I am a coffee person all the way! I love it mostly just bitter but sometimes I like my coffee with cream. :3

I've actually had coffee two or three times in the past month. When I actually need wake up I have it, and at one point I just really didn't feel like making tea, so I nabbed some coffee my mom made.

So I found out recently that people with organ transplants aren't supposed to drink green tea. Alas! Oh well, not that I drink much anyway but my cousin's doctor mentioned it to him, so I would think my doctor would have mentioned it to me at some point, especially given they know I drink a lot of tea (got chewed out for the amount and strength of black tea I drink already). Apparently Green tea boosts your immune system, which is counter productive when one wants to squish it for organ health, and can lower the effects of some meds. Grapefruit and pomegranate do the same thing, but this is the first I've heard about it for pomegranate and green tea.

I wish I had known this sooner, but I don't appear to be any worse for wear. Now I'm not sure what I should do.

Chai tea, with milk. It's divine!
I do love green tea with lemon and some sugar. Though I always drink it cold.

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I love Chai tea as well, particularly made on the stove right in the milk but packages do as well. I have to be carefull where I make it sometimes since two people I live with have problems with cinnamon and the types I have contain cinnamon. It's not too much of a problem though.

Never tried green tea cold except for a Matcha smoothie once, and I'm not really a fan of matcha. I'vce had green tea I get as some Asian restaurants that just happend to get cold while I'm eating, and I have no problems with that. I suppose I should try it iced some time. :)

*flashes through wearing a largish coffee can*

Is there a reason you are wearing a coffee can? I've seen the odd person wearing a beer box...

Tea all the way. There's more variety, and it's tastier. But if I really feel like I need the caffeine, I'll drink coffee sometimes.

I feel blah unless I have some manner of tea in the morning, probably because of the caffeine. Had a bit of a snag the other day when I wanted something to drink that wasn't tea but that's all we have around! I'm going to have to start experimenting.

I am more a coffee person, but I do appreciate a good tea.

I actually host a tea party once a month for 6-9 of my friends. C: Complete with appropriate china, serving utensils and a variety of teas and finger snacks.

I am a coffee with flavored creamers kinda gal. I do like a good mint tea though... but I'm mainly a soda person

More coffee people!

My dad and stepmother live on coffee and flavoured creamers. Not my thing though. When I have coffee it's usually just regular coffee with cream and sugar. Lots of cream and much sugar. ;)

I have a tea party for my birthday each year, Saith. I rent the teacups though (really just finer looking coffee cups. The rental place lies!) as I'd be too concerned for my china. People bring snacks often but I always try to be sure there are at least cucumber sandwiches around. ;). Next year though, I'm tempted just to book a large group at the local Fairmont Hotel for high tea instead, and save on the trouble. I like high tea. :).

Oooo we were talking as a tea party group to go in for High Tea one of these days. But me being pregnant now, I can't drink a whole lot of caffeine.

You could always bring or ask for a herbal tea. I know it's not technically "tea" but I'm sure people would understand given the situation.

In the summer I drink iced tea almost every time I eat out. Unsweetened though, putting sugar in it is a travesty! One time I forgot to specify at McDonald's and they gave me sweet tea and it was so sugary it was actually kind of gritty >.<

I hardly ever sweeten my tea at all. Once in a while, especially if I'm a little bit sick, I might put a spoonful of honey in my black tea, but not often. And I drink coffee way more often than tea; I used to hate black coffee but then I started working overnight shifts doing signing at a grocery store and I drank it just to stay awake and eventually it grew on me. I currently work in the kitchen for a local cafe and we have our own local coffee roaster so we've got all the free coffee we can drink and I usually have at least 2-3 cups per shift.

Can you get unsweetened iced tea from McDonald's? As far as I know, or maybe it's just where I live, the "iced tea" is always the canned stuff like Lipton or Brisk that comes out of the soda fountain. It comes how it comes.

Unless of course, you're talking tea with ice. ;). I've tried that the odd time but never had it come out well. The one black tea I had that I thought would make good iced tea I can't remember the name of.

I'm being good. I'm only having one or two cups a day lately and I'm watching the strength. It's not that I make strong tea, it's that I forget about it for stupidly long periods of time and then drink it anyway. Stopping that now. I'm butchering my tea!

