Coffee tastes like hot soil juice
I mean, it was ground this morning
Excuse me, ROASTED hot soil juice, you uncivilized barbarian!
I always thought that a good cup of coffee needs to taste like shit, that’s part of the charm. I enjoy coffee, but it’s not, like, delicious.
Tea is a fickle mistress, too. It’s very easy to make an overly bitter cup of tea, and tea bags tend to taste awful no matter how you prepare them. A good cup of tea takes effort and good quality loose leaf. God I love tea.
Yeah whatever. Enjoy your heated bean water.
Clearly there’s something wrong with British people…We already know they all have speech impairments that they call an accent.
A least I don’t drink thin bean soup.
Don’t bring soup into this. This is an argument between soggy leaf juice and burnt bean juice.
Roasted bean juice, thank you very much. It’s only burnt if it’s from starbucks
Bean mud
That’s the problem. Your bean soup should be thick like mud. Tastes awful that way, but MAN WILL YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR HAIR FOLLICLES!
I prefer the term dirty bean water
Both are good
I tried tea for the first time a couple years ago, I was surprised how bad it tastes. I’ll stick with water.
That’s like saying I watched a movie once, and I was surprised at how bad it was, I’ll stick with books.
You can have my “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot” when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
“Fingers, Dead, Cold”
My British half: Utter balderdash thou toadspotted codpiece!
Is your British half about 500 years old?
Representative of our population demographics
Last remaining Tory voters
It really depends on the tea, I’ve had some black tea that’s absolute dog shit but I’ll murder someone for Jasmine tea or god forbid some homemade chai
I’m still more of a coffee drinker tho
Flower water is best water. Hibiscus tea with optional dash of your preferred sweetener.
Coffee and tea are both delicious.
Energy drinks, on the other hand, taste like battery acid and bile. That’s where your scorn should be directed.
Exactly, why limit yourself to only one source of caffeine. Coffee and tea are both awesome!
What else would give you energy if not literal battery juice?
Pure uncut methamphetamine.
You’re goddamn right.
Plenty of teas aren’t even made of leaves.
Then it’s not tea, it’s an infusion or decoction.
Tea is made from a specific plant, the tea shrub (Camellia sinensis).
These infusions might be called tea, but they are tea in the same way as a hotdog is a heated companionable mammal.
Except if you talk about Kukicha, then it’s made from the stems of the tea shrub. The important part here is the tea shrub. Without tea in it, it just ain’t tea.
Asian cultures called various hot beverages tea 茶 before some Westerner decided that they are wrong. Sure there is green tea from that plant but Asian cultures also had mint or chrysanthemum tea using the same 茶 character (pudina chai in India for mint tea).
If anything, the Westerner who decided that beverages made from only that specific shrub is called tea was the wrong one. Broader uses predate your definition.
Thanks for correcting me then
Non-tea teas are usually referred to as tisanes by those who care enough to make a distinction between the two
Technically, these are all decoctions, and “decoction of tea (the plant)” has become just “tea”, which is now colloquially replaced “decoction”.
So in the sense I was using tea, as a replacement for “decoction”, coffee is a “tea”, insofar that the replaced word, “decoction”, boiled plant matter drink.
Language isn’t quite as black as white as we’d sometimes wish it was.
So you’re not wrong, per se, but neither am I.
Yeah, like coffee.
It’s just bean-tea.
If coffee is a tea then I’m going to demand the pasta tea not be poured down the drain
Apparently tea made of leaves and fruits from coffee plants is a thing.
Oooh the cherry leaf tea sounds good! They both do but the regular coffee leaf tastes like green tea so I’m not as curious
Ok, good, I’m not the only one whose had that shower thought
Perfect response.
SMH y’all just making water worse. Pure, undiluted water with just enough crap in it so that it doesn’t literally strip your ions or something and kill you. That’s the best drink.
I don’t know… nothing cools me down on a hot day quite like liquid methane.
I heard it’s waxy in consistency once and have wanted to swim in it to confirm ever since.