Coffee and Tea and the Java and Me

March 4, 2023

In which I discuss noted differences between coffee and tea drinkers.

Written on an NEC PC-8201A while listening to Dizzy Up the Girl by the Goo Goo Dolls.

I remain convinced that coffee drinkers don't actually like coffee and only drink it for the caffine. I've tried really nice coffee brewed fancily and while it's marginally better it's still bitter and awful. Versus drinking loose leaf tea brewed semi-decently is legitimately tasty and very different from bad tea—brewed decently being the laziest method of putting leaves in a mug and pouring hot water over it, which is how I normally drink tea.

Most tea drinkers I know including myself would still drink tea if it didn't have caffine; while almost every coffee drinker I know are pretty open in saying they wouldn't drink coffee if it didn't have caffine in it. Also evidenced by it's relatively rare to add a lot of stuff into hot tea; while with coffee it's rather unusual to not add anything to it.