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Edit: pu'er, black, green, white tea. Love it all and drink it more than I drink coffee. No need to start a culture war; taste is as individual as humour.
As a caffeine addict, I prefer black tea because it has a shitload of caffeine in it, but makes me less jittery than coffee. However, coffee just tastes better. So I just drink both, consecutively.
I tried switching to black tea a couple of years ago because I realized that coffee was making my anxiety worse, but fucking hell did tea give me the jitters. I think I just have a bad reaction to tannins in general and apparently black tea is super high in them.
I had that, and still get it from time to time, but found that if I wait until I've eaten to drink tea that it feels fine.
Coffee on an empty stomach is nothing, but strong tea on an empty stomach has me feeling like being assaulted at a molecular level
Yeah it makes my teeth chatter, it's very strange. I didn't noticed a big difference between full vs. empty stomach but I wasn't paying much attention to that either.
I will say that most types of tea do this to me, to varying degrees. Black teas are the worst, green tea isn't nearly as bad. I've had some Chinese white teas and I barely noticed any jitteriness, but those teas really aren't very strong to begin with.
Give white tea a try sometime. It has almost no tannins and less caffeine than black tea. The flavor is much lighter and more fruity
It makes you less jittery because it does not, in fact, have a lot of caffeine in it.
This green tea I'm sipping made my mind sufficiently relaxed and agile to see that punchline coming from a mile away.
I didn't understand why tea is so hated in America then I went there are it was by far the worst tea I have ever had. Like worse than I could make at home if I tried to make a shit tea. Worse than I thought possible.
I used to disagree with the death penatlity in America but if they dragged the Liptons board of directors out and shot them it wouldn't be undeserved.
But how its brewed, how it's served, what it's served with, what the tea is it is all shit. I talked to a friend when I was there and he said "yea I know I brought a 50 pack with me from home. I've been here before" haha. The only place you can get a passable tea in America is on a BA flight out of the country. Even then it's a shitty airline tea but it's much better than any cafe, restaurant or pub in the country.
I don't get me started in the fucking Guinness.
I'd like to invite your thoughts on the sweet tea they make in the South
It tastes like something a child would make and give to there mum on motherday and the mum would have to drink it because the kid is really proud that he used 10 spoonfuls of sugar.
That's not a drink for adults. Why you guys so scared of water?
I do believe it all started with the Boston Tea Party. Drinking coffee as an alternative was hip and it just kinda stuck around.
Coffee in the US (outside of specialty shops) is always piss poor and IME thin cups of dark-ish water without much actual coffee flavour.
That's the case everywhere. Starbucks is ubiquitous. You can either complain about it, or walk across the street and get some good coffee, which is also ubiquitous.
If you are in a cosmopolitan area there’s plenty of access to tea houses serving loose leaf Japanese and Chinese tea that would satisfy the most demanding tea enthusiast. That doesn’t begin to count the non-traditional items like boba, tisanes, etc.
The USA doesn’t have much of a British style tea tradition, but that’s mostly because it’s a diverse nation and British tea and food is mostly crap to begin with. Why would the US drink British tea when there are so many alternatives that are actually good?
I tried tea in the UK and didn't think it was very good either tho. I think I just don't like tea that much.
Ironically the best coffee I ever had was a cappuccino in London. Which I paired with a full English. Still one of the best breakfasts in my life, that shit was dank
Black tea to me feels like the sledgehammer, whereas coffee is this smooth slightly syrupy beverage, that feels much more delicate. Case in point for me, I prefer my coffee black, but I would have a hard time handling a cup of tea without at least a bit of oat milk.
I don't know where tea gets this "gentle" PR from but I find it highly dishonest and honestly I'm tired of keeping my mouth shut about it so there now I've said it
Hey it'd okay, your opinion is valid, no matter how objectively wrong it is :)
Thank you, no one has ever accused me of looking at a situation objectively and I'm not about to start now, anyway now everyone sign my petition to put warning labels on tea
Don't hold back! Tell Big Tea what you think!
(I personally like Green Tea and lighter varieties but I have to be... in the mood. I'm always in the mood for coffee on the other hand.)
There's stimulating tea too.
Since I switched to shroom tea in the morning, I’ve been much more perceptive.
Hey, my DMTea is also great for that!
I enjoy tea, but I like coffee more for most situations. Im more likely to enjoy an evening cup of tea than a morning one. Also the tannins in black tea can make me literally throw up if I havent eaten yet. Whereas a strong cup of coffee will make my digestive tract relax.
Fucked up how the British originally swapped in tea for their beer common at every meal. I would have been pissed
Yeah, I've tried to switch a few times. Tea literally does nothing for me.
I'm trying to cut out coffee and tea is one of my weaknesses. So soothing...
But the whole point for me is to avoid caffeine entirely, so resist I must. And if I may quote the comic,
IT FUCKING SUCKS
There are plenty of "teas" (other infusions) which don't have caffeine. I swapped out black tea for rooibos, it's not exactly similar but it hits the spot.
Have you found a non caffeinated alternative? Also weaning yourself off caffeine works so much better.
If you are Caffeine Sensitive, and Like Coffee...
There are a few brands out there that make a really good Decaf Coffee and some roasters and Coffee Suppliers are actually giving more of a shit about their Decaf offerings. It does get a little pricier per bag of beans, but - might be worth shopping around if you have some independent shops/roasters around you.
Coffee in the morning, iced sweet tea after 11.
But iced tea tastes good without using it as a sugar delivery system.
Black tea has more caffeine, but you can get pretty close to that with light roast coffee. Dark roast is weaker but sold as "strong" because of the bitter ass flavor profile. Light roast tastes much better, even tea like and has more oomph.
Gotta have that first cup of coffee in the morning to wake up. Without it I feel sluggish and headachy all day - partly due to the dependence on the caffeine. Also i drink Diet Coke in the afternoon and evening, and without it I get pounding headaches. My general doctor recommended caffeine to help with migraines.
I do like tea, though - I've got peppermint tea on hand for soothing my various gastric problems. But it just doesn't work as a hot drink for me first thing in the morning.
Iced tea with lemon all day everyday