COFFEE vs. TEA

I have a long-standing problem with coffee drinkers. I have found that, as a group, they can be rather intolerant of anyone who doesn't drink coffee!

My mother was a coffee hound. My dad always drank tea and he taught me how to make it and how to drink it.

Many years ago I ordered hot tea in a restaurant. I was given a tiny metal pot of lukewarm water and a Lipton teabag on the side of the saucer. You can't make decent tea with lukewarm water!

I never understood restaurants who offer fresh, hot coffee with free refills to the coffee drinkers and then treat us tea drinkers like second-class citizens.

Do they have any idea how easy and cheap it would be for them to brew a pot of tea and then offer free refills? I believe that the cost of a pot of tea is way less than half the cost of a pot of coffee.

Once, I attended a Lutefisk Supper. They offered you your choice of coffee or water to drink... nothing else! I never went to one of those again.

There is no mystery about tea-making like there is about making coffee. There are endless ways of making coffee, but only one simple way to make tea.

I think more and more people are drinking tea. Normally, there is about half the caffeine in a cup of tea as in a cup of coffee. And the caffeine-free teas are simply delicious!

Don't get me wrong... I'm not against anyone who wants to drink coffee. In fact, I just bought a 10-cup "Espro" stainless steel French press so I can make decent coffee for anyone in my family at our next gathering.

Pardon me, but it's "tea time" and I'm in the mood for some Twinings Lemon Twist!