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[lagilman]

I really am becoming addicted to that first cup of coffee in the morning. I'm not sure who I blame more -- agamisu, or that restaurant owner in Florence who refused to let me have tea, and instead served me my first cup of exquisitely-made cappuccino. Or possibly some recent ancestor, who also gave me my taste for fermented goat milk and other reportedly disgusting things. Currently drinking fresh-ground Jamaican Blue Mountain, and feeling decidedly decadent.

The reason for the coffee is that I'm in the middle of another rush line-edit (their failure to plan/make deadline is apparently making my livelihood). The author is award-winning and multiply published. The plot is not impressing me, mainly because part of my brain is going "but that's silly" as I work my way through it. But one reader's silly is another reader's fascinating, so....


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Comments

[havocthecat]

I ended up drinking it so I could function on a semi-normal basis back when I was pregnant and working/commuting for twelve-plus hour days, and then up four times a night or so. And now it's sort of a habit that I know I'll need if I have another kidlet, so I keep up with it.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Water. The milk from my cereal. The juice from the pre-packaged mandarin oranges, on the mornings when I have those. Sometimes I'll indulge in Coke (regular or caffeine-free) if I feel like I need a pick me up. Or Sprite if my throat is sore. But I'm not a coffee drinker, really.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

I wish I could drink coffee, but it's a massive migraine trigger for me. So I drink strong black tea with lots of sugar on weekday mornings, and most weekends, I add cream.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Drinking Sumatra as we speak. And I use 8 cups worth of water with beans for 10 cups.

Oh yeah, I like it strong.

[origamilady.livejournal.com]

Usually I drink milk (2%) or fruit juice, on the days that I need it I break out the WaterJoe (discovered it at PenguiCon and once I found a nearby source, been drinking it since)
Its basically Water with caffeine added -and yes it tastes just like water should.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

East Frisian Blend from Harneys, with milk and demerara sugar -- tea strong enough to trot a mouse over, in the mug you see in the icon.

I never could tolerate coffee. I used to be able to have a capuccino now and then, but that ended around menopause. Tea is my comfort and solace and caffeine source.

I am quite snotty about most tea in most restaurants. It is very difficult to get a good cup of tea in this country, at any price. In London, good tea, properly made, was everywhere. Actually, it was pretty good in Paris, too, although it was all the lighter teas (Ceylon, Darjeeling) and bagged.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Although I've sipped a bit now and then, to sample someone else's cup, I've never drunk a cup of coffee (or tea) in my life. I do like the smell of coffee, just not the taste.

My mornings usually begin with Diet Coke (sometimes with caffeine, sometimes without, depending on where I am) or more and more frequently with Diet Chery Vanilla Dr. Pepper (ahhhhh!).

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Depends on where I am.
At work, I drink Mountain Dew first thing in the morning. Fellow employees/customers generally know not to talk to me until after I've had at least half a cup.

At home, I drink Iced Chai (Tazo Spiced Chai mix), and end up, invariably, sharing with my Aries who has acquired a taste for it as well. Plain milk? Forget it, he'll actually snub it. Heh. And it has to be out of *my* glass or he won't touch it either. I tried a few times to put it in a bowl for him, he snubbed it and came to shove his head in my glass.

He's even been known to knock my glass over, or stick his paw in there when it's too low. Catch phrase of most mornings is, 'Aries, no paws!' Heh.

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

Milk is my morning pick-me-up. I must have that shot of lactose, or I'm useless. On Sundays I indulge with a cup of tea and some orange juice, if I go to my parents' house for brunch.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Coffee when I'm in the office. But along with the coffee I drink a .5 l bottle of sparkling water.

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Decaffinated tea, actually. I've been decaffinated for about two years now, and I can't remember why I started drinking coffee in the first place. Unless it was to keep my husband company ... I never drank coffee before I moved in with him.

It's actually really handy in emergencies, because all I have to do is drink two cups of regular coffee and I'm revved like an express train. Ask me about Denver some time. 8-D

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Instant breakfast initially and then a little while later I drink a caffeinated soda (currently my caffeinated soda of choice has been wild cherry pepsi) on a work morning. Most of the time if I'm off, I don't feel the need for the soda.

