I’m sitting here, exhausted, in need of some sort of caffeine hit. I’m thinking, ‘what should be today’s Big Question’. I see someone making a cup of coffee. I venture my opinion: coffee sucks. A huge argument ensues. I think to myself, wouldn’t this be a good question to put to the Kotaku readers?
So what’s it to be folks? Is Kotaku a coffee community or a tea community?
Here’s my deal? I like tea. I like the variety of tea. I drink green tea, white tea, peppermint tea, nettle tea, plain old english breakfast tea, rosehip tea, camomile tea. That’s a lot of choice.
What do you coffee drinkers have? YOU HAVE NOTHING.
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93 responses to “The Big Question: Tea Or Coffee”
Tea. The choice of kings.
Coffee is just dirt water in a mug.
Stop buying your coffee from the commercial coffee chains then
And tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!
Delicious hot leaf juice.You both make excellent points. Dirty Mud Water or Hot Leaf Juice.
I like both…..why cant i vote for both? Coffee in the morning (or whenever Im eating dounts) and tea at night (or whenever Im eating biscuits).
TEA AND COFFEE ARE FOR WIMPY KIDDY BABY WHINERS – I DRINK PURE BATTERY ACID EVERY MORNING – THAT SHIT’LL MAKE YOU A GOD DAMN SEXUAL TYRANNOSAURS, JUST LIKE ME.
(Dan has to yell because he’s afraid the second he stops being xtreme he’ll die.)
THAT IS CORRECT.
NOT ENOUGH EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! EXPLOSIONS!!! – SINCERELY, MR TORGUE!
MR. TORGUE IS AMAZING! and i have to go on the battery acid side
The choice of MAD kings with their teeth falling out and delusions of grandeur!
You heritic
Both.
Why not both? Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon.
Works for me.
Boom! This guys has got it.
Agreed. But the other way around for me.
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Both!
I have a drawer absolutely packed full of loose leaf tea varieties. It’s pretty damned amazing, even if I do keep falling back on the same staples (The Tea Centre’s Stockholm blend is kind of rad). We also have a tea call Glögg. It tastes of Glögg.
On the other hand, I really need my morning coffee to get through the day. A good flat white is a beautiful thing. While living in Dubbo, I became slightly obsessed with the local cafe’s cold drip coffee. Hell, the variety you can get with good coffee may not be as diverse as with tea but I’m willing to spend a lot of money at any place that does a decent long black.
So, why not split the difference? Let’s all sit back and enjoy a nice cup of cascara.
Coffee flavoured taiwanese milk tea is pretty good 🙂
I’m English, I should drink tea, I do not. Coffee is minging as well.
Put me down for a nice hot chocolate instead
“minging”. Yes, you’re a Brit. LOL
‘Mingy’ is different to ‘minge’ you bogan.
Tea. Milk and one sugar please, stirred 17 times anti-clockwise, thrice clockwise and the teabag squeezed of all its delicious juices.
Tea makes my teeth feel like crap. They tingle and ache and I can feel it staining them in a way that coffee doesn’t.
Also, it’s weak. It just doesn’t get the job done.
Mostly tea.
Tea for me but lately I’ve been having Soy Milk with Milo!
I dig both I didn’t spend $2000 on a coffee machine to drink tea. Although I do have that option haha.
I’m an at home barista so I love coffee but I also love tea I did my cappuccino and my English breakfast. For me of tea isn’t strong it can go home
TEA
Neither.
ONE OF US!
If I am out and about, I’ll have coffee, often mocha but usually flat white without sugar. At home I mix and match between tea and coffee based off my motivation to wait for a bag to steep in a cup, but be it instant coffee or a cup of tea, it is usually loaded with enough sugar to kill a diabetic.
Just have some toffee. That always works fine when I can’t decide.
Coffee drinkers have so much choice! Origin, darkness of the roasted beans, preparation method etc. I for one can’t stand coffee made from Ethiopian beans or any other area that produces really floral and citrusy coffee beans, but really like Brazilian and Indian coffee, and I don’t like dark roasts so I avoid them. So much choice!
I still prefer tea though.
Where is the option for Scotch?
