Beverages

[taimatsu]

Question, because it occurred to me:

IF you drink tea or coffee, how old were you when you started, and why did you start? What's your favourite type of tea/coffee/each, and how often do you imbibe such drinks?

If you don't drink tea or coffee, what do you do when people (friends, hairdressers' assistants in semi-posh salons, etc.) offer you the choice 'tes or coffee'?

Comments

[lnr]

I think I was around 9 the year I gave up sugar in tea and coffee for lent, so I must have been drinking them both before that. Tea probably earlier, because it was what you got with your Sunday tea (salad, with trifle for afters) at Grandma's. Never went back to sugar for any long period after that, just didn't like it much any more, though I sometimes use it in coffee if it's for medicinal purposes.

Like Jan my coffee went black as a student because I couldn't be arsed to cope with keeping real milk and I don't do any of the fake milks (UHT, or powdered, ick ick ick). Probably at this point I switched to mostly coffee and rarely tea.

Kenco Columbian is my halfway decent instant of choice, since I can't always be bothered to make real coffee. As for tea Assam or English Breakfast or PG Tips make nice just tea tea and Earl Grey is nice for the occasional change. Now I only seem to drink tea a lot when visiting parents. And coffee most days, a cup with breakfast almost always, and sometimes one with lunch, or one at teatime, or real coffee after dinner. But if someone offers and I don't fancy it I say "no thanks".

I still drink milk in my tea. And I always ALWAYS specify black when asking for coffee (except from people who know me very well) because I just can't drink it with milk in any more, it's horrible.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Is there something about grandmas and trifles? We always used to have one (with hundreds and thousands - very important) when we went to Grandma's every sunday evening. Thankfully this followed not salad but a roast dinner of some description, which was always lovely.

[lnr]

Roast dinners are for Sunday lunch. And anyway my grandma doesn't cook them as well as my mum, since she overdoes the meat. Actually more often there wasn't trifle and it was tinned fruit (peaches and pears most often) and evaporated milk and jelly.

Roast dinners

[imc.livejournal.com]

Is this a law? ;-)

Anyway, roast dinner for sunday lunch is difficult if you've been at church in the morning, so inasmuch as it has been a tradition, the tradition in our family has been to have it at tea time.

Re: Roast dinners

[lnr]

If I do them they tend to be at teatime too, but this is lazy Sunday mornings in bed, not at church.