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Edit: pu’er, black, green, white tea. Love it all and drink it more than I drink coffee. No need to start a culture war; taste is as individual as humour.
/s btw, it’s a saying as in “you are beyond the ability of mere humans to save you”:-P
Black tea to me feels like the sledgehammer, whereas coffee is this smooth slightly syrupy beverage, that feels much more delicate. Case in point for me, I prefer my coffee black, but I would have a hard time handling a cup of tea without at least a bit of oat milk.
I don’t know where tea gets this “gentle” PR from but I find it highly dishonest and honestly I’m tired of keeping my mouth shut about it so there now I’ve said it
Hey it’s okay, your opinion is valid, no matter how objectively wrong it is :)
Fucked up how the British originally swapped in tea for their beer common at every meal. I would have been pissed
Ye but it’s for recreation now not just a standard water style beverage lel
Me and my mate in uni wanted to try the navvy diet one day.
8000 calories
Breakfast: 6 slices of bacon, 2 pints of beer, can of condensed milk, tea, loaf of bread.
Early elevenses: 1 pint of beer.
Late elevenses: 1 pint of beer, bread and butter.
Lunch: steak, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea.
Late lunch: 1 pint of beer.
Snack: bread and butter, 1 pint of beer.
Dinner: steak, boiled potatoes, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea.
But we was going to stop short of the 20 ton of material those guys moved a day. That’s proper grafting what those boys did.
Anyway the fucker (my mate) got a girlfriend and I never seen him again so we didn’t do it.
Getting rid of coffee is amazing. It’s the best feeling there is. You’ll get amazing clarity and just about everything is better.
That’s why I do it several times a year.
Black tea has more caffeine, but you can get pretty close to that with light roast coffee. Dark roast is weaker but sold as “strong” because of the bitter ass flavor profile. Light roast tastes much better, even tea like and has more oomph.
Light roasts taste different, not necessarily better, and dark roasts aren’t necessarily excessively bitter. And the difference in caffeine due to roasting level is minimal, it is much more affected by type of bean and how it’s handled before roasting.
It all comes down to what you want from your coffee…if you want floral and fruity with higher acidity, go for the lighter roasts. If you want chocolate, caramel and nuts with lower acidity, go for the darker roasts. I personally dislike the floral profile of many lighter roasts, it gets a bit “soapy” IMO, which is the same issue I have with most tea.