Was at a new job and someone asked how I got through the mornings without coffee or an energy drink. I accidentally blurted my usual line of “I try to stay healthy and only do water and meth in the morning.”
There's no denial about the caffeine addiction, we want all the caffeine, without the galloping heart and the rollercoaster ride trying to keep the correct caffeine level.
This is the only caffeinated drink I still regularly drink, I’m pretty sure. One before my martial arts class is just enough of a perk to help me remember what I learn.
Only ever met one person who had YM as part of their morning routine. Recovering alcoholic pilot, doing his best to adjust to a slower life. He wanted nothing more than to go on a weeks-long solo hikes up a mountain. And gardened.
And so that’s what I always picture for Yerba Mate drinkers.
Different beans that need different equipment and preferred by different cultures, I thought espresso could have it's own panel. Especially given some of the other inclusions.
But it's fine to have different views - as a very wise lemming once said: not everything needs to be a debate.
This is maybe the first time I do not feel include in any of the description and I drink three of these (coffee, tea and water) on a regular base and green juice now and then 😂
Yeah, the descriptions are pretty silly. I just drink black coffee but I’m also just fine in the mornings, though I never used to be. But that’s also because I was a kid and was going to bed at 2am and waking up at 7 for school. Or in college, going to bed at 4 and waking up at 10 for class hungover. It was all my own fault. Now I’m an adult and I have better sleep hygiene, and routinely wake up at 4 or 5 for work.
They used a too-generic label for tea but that covers all bases, while doing a couple very specific types of coffee that leave many bases uncovered.
What about people who like a little cream and sugar in their coffee but don't do lattes? I make mine in a moka pot, add a pump of vanilla syrup and a splash of half & half.
I'm surprised green tea isn't more popular, especially as a morning drink considering it doesn't cause bad breath or rot your teeth with acids and sugar.
While it's true that I'm not a big fan of mornings happening so early and that I don't take prisoners, the latter is because I'm in favor of restorative justice, not that I kill humans in stead of caging them. Also, I DO drink decad if I want a hot drink and it's too late for caffeine to not keep me awake until 4am 🤷
I ride my gravel bike anywhere from 5 to 25 miles before work, depending on how early I get out the door and whether or not my bike is broken. 1. I get around by bike, so the 5 is the bare minimum and 25 is for when I get out the door with two hours to spare and can really get down and dirty with some dirt, and 2. I literally broke my crankset on Thursday while trail riding before work.
Weirdly, off the bike, the latte describes me the best, right down to the unexpected tattoo, but I actually drink water most frequently.
Living the dream, man. Unfortunately, my commute to work is 20 miles on a highway with 70mi/hr speed limit where everyone drives 85. If I leave at the wrong time, then parts of my commute probably average 10mi/hrs :(
I drink Irish Breakfast in the mornings. Coffee gives me jitters, but tea does not.
It could be better. I'm in the Bay Area, which has some areas that are cool and some areas that are not so cool. And my workplace is in one of the areas that is not cool, by which I mean rich, heavily suburbanized, relatively conservative, and like six miles from the nearest Bart station. And in order to make biking there remotely feasible, I have to live over the hill from Oakland, where nothing cool happens. If I had had the good sense to apply to one of my employer's locations in a place that wasn't a massive fucking pain in the ass to get to, I'd be having a much better time right now.
Mocha is always my first choice. Sometimes I make it with coffee, milk and a little bit of hot chocolate mix. 10/10 - I used to hate coffee but this is the bomb.
That is very much a plausible argument, but I did start out by drinking tea instead of coffee when I was younger because my parents fearmongered me about coffee. Stayed a morning person throughout.