You want to click the coffee option. You can ask to Scotch or Irish up a coffee and they’ll know what you’re talking about, but no-one ever does that with tea.
Vodka Marteani?
*eyenarrows*
Long island iced tea
I did that the other day actually. It was horrible until I added honey and cinnamon.
*cinnamon high-five*
This. I hardly ever have coffee, but I always would up at my Nanna’s place. Big mug, black, whole lot of sugar, a teaspoon of ground cinnamon (for some reason whatever variety she had up there was better than whatever crap we have in the pantry here), then a generous helping of some kind of liqueur. Licore strega and fiore d’alpe were the best ones, but sambuca, amaretto galliano, kahlua, tia maria, or a number of other ones I can’t remember were also good.
Maybe if the coffee shops supplied those as options I would’ve been a coffee drinker at work 😛
If you work in the CBD there’s plenty of places’ll do that after 10am. 🙂
Works for every occasion.
Scotch to wake me up in the morning.
Scotch to help wash down my lunch.
Scotch to calm my nerves before I drive home in the afternoon from having a bit too much Scotch and finally a Scotch to help me fall asleep.
I drink more tea, but I prefer coffee.
Only voted coffee because I use it more often than tea to keep myself awake at work…
Otherwise I do enjoy tea a bit more than coffee on the whole. But drink it a bit less often.
I like both, tend to lean more towards coffee.
I’m not sure what it is though, I don’t get people who like tea with milk and sugar….
I actually really hate coffee. Always been a tea person, but I normally only have it white with sugar. I feel like I should try more variety though… What are some nice, safe, choices of ‘different’ tea to try?
I like both, but as a migraine sufferer, caffeine intake is something I have to keep an eye on because it can trigger migraine episodes. I used to drink coffee once a day but ended up with caffeine hangovers every weekend and migraines every month, but since switching to green tea, I rarely get migraines at all any more.
It’s tough. I’ve been a coffee and tea drinker for many years, but only in the last year or two I’ve been getting caffeine withdrawal headaches if I go without coffee for more than about 36 hours. I then went without coffee for three weeks. The headaches stopped after about a week, but then the instant I had another coffee, boom! The withdrawal symptoms started again. I am now resigned to drinking one cup of coffee per day, no more and no less. I drink tea whenever the mood strikes – it seems not to have the same effect as coffee.
Try taking L-Theanine when you consume caffeine.
MILO!
So difficult to make correctly, though. Which is 8-10 tablespoons to saturation point and then some, chowing down on the granulated mush that hovers on the surface after you’ve sufficiently infused the liquid.
So much this!…i really want to use half my milo tin and then just fill the rest with milk 😛
$1 coffee from 7/11. I am a man of high class taste.
I don’t mind a black tea every now and then, either.
Green tea is filthy bong water.
Earl Grey bitches!
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I’ve had one cup of coffee in my life and I won’t be going back ever. I started drinking tea a bit last year but stopped after six months or so. It’s not really for me. Hot drinks have never really been my thing. So I guess my answer is neither but if I had to pick one then I’d go with tea since I would actually drink it.
I used to be a big coffee drinker but it was making me feel sick so I quit.
Now I drink tea. I have a variety of teabags, black, green, peppermint, camomile, various fruity flavours, as well as some loose leaf stuff that I brew up with those strainer ball thingies.
Also not opposed to a nice hot chocolate or milo.
Tea, but only because once I stopped drinking coffee and cola I realised it was the high doses of caffeine that were contributing to my dizzy spells.
I drink neither.
I get my caffeine from energy drinks like V or Red Bull. Which are probably worse for you…but…eh.
Coffee all the way baby!
The only Tea I can bring myself to drink is Iced Tea.
Oh yeah, I forgot about iced tea. I have that all the time, way more than I do coffee.
I can’t stand coffee or tea. Why you people take a drug that gives you serious withdrawl problems when you don’t have it, and costs a fortune is beyond me.
I’m drinking a coffee right now. With chocolate in it.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW????!!
She is drinking tea. CHOCOLATE TEA.
http://www.t2tea.com/library/t2-experience/hot-chocolate/teas/cocoa-loco-3/
PURCHASED!!!!
