Coffee, tea or...?

[catalina_francisco]

"other"? OK, which do you like best, coffee or tea?

Fluff thread for a sunny Sunday and poor little me chained to Lappy, deep in the pits of revision.

I love the smell of coffee but can't stand the taste. I tried to like it, because so many people do, but it's just not my thing.

I love teas of all varieties. Mornings I generally go with a good quality Earl Grey, while evenings are saved for herbal flavours.

If I go out "for coffee" with friends, I will usually order a hot chocolate (winter) or some kind of icy chocolate drink.

How about you? Are we a coffee crowd or a bunch of leaf lovers?

Sounds almost identical to me! I love the smell of coffee, and just about anything which is coffee flavoured (chocolate, cake etc.), just can't stand coffee as a drink.

Catalina

 

[Felix_Jones]

All I can say is that his parents both immigrated from Poland in the 1950s and when I visited at his home, he was the only person speaking English and not Polish. He was also the only citizen of the U. S. at that point. He considered himself Polish so I defer to his conception of what it means to be a Pole. That his family name's spelling was changed in some small way shouldn't be held against them in my view. You may think differently, of course.

Well, I consider citizenship to be the acid test of one's nationality, no? Pretty well the entire world agrees with me. If you can't tell I'm off the boat, so I'm hoping you can understand my sneering dismissal of native borns who claim European nationality.

 

[midwestyankee]

Well, I consider citizenship to be the acid test of one's nationality, no? Pretty well the entire world agrees with me. If you can't tell I'm off the boat, so I'm hoping you can understand my sneering dismissal of native borns who claim European nationality.

Understood. First off, this started off as a quip and not an essay on national identity. I grew up as a second-generation French Canadian, a "Canuck" to many people. That I was born here was of no consequence to all the Irish Catholics and the European Protestants who kept my father's family restricted to a ghetto for five generations. We were all Canucks and not worth their time. Thus my complete willingness to use a man's name in a joke and call him by the identity that he himself used.

You think I should have called him a Daughter of the American Revolution or something?

 

[Bette_coquette]

I love coffee. Every weekday morning at 4:45 pet brings me in a steaming cup of delicious coffee. He's very good at making the perfect pot. If I'm drinking tea, I like it with a little milk, thankyouverymuch.

 

[Keroin]

I grew up as a second-generation French Canadian, a "Canuck" to many people.

You'll always be an honourary Canuck to me, MWY.

I love coffee. Every weekday morning at 4:45 pet brings me in a steaming cup of delicious coffee. He's very good at making the perfect pot. If I'm drinking tea, I like it with a little milk, thankyouverymuch.

Hey Bette! Good to see/read you. Sounds like things are going well with you and the pet!

Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets up at that uncodly hour.

 

[Babyslave]

COFFEE

I admit it, I can not start my day without a cup (or two) of coffee. I can barely crawl out of bed without my coffee. Wish I could have the coffee maker in the bedroom with me. Or, the money to have someone serve it to me on a silver tray every morning.

During the day it's water. At night time, tea. Green or herbal. Hot in the cool months, iced in the summer.

 

[Bette_coquette]

You'll always be an honourary Canuck to me, MWY.



Hey Bette! Good to see/read you. Sounds like things are going well with you and the pet!

Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets up at that uncodly hour.

Hey, thanks! I mentioned in another thread that I married him. Oh, yes, I surely did.

I'm cajun. Does that count?

 

[Keroin]

Hey, thanks! I mentioned in another thread that I married him. Oh, yes, I surely did.

I'm cajun. Does that count?

Wow! Congrats!! That's awesome news.

Do cajuns wake up early?

I'm not cajun but I do blacken just about everything I cook.

 

[Keroin]

Or, the money to have someone serve it to me on a silver tray every morning.

I have a friend who was married for almost 40 years before his wife died. And every day, of their almost 40 years together, he brought her a cup of coffee and a fresh flower, in bed, when she woke up.

 

[midwestyankee]

You'll always be an honourary Canuck to me, MWY.

And if my countrymen choose to elect Sarah Palin to next occupy the White House, I may want that to be more than honorary.

At the very least, I will be going through a gallon of Bailey's (or Jameson's or whatever) a day to keep the Irish Coffee flowing.

 

[Keroin]

And if my countrymen choose to elect Sarah Palin to next occupy the White House, I may want that to be more than honorary.

The door's always open. Just ask any Bush refugee.

 

[midwestyankee]

The door's always open. Just ask any Bush refugee.

Quoted for posterity and my future sanity.

 

[the captians wench]

And if my countrymen choose to elect Sarah Palin to next occupy the White House, I may want that to be more than honorary.

At the very least, I will be going through a gallon of Bailey's (or Jameson's or whatever) a day to keep the Irish Coffee flowing.

Hey if you're Irishing things up I'm in, what ever the other liquid is!

 

[Babyslave]

I have a friend who was married for almost 40 years before his wife died. And every day, of their almost 40 years together, he brought her a cup of coffee and a fresh flower, in bed, when she woke up.

That is the loveliest thing I've heard in quite some time. Sigh.

So romantic.

It's not the grand gestures. It's the small things that mean so much.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

I have a friend who was married for almost 40 years before his wife died. And every day, of their almost 40 years together, he brought her a cup of coffee and a fresh flower, in bed, when she woke up.

Awwww!!! Thank you for sharing that! That made my heart feel all warm and cozy like... a cup of coffee. *dreamy sigh*