I like my coffee strong and Light with sugar, just like my women.
I’ll drink tea, thank you. My parents are Japanese and English. I had no choice. It’s genetic. We go throughamazing quantities of Orange Pekoe and Jasmine Green at our house. And occasional pots of gen mai cha.
I have recently started being okay with occasional cups of Vietnamese coffee. It tastes like hot coffee ice cream. A strong, chocolately coffee and condensed milk. But most of the time, it’s teatime.
I can only assume you speak of cruel, depraved gods who amuse themselves by inflicting suffering upon their near-mindless thralls in ruinous sunken cities. Coffee smells and tastes like someone burned a skunk to ashes, then stewed the ashes in dirty water. The idea of someone drinking it voluntarily bewilders me.
A good cup of tea, on the other hand, is…well, acceptable. I like iced tea with meals sometimes, but I rarely drink hot tea, and I almost never order either in a restaurant. I’ve never encountered a restaurant in the US that serves decent tea, hot or cold–it usually tastes like bitter, dirty water.
Generally speaking, if I want a hot drink, I have either chocolate or herbal tea. I get my caffeine from colas.
Coffee is mmm. The smell of the coffee aisle in the supermarket makes me go all happy. Proper coffee is just plain marvelous. And proper cappuccino is slap-yo-momma good.
Tea? People actually like that stuff? Seriously? Huh. Tea actually makes me thirstier when I drink it. I have to drink something else afterwards to wash away the lack-of-quench experience.
I am of the same mind.
Coffee: NEED it in the morning, good for not murdering people (unless they try to prevent you from getting your coffee).
Tea: Iced is good all day long, hot tea is good for relaxing later in the day and for when you feel like crap.
I like coffee (I also find instant coffee an acceptable drink, although I don’t pretend it’s the same thing - in the same way I don’t pretend white sliced bread is bread, but will eat both), but there’s nothing quite like a sticky bun washed down with Earl Grey.
Please note: In order to like something, it is not necessary to hate everything else.
I boil the water for my tea in a special tube-powered kettle. It gives the tea a warmth and saturation that you just can’t get with transistor-powered kettles.
But they talk cute.
I remember seeing a US officer interviewed about the conditions for troops in action in Iraq. During the interview he said that the US soldiers lacked one thing the the UK soldiers had. The moral lifting brew. Everytime the UK troops stopped anywhere someone started making tea and the troops noticable relaxed. Although the US troops did the same with coffee they just didn’t get the same lift that the tea gave the UK soldiers.
The point of this is that in the UK and Ireland tea is more than just a drink for a huge section of the population. It’s always present, it’s the ultimate comfort drink. You can’t walked into a Irish home without being asked do you want a cup of tea. A lot of homes always have tea on the go.
A good cup of coffee is great. I love coffee and drink it quite a bit. A good cup of tea to me is also comforting in a way I can’t really express.
A good tea is very easy to find here. You just buy Lyons or Barries tea bags and make it correctly. I have no interest in any Earl Greys or any other tea. I just love the commoner garden tea bags which are of high quality over here.
So tea makes you more moral? Does coffee make you immoral? Well, that would explain some things.
Doh! Can I blame the strong pain killers I’m on 
Didn’t think so.
I drink good green tea that I buy loose from SpecialTeas. Usually high grade gunpowder, sometimes genmai, occasionally a sample. I love quality green tea and have never liked coffee. Sucks when I’m traveling tho’; Starbucks tea is always brewed too hot and I don’t like the brand (Zen) they use.
I don’t mind teabags, as long as they’re fresh. Also, if I’m trying a new tea for the first time and decide I hate it, it’s easier to unload on someone else in teabags.
I also don’t mind instant coffee. But, I consider it more of a hot beverage like hot chocolate.
I’ve just recently started using a drip coffee maker, after years of using a french press. If I don’t use the perfect filter, or the perfect ground, or the perfect water, or drink it immediately after brewing, I can’t drink it at all.
My vote is for tea. Whenever I hear someone say they hate tea, I think they just haven’t found the right flavor. Unfortunately, most non tea drinkers picture Lipton tea bags when they think of tea.