Four Colly Birds (How I take my coffee) - Christmas Meme

[stripytights]

wendy asked how I drink my coffee for this day.

The simplest answer to how I drink my coffee...is that I don't!

I used to have a truly disgusting habit of filling a mug half full of instant coffee and then sloshing a little bit of boiling water over it (no sugar, no milk). The resultant mess stained cups, skin if you spilt it and tasted like thick tar. I have no idea where I picked the taste up from, but I used to drink four/five mugs of that a day - much to the horror of the rest of my family who preferred actual coffee that didn't come in kg jars. I'm still caffeine-insensitive and I'm pretty sure that's why.

Then one day I gave it up because I thought it was unhealthy. Just stopped drinking it and never went back. I didn't have a cup of coffee for the next three years or so. Nowadays I'll occasionally drink one - I still only want it black and strong enough to make you wince (or when I can get it, a mint frappuccino thing). I do like coffee flavoured chocolates though.

Instead I drink tea; mostly standard breakfast tea or earl grey, though I try and get two or three cups of green tea a day because I think there may be some health benefit to it. And wine, obviously.

Comments

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

*shudders at description of coffee concoction*

I like breakfast tea and earl grey, but green tea I just can't get into. Obviously this means I'm doomed to be unhealthy no matter what I do. ;-)

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

I do look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking when drinking that. The worst thing is, I still quite like the taste, so I don't even have that saving grace of repentance.

Hah, afraid so. No green tea means you can't possibly be healthy (this is a lie). Have you tried the varieties that flavour with something else - I have a bergamot green tea and a lemon one as well.

[miss-morland.livejournal.com]

Bergamot green tea sounds interesting, actually! I used to like a mint-flavoured one a few years back -- perhaps I should try to get hold of it again. It's the plain one I don't like, really.

[wendy.livejournal.com]

Instant?!!? Say it ain't so! On the other hand, those are two teas I love, so...*waves hands*

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, I loathe my tastebuds!