Tea or coffee?

That's interesting, the coffee plus cigarette association and the fact that you stopped being able to tolerate the smell of coffee once you stopped smoking! I always used to smoke my first cigarette along with drinking my first coffee but have kept up the coffee habit despite managing to break the smoking habit!

I think that too much caffeine of any description can make us ill, it's not good for the heart rate!

There's some tips for hot chocolate higher up this thread :-)

I guess if you had to put up with the smell of Earl Grey every day from morning to night, that might explain why you are so sensitised to it?

Oh wow! I remember those China tea sets from when I was a child! The one in your family seems as though it must be antique by now?

I might have to look into ordering my coffee online!

I have the coffee posted to me. This one is Coffee Compass. There are quite a few out there.

Technically I prefer tea (the posh flavoured ones I can't usually afford), but I always drink coffee for two reasons: caffeine, and dipping. I don't know why everyone dips their biscuits in tea, it tastes a lot better (IMO) with coffee, and also symbolises my rebellion against British culture

I used to drink black coffee alot I would have one with a cigarette, then I quit smoking and could not stand the smell of coffee, so I drank tea wich I obsessively drank until I stopped completely as I thought it might be making me ill, 

I drink some times hot chocolate or hurbal teas without caffeine.

Yes they do actually. The set has been I'm the family for a long time since about my great great great grandfather I believe.

I hate Earl Grey tea, from the smell to the taste of it.

My first landlady,  when I was lodging at college was an early grey fan. It was the only tea she would buy and drink.  It was Earl Grey every day.   I hated it from the first time I tasted it. Nine months later I was still hating it.

And I have avoided it since then.

I like the smell of peppermint but not the taste, weirdly! It’s good to have a drink to warm you up in the colder days! No worries, not everyone likes coffee!

No worries! 
Have you tried the caramel latte? I like one of those from my coffee machine!

Oh wow! I’ve never considered buying my beans from a roastery, you’re lucky there is one near you, How big a selection of coffee beans do they sell? 
Ginger coffee is lush  although the homemade one did give me a tummy ache after a while, from the raw ginger so might be best to stick to shop bought ginger coffee, 

We could start a petition to supersize the espresso?

Thanks for sharing! Do your mother and father have one of those traditional China tea sets? 

In our home it has always been tea. My family runs back for many generations according to my Gran and we're terribly British so every day my mother and father have tea in a china cup and saucer which is also generations old.

I grew up on tea as well and also drink it. I find coffee okay but only drink it every now and then.

I prefer Twinnings Peppermint Tea. Does it for me everytime especially now that it's getting cold. Love it. Not a coffee person,sorry!

ooh sorry, adding to a long thread. I was just searching for thread about coffee....and found one

Me mad about coffee. Latte. Homemade, Used to buy from starbucks for years then made my own.

Just recently got away from starbucks and now buy beans from a roastery. I'm on the search for 'chocolately' coffee. Have nearly got there with a more medium roast. 

Kitsune- read about the ginger coffee....I will definitely be trying that.

I used to drink tea a lot too but stopped since giving up sugar. Now it's a couple of coffee's a day and the rest is water

Coffee all the way here  though weirdly I’ve never tried coffee syrups! Which flavour do you prefer? Probably best to stick to decaf if your heartbeat is a bit out of sync. Coffee has a diuretic effect to, annoyingly! I try to drink a glass of water before each cup of coffee otherwise I get dehydration headaches!

Btw this is what I was like on Saturday afternoon after 3 mugs of coffee from my new coffee machine! To. Much. Caffeine!!! Have had to limit those to one a day!

She does now :-)

Coffee. I have a big bowl of Joe in the morning, with milk. I have an array of flavoured coffees, including hazelnut and amoretto. I have these with decaff, as a doctor recently suggested I should, he told me my blood pressure was good but my heartbeat was a little dadt. I have to be really thirsty for tea, tea makes you pee after all. I don't like the fact it's such a massive diutetic. I like chai latte though. 

In winter I also love hot white chocolate.