How many coffees a day? How many coffees a day?!

[The Widow of Brid]

Any love for masala tea? Anyone?


Anyway. One large coffee of a morning (white, one sugar) then water, masala tea (white, one sugar) and diet pop are my everyday beverages of choice.

I also have a highlights hot chocolate last thing at night, because my life is so fucking hardcore.

[Ginyard]

Any love for masala tea? Anyone?

Hell yeah. My mother-in-law makes the best in the west.

Usually 3 strong black coffees followed by half a pint of water a day, no sugar. I used to drink it by the bucketload when I was younger until I discovered it made my hands shake which is actually quite handy when it comes to some spit and clit action not helpful when you're trying to write.

[massive bereavement]

I only drink decaffeinated tea these days, just to have something to dunk my jammy dodgers in.

[Lyndon]

I only drink water (from the fucking tap), cos I'm better than all you.

[presta didwicks]

Coffee to get started, then tea when I get to work.
3 or 4 more teas throughout the day, unless the dinner time biscuits are chocolate because choc biscuits can only be dunked into coffee.

Strong, white ,1 sugar please.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

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Personally I can't drink caffiene at all.  It makes me go tunnel visioned and lightheaded.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Futurama - Do you like coffee?

'..and your face is greasy....reeeeeal greasy.'

[amputeeporn]

I drink two or three black coffees a day, with THREE teaspoons in each. Lately I have actually been twitching, so am taking the oppurtunity of being off work for a couple of weeks to curb my intake. Curb it as much as I can without killing someone.

[HappyTree]

I use to drink about 6 cups of Earl Grey a day. These days I drink instant coffee with a lot of milk and no sugar. They say tea has just as much caffeine in it as coffee does. Neither have ever woken me up, made me feel more alert or prevented me from sleeping. I can have a coffee now and still get to sleep fine in an hour or so.

The only effect I've ever felt was a great satisfaction in drinking my tea. It definitely had something to it that made me feel I was missing something if I didn't have a cup of tea. Never felt that with coffee. I usually have a coffee in the morning but it's purely psychological as part of a routine.

[rudi]

They say tea has just as much caffeine in it as coffee does.

No they don't.

[HappyTree]

Well some of them do :-D Maybe they're wrong. What is the relative proportion of caffeine in tea and coffee?

Edit: a comparison of tea, instant coffee and real coffee would be interesting. But not quite interesting enough for me to bother looking for one.

[The Widow of Brid]

No they don't.

They do, frequently. They're just wrong.

The misconception comes from dry tea having slightly more caffeine than coffee weight for weight (which obviously doesn't translate into the actual drink), doesn't it?

[rudi]

They do, frequently. They're just wrong.

The misconception comes from dry tea having slightly more caffeine than coffee weight for weight (which obviously doesn't translate into the actual drink), doesn't it?

That's it. If you used as much tea in a cup of tea as you do coffe in a cup of coffee then "they" might have a point.

[the midnight watch baboon]

No more than two cups a day, for fear of ending up with the stinking dead halitosis hole of a over-coffeed mouth-breath that afflicts so many people at work.

[tater pie]

My love of coffee comes from my mum (who will have one before going to bed) and Kinky Friedman (who is just plain cool).  I thought you should all know that.

[TheWizard]

Never drink coffee. Once drank 13 cups of tea at work in 8 hours to prove a point. Not recommended.

[HappyTree]

That's it. If you used as much tea in a cup of tea as you do coffe in a cup of coffee then "they" might have a point.

Well if you look at the amount of Nescafé in a teaspoon it looks remarkably the same size as the amount of tea in a teabag.

[mook]

But you don't drink the tealeaves do you? The coffee granuals are completely disolved in the hot water, whereas the teabag is squished a bit and then discarded before it realeases all of its... erm... teainess.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

This came up in QI once, and apparently when dry, tea has more caffeine in it, but when prepared for a drink (ie dissolved with coffee and dunked with tea), a standard cup of coffee has twice as much caffeine in it as tea.  A can of cola has half the caffeine as a cup of tea, but makes up for that by having the equivalent of twelve teaspoons of sugar.

[HappyTree]

Where would we be without the QI elves?

[Still Not George]

Staring blankly at wikipedia?

[Ambient Sheep]

This came up in QI once, and apparently when dry, tea has more caffeine in it, but when prepared for a drink (ie dissolved with coffee and dunked with tea), a standard cup of coffee has twice as much caffeine in it as tea.

Thanks for that.  It's always been my feeling that coffee has a stronger wakening effect on me than tea (hence me switching to tea in the afternoons), so the thing about tea having more caffeine in it than coffee has always confused me.  Thanks for putting me out of my confusion; and double the strength sounds about right in my experience.