Well, I like neither. So there! 
Wow, in my experience the opposite is true. I can barely distinguish decaf tea from regular, but decaf coffee is an abortion. Of course, my palate is much more sensitive to coffee than tea, so I’m sure there’s a bigger difference for a regular tea drinker.
Coffeee tastes like doodle unless you drop in huge amounts of sugar and milk.
Tea tastes merely unpleasant until you add a little bit of milk and sugar.
Milk tastes all yummy and wholesome, and quite good heated with sugar.
One suspects that until caffeine addiction kicks in, the flavor of the tea and coffee really has little to do with anything and what everyone likes is the milk and sugar. But post that, tea can be more pleasant first and easiest. (Though in the US, they don’t ever give you milk/cream with tea WTF?)
Warm Milk:
Put about a centimeter of brown sugar in a mug
Add a good splash of vanilla extract
Sprinkle with cinammon powder
Fill mug with milk
Stir
Microwave till hot
Stir and drink
back to politics…
there will be a day when certain people will call for the banning of such beverages. Perhaps they already have!
I like tea. I like coffee. I like tobacco too!..oops! I am a bad man.
I prefer tea. Regarding desserts: many wonderful things can be done with matcha – green tea ice cream is positively heavenly. Just because it hasn’t been a widespread ingredient doesn’t mean it shouldn’t or won’t.
Coffee of course has its place, but I think tea is just better. Coffee doesn’t warm my emotions like Earl Grey does. It’s as much an emotional imbibing as it is a physical – strictly IMHO, of course.
Moderator’s Note: I guess it’s my job to move the teapot to IMHO before the party gets really going.
I shall respond solely to your thread title.
No it isn’t.
Tea is better than coffee?
Well yeah, I can see that. I loves me a cup of tea.
Then again, breathing is arguably better than sex too.
Mmm…but is it?
Remove that plastic bag, my man! 
No. :dubious:
Coffee. At least as far as turning them grungy yellow. I speak from experience here.
Psh. All you need to make coffee are some coffee beans, which are very easily obtainable at just about any civilized place of commerce (and I’m certain some uncivilized ones), water, something to put water in, and heat. Coffee is far easier to obtain than tea (Example: meetings. You have donuts or cookies and coffee, not tea). You don’t need to worry about measuring the amount of actual coffee whilst brewing. Just dump a bit more than you think strictly nessecary in, as there is No Such Thing as a cup of coffee that is too strong.
Also, there’s no such thing as a “coffee cozy”, and you never see coffee in pretty little flowered pots. Coffee is brutal and utilitarian and damn good, unlike the silly frivolities of tea. Coffee accomplishes something, as it has far more caffiene. One would have to drink twice as much tea to get that equivilant.
(Disclaimer: I do, in fact, like tea, and occasionally drink (mostly iced) tea. I simply think it in no way can hold a candle to the pure joy that is coffee.)
NinjaChick, you’re clearly not going to the right meetings. 
Most meetings at least have Lipton Black Tea.
I love tea. Coffee, however, is vile. It smells nice though.
As with every food and beverage, consume what they do best wherever you happen to be.
I drink coffee here in the U.S. because most Americans make crappy tea. When I was in Ireland last week, I drank strong black tea every morning, because that’s what they do best there.
I take my cafe americano black, no sugar. When I’m in Italy or Spain or France, I take stronger coffee (at breakfast) in a large cup with plenty of milk and sugar…because that’s the way they do it there.
I like Martinis. I drink them before dinner in NYC and Chicago and maybe San Francisco. If I go to Florida, I drink rum with fresh fruit juice. Because they don’t make good Martinis down there. In Italy I’d have a cool dry vermouth with a lemon twist as an aperitif. In Spain I’d have a chilled manzanilla. In France I’d ask for pastis and water.
Because that’s the way they do it there.
I prefer coffee, but I’m surprised the OP didn’t mention this: Tea really does soothe a sore throat, whereas coffee has no curative properties that I’m aware of (except for relieving that headache I get every morning before I’ve had my coffee).
I love the smell of coffee. I inhale deeply and delightedly in coffee aisles or stores or wherever.
Why doesn’t coffee taste like it smells? Tea tastes like it smells.
Current favorite: Black tea with coconut. Gosh it’s good.
I like 'em both. But you’re off-base on this point:
Billions of flies eat dogshit, too, but I’m not gonna take a bite.
Different species, baby! Have you no loyalty?
Yes, I would recommend tea for sore throats and general illness. And that’s been a marketing problem for tea in the US, more so in the past than now, perhaps: People thought of tea as medicine. A 50s ad campaign (“Take Tea and See”) tried to overcome this pussy-wussy image but didn’t seem to succeed too well.
Good point!