lived in places that have humidity.

lipton white tea is pretty good.

I drink a lot of green tea as well.

good stuff.

i'm rockin' some spearmint iced tea right now.

i'm trying to drink a lot more tea lately after a friend told me his doctor told him that there's a strong possiblity that the reason why he doesn't get hangovers even after drinking a lot is 'cause he drinks so much green tea and so his body has gotten really good at flushing toxins.

so, here's to fewer hangovers... :smoke:

I would never give up coffee.

i'm rockin' some spearmint iced tea right now.

so, here's to fewer hangovers... :smoke:

I also find this to be true. I drink at least a liter of green tea a day - right now, I'm having cold gyokuro - and don't remember the last time I had a real hangover after drinking. Woohoo.

I have never had a hangover in my life, tea or no tea. I've also never had a headache. It's a genetic trait that runs in the males in my family. My future sons will be lucky men.

if you drink calcium and tea you get kidney stones

i saw that one e.r. once.

or is it if your drink calum and tea.

im not sure.

I have never had a hangover in my life, tea or no tea. I've also never had a headache. It's a genetic trait that runs in the males in my family. My future sons will be lucky men.

lucky bastard.

I have never had a hangover in my life, tea or no tea. I've also never had a headache. It's a genetic trait that runs in the males in my family. My future sons will be lucky men.

a friend of mine is the same way. i've seen him drink a bottle of vodka, puke his ass off, pass out and wake up the next morning like nothing happened.

if i drink a few beers and pass out, i wake up feeling like a mack truck hit me.

I can tell if I've had 2-3 beers the night before. I get hangovers so bad... Unless I take the neccessary swig of Honey/Maple Syrup before I go to bed.

It is possible to be allergic to beer, like the hops or something? I can drink liquor like nobody's business, but a lot of beers make me so queasy from just one or two bottles that I have a 24-hour long sick period.

lucky bastard.
yeah, i'm pretty fucking awesome. my kids get to be no-hangover having, ambidextrous, switch-hitting mensa members

a friend of mine is the same way. i've seen him drink a bottle of vodka, puke his ass off, pass out and wake up the next morning like nothing happened.

if i drink a few beers and pass out, i wake up feeling like a mack truck hit me.


During my past drinking experiments I've come to find out that usually I am actually hit by a mack truck while drunk. Asshole truck drivers.

switch-hitting


your best trait

anyone who hasn't been hit by mack truck is a pussy.

or they've caught the Ihamatt bug that's going around lately.

I must be the only person that hates tea. Hot or iced. I've tried all kinds/flavors... different strengths and varieties and it all tastes like ass to me.

I hate coffee :S

Holy crap I can't believe how much coffee some of you guys drink! An iced mocha a day? I would drop 50 pounds from diarrhea alone if I drank that much.

I haven't had coffee in weeks, and I work at Starbucks. I usually just drink water. And juice. I love fruit juice.

hate coffee as much as i hate beer.
i am a tea freak when it's cold
and i drink nestea zero when it's hot because i hope the additives will kill me.

Being an Englishman, I've got to admit, there is no finer drink than tea.

And btw beer tastes like piss, what's wrong with you people.

wow duo i always thought you were from the states

where in angle land are you

face value. it's a small town but it's very nice

maybe you get hangovers from not sleeping enough

or just from being alive!!

corona's swill

well it is here at least. sol is even worse

corona is certainly swill

i call it mexican budweiser.

face value. it's a small town but it's very nice

i should have figured since he's too mincy to drink a beer

unsweet iced tea rules all

Love it. And coffee is pretty vile, though some versions of it smell pretty good. And I am not talking about that frappa latte mocha yuppie shit either, I mean real coffee.

i think it's funny how people insist a beer they put things in to mask the flavor is a good beer

I love iced tea... I like it either sweet or unsweetened... but I am from the south. And if you are drinking sweet tea that is just 90% sugar then you are having bad sweet tea. Mmmm on a hot day some sweet tea with some mint leaves is awesome.

And I usually have a cup of coffee in the morning. Sometimes I drink the coffee made in the breakroom or I'll go to Starbucks and get an.... iced nonfat nowhip white mocha.

Tea is awesome. So much better then coffee.

i think it's funny how people insist a beer they put things in to mask the flavor is a good beer

this is dumb. Many good heffeweizens taste better with an orange slice. mmmmm or a BLOOD orange.

real beer does not have fruit in it

give me a stout brown ale that you can't see through over your pissy lemon wedge german lager any day.

this is a Man Law, the Council already ruled.

god brown ale and pale ale are so digusting to me

yeah that's because you drink sparks and like it

actually I don't like sparks, which is why I drink it with straws.. I guide it to the back of my mouth where there are fewer taste buds

oh well i guess i had you confused with geo

I just drink it for the alcohol + energy :blush:

starting to worry about cancer, old man?

wow duo i always thought you were from the states

My family's from England, I'm in/from the states. How I long to return... to ALBION!

god brown ale and pale ale are so digusting to me
a good pale ale on a hot day is the most freshing beverage known to (this) man

i like little creatures pale ale. it's australian, though, so i guess you might have trouble finding it over there

I'm always up for trying new things, jmac, if they had it here I would buy it.

well, i just went and bought a coffee :(

and yes, i know it's past midnight. but i haven't finished packing and i still have to drive for an hour tonight.

I can't handle the caffeine in coffee. I don't really like it all that much anyway. At least not straight

But tea? Totally made of win.

Damnit! This thread just reminded me that I was downtown all afternoon today and not once did I remember to walk over to the herb store and buy a ton of spearmint. :(

I like coffee, I like tea

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