Published on 12, July, 2020
I’m just finishing my 3rd coffee of the day (I really need to cut down again!) and just wondered what hot drink other people prefer? Are you a coffee drinker or do you prefer tea or perhaps you like herbal tea (good flavour recommendations welcome!) or something else? How do you take your tea/coffee/other. I drink strong black coffee with no milk or sugar but with half cold water due to sensitive gums; I don’t drink tea but do drink herbal teas depending on the flavour, lemon, ginger and manuka honey is a current favourite but peppermint and liquorice is a recent fail on the herbal tea front!
Never used to drink either until I was probably about 30 or so. Up to that point only hot drinks I had were hot choc or hot orange/blackcurrant squash. Got a bit fed up with people at work offering me tea/coffee etc at meetings so thought "oh maybe I'd better make myself like them to fit in". Hate the smell of tea so that was a no-no, so tried coffee. Took less than two weeks for me to start really liking coffee!
Now I drink really strong coffee. Try and limit myself to 3 cups a day, and not after 7pm as it makes me wired. My preference is Kenco 3in1 sachets, as then I don;t have to judge how much coffee/sugar/milk etc. Also like tassimo americano grande pods as we have a machine at work. Usually have them black with lots of sugar. Preference if out is always a mocha.
Still like my hot choc though; and that s always my pre-bedtime drink. Oh apart from Sundays when it's usually hot squash, orange and blackcurrant mixed.
Coffee is an acquired taste. It is bitter but once you get used to it, it’s a weirdly pleasant bitterness, or maybe the caffeine addiction over-rides the bitterness?
I also drink very strong coffee! We had a coffee machine at home which was great because you can get so many different pods to go in them, I used to like the caramel latte. Then the coffee machine broke ️ I’ll have to get another one at some point.
I don’t usually drink hot chocolate but I bought a tin of posh hot chocolate powder from a stall at a chocolate festival on good Friday and had to try some. It was Honeycomb flavour, it tasted pretty good! Do you drink flavoured hot chocolate?