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By replacing your morning coffee with green tea you can lose up to 87% of (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 OP
In my case 88% Laf.La.Dem. Jan 2022 #1
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👍 Joinfortmill Jan 2022 #2
LOL... Nah, drink your coffee FIRST and THEN drink some green tea... hlthe2b Jan 2022 #4
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #12
Do both here. 👍 Duppers Jan 2022 #63
That's exactly what I do, having issues with caffeine bhikkhu Jan 2022 #72
So true essaynnc Jan 2022 #5
☕️🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #13
Don't get my hopes up! mgardener Jan 2022 #6
😂 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #19
Same here😐 Rebl2 Jan 2022 #48
I'm glad that you always . . . Callalily Jan 2022 #7
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Thank you! True Blue American Jan 2022 #8
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Flavored coffee is an abomination you, you ... heathen!! Ligyron Jan 2022 #29
I used to think that and then my friend made me a cup of Sudden Death espresso with ratchiweenie Jan 2022 #40
Actually, I have to admit that I like French market and it has chicory in it. Ligyron Jan 2022 #71
Well, too bad. My DIL True Blue American Jan 2022 #61
More importantly, I hope you know I am. Ligyron Jan 2022 #69
I do True Blue American Jan 2022 #85
Oh, I absolutely do remember A&P grinders at the checkout. Ligyron Jan 2022 #86
You ground it yourself!:) True Blue American Jan 2022 #91
Not a coffee connoisseur but I feel the same way about green tea. Grokenstein Jan 2022 #73
Breve and to the point. niyad Jan 2022 #9
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Coffee please.. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2022 #10
☕️😋 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #23
I was reading about tricks and tips on how to lose weight Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #11
I actually emptied my fridge and pantry of all of my favorite foods. It took three days of nonstop Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #24
Very best way to clear out your favorite foods Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #34
I was just going to say True Blue American Jan 2022 #62
You haven't tasted my coffee bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #14
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. Maine Abu El Banat Jan 2022 #15
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LOL. I'm a tea drinker now. ananda Jan 2022 #16
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Abreva works, first tingle True Blue American Jan 2022 #64
Thank you, but is this real? MLAA Jan 2022 #17
Try kale. If that doesn't work, you are doomed! Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #28
Damned I am. I only eat veggies! MLAA Jan 2022 #33
I keep watching these True Blue American Jan 2022 #65
If we had good tea here it maybe could compete with coffee, gab13by13 Jan 2022 #18
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #30
Tea bags are often low quality dried up dust that's been sitting around for ages IronLionZion Jan 2022 #45
In my case I use a milk frother and ceremonial grade matcha IronLionZion Jan 2022 #31
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I thought you were going to say sanity... Politicub Jan 2022 #35
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This message was self-deleted by its author wolfie001 Jan 2022 #37
Unless you suffer from migraines then giving up coffee will give you many, many happy days Escurumbele Jan 2022 #38
👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #39
Coffee in the morning, tea after lunch (with something yummy) NewHendoLib Jan 2022 #41
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Earl Grey for me... Historic NY Jan 2022 #42
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You clearly haven't tried the bitter varieties of green tea Moebym Jan 2022 #75
LoL!!! Person of Interest Jan 2022 #43
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How do you make the green tea.... Nasruddin Jan 2022 #44
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Coffee makes me puke ZenDem Jan 2022 #46
I don't like coffee either. StarryNite Jan 2022 #51
Ha ha ha! karin_sj Jan 2022 #47
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Give up my coffee???? llmart Jan 2022 #49
I'm older than you and I feel the same way. I feel that there is no such thing as too much breakfast CTyankee Jan 2022 #57
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LOL whathehell Jan 2022 #50
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Yorkshire Gold AncientOfDays Jan 2022 #52
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Sacrilege! Coffee is essential. RainCaster Jan 2022 #53
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don't drink coffee but I like the smell scarytomcat Jan 2022 #54
Funny! Coffee always True Blue American Jan 2022 #66
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I never liked the taste and it makes run for the bathroom scarytomcat Jan 2022 #102
Damn near shot redbull out my nose! NightWatcher Jan 2022 #55
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i'm waiting for the water to boil and just ground my coffee and saw that title and thought, well, i certainot Jan 2022 #56
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Joy? I already switched to turkey bacon. Green tea is but a minor insult. JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2022 #67
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Hee Hee Useless in FL Jan 2022 #68
Amen!😃 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #100
My doctors always says I should cut down on coffee, red meat, alcohol and smoking ... TomWilm Jan 2022 #70
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Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree strongly with most of you here. Moebym Jan 2022 #74
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Too funny! BobTheSubgenius Jan 2022 #76
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I usually have tea 1 or 2 days a week...when I'm too lazy to clean the pot from the previous day. patphil Jan 2022 #77
😂 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #105
One of best ever DU gotcha threads PufPuf23 Jan 2022 #78
Thank you! Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2022 #106
I could live with Yerba Mate' DBoon Jan 2022 #79
Oh, get it right! Aussie105 Jan 2022 #80
Bought a book on teas. Green tea needs to be steeped for only a short applegrove Jan 2022 #81
Cup of builder's tea first thing. Then a cup of coffee after. GoneOffShore Jan 2022 #82
That got me! Ha ha ha! C Moon Jan 2022 #83
Baaaahahahaaaaaaaa! I wasn't expecting a snarky answer! 😂 electric_blue68 Jan 2022 #84
I tried green tea twice and I got sick both times Rhiannon12866 Jan 2022 #87
In the '70s..... wolfie001 Jan 2022 #90

