(woot)

Instant coffee is fine. No, really. So's Starbucks.

And Cadbury's dairy milk is also nice chocolate.

It is a bit of an aquired taste. I never noticed any sleepiness, but perhaps the two teabags I put with the one chamomile counteracts that? Hmm. Don't know.

I've noticed a half teaspoon of honey takes that offish taste away, leaving it more floral, but I can drink it without.

I am thinking about maybe changing my morning coffee for tea now, so thanks for that, lads. I miss a good cuppa, been too long.

Don't get me started. Yes, they do sometimes. They'll even stick the bag in a cup with water and heat it up that way so it "steeps and heats" at the same time. That ain't tea, it is just tannic acid.  :-S

They also drink Cab Sauv cold (some) ales chilled to 34 degrees and don't know how many ounces are in a proper pint.
  Very good, sir.
  Go ahead then - no one's about.
  But they are lovely ia a wood-fired oven.




 

Some of 'em don't have kettles, but I grew up with kettles, teapots and tea cozies.

If there is no kettle there is no tea for me. What is a house (or flat) without a tea kettle, I ask you?

I'll skip the instant coffee and Starbuck's if you don't mind but I would like a chocolate.

Of course that reminds me of that knobbly bar I had in Stratford...  (yum)

Well said, sir.

I find full fat coffee very strong tasting after drinking decaff for the past year. I used to /LOVE/ coffee, the stronger the better (I think I became addicted to it) and would often buy a large Costa coffee on the way to work.

I have the occasional caffeinated coffee now and never notice a caffeine hit from it. Neither did I before, that I was aware of. I did have a big lift (for an hour or so) from a Pro Plus years ago, before I started drinking coffee much, but the last time I had one it didn't seem to have any affect.