😀
Or how about some Ming Tea
i chose coffee but i can happily enjoy both.
Coffee, and when that’s not available, beer.
I think I have 14 types of tea in my house right now and not that shit from the supermarket or T2. Tea is awesome.
But coffee is good too, man. Why can’t we all just get along?
Tea all the way
None. I just drink water.
I’m definitely a coffee drinker. Short black (Espresso) all the way, without sugar. I have a few local coffee places that I really like plus a capsule machine at home. I want to get a proper coffee machine and grinder at some stage but I can’t afford it yet.
If you said tea, you’re not wrong.
You’re just not right (at all)
Pepsi Max 🙂
I drink both, but if it has to be one or the other, tea.
Neither, I’ve not drank any caffeinated beverages for 3 weeks now. I had a sip of diet coke in my first week after stopping having it and got a splitting headache half an hour later.
Water, water and more water.
Coffee! Coffeecoffecoffeecoffeeallthetime!
Mochas, caramel lattés, cappocinos is good!
Ihavedefinitelynothadtoomanycoffeestoday!
Nooooosir!
Tea hot or cold. Milo or hot chocolates from time to time too 😉
I drink both. I would say I like the taste of tea more than coffee, but I can’t live without my coffee! Caffeine and I are in a very committed relationship and Tea just doesn’t fulfil my needs the way coffee can
I enjoy either, but it’s got to be good. No Nescafe instant or Lipton shite. I buy loose leaf English Breakfast or whole bean Espresso blend (heavy on Columbian beans).
Coffee in the morning, tea in the evening.
The real big question: turkish, cold drip, filter, espresso, or tea?
I like it all…
Ahm… I would like to suggest that what you drink in “anglo-saxon world” can be called all but coffee. ^_^’
I’m from Italy and, forgive me, we drink coffee. What I’ve drank in Uk and Usa is water with something black into (mud, maybe?!)
😉
While drinking just tea will likely allow you to live longer, I still need a boot with coffee now and then (I don’t drink too much anyway)
Let’s be real here:
Tea = caffeine + antioxidants
Coffee = caffeine
The former wins, hands down.
Oranges have more antioxidants than tea.
Milk, Milk and more Milk. I don’t want any leaf juice or bean sauce ruining my Milk.
Port que no las dos?
DA DA DA DA DA DUN
DA DA DA DA DA DUN DUN NA NA
BUM BA DA DUH BUH DA DUM
Tea, then coffee?
COFFEE! What choice? Seriously? Yes, tea drinkers have a choice of leaf but coffee drinkers? Let’s see……. There’s Typica, Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai, Pache comum, Pache colis, Catimor, Kent, Mundo Novo, Maragogype, Amarello, Jamacian Blue Mountain, Hawaiian Kona, Kopi Luwak, Columbian, Ethiopian Harar, Ethiopian Sidamo, Ethiopian Yiracheffe, French Mission, Java, Yemen Mocha, Timor Arabusta…… Want me to go on?
How do you want that coffee? Burr-ground, chopped, pounded or roll-grinded?
How about the brewing? Do you want it boiled like Turkish coffee? Steeped like in a French Press, using a Malaysian “sock” or vacuum brewed in a Syphon? How about good old filtered in a peculator or maybe using an Aeropress or even a Chemex? There’s even the good old, tried and true Esspresso method.
And what coffee would you like? Black or white? Maybe an Espresso? Ristretto? Wait, maybe a Lungo. Cappuccino. Latte? Flat white? Mocha? Macchiato? A piccolo.
How about cold? Maybe a Frappe. Thai Iced? Affogato? Cold Brew?
…. Sure, Mark. Coffee drinkers don’t have any choice…. :-/
I drink both, but I prefer the flavour of tea slightly more.
For me, tea tastes like dirty dishwater. And I have tried a bunch of different teas, including ones made “the proper way” with actual good tea. The one I hated the least was one that smelled great was a cinnamon herbal tea, but sadly it didn’t taste of cinnamon.
Dark coffee with milk o the other hand, is something I really enjoy the taste of, especially when I can Irish (or Russian) it up a bit, but sadly I can rarely afford scotch, Irish cream or vodka.
However, good coffee is cheaper than good tea.