Coffee or Tea?
By ahscor2001
@ahscor2001 (29)
Philippines
May 20, 2007 9:20am CST
It seems to me that the preference over these two "beverages" goes along geographical lines. The West goes for coffee and the East goes for tea. In fact, the world's biggest sources of tea is from the East.
Is there something in the taste buds of Westerners and Easterners (Orientals) that influences them which beverage to take? Although coffee has been making inroads in the East, the fact remains that tea is the p-reponderant choice.
Of late, tea has been making inroads the opposite way, the West. However, the tea has been marketed most as a health drink rather than a simple beverage. In the case of coffee, it is being promoted not as a health food but a simple beverage. Strictly speaking, both contain caffeine.
I am an Oriental but I go for coffee the likes that Starbucks or Seattle or Figaro has been selling. As for tea, I take it everytime I have a bum stomach and nothing more.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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20 May 07
Im English, and the drinking of tea on every conceivable occassion is considered essential. However, I myself have always prefered coffee and my family rarely drink tea
blessed be
@ahscor2001 (29)
• Philippines
20 May 07
Hmmm, what new information I learn today. Or perhaps, because the Brithish stayed too long in the sub-continent of India that somehow your race has imbibed the practice of drinking tea.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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20 May 07
I think that is exactly right. I fit is right, it will pass with the end of the colonial raigeme
@ahscor2001 (29)
• Philippines
21 May 07
Ha, ha, ha. Even the subject of tea and coffee can be attributed to colonialism.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
20 May 07
I'm Canadian and I used to drink Coffee, but had to give it up. I found that it affected my stomach n a negative way. Now I drink Tea, nothing in it, and I enjoy it very much. I like all the Chinese teas. Black or green makes no difference. I think tea is better for your health than coffee. I just returned from a trip to East Asia, and we brought some tea back. Its delicious!
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
21 May 07
WE visited Taiwan Vietnam, and Laos.... We have extended Family in Laos. We enjoyed the trip very much. Theres so much to see!
HCM City in vietnam is very busy, everybody has a motor bike and there are 8 million living there! The food is cheap and good if you like rice and noodles, We found rice and noodle soup
3 times a day rather tiresome. So we tried snake, and found that a bit more exciting.
@ahscor2001 (29)
• Philippines
21 May 07
Hmm. So it boils down to health again. By the way, where in the Far East you visited recently? I am from there.
@ganwn071 (1116)
• Singapore
20 May 07
I do drink both Tea and coffee. I usually start the morning with a cup of coffee to freshen up myself and to start my days. In between the day, I will either takes 2 cup of either tea or coffee depending on what I want to drink at that moment.
I will finish the day with a cup of tea as a cleanser before I go to bed.
@ahscor2001 (29)
• Philippines
21 May 07
Very like me. We seem to have the same practice. I never liked tea before. But after I came to Saudi Arabia, I began enjoying the taste of tea. I make my own concoction sometimes.
@explorations (1712)
• United States
21 May 07
I prefer to start my day with coffee (and sometimes this will lead into the afternoon depending on how hectic things are) and drink tea from the afternoon and onward throughout the day. I don't like how coffee can negatively effect my body at times, so I've been trying to cut down and switch to tea (which doesn't bother my system at all). This is difficult, though, because I'm addicted to the coffee taste.
