It would make me happy. I wouldn’t have to put up with the smell of coffee grounds in airline bathrooms. Deodorizer? Feh!
Somebody should have told you all that it’s better not made with seawater.
I would be upset. I like tea but tea and coffee are not interchangeable, you know. They both have caffeine, but they don’t taste the same. You’re in the mood for one or the other.
Ivylad, on the other hand, would require massive doses of tranquilizers to get him over the shock.
I’d have a good long cry (what do I put my Kahlua in now?!?) and then I’d console myself with a big mug of Earl Grey or Chai Spice Tea.
Another person who never joined the Coffee Achievers here. However, I would most assuredly be thrown for a loop were regular (sugared/caffeinated) Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew to disappear from the face of the earth…
There’s another kind?
I’d also have to scream for a few days but I could eventually get by. I could switch back to Indian tea easily enough, I grew up seeing everyone drink it.
But what’s with all the anti-coffee snobbery? We all have our vices, this is mine.
I like coffee. But I’d switch to tea and still be perfectly happy. I’ve done this at least twice in my life for no real reason at all.
On ME, not much.
But the fish in the harbor at Seattle might finally get a good night’s sleep.
(BTW – people who say they’d rush to caffeine pills and Red Bull – I thought the caffeine for such products came from the process of de-caffeinating coffee. If so, I’m guessing you’d be up a certain brown river as well.)
I love coffee. However, I love tea too, so I’d be okay.
It’s weird though - if I had to choose my favourite of the two, it’d be tea (having a nice cuppa right now as it happens), but I probably drink more coffee - especially when I’m working.
In a coffeeless world, tea would do me quite nicely.
I would miss the nice coffee-flavoured things though. Sure, tea would cover me for a hot caffeine-laden drink, but when’s the last time you ate a chocolate with a tea centre?
I suppose I’d miss my once a week mocha, but for the most part I’d be fine since I also drink tea for my morning wake up.
I fear that I would have to put down some of my coworkers though. They’re barely tolerable with coffee. Without it… :eek:
The streets would be bathed in blood. At least mine would be.
You would have less of a fight trying to take an organ out of me then you would trying to take my coffee away.
Not a caffeine needer here. I drink coffee a few times a month, if I meet friends for a Sunday breakfast/brunch. More to be sociable than anything else, it’s a great drink to linger over.Since I don’t have coffee on a regular basis, I have to have it EARLY in the day, so I can drop off to sleep before midnight. Buzz-buzz-buzz. I keep a jar of instant espresso at home, comes in handy when you are baking with chocolate. Mrs. Folger’s has called me up several times, and asked that I get on the bandwagon. Something about screwing up the curve. I’ve always felt sorry for those who say they can’t function without a potful in the morning, or hit a coffee-teria for the needed jolt on the way to work. Actual, or just habit?
Have you tried the swill they try to pass off as tea in the U.S.? Lawn clippings taste better than that Lipton crap.
I agree, Lipton is swill, but you can get Twinings in the U.S. Stash Chai is damn good, too. Lipton and Nestea can go belly-up for all I care, but you can have my Twinings over my dead body.
That’s why the sensible ones don’t drink Lipton. I recommend Adagio tea. Their dragonwell is pure joy.
I wouldn’t have to stop at rest area Starbuck’s when travelling with my brother anymore. Since I dispise everything coffee, I wouldn’t miss anything.
I almost cried just reading the thread title. I’m a caffeine junkie. I’m well aware that I can get my fix from a variety of other products, but my emotional dependence on coffee is too strong. I like the flavor, for one thing, and I just have too many fond memories of going out for coffee with friends, hours spent at diners and free refills galore.
Last year, I went on a blind date with a very nice guy. We had a lovely dinner, good conversation, and we had a lot of common interests. Then we went to a dessert cafe, and while we were perusing the selection, deciding what goodies we would share, he says “Just so you know, I can’t stand coffee, or anything coffee-flavored.”
I knew right then that we had no future together.
I could finally throw away that stupid coffee maker we’ve had for five years that only comes out when we have family over.
I hate this kind of snobby generalization. I’ve heard it a lot and it’s just not true.
“One particular type of tea from one particular manufacturer is lousy, therefore all tea in the U.S. is swill.” Nope. There’s an 8-foot section of shelving 6 feet high in the local grocery store (in this little town of 2,300) just dedicated to tea. Lots of good stuff. All of my favorite restaurants bring a selection of teabags when you order tea and let you choose what you want.
“Coors makes colored water, therefore all American beer is swill.” There are hundreds of breweries in this country, making every imaginable kind of beer. There are absolutely fantastic American porters, stouts, bocks, IPAs, wiezens, and any other style you want.
“Wonderbread is tasteless fluff, therefore Americans don’t eat real bread.” (I heard this one from a German friend who’d been here once). Try the bakery just down the street. We have many great breads here, and I’m not just talking about San Francisco sourdough.
You can’t pick one example of a product you don’t like and extend it to every product made in a country.
I have to second (or third) this. My company’s coffee maker broke TWICE - two weeks in a row from Monday through Wednesday both times - and it was bad. People were very grumpy, and that doesn’t make my day alotta fun.