It's the little things

[indiana_j]

We're trying out a new coffee/tea vendor at work and all I have to say is YES, PLEASE, KEEP.  For one thing, I'm highly amused at the whole one serving, do it yourself thing.  For the other, it actually makes a decently good cup of tea.  ...and I'm amused by the little one packet things you get to play with.

Currently we're using these awful, huge coffee makers with a hot water spout for tea.  This one is much faster (and cuter looking!  Well, it is.) and better tasting, as a whole, than what came out of those horrid machines.

...I should, however, refrain from having a lot of tea just because it's there.  It still has caffeine in it and on Wednesday, I'd had so much I thought I was going to vibrate through space and time itself.

Comments

[technophobia.livejournal.com]

You bend space and time? ;-)

There's a high-tech coffee/tea/hot chocolate thinger in the break room now. It makes decent hot chocolate, but you have to let it cool for about ten minutes before it's drinkable.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

Only after four cups of tea in one day.

This one is really hot as well - I have to let it cool down. I won't drink the hot chocolate because, well, it's made with water and not milk so blech!

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Yeh, the only way I can maintain the correct tea-drinking levels not to have my Brit-card taken off me is by drinking decaf. Over time though I've come to prefer it.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I pretty much have had to switch to decaf due to my insomnia, though I'll still have regular tea or one soda in the morning. But I prefer tea over soda and, hey, if we keep this, I'll make the switch.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just so cute? And I opened one up to see inside after it was done - a little filter and tea! I'm so easily amused.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

Yours ATE it? ...that's awesome!

We have to dispose of ours ourselves, so I think we have the slightly cheaper version. ;)

[nute.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those. They go "p-KOW! p-KOW!" and blast the hot water through the little container of protocoffee and then spit it out into your mug like some hi-tech composting machine. Made of caffienated awesome!

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

It's like a weapon that makes you tea or coffee which makes it caffienated awesome, yes! It also punctures hole in the little cup and I'm just fascinated by that whole process. :D

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

If you want tea in the afternoon, go for an herbal tea - I'd suggest chamomile or mint, which are my personal faves. The hot beverage thing will help keep you awake, but without the whole "and now I have to be awake until 3am" thing. (Over time I've basically become immune to caffeine - well, at least I can sleep after drinking a lot of it - but I don't drink anything stronger than herbal tea after 8pm.)

[ferox.livejournal.com]

Rachel also got me addicted to raspberry tea. It's ridiculously good.

(as is a good vanilla chai. mmm.)

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I got this great stuff from this tea place that Lauren and I went to - Rose somethingsomething that's decaf and so. Good.

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of raspberry - it's the aftertaste I can't get over, not the actual tea - but vanilla chai is. Um. The best thing ever.

I'm also currently in love with peach black tea; it is amaaaazing.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I really do like chamomile - mint makes me make the x_X face. But I'm hoping if they go with this they also get the decaf for tea as well. Because chai is good. Chai with water? Not so good, blech.

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

I like chai tea (as opposed to lattes), but it's definitely not the same as chai with milk. Then again, I worked at Starbucks for like ever, so I've acquired a taste for pretty much anything they serve and all of its variants (excepting the weird-ass African bush teas they started serving; not my thing at all). Chamomile is one of my favourites - jasmine tea (the kind they serve at Chinese restaurants) is another favourite of mine, though it might be caffeinated (I don't know if they blend with green tea or not).

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

Okay, the fact that chamomile or mint are also my favourite teas has me being terribly amused now. Great minds, man!

[starbuck09.livejournal.com]

I like the tea maker Mom and Dad have that you just push the button and in less than 2 minutes it's done! I wonder where she got it from...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Zomg! We just have a kettle and box of tea bags.

I'm a big fan of licorice tea and rooribos in the afternoon, since they don't have caffiene in them.