I am a software engineer. Coffee goes in, code comes out
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Straight to the point, I like it! Programming sucks out your soul!
My soul has been sucked out. But you forgot to mention your soul is also replaced with coffee.
And your blood
Coffee is the nations' soul
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I never understood why it has to be one or the other.
Sometimes I prefer coffee, sometimes some green tea in the morning, sometimes a cup of matcha if I'm feeling fancy. A cup of lavender tea with honey in the evening can be pure bliss, but an Italian affogado (espresso with vanilla icecream) in the afternoon can also be really perfect.
Btw it is also possible to like cats AND dogs.
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I will say that 99% of the time I prefer coffee in the morning. It's not even the caffeine, but the aroma and flavor. Coffee has just an overwhelming flavor, like it just grabs your mouth and puts it in a headlock.
Tea is my preferred midday or night drink. A more mellow taste, and can be very different.
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Tea. Partially because it tastes better, but also partially because I have a low tolerance to caffeine. Drinking coffee just makes me feel jittery and shaky, not focused.
L-theanine might help with caffeine's side effects. Theanine is a compound found in tea. It's believed to reduce the negative side effects of caffeine, without affecting the positive effects of it.
I never knew that, thanks for sharing! Also, username checks out.
If you want a rush, try gyukuro. Flavor of an umami green tea with the caffeine level of a cup of coffee & high L-thiamine to cut the jitters.
I lived it the UK briefly & my roommate never understood my fascination generally preferring his Yorkshire tea (trash). One day he asked about it so I made him a mug (we used coffee mugs). He said it tasted like yard clippings like other green teas before walking off continuing to sip to not waste it. He comes back in 15β20 minutes later over halfway finished, βDid you put drugs in thisβ½β. βNope.β βI feel like I want to run a marathon. Okay, I see the appeal for your mornings, but this is the worst high ever.β
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Coffee all morning, because sleep. Iced tea all afternoon, because Atlanta.
I drink both. Coffee during the day, herbal tea right before bed, other teas as I feel like it. My favorite teas are ginger and chai.
Sugar in coffee is an abomination and I will die on this hill.
I like you.
Keep your hot bean soup, I will drink my boiled landscape baggings.
Mostly only drink tea while I'm sick. I drink coffee every day getting up with my wife, but I'd rarely drink it on my own.
A few weeks ago my wife went out of town for a long weekend and I had the most persistent headache that wouldn't go away. When she came back, it went away as soon as I started drinking coffee with her and I realized it was caffeine withdrawal. I hate being physically dependent on coffee, but it's a big part of our morning ritual.
I'm the same, tea when I'm sick. Sometimes I won't realize I'm getting sick until I turn on the kettle. That's when I know.
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Tea all the way. Iβm super sensitive to caffeine, so I even have to switch to decaf tea after noon or Iβll be up all night.
Love using herbs from my garden for tea in the evenings - lavender, lemon balm, peppermint, chamomile
Coffee is just too bitter for me unless I overload it with way more cream and sugar than is healthy. At that point all the caffeine and sugar makes me way too jittery. On the other hand, I enjoy drinking tea black, so tea it is.
I enjoy Earl Grey tea plain, but I can't call it "black," even though it's "black tea." Because it's orange-ish brown. π
Black coffee is much blacker πββ¬
Fun fact: Black tea is called red tea in China, because of the color.
In my childhood teas were all named with colours. Mostly black, red and green. Green being mint and red fruity teas.
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I recently discovered cold brew coffee for myself (bought a cold brew jug on a whim at TJmaxx as one does) and I love how the coffee just doesn't have any bitterness anymore. The slow stewing in cold water really pulls out the flavour without the acidity.
Coffee for me started as a utilitarian drink for extra focus in the early hours, and then I started liking it. Tea never really had a function for me, so I never got into it in the same way as I did with coffee.
Never liked coffee. I usually drink Yorkshire tea in the morning, but sometimes mix it up with other black teas. If I drink any during the day, itβs green tea. Evenings are for herbal teas if I have any.
I've been quite coffee dependent ever since about age 16. Sometimes I like to take a week off, facilitated by a massive two litre teapot. In summer, iced tea is my crutch of choice.
I like both quite a bit, and even got into the hobby culture for each.
Tea is simpler in preparation, but way more complex in terms of varieties. There is a huge difference between a chinese black tea and an assam black tea, even though its the same core ingredient, prepared in a similar fashion.
Coffee on the other hand has fewer varieties, but way more variables in preparation that can drastically change the flavor of your cup. The size of your grind, the brew temperature and the extraction time all have pretty major effects on thr end product.
Tea is simpler in preparation
Since I started drinking matcha, I disagree.
Tea always. I mean, coffee sometimes, but my go-to is tea. Yorkshire Gold, 2 sugars, small splash of evaporated milk.
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Coffee, but I can get the ick from coffee once in a while the way I do with eggs, then it's either tea or nothing.
Also add a cup of tea in winter evenings since I don't wanna go over one cup of coffee a day.
I love coffee but nowadays I tend to drink tea a lot more. I don't like the taste of instant coffee, and that's all I can get at work - so I stick to tea. I also can't handle caffeine as well as I used to, so I have decaff.
At home I've got a nice coffee machine. I buy decaff beans and grind them - it's all about the taste for me.
I gave up coffee as part of my daily routine, so, tea. I try to switch up with camomile in an effort to moderate the tannins intake.
Tea, but no one mentioned the huge drawback that needs to be said.
Do not drink black tea on an empty stomach. It causes nauseation and you might throw up. I know I always do.
Herbal teas are safe tho
Wait really? Many days my only breakfast is black tea and never had an issue
This definitely sounds like OP might be sensitive to something in the tea
Yes not everyone gets this evidently! There's a large subset of the population that is sickened by the tannins on the tea, but evidently y'all can just chug that shit and be fine? Wild.
I don't think that is a general rule. Many people drink only black tea in the morning.
Yeah some people are more sensitive - it's the tannins that do it.
I'm fine if the tea has a splash of creamer or something, but straight black tea makes me puke lol
I also have this problem with tea but not coffee
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Coffee. Tea gives me a stomachache. I love the flavor of tea but I never have the willpower to stop steeping it after however many minutes you're supposed to steep it
Interesting. I enjoy both coffee and tea, but I also take tea as a cure for a stomach ache.
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Coffee, 4-5 cups a day and usually one an hour or so before bed. It somehow helps me sleepβ¦
Been tested for ADHD? Its effects on your life can be far more wide reaching than its name suggests.
Tea. Yorkshire. Hot.
Coffee is either a social thing for me or part of a nice sunday breakfast with quality beans, a hand grinder and V60 filter. I don't believe it gives me actual energy, I prefer better sleep for that.
In other situations I drink tea. I always love browsing tea shops on holiday trips and get some for me or as gifts. There is a limitless variety of tea available. Something for everyone.
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