Our McDonalds always has brewed iced tea. They used to ONLY have unsweet but a few years ago they started advertising their sweet tea, which is why I forgot to specify sometimes.

What counts as sweet tea? We talking the southern thing, sweet tea? I've only ever encountered the term when referencing the southern US.

I just got back from India where I had street masala chai out of their little clay cups. Yum, so good. We found a spice seller and bought some masala spice for our own tea here so now that I am home I brew up some good black tea add the milk and a pinch of this wondrous masala chai spice and it is so good. I usually have tea every afternoon, a habit I acquired from an old boyfriend who was English and had to have his tea from a teapot.

I would like to eventually create my own masala for chai. I have a mortar and pestle, just need a good recipe.

So masala is the name of Chai spice in general? Or does it refer to a specific mix?

Masala means spice so not any particular spice and definitely it can refer to a mix of spices. We bought Chai Masala and Curry Masala while we were there and these were mixes of I think 6 spices in the chai and not sure how many for the curry. I only new the word in passing before I went to India.

I had some very good tea there. I had a wonderful darjeeling in one city and it occurs to me now that Darjeeling is in India, some people we met were off for there. So...British tea, I guess though that it is really Indian tea.

My understanding was that Darjeeling was British, and possibly Ceylon too but I'm not positive. It might be that Darjeeling tea was brought in (or not) and grown in India but still considered British because India was a major British colony. My favourite tea is Assam which is from India, usually named after the estates that it comes from, and said estates, if I remember correctly, are along the Assam River. The man who runs the tea store I go to has a map of all the estates but he doesn't carry the Banapsaty, which is the one I'm trying to find.

"Chai" in India generally just means "tea" doesn't it?

I've found the honey lemon tea from Tim Horton's to be great for sore throats. There's a Teavanna in a local mall that is having a special sale to support one of the local schools and I have tickets! Maybe they'll have a deal on some teas. Youthberry tea doesn't have any grapefruit in it, does it?

I've found the honey lemon tea from Tim Horton's to be great for sore throats. There's a Teavanna in a local mall that is having a special sale to support one of the local schools and I have tickets! Maybe they'll have a deal on some teas. Youthberry tea doesn't have any grapefruit in it, does it?

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Ah, I see. I assumed they had the ingredients on the bag like a lot of tea places do but I just checked one of mine and it only has the title. I have one of their white chai.

Ah! That's dandy. Now I can look this stuff up instead of harassing the people about it, but I still like to sniff everything anyway. ;)

My stomach has been griping more than usual lately. Anyone know of any good teas for that? I have a chamomile-mint but I'm not sure how well it works.

I never even think about going to websites. I just walk into stores and sniff around, often literally, and see what's interesting. I should go to the tea shop at a local market nearby. I haven't dropped in in a while, and the owner and I know each other on site. I think he's German. It's getting like that too at a new store where I can finally get my Russian Earl Grey. The man and his son there have a poodle that's in from time to time. Nice dog. :)

Well the German man's store is a chain called "The Blue Teapot" while I think the other one is a one-of store, called "Tea Time."

There's a botanical garden a couple hours away from here that has their own tea shop and talking to the owner I found out that he gets stuff from the same place as Blue Teapot, and knew the owner there. I liked that store since the man and his both sell the regular flavours and make some of their that are unique to the store. It's where I got a tea that's half and half black and lapsang suchong, among other things.

I always forget that my work has loose tea too. We have some nice mint roobois in the kitchen that I tried the other day when I felt slightly over-coffeed (that's a word really) and it was nice. Mint tea is great when you're feeling a little run down.

I'm in the same boat Shohn, but I have a good stock. Most of it's probably old my now but it still tastes good. Not as fond of blooming tea but it just might be the ones that I have. Someone gave them to me and I put them out really for decoration at my tea parties.

I tried making my tea through a coffee filter today since I need to cut down on the strength of the tea I drink. It came out pretty well actually. It's PJ Tips, so it tastes strong to begin with. I completely for got that I actually have an tea steeper so I got for Christmas years ago. I've had it packed away until I could get my own place but it would probably be a good thing now.