The Coffee & Tea Thread

[ThePhanastasio]

I used to work customer service for a coffee company (Gevalia) who actually had pretty darn good coffee. We'd get nice little incentives, like, if someone called to cancel an account and we were able to save the account, they'd give us a free box of coffee, blend of our choice.

I was a total junkie for the "Cafe Greco" blend, and I went out of my way to save a lot of accounts so that I could take home at least one box a week. It wound up being like, one box a day at one point, which was entirely too much coffee - so I started gifting friends with the coffee, and I was their hero for a period of time.

Just an FYI, though - the subscription based service for Gevalia coffee is kind of a scam, and really hard to get out of.

[CanwllCorfe]

Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

Teavana! I love that place! Not only do they have some awesome tea blends, but they also have some beautiful tea cups and tea pots to boot.

Last time I was there I bought the Wild Orange Blossom Herbal Tea:


So very wonderful. Perfect right before bed.

Oh yes! At mine they had that one blended with the Youthberry White Tea. It was unbelievable! It's what made me decide that I actually do enjoy some teas. I think it's great that they offer blends instead of just plain white, green, or black ones.

[Astronomer]

I am obsessed with tea. Tea is just the best.

At home I currently have available: Green tea, peppermint tea, camomile tea, lemongrass, white, black, earl grey, english breakfast, apple, cinnamon and plum, peach, vanilla, ginger and... probably more but I can't remember.

I love tea.

[s_k]

I've had this for the past couple of days:

And it's nice

[clementine]

does anyone drink nesquik? I've seen nesquik cereals and the bottles of chocolate milk already prepared in other countries but I can't remember seeing the chocolate powder, which btw, I love!!!!

[Sansa Stark]

neither coffee or tea

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Damn, now I'm craving an earl grey. I better go have one then.

[WWWP]

It has a really strong cinnamon smell and taste and I really love cinnamon so this is my current favorite. I like peppermint tea or anything nice and herbal at night but during the day I prefer black teas. I looooove earl grey and english breakfast and used to really be into green teas - especially jasmine - but I've kind of gotten over that.

That being said coffee is my go-to energy source. I work at Peet's Coffee though and I can't stand the taste of it so I generally just down a couple shots of expresso at the start of my shift and then switch to tea. As far as drip coffee goes, the darker the roast the better. Probably the best coffee I've had comes from a little local organic coffee shop just down the street from my house.

I also like chai but I've yet to find a brand that is consistently satisfying. =\
And a word of caution to all you Californians, don't ever order chai from Peet's Coffee. Seriously, I don't know what we do but it's bad.

[s_k]

Originally Posted by clementine

does anyone drink nesquik? I've seen nesquik cereals and the bottles of chocolate milk already prepared in other countries but I can't remember seeing the chocolate powder, which btw, I love!!!!

We have nesquick powder here. It's pretty common.

Though most of dus drink "Chocomel", which is a abbreviation (is that the right word?) of 'chocolademelk', which then means 'chocolate milk'.
Still, chocomel is a registered trademark. It's called CéCémel in French and Belgium, by the way. Chocomel is ready made chocolate milk of great quality. It comes in glass bottles, little or bigger milk cartons and plastic bottles (which taste bad, by the way).

By the way, just for fun:

The tea stock of an average dutch supermarket. Took this picture this afternoon
The tea I was looking for (chamomile) has been out of stock for weeks now .

[Arya Stark]

Coffee actually makes me really sick.
I feel like I've said that before, have I posted in this thread already?