Morning Beverage

Coffee - My morning cup of coffee!
@whittear (110)
United States
October 18, 2008 8:38am CST
What do you like to drink in the morning? Most people I know like to drink coffee or tea but I'm sure there are other things that people drink in the morning. I like drinking coffee. I don't drink a lot of it. I usually have just one cup most mornings and sometimes I'll have two. I don't really drink it to help me wake up like some people do. I just like the taste of it and it goes well with the things I eat in the morning like toast or pancakes. I prefer mine with cream and sugar. If you're a coffee drinker, how do you take yours? I have a few friends who like to drink Tea. When I was little and not feeling well my mom would make hot tea with honey and lemon for me, and I hated the taste of it. Because of that I have never been a big tea drinker. Every once in a while I'll have an ice tea, but I won't ever drink it hot. If you like tea how do you prefer it?
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@Kmarie923 (875)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I like to drink some kind of fruit juice, as long as it is not too sugary. Dr.Pepper is also really nice to drink in the morning. Something about the way it fizzes is so good.
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@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
See, that's why I can't drink Dr. Pepper in the morning. It's too fizzy for me, makes my eyes water and almost burns my throat. After I'm up for a while I can drink it though.
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@cndn420 (2062)
• Canada
18 Oct 08
coffee! its usually the only drink i'll have in the morning. if im in need of some real refreshment than ill have a glass of orange juice
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@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I normally just drink water. So after my coffee that's what I have for the rest of the day.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
18 Oct 08
I am a big Tea lover! I always prefer Tea to Coffee!Tea is undoubtfully the first choice of mine to be taken as the first beverage in the morning. I love my first Cup of Tea, which most people call it as bed Tea. I normally have a cup of bed tea followed by another cupwithin 30 minutes before getting up out of bed ! I drink about 10 to 15 cups of tea per day . Previously I used to have more than that but then now a days I have cut down. I prefer tea with less of milk and medium quantity of sugar!I love to have black tea, but then in India people have the habit of adding milk to tea soI am also having the tea like that! Tea is the beverage having good amount of antioxidant in it! It is having tannins also which iss having a medicinalproperty if taken in proper amounts. Green tea is having more anti oxidants than the processed tea. Thus tea is good for health as increases the immunity and helps the body to fight against the diseases. In India people add many things with Tea like cardemom,Ginger,Lemon, Lemon grass etc to impart aroma to tea. Turmeric is some times added to tea to fight aginst fever and common cold by body. Many people feel that having too many cups of tea leaves one with burning of stomach or gastric upset. But this is not because of tea but it is because of the milk which is having lactose in it! This milk sugatr is not get digested by the adult human body and this is the reason adults have difficulty in digesting the milk added in the tea! Thanks! Nice topic of discussion!
@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Thanks. You are right that tea can be good for you and I sometimes will drink green tea. There are so many different flavors too, so maybe I just haven't found one that I really like yet.
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@BinaryKat (735)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Majority of the time, I drink herbal tea like Celestial Seasonings. I do drink orange or apple juice sometimes with my breakfast. I am not much of a coffee drinker. I never had the taste for it. The only time I drink coffee if I was like really sleepy and needed to get work done. Coffee does give me a small jump to wake up lol. If I was to go with my fiancee to Starbucks, he get a coffee, I get my Vanilla Bean drink. I love it!
@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I love Starbucks. They have some really good drinks there. They are expensive though so I don't go often.
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@Lazers (152)
18 Oct 08
I like Tea in the morning, coffee at somewhere near 11am, and wouldn't mind a hot chocolate for late at night.
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@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
That doesn't sound bad to me either!
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@jesoccer (90)
• United States
18 Oct 08
an ice cold dr pepper or coffee
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@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Dr. Pepper is good too, but I can't drink it first thing in the morning.
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@Ithink (9980)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I cant drink coffee however I love the smell of it brewing. My drink of choice in the mornings is Ice Tea or I might have juice. I drink at least a gallon of ice tea a day too, just something that seems to refresh me.
@Ithink (9980)
• United States
20 Oct 08
I know but lots better then soda =)
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Wow! That's a lot of tea.
