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@ cdennyb,,, would you like some hotcakes with your syrup ? 
I've been tempted to buy some "Kopi Luwak" coffee, like Jack Nicholson drank in the "Bucket List", but I can't justify $215.00 for 4 cups of coffee made from animal dung.
World's most expensive coffee......
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Yea grind your own is the way to go, I agree. The best thing
however is a great cup of tea made from looseleaf tea leaves.
I love almost all tea if it is not in a bag.
Estate teas are good (also used for tea bags, Its the bag that is the worst part)
darjeeling is really soothing
oolong is a nice relaxing tea
Terry's English Breakfast if one of my top 5
Chineese Pu-erh is nice to get you to wake up (lots of caffene)
and all kinds of herbal teas for many reasons.
But I don't like Rooibos
I can drink chai usually with milk.
YES I love tea real tea.
Don't get me wrong I do like coffee.
I just don't drink as
much of it now after my bypass.
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Yay, Springer! Another tea aficionado! Not to continue hijacking this thread, but it's about time tea drinkers banded together and spoke up!
Here's why I say it's a coffee-drinkers' world:
1. In a restaurant, coffee drinkers are always asked if they'd like a refill (no extra charge). Tea drinkers are asked if they'd like more hot water...to put over the old, soggy, cold, depleted tea bag. Ewww. If we do ask for a new tea bag, we're usually charged for it.
2. At a function like a wedding or banquet, the servers come around with coffee. If we ask for hot tea, we're lucky if we ever see it.
3. The hot water containers at functions, meetings, etc. have often been previously used for coffee and the coffee smell and taste never goes away. So, we end up with a cup of tea that has overtones of stale coffee.
There, rant over. Whew! I've been wanting to get that off my (tea) chest for a long time.
Now I'm sure everyone thinks I'm KindaCrazy, not KindaScratchy. 
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I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Hear Hear!!!! Coffee is OK, But tea is great esp. loose leaf tea.
I get my tea from a local tea shop in Winston-Salem NC (Angelina's Teas).
This tea shop has over 500 diff. teas, mostly loose leaf.
He is online too.
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I tried drinking my coffee black but so far I was no able! I don't really add sugar in my coffee but milk is a must! I would die if I did not had my café au lait in the morning, and before someone ask, yes I drink it in a coffee bowl hehe. Café au lait is one of my little tricks for daily intake of calcium!
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So does anyone here ever drink yerba-mate? I guess it would be an herbal tea rather than a proper tea, since it is a different plant.
Plenty of caffeine in it, and it is a bit lower in tannins than coffee or regular tea.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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I heard they love tea in England.
No matter where you go, there you are!
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Daniel what is yer... made from/of. I have never heard of it.
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It is a type of holly plant that they make a sort of tea beverage from down in South America. Quite a bit of caffeine to it.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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Ahh coffee, the necture of the Gods, manna from heaven, java from...uh, the place that jave comes from? Whatever the case, coffee is both my dearest and oldest friend and also my creepy uncle that no one wants around during the holidays. You know the guy, we all have one. Weird, creepy talks waaay to much about weird stuff that has nothing to do with anything you would normaly talk about. Yea, that uncle.
Anyways...off subject again. I love, love, LOVE coffee...during winter and in the early morning on the way to work. During winter I drink coffee like a fish drinks water. Well, except fish drink water with their own urine in it...not me, my water/coffee is urine free. Ok, so maybe not exactly like a fish...you know, come to think of it fish are gross. -SLAP- Oops, sorry back on subject now...I love my coffee. All winter it is a staple in my diet, spring and fall it is in my hands in the morning. Summertime? In Summer, coffee and I are like an old married couple, we still love each other, but we need some time apart. Nothing personal, but it'll strengthen our relationship later. Im not drinking a different coffee, just taking a break from you. I can't drink hot beverages in the summer...and when your mornings are already in the upper 70's it isn't going to get any cooler to really enjoy it.
But soon as it starts cooling off again or we have a nice cold front that settles in for a few days, you better believe my pot is perculating like there is no tomorrow. 
Ahhh, the wonderful taste of coffee. I dig it!
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
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That was really cool gkeese. I enjoyed reading that. Not sure I agree about fish being gross, LOL but I totally agree about the relationship with coffee. 
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