JPG tagged me with this one. I'm supposed to snap a pic of my favorite coffee or tea mug, and write a brief post about it.
*sigh*
I have a shameful confession.
I don't drink coffee. Nor do I drink tea, unless you count the iced and heavily sugar laden variety, the de facto House Wine of the South.
I suppose that qualifies me for permanent membership in Wusses Anonymous, because all real men drink coffee, or at least hot tea (if they're cultured real men), right?
Well, I'm cultured all right, in the yogurt sense of the word.
I'm a coffee wuss, and a tea Philistine. I can't stand the taste of coffee, unless you add enough flavoring and sweetener to it that it doesn't take like, well...coffee...any longer. And even then, I am too lazy to make it thus myself, and too prideful and cheap to purchase the double hazelnut vanilla soy mocha latte whateverthehellitis that I might find palatable.
I can think of quicker, and cheaper, ways to neuter myself, thankyouverymuch.
As far as tea goes, I don't know Earl Grey from orange pekoe, and I refuse to drink the flavored bottled varieties (see previous paragraph: Men, Wussification Thereof).
So this is the closest thing to a coffee cup in my bolance:
Don't laugh. I've lost seventy pounds in four months, due in large part to drinking these babies. They're carb and calorie free, and they have all the caffeine I need.
If I did have a picture of a favorite coffee mug, it would strongly resemble the screw-off cap of a Coleman camouflage Thermos...
...and it would be filled with hot chocolate.
17 pithy observation(s).:
It's OK. I hate coffee and tea. I only drink hot chocolate, or Arizona Iced Tea.
And I work nights.
It's always encouraging to find another guy who doesn't drink coffee.
Sweet tea's one of my favorites.
I lost 10 pounds in 2 months last year just by laying off the coffee. Mainly because I would put about 4 big scoops of sugar in one cup then procede to drink about a pot and a half a day. I finally did the math and realized how much sugar I was consuming. The good thing about no coffee is no caffeen crash an hour after you drink it.
Oh and sweet tea is AMAZING. One of my friends is from "down south" and makes the most amazing sweet tea. I used to hate the stuff because I had only had the upstate new york version. She quickly got me hooked on the real stuff though.
Congrats on the 70 pounds in 4 months. That is amazing.
The only coffee I drink is, occasionally, the cold bottles of WaWa cappuccino. Even that does not have much of an effect on me any more. I'm not much for tea, or pretty much any hot drink.
Too much work for too little satisfaction. And everybody serves it at a temperature that requires turn out gear to carry safely.
Beer, on the other hand, is served at much more sensible temperatures. For some reason, I don't have a picture of a beer mug in my ambulance.
Ahhhh coffee!! If I have to skip a couple of sleeping hours, I won't be fully functionnal without it...
For me, it's a Tall Caffe Latte, with a bit of sugar.
I drink tea occasionally, but apparently, I am the only cop in history that does not drink coffee.
Turkey Hill Diet Iced Tea is my beverage of choice - at least at work.
I too prefer iced tea to hot coffee. My favorite is one bag of Lipton to one bag of Constant Comment. (Yeah, yeah. "Bags." "Lipton." "Constant Comment." I'm a philistine. Sue me.)
Favorite iced tea condiment, after the mandatory sugar: Fresh garden mint.
Currently, I'm drinking mostly lemonade, made with Splenda's sucralose/sucrose blend. Caffeine has almost no effect on me.
Not to say I don't drink coffee, though. I learned how to taste coffee late in life, after being introduced to Irish Coffee via the writings of Larry Niven. Irish coffee is the reason Darwin gave me taste buds.
I'm sometimes criticized for adulterating my coffee so heavily. In fact, to me, good coffee tastes very much like hot chocolate, which is simply another bitter brew pre-adulterated with lots of sugar and cream.
I've recently discovered that I prefer to brew coffee the night before, sugar it, put it in the fridge overnight, then add cream the next morning before drinking.
Mmm, cold coffee...mmmmmmmm.
Emo Philips: "There's nothing like a big, hot pot of coffee to get you going in the morning. Oh, sure, I've tried other enemas...."
My favorite mugs here.
I've never been a big fan of coffee, either. Actually, I tend to dislike bitter drinks in general. To get my fix I either drink an energy drink (though I'm gravitating away from those due to the massive amount of sugar contained therein) or a soda like Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper.
Come to think of it, I haven't been drinking a whole lot of those lately, either. Probably a good thing.
I will, however, every once in a while drink tea, so long as its flavored with honey. Lots of honey.
Nobody has mentioned
Jolt Cola. All of the sugar and twice the caffeine of your regular cola.
Welcome to the club. I don't drink coffee or tea, either. Makes me the weirdo when the question "Wanna go for coffee?" arises..
Ah, Jolt Cola. Where can one find it in the south? We had it in Indiana. Then in Georgia, Hubby said surge was the same thing, but I couldn't stand that.
I love Red or Roobis tea. Love it! With two blue sweeteners.
Ahhhhh....coffee. It's a social drink for me. I don't enjoy it unless I'm around someone who shares my enjoyment of it. My spouse doesn't like coffee, so I don't make it for myself, instead, just using it for sharing friendship time. I do love sun tea, though, and in winter brewing up a pot of tea for...well...tea. But then, I'm Irish.
It's all about Dunkin Donuts up here in Boston. Nothing says "wake-up" like a 20-oz cup of coffee for $1.75. Especially when the coffee is so hot that it feels like napalm when you drink it.
I was drinking coffee before I ever started school. Used to drive my mom crazy when I'd get up to have coffee with Dad before he went to work. Naturally, I married a man who hates the stuff. So I don't brew it anymore. I buy the Hills Bros. French Vanilla Capuccino. At less than $4.00 a can will last me 4-5 days; much cheaper than Starbucks and probably tastes better. I do enjoy my Coke Classic, though I've cut way back on those to try to lose some weight.
So nice to meet someone else who doesn't drink coffee or tea. I probably killed any budding desire for coffee when I was very young and drank some of my father's left over coffee. It was so nasty I almost threw up. I found out later it was so nasty because he had drowned a couple cigarette butts in it that I didn't see, but by then the deed was done.
I didn't have the same experience with tea, but to me, the two were always associated, so no coffee and no tea. And since iced tea is a direct sibling to hot tea, no iced tea either.
Imagine the looks I got from people when I moved to South Carolina and told them I didn't drink iced tea...
"I don't drink coffee."
And you call yourself a real medic?
I don't think we can be friends anymore, AD. ;)
You can always do what Chief Miles O'Brien took to replcating on Deep Space Nine: Raktajino, double strong, double sweet.
Oh... but I guess the Klingons aren't real, so their variety of coffee would not exist. Shame.
Tea is pretty good. It's the new alcohol!
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