@robert19ph (4577)
• Philippines
18 Oct 08
hello whittear, I seldom drink coffee in the morning. But if I drink I'll just add cream in it and no sugar. I prefer that way, I don't like sweet. Same is true with my tea, I never add sugar too. I like tea more than coffee. It's better and more healthy as far as I'm concern. It's the best, I drink tea anytime of the day.
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I think it is healthier, you're right about that. I just haven't found a hot tea that I like the taste of yet. If I find one I like I'll probably end up drinking tea more often.
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• Philippines
19 Oct 08
[i]Hello, Tea taste differently than coffee that's for sure. Maybe you just need to get use to drinking it. Green tea taste better than black tea. If you have like a Chinese stores, they have a variety of tea type and flavor. You might find something you like. Regards.[/i]
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
I'm not a fan of hot drinks. My morning beverage tends to be a bottle of water with a crystal light singles mix in it. The flavour I use varies, but I most prefer tangerine grapefruit. YUM!
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I do like those. I've never had that flavor before though. I think I've tried the lemonade and pink lemonade.
@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I'm a milk or orange juice kinda person, but when I really wanna wake up it's cappacino or possibly a soda... whatever's on hand usually (which is water ^^)
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Haha. I do love a good cappuccino as well. I don't get those very often though. I should have my hubby make me one more often!
@dropofrain (1167)
• India
19 Oct 08
I like to have milk in the morning with some drink mixed into it. But these days I have started taking yogurt in the morning time as it is really hot out here. So you can try out milk or yogurt in the morning. You can mix a lot of things to both of them to make them more interesting.
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
That's true. I do like yogurt too and I love fruit in it.
@Leixa003 (867)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
I like drinking chocolate milk before but when i am sleepy, which now a days more often than not, I drink coffee. When I was still studying my mother would always prepare a hot chocolate with rice meal. I remember that I was active at school by then. But as I get older I like my drinks cold than warm. Even coffee, I would want it with ice. I know my officemate like coffee so much that even during weekends, when she woke late in the morning, or should I say in the afternoon, around 12 noon, she would still drink coffee before eating lunch.
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I don't like iced coffee. It weird actually because it taste the same really, it's just cold. For some reason I don't like that, I want mine hot.
@carmela0210 (1591)
• Philippines
18 Oct 08
even if i really love to drink coffee and tea in the morning its just that my dermatologists told me that its not good for my skin allergies, so i dont drink that much and also soft drinks!!!
@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Oh that's too bad. I really enjoy my coffee in the morning, I'd be sad if I couldn't have it.
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• Philippines
18 Oct 08
Anything, actually. Sometimes, tea and sometimes, juice. There are time when I drink chocolate. I rarely drink coffee.
@whittear (110)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Juice is a good one in the morning too.
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• United States
19 Oct 08
I have never acquired the taste for coffee. My daughter likes iced coffee. Anyway I have been told that I don't drink enough liquids. To answer your question I would have to say maybe a few gulps of water.
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
19 Oct 08
Hi Whittear, I'm one of those who drink coffee in the morning to keep awake on my drive to the office. I usually take it black and steaming hot! When coffee is not available, I would take hot chocolate. I don't like tea, unless there is really no other drink available!
@owelm0408 (1011)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
i drink either coffee with cream or milk tea in the morning. I usually don't drink plain coffee or tea alone.
@noelcruz (324)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
I drink coffee in the morning along with hot pandesal. Keep mylotting!!
@Khushi309 (139)
• India
19 Oct 08
coffee and tea are the most common morning beverages, but you're forgetting juice. i love fruit juice. it is so fresh, specially when it is a little cold. but not freezing, that just ruins the taste of it. i like almost all fruits so i am not picky about what flavor juice i drink. i do have preferences though. i like apple and mango. not mixed. i only like orange juice if it is not too tangy. and pineapple is also really good. all i am saying is that with juice, you have just so many options to choose from. plus, it is very healthy for you. it gives a great, tasty and healthy start to your day. happy myLotting
• United States
18 Oct 08
Water... I drink A LOT of water... I dont drink much of anything else very often.
@whittear (110)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Throughout the rest of my day I drink water too. I just like my coffee in the morning. Other than that, I drink a lot of water and not much of anything else.