Yes I'm sure many of you would have at some time or other have used one or either of those items, most likely both instead,
so do you still use one or like many of us rarely use them as tea bags are easy to use and in many circumstances very practical,
not that long ago i read of coffee bags coming into use much like tea bags ,
so to start your day off with a cuppa what tea or coffee do you prefer,
some of my relatives drink their coffee black no milk and no sugar ??
Q; how do you like your morning cuppa,
It used to be a teabag cup of tea but since getting a flashy coffee machine it's a latte.
Got to justify buying it. :wink:
I don't recall the last time I used a teapot and leaf tea was decades ago.
No tea or coffee first thing, it's a glass of cold water with the juice of a half lemon squeezed into it. :check:
The rest of the time is Frothy Coffee.
Morning begins with a cuppa - always, and for many, many years, a teabag - loose leaf, strainer, teapot, etc., much too much of a fuss.
Mike
My first drink of the day is a pot of tea.. One teapot.. one tea bag. PG Tips..
I have one coffee a day.. around now... I don't drink coffee after twelve..
Not too keen on water.. unless the weather is hot.
One tea. One coffee. Don't drink water.
Hmmm. Same as Mike then :grin:
We visited a tea plantation in Sri Lanka and were told there, that the best tea is loose leaf and the inferior tea goes into tea bags.
Too true .. all the crap goes into cheap tea bags.. I know, because I drink it.. :wink:
I don't drink tea but whenever and however my day starts it involves a pint pot full of Douwe Egberts coffee, strong but milky.
Strong coffee for me in the morning, then a glass of hot water with honey, fresh ginger and juice of half a lemon. Humour me :cool:
I sometimes fancy a cup of tea, so I've got PG Tips in the cupboard. Strong coffee and weak tea girl.
Quote from: Alex on January 18, 2022, 12:49:53 PM
Strong coffee for me in the morning, then a glass of hot water with honey, fresh ginger and juice of half a lemon.
Now that sounds very much like a hangover cure to me :rolleyes:
Coffee for me I like the occasional cup of builders tea, wife is a tea drinker tea bag in a mug we only use a teapot when Royalty calls which is not often :grin:
Quote from: Wandering Walter on January 18, 2022, 01:45:05 PM
we only use a teapot when Royalty calls which is not often
Probably when I'm out. :grin:
I boil the kettle then put a little milk and two sweetners in my mug then add the boiled water, just like a milky coffee wi no coffee... [2090]
I like to start with a strong cup of milky coffee but its usually the only one I drink all day. I prefer mint tea or diet pepsi.
I don't bother to count, but I probably have four or five cups of tea a day at least one coffee, often a cappuccino late evening as well
Mike
I can't get out of bed in the morning without a cup of coffee, dear husband brings me one in as he gets up much earlier than I do. I do drink tea sometimes, nothing like tea from a teapot and china cup.
funnily i dislike drinking in bed, and breakfast in bed is a nightmare for me...
I take a cup of tea back to bed early morning.. Breakfast in bed..!!! Who's going to cook it.. !!
The butler of course.
erm there two t'ees in Buttler, ask zoony.. :moon:
:grin:
Quote from: crabbyob on January 19, 2022, 11:48:59 AM
erm there two t'ees in Buttler, ask zoony.. :moon:
:finger:
where did that one come from// :finger:hey thats neat
Just not neat enough though :grin:
:finger:
'S on my emoji list..not yours?
S'on his too - in fact he found it and then fat fingered it by typing over the space that should follow the final :
doncha hate it when your dad is a teacher... :smiley:....
i was just remembering my grannies tea caddy, wi the big brass almost flat spoon...
Quote from: crabbyob on January 19, 2022, 10:07:40 PM
i was just remembering my grannies tea caddy, wi the big brass almost flat spoon...
My Nana had one of those as well. :smiley:
From memory, my gran's caddy spoon was a short, shovel-shaped one..Always an extra one-for-the-pot..
I've still got two teapots belonging to my Mum, I'll never use them but would hate to part with them.
I have two teapots - silver - that belonged to Veronica's mum. Never been used by us, don't know if they were by her mum - she gave them to Veronica on the occasion of her first wedding nearly 52 years ago
Mike
Quote from: Raven on January 19, 2022, 10:13:44 PM
My Nana had one of those as well. :smiley:
Must have been a Scottish thing, so did my mum. She also kept a nutmeg in the caddy. I remember from childhood her buying tea from a shop in Dundee, (oldest shop in town, still there!) Braithwaite's, that only sold tea and coffee. The smell of roasted coffee was amazing, and I could never understand why the coffee we had at home, Nescafe, didn't smell like that shop. :hmm:
I'm having my morning cuppa, in bed, courtesy of my dear OH. Coffee, flat white, with my friend later today. Tea made in a mug, one teabag. I still have a silver teapot, plus cream and sugar from my parents' home, and the stainless steel set we got as a wedding present. Sadly unused most of the time.
ha, the milk container my granny called the pouree or puree
We had a coffee shop and the aroma of coffee being ground was a very posh smell..
Not for the likes of (us).. My mum would put some camp coffee in hot milk as a treat..
Us kids were not allowed coffee.. That was for 'grown-ups'..
I'm 99% sure Camp coffee wasn't...
I used to like Camp but it was mostly chicory..Surely there must've been SOME coffee in it.. :worried:
i also liked Camp... i'm sure i have seen it os some supermarket shelf, next time i might buy a bottle
Quote from: zoony on January 20, 2022, 12:10:38 PM
I used to like Camp but it was mostly chicory..Surely there must've been SOME coffee in it.. :worried:
TBH I thought it was none but it seems...
The current ingredients of Camp Chicory & Coffee are sugar, water, chicory extract (25%) and dried coffee extract (4%).[3] Camp is a dark brown, syrupy liquid. It has a smooth flavour of chicory and coffee but with a very sweet, predominantly chicory aftertaste.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Coffee#:~:text=The%20current%20ingredients%20of%20Camp,dried%20coffee%20extract%20(4%25).&text=It%20has%20a%20smooth%20flavour,very%20sweet%2C%20predominantly%20chicory%20aftertaste.
Quote from: Scrumpy on January 20, 2022, 11:11:14 AM
We had a coffee shop and the aroma of coffee being ground was a very posh smell..
Not for the likes of (us).. My mum would put some camp coffee in hot milk as a treat..
Us kids were not allowed coffee.. That was for 'grown-ups'..
There is an old fashioned Coffee shop near to me that sell all sorts of Coffee into paper bags they grind on the premises you can buy , or you can sit and have a cup inside, they have an extra fan that pumps out the hot steam from inside out into the street.
The smell wafts down the street its hard not stop and have at least one cup and relax
used to be a shop in Kingston that sold coffee and tobacco (not cigarettes, just tobacco) Gorgeous aroma
Mike