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i'm about to go make myself a cup of throat coat tea. i like the licorice root/bitter fennel fruit aspect of it.

i have no coffee today. i don't feel right.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse u mad. Hot tea > iced tea. Black tea > herbal tea. Also, I don't do caffeine.

Diet Coke tastes like emptiness.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't HATE tea, but it always leaves me wishing it were better.

Diet Coke in a can, on the point of freezing is like drinking from the teat of a goddess.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck a coffee, I just light up big bluntz in the morning.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tea is what I drink when I have no time to make coffee. It is good, and I like tea, but it just reminds me that I would rather have coffee.

Speaking of, I'm off to get some coffee. Coffee coffee coffee.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The Cult of Diet Coke

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Yeh, drinking tea is like marrying the twin whose twin you are actually in love with. Or something like that.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

A manager at Catch told me that he sleep walks and eats, and a few nights ago he ate a couple of slices of pizza and drank 6 cans of Coke in his sleep. I believe him.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Diet Coke is gross. That said, I will drink it if 1) depressed, because it reminds me of my mom and/or 2) it has booze in it.

Tea is the world's beverage. I like it a lot. I also like licorice, caring for dogs, waking up early, mangos and walks on the beach of moderate length.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Maddie used to have coke in the mornings. I don't really drink soda, but when I do it's almost always diet coke (diet vanilla coke RIP).

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Tea is the world's beverage.

Indeed. There's something hideously provincial in not liking tea.

That coke article is interesting. I didn't know all that stuff.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

There's something hideously provincial in not liking tea.

Holy shit, you're being Kenanish again.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

What about walks on beaches of other lengths??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Kenanish is when I say something that I don't even really believe myself.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, short is pointless and long is boring. Just moderate. I get bored just walking on the beach. If you want to maybe stop for a cup of tea, do some kartwheels on the beach, or write our names in the sand with our toes, that would provide a nice diversion.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Kenanish is when someone gets needlessly haughty.

LOL:

Jen: if i had to eliminate coffee or tea from my life, i would kick tea in the ding dong and never drink it again

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, are the walks of moderate length, or are the beaches? (X-POST: I see.)

The Cult of Tab.

I had a boss who was a Diet Coke fanatic, as in several empty lipstick-stained cans littered around her office at any given time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

YUCK

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

There's something hideously provincial in not liking tea.

Give me a break, I live in Madison.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Tea is versatile -- all the varieties!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like tea. I also don't dislike tea. I guess I don't really think about it. I can also say I've never had a cup of tea that I could call "good" or "great", but I have had plenty that were underwhelming.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Give me a break, arbiter of taste.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

zing

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: ding
me: dong

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

all this talk of java has me looking for a new coffee maker.

also, i love overlong, pointless walks on the beach and i miss having an ocean in wintertime to take those walks on.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ocean in wintertime

I read that as "ocean in wartime" and didn't even think that was weird.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

John, there are lots of different kinds and preparations of meat out there, it's very versatile!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Our office kitchen has a variety of teas for free but it really DOES matter whether you drink quality tea or crap because the office tea tastes REALLY BAD to me, but tea at home is always just what I wanted. So I submit that it's possible tea-haters aren't drinking the good stuff. Either way, Diet Coke is NASTY.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel pukey. Not. Good.

That said, I love a fine cuppa tea, especially Sleepytime with honey.

John, would you say you are more into downers than uppers? Do you ever drink regular Coke?

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

John, do you prefer dolls or meth?

Note: I don't hate tea in the least. In fact, I quite like it, as the drawer full of various kinds of bagged, loose, herbal, and caffeinated tea in our kitchen and the ownership of my very own proper tea pot demonstrates. I just vastly prefer coffee. Coffee is a magical drink.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Coffee is a magical drink.

OTM.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I just vastly prefer coffee. Coffee is a magical drink.

This is indeed true.

But boy, bad coffee is *really* bad. Bad tea is just kinda flat or tinny tasting, but bad coffee... woo. Ashtrays and assholes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

John, would you say you are more into downers than uppers?

No, I miss coffee terribly. I *loved* the mental/creative stimulation it provided.

My antipathy for Diet Coke is mostly the empty metallic taste. Regular Coke is too syrupy. But I can't drink either, so the point is moot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Give me a break, arbiter of taste.

I take back "hideously provincial," ok?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the ceremony of tea. The leaves, the little cups, the teapot. It's different than coffee. Coffee is like a strong, fierce hug or a whack on the butt and tea is like cuddling for an extended period of time. Sometimes if you're at work and you want a pick-me-up, tea is not what you're after. But if you seek comfort, tea is what you need.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, every morning I want a strong whack on the butt from my coffee.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

We're the coffee generation. The movers and the shakers.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of feel that tea is a drink, whereas coffee is a food. It's got body, somehow. I dunno.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I miss coffee terribly. I *loved* the mental/creative stimulation it provided.

Also, I prefer the taste of really good coffee to tea. Which is why I drink ROASTAROMA tea every morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't drink coffee after 7 pm without being up all night so i've found that i drink a lot of tea at night. especially in winter when i crave a hot beverage on a cold night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Also good for that: apple cider, hot chocolate.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

True, True. I couldn't fall asleep last night because I had a coffee chiller drink at Filter in the EARLY AFTERNOON.

Due to some health issues, I went without caffeine for two years straight. I lost a lot of weight that way. Also, I developed a taste for Sprite.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, hot cider with orange and nutmeg is good. with or without booze.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Now, see, I find coffee to be comforting in the way Amanda describes. I attribute this to being the child of two hardcore coffee drinkers. I associate coffee with home and hearth and hospitality.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I lost a lot of weight that way.
I was a big-time Coke drinker before that and didn't like Diet, so I very rarely had soda, just Sprite at the movies.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I strongly prefer cold drinks over hot.

I think Chris "Cuddles" Piuma would have something to say here.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is there no DC thread over here? I need to find that Pete Smith character and ask him something about predatory lending.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

'Cause they're N00BS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

So, what did you all do for Thanksgiving? I ate with my parents and many of their students, and drank a lot of beer. I also went out to the lake a couple of times, took a few pictures, marveled at the amount of new construction in my town, caught up with some old friends, and even mangaged to hang with some of the people I see all the time down here. All in all, a good time. The drive back was easy, too... no traffic to speak of and lots of hunters with deer carcasses (carci?) strapped to their vehicles in interesting ways.

I'm also slightly embarassed re-reading my drunk post upthread.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, also my car sprung a gas leak and is staying in MI for a month. I drove my mom's car back. I hate my car.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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