What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[CrazyHorse]

I think you're all weird. Real men drink coffee.
Tea is for steers and queers.

[thebish]

I think you're all weird. Real men drink coffee.
Tea is for steers and queers.

I swing both ways....

[Worthy4England]

I think you're all weird. Real men drink coffee.
Tea is for steers and queers.

I might have to post on the "angry" thread regarding this, flower. Coffee's for chocolates n chicks.

Coffee only crept into the UK subconscious, via the US film industry, US franchises and cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Unpatriotic.

That's what it is.

(Oh and we still consume about twice as much tea as coffee per head of population)

[William the White]

I think you're all weird. Real men drink coffee.
Tea is for steers and queers.

I might have to post on the "angry" thread regarding this, flower. Coffee's for chocolates n chicks.

Coffee only crept into the UK subconscious, via the US film industry, US franchises and cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Unpatriotic.

That's what it is.

(Oh and we still consume about twice as much tea as coffee per head of population)

steers and queers notoriously thirsty animals, I believe...

[CrazyHorse]

(Oh and we still consume about twice as much tea as coffee per head of population)

I can believe that. All the women and the steers and queers.

[Worthy4England]

(Oh and we still consume about twice as much tea as coffee per head of population)

I can believe that. All the women and the steers and queers.

I rest my case.

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[Lord Kangana]

Coffee is for continental-loving, effete, Americanised metrosexuals.

[TANGODANCER]

I think you're all weird. Real men drink coffee.
Tea is for steers and queers.

C'mon Hoss, coofee bars are so 1950's and 60's, and you have to be a millionaire to drink at any of the modern equivalents, Cafe Nero etc. Have a good cup of tea and you'll soon be right.

[Gary the Enfield]

Tea in Britain


Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid 17th century that the beverage first appeared in England.

The use of tea spread slowly from its Asian homeland, reaching Europe by way of Venice around 1560, although Portuguese trading ships may have made contact with the Chinese as early as 1515.


Tea shop in Chilham, Kent
It was the Portuguese and Dutch traders who first imported tea to Europe, with regular shipments by 1610. England was a latecomer to the tea trade, as the East India Company did not capitalize on tea's popularity until the mid-18th century.

Coffee Houses. Curiously, it was the London coffee houses that were responsible for introducing tea to England. One of the first coffee house merchants to offer tea was Thomas Garway, who owned an establishment in Exchange Alley. He sold both liquid and dry tea to the public as early as 1657. Three years later he issued a broadsheet advertising tea at £6 and £10 per pound (ouch!), touting its virtues at "making the body active and lusty", and "preserving perfect health until extreme old age".

Tea gained popularity quickly in the coffee houses, and by 1700 over 500 coffee houses sold it. This distressed the tavern owners, as tea cut their sales of ale and gin, and it was bad news for the government, who depended upon a steady stream of revenue from taxes on liquor sales. By 1750 tea had become the favoured drink of Britain's lower classes.


Tea is for chavs. Innit.

[Lord Kangana]

I hope Starbucks burns down just as you're ordering your skinnyfatcappafrappalappamochachinobolloxitsjustwaterwithabittertasteandsomefrothymilk for a tenner.

Nothing personal though.

[CrazyHorse]

I hope Starbucks burns down just as you're ordering your skinnyfatcappafrappalappamochachinobolloxitsjustwaterwithabittertasteandsomefrothymilk for a tenner.

Nothing personal though.

Let's be clear. That muck you've just described isn't coffee. I'm talking Nescafé Original; maybe Gold Blend at a push. These Starbucks and Neros and whathaveyou are just places where the tea drinkers go for a break when they're out shopping for new cushion covers and throws on a Saturday afternoon with their life partners.

[thebish]

I hope Starbucks burns down just as you're ordering your skinnyfatcappafrappalappamochachinobolloxitsjustwaterwithabittertasteandsomefrothymilk for a tenner.

Nothing personal though.

Let's be clear. That muck you've just described isn't coffee. I'm talking Nescafé Original; maybe Gold Blend at a push. These Starbucks and Neros and whathaveyou are just places where the tea drinkers go for a break when they're out shopping for new cushion covers and throws on a Saturday afternoon with their life partners.

Nescafe???????????????????????????????????????????????

surely not?? Nestle make that!

[Lord Kangana]

Tea is to be drunk from a mug on a building site, or other construction-based area (bigger DIY jobs count), with groups of men discussing 4 bi 2 and angle grinders.

Coffee is drunk from cardboard cups on tube trains in fcukingbloodyLondon by advertising and marketing middle managers blathering into their mobile telephone devices.

The prosecution rests.

[CrazyHorse]

You're a closet coffee drinker aren't you? I've never been more convinced of anything in my life.

[Gary the Enfield]

Tea is to be drunk from a mug on a building site, or other construction-based area (bigger DIY jobs count), with groups of men discussing 4 bi 2 and angle grinders.

Coffee is drunk from cardboard cups on tube trains in fcukingbloodyLondon by advertising and marketing middle managers blathering into their mobile telephone devices.

The prosecution rests.

You can't get a mobile signal on (most of) the tube network. Other than that, you're spot on, me old China.


Schlurp Aaaaahhhhh!

[BWFC_Insane]

Tea is to be drunk from a mug on a building site, or other construction-based area (bigger DIY jobs count), with groups of men discussing 4 bi 2 and angle grinders.

Coffee is drunk from cardboard cups on tube trains in fcukingbloodyLondon by advertising and marketing middle managers blathering into their mobile telephone devices.

The prosecution rests.

So tea is drunk by the thick nice people and coffee by the folk who are clever enough to make money without doing manual labour?

Works for me.

2 coffee's a day.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Not clever enough to correctly use an apostrophe though eh

[thebish]

Not clever enough to correctly use an apostrophe though eh

"correctly to use" surely?

[Lofthouse Lower]

Muphry's Law strikes again

[Lord Kangana]

Not clever enough to correctly use an apostrophe though eh

"correctly to use" surely?

Surely one must always start a new sentence or paragraph with a capital letter?