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Tea is better than Coffee

I desire my coffee every morning and don't know that I've missed having a cup or more daily for the last 60 years. Before I retired, I would drink coffee all day. Now enjoying retirement, it is an AM exclusive beverage. My afternoons I will enjoy an adult beverage if I have anything to drink. From my evening meal until I go to bed it is always Iced tea. I enjoy both coffee and tea dark and robust without any flavorings.


I have ignored this topic "Tea is better than coffee" for a bit now and have only one thing to say.

Tea is better than coffee as long as it's iced.
 
My neighbor behind me makes sun tea all the time in the summer. Everything I've read about sun tea says it's not real safe. I've mentioned it to my neighbor and he just blows it off.
 
I have a question, i have a buddy that keeps his coffee grinds in the freezer and he says it makes his coffee taste fresher.... i know i used to keep my extra cig packs in the freezer for freshness. I was just wondering if anyone else does this ?
 
I have a question, i have a buddy that keeps his coffee grinds in the freezer and he says it makes his coffee taste fresher.... i know i used to keep my extra cig packs in the freezer for freshness. I was just wondering if anyone else does this ?
I don't. Now that most all freezers are frost free, they are designed to take the moisture out of the air. I think that would have a negative effect on storing tobacco and coffee. I keep my pipe tobacco in my little beer fridge. It is not frost free so there is always a certain amount of moisture within. Tobacco really should be stored in a controlled humidity environment such as a humidor produces. I suspect coffee would be best kept at some sort of humidity level for long term storage as well.
 
In this day of modern science, they make packages of a substance that will keep a product at a particular humidity. What I have seen claims to both absorb excess humidity or add to the amount of humidity to keep a product at a given percentage and can be purchased at different humidity levels. If it truly works, it would be excellent for tobaccos. I have a humidor as well though I don't use it. It is old school with a chalk block to be soaked in water. I found the best method of adding moisture to pipe tobacco is to add a couple of slices of apple to a zip-lock bag filled with tobacco. It adds moisture and adds a bit of flavor in the process.
 
In this day of modern science, they make packages of a substance that will keep a product at a particular humidity. What I have seen claims to both absorb excess humidity or add to the amount of humidity to keep a product at a given percentage and can be purchased at different humidity levels. If it truly works, it would be excellent for tobaccos. I have a humidor as well though I don't use it. It is old school with a chalk block to be soaked in water. I found the best method of adding moisture to pipe tobacco is to add a couple of slices of apple to a zip-lock bag filled with tobacco. It adds moisture and adds a bit of flavor in the process.




That's like if your weed is drying out , you put a leaf of lettuce in the bag to re-moisturize it.
 
That's like if your weed is drying out , you put a leaf of lettuce in the bag to re-moisturize it.
I think the product is heavily influenced by the growing weed industry. It would have to be ideal for cut tobacco as well... if it works as billed. I never heard of the lettuce in the pot trick. I bet it works just like the apple slices. Smoking lettuce is legal in Kansas. :)
 
Yeah with Tea bags you are used to different types of flavors, as well as different types of milk and cream you can pour in, with the same manner as coffee, yet we both know how to use hot water for both. And Tea can really heal your moods up, sure coffee has some benifets with that as well. still tea is the upper level of taste, under ice, chilled,bubbles et all.
 
So I'm sitting here at work sipping my coffee and wondering why i didn't call in sick and just stay home...... mind you I'm not actually sick :thinking:

But these Girl scout Lemon ups cookies aren't bad with my Coffee.
 
There are many different types of teas just as with coffee. Teas vary in plant and region too. Then there are a many different techniques used to bring different flavors from the same tea leaf. There are books written on the subject if you are really interested.
 
In my youth, I drank lots of tea (just regular old Lipton) with sugar. Plus Pepsi and root beer, sometimes Dr. Pepper. As I got older it was more soda than anything else, which I eventually converted to diet (in my 20s). I also started drinking coffee in my late teens, though not with any regularity, maybe if we went to breakfast or something, or McDonald’s if I was driving somewhere (back when it was so hot it was still drinkable an hour later!). (This is before there were Starbucks on nearly every corner; coffee shops were diners and cafes.)
As I got older I started brewing coffee at home and drinking lots of those gallon jugs of Arizona tea, refrigerated and over ice, of course. By then I didn’t drink hot tea as much; primarily when I had a cold as it was more soothing on a sore throat than coffee (and this is still the case). In my 40s I started drinking more and more water and weaned off the diet sodas and added Starbucks to the coffee mix. Coffee was a staple with some creamer and sweetener; in my 50s I weaned off those additives and just drink black coffee. (Curiously, at least to me, once I went to black coffee I found I liked it stronger than when I adulterated it.) Today I drink water and coffee, a lot of water and probably too much coffee.

What prompted the post today in resurrecting this old thread was that I’ve been sick for about ten days and my throat finally felt up to some coffee. That first cup after ten days was really, really tasty. :)

And every time I’ve ever seen this thread it always reminded me of a routine Paul Reiser did long ago (around the time of “Mad About You”), and I went and found it on YouTube for my friends here.

 
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For some reason I've dropped off of my coffee intake. Still like my peach tea though.

Side note. We haven't been back to Pennsylvania in several years now and I sure miss the Birch Beer from there.
Did buy some Ginger Beer when we were in the mountains, last month.
 
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