I drink my tea straight – no milk, no sugar. When I used to drink coffee, I needed both milk and sugar, though I weaned myself down to just milk before I quit coffee altogether. So, fellow Dopers, what’s your preference?
Tea:
Coffee:
Just milk with both coffee and tea.
Don’t drink tea. Black coffee.
I’ll also have latte’s or whatever, but never cream or sugar in brewed coffee.
If I’m making coffee, I use flavored creamer. If I’m buying coffee, milk & sugar. Aka a “regular coffee.”
I like my tea unadulterated and my coffee with the merest splash of milk or cream.
I take a lot of sugar and a lot of ice in my tea (and a lot of tea).
Not a coffee drinker.
Tea? Iced with lemon. Maybe a little sugar if it is not very good tea.
Coffee? Well, I dont much like coffee so a Mocha with extra chocolate.
Black tea. Or better yet, green tea. No sweetener or lightener.
Black coffee. If I’m feeling saucy I’ll brew it with a pimch of salt in the grounds.
Nothing in my tea.
If the coffee is very good, i enjoy it black. If it’s mediocre coffee, i enjoy some cream or milk. Or at latte. If it’s bad coffee i want lots of cream, or at least whole milk.
I don’t like coffee creamer. I used to enjoy a hazelnut creamer, until one day i realized the flavor had plastic notes, and i haven’t been able to drink it without thinking it tastes like plastic since. Although…i haven’t tried since i had covid. Maybe i wouldn’t notice now.
I drink a lot of black tea. On the occasions when I drink coffee, I add plenty of milk (no sugar).
Hot tea: Plain.
Iced tea: Plain, or maybe a little mint if I have it.
Coffee: BLECH.
Hot tea: splash of milk, no sugar
Coffee: half-and-half, no sugar
Reminds me of the mother of my high school best friend, who declared, regarding putting sugar in coffee: “If the coffee is good, it doesn’t need sugar. If the coffee is bad, it doesn’t deserve it.” She was okay with cream or no cream.
As for me - whether it’s tea or coffee, plain/black is my usual choice, but milk/cream can be nice.
Sugar is evil. In my perfect world, no beverage is ever sweetened.
Both black, no sugar. A result of not having a fridge at my boarding school, so nowhere to store milk.
When hiking I might have a little whisky in the coffee. I don’t drink much tea.
Agreed. Which is why I switched from soda pop (regular and diet) to unsweetened seltzer several years ago.
With coffee, there was a time when I used to typically put 4 packets of sugar into a large coffee from McD’s. Over the course of a few months in my late 20s, I weaned myself off of sugar in coffee entirely.
My coffee is milk and sweetener but my tea varies a lot. But probably milk and sweetener the most.
I moved the coffee and tea poll from In My Humble Opinion to Cafe Society.
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In coffee, half-and-half and a bit of sugar.
In tea, a bit of lemon.
Coffee: milk or half and half, and non-sugar sweetener (usually Equal/aspartame)
Tea: a splash of milk, no sweetener
Hot tea, usually with a good shot of evaporated milk and two teaspoons of sugar. If I’m sick, I want it with lemon juice and honey.
Cold tea, with sugar and lemon or lime juice.
Hot coffee, usually black with no sugar. But I do like a good latte, and will also have cream and sugar on occasion.
I don’t care for cold coffee unless it’s mixed with high-fat milk and sugar or ice cream.