My take on Starbucks...

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I prefer tea myself. I enjoy it more and it gives my a good 'jolt' in the morning. The coffee chain Caffe Nero probably do the best tea.

Tea is good as well and I drink it on occassion. I prefer Bigelow brand "English Breakfast tea". It's a bit stronger then normal American tea and gives me a good boost in the morning but of course it also has the nasty side affect of me catching grief from all the coffee drinking Americans I work with.

[afleitch]

it also has the nasty side affect of me catching grief from all the coffee drinking Americans I work with.

I find that a real pity Tea gets a bad reputation, but it's probably the more versatile than coffee, flavoured teas, mint teas and so on (Though I prefer breakfast tea myself) I also prefer the taste. I like coffee but I sometimes watch people drink it becasue they are expected to and you can see in their eyes they are not enjoying it!

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it also has the nasty side affect of me catching grief from all the coffee drinking Americans I work with.

I find that a real pity Tea gets a bad reputation, but it's probably the more versatile than coffee, flavoured teas, mint teas and so on (Though I prefer breakfast tea myself) I also prefer the taste. I like coffee but I sometimes watch people drink it becasue they are expected to and you can see in their eyes they are not enjoying it!

Yes, here drinking hot teas are considered "floofy" but I just think that belief is plain dumb.

[Nym90]

American coffee *shudder*

Because of the way it tastes or because it's American? I'm betting the latter.

American coffee is a bit stronger then coffee in other parts of the world from what I understand. Americans have never really been as big on "gourmet" coffees and teas like Europe and other parts of the world. We are hard whiskey and strong beer drinking fellows in this neck of the world.

Not at all - well not any more, anyhow. It's only the lightest milkiest coffee-lessest of European variants that have caught on in suburban America, but of course the coffee brewed out west in the 19th century was every bit as strong as that brewed in Arabia is to this day. The reason's the same of course - it was /is drunk for its coffeine, not for its taste or for some fashion statement.

But of course, we Europeans are not free of that either.

Sadly that's getting to be the case. I drink my coffee straight up black and strong. On occassion I'll add a little bit of cream to it.

I like my coffee like I like my women--hot, black, and strong.

But in all seriousness, I've never had Starbucks. There really isn't one anywhere near here, and I don't have any desire to spend much money on coffee, although I do like it.

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it also has the nasty side affect of me catching grief from all the coffee drinking Americans I work with.

I find that a real pity Tea gets a bad reputation, but it's probably the more versatile than coffee, flavoured teas, mint teas and so on (Though I prefer breakfast tea myself) I also prefer the taste. I like coffee but I sometimes watch people drink it becasue they are expected to and you can see in their eyes they are not enjoying it!

I spent much of my late childhood/early teenage drinking prodigious  amounts of fresh mint tea, actually.