[(Anonymous)]

Eeuuuuuuw to all of you who drink soda/tonic/pop first thing in the morning, unless of course you are hung over, in which case Coke is a life saver.

Call me a traditionalist. I drink STRONG coffee. The 8 cups of water and 10 cups worth of coffee sounds like my recipe.

Please tell me where in Paris you found good tea. I actually switched to coffee because the tea here was sooooo horrid. That an because it was the least expensive thing to order at a café. (Did I mention that I'm CHEAP!) Now, of course, I'm addicted.

FF

[lagilman]

*makes note to bring good strong tea as well as a bottle of Zinfandfel to Paris*

[girasole.livejournal.com]

We were staying at quite a lovely hotel, Lutetia, in Paris, and each morning I had a Japanese tetsubin pot of Ceylon or Darjeeling. The water was freshly boiled, and the tea was lovely if bagged. I saw no Assam in Paris this trip.

I also had lovely tea -- Mariage Freres -- at Georges in the Pompidou Center. But I had tea every day after lunch, and I only recall one cup that wasn't good.

Normally I am a milk and sugar, strong Assam kind of woman. In Paris, I went with the flow. I also had a cold most of the ten days we were there in May, so the lighter brews worked well for me.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

You don't need to bring tea with you. Just find a FranPrix or similar grocery store. They'll have tea. My hostess had a lovely jasmine green tea, as well as an herbal after-dinner tea.

[rovanda.livejournal.com]

Water, til my tummy wakes up - it's more of a grouch than me in the morning.

Then I'll often have tea, or milk, or more water with breakfast. Coffee if my asthma is acting up, or if I want a caffinated change from tea. Though since I drink it so rarely all I have are the Folgers single serving bags :-p

[lianneb.livejournal.com]

I need my morning caffeine, but I don't like coffee or caffeine-type teas, so my morning drink is...

Diet pepsi.

[lagilman]

I once swore -- after seeing a co-worker down two cans of diet coke before a 9 am meeting -- that I would never drink soda before 11am. When I found myself piling up the dead soldiers before noon, I knew it was time to think about a change of enviroment...

REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I hope you gave it a touch of half 'n half. Nectar of the gods...

Maybe I shouldn't ask you how to brew this coffee I'm gonna grind for the party. (Both leaded and unleaded.)

Re: REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[lagilman]

I hope you gave it a touch of half 'n half. Nectar of the gods...


A splash of lactose-free milk and a spoonful of sugar, until it's caramel-colored and bttersweet. Yum. I can't drink much of it, but I savor every sip.

And I'm a firm believer in one scoop per cup of water, with a shake for the gods, after you measure it out. Too weak, and why bother. Too strong, and you ahve to add more milk to balance it out.

Re: REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that's what I learned -- same as good tea, one per cup and one for the pot! I hope to have two going -- watch no one having coffee today. What do you want to do during the banquet -- just wait to see who's around for a restaurant? Having a private meal with Himself?

Re: REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[lagilman]

There are Plans Afoot. We shall Talk....

Re: REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[lagilman]

and yeah, real Blue Mountain, bought on-site and lugged home. Some people buy cigars, or rum.... well, I would have bought those, too, but coffee trumped it all.

Re: REAL Jamacian Blue Mountain?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Definitely coffee first!

Cold, fizzy....

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer my caffeine cold, fizzy, and until recently, sugar-laden. Now, it's more like cold, fizzy, and aspertamed... although there's this (get this...) Christian coffee shop down the street that makes its large mochas with 3 shots of expresso instead of 2 like The Big Seattle Coffee Company Who Has Past Event Horizon Status. I like their size names, too: "Some", "More", and "LOTS!" I usually get the "Moses Mocha", which adds peppermint to the mix.

They're friendly, they keep the music down in the mornings, and they're also cheaper than Starbucks or Beaners. I have so far been unsuccessful in persuading the owner to add the Lazurus Resurrection Mocha (4 shots of expresso...) to the menu.

Jim (the infamous autojim)

Re: Cold, fizzy....

[(Anonymous)]

LOL Jim. I like the Lazurus Resurrection Mocha idea.

That was FF, by the way.