bhikkhu

(10,718 posts)
72. That's exactly what I do, having issues with caffeine
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:29 PM
Jan 2022

I can handle a half cup of coffee in the morning - starting off the day with a little luxury. Then I switch to decaf green tea for the rest of the day. I like that too, just not in the same way.

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
29. Flavored coffee is an abomination you, you ... heathen!!
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:14 AM
Jan 2022

I think you can be caned in Indonesia for using those type additives typically used on second rate beans.

FI, Their lovely Sumatran using the mechanical depulping process which leaves some of the fruit still attached ads funky chocolate notes when roasted to a darkish state properly (2nd crack) producing an earthy cup with very little acidity.


ratchiweenie

(7,754 posts)
40. I used to think that and then my friend made me a cup of Sudden Death espresso with
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:40 AM
Jan 2022

salted caramel and I am hooked. Couldn't drink it every day but when I need a pick-me-up in the afternoon, WOW.

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
71. Actually, I have to admit that I like French market and it has chicory in it.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 08:34 PM
Jan 2022

Gives it like vanilla Caramell notes.

I’ve had death wish but just the straight stuff. And boy, is that stuff expensive it’s like $20 a package

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
61. Well, too bad. My DIL
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 02:12 PM
Jan 2022

Turned me on to it! She is a Food Scientist whose company makes the Flavors for Snapple, Coke, etc. you should see someone the flavors I have tasted. Vanilla Coke.

Only the Hazel nut Maxwell House stuck. Hard to find now.

I hope you know I am joking.

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
85. I do
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 07:48 AM
Jan 2022

It is funny how tastes change over the years. Remember when they had coffee grinders in the stores, or are you old enough? Nothing has matched the aroma, taste of A& P fresh ground coffee.

I have tried everything, gone through all the new fads.

Have now gone back to my 6 cup Presto Perk. My old 8 cup was 40 years old before it showed down. Presto pressure cooker,older. I just gave away a combo Electric pressure, slow cooker.

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
86. Oh, I absolutely do remember A&P grinders at the checkout.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 08:23 AM
Jan 2022

Although I was a young kid I seem to recall You would bring your bag of whole beans up there to the checkout counter and they’d grind it right there and then. Nothing fresher than that and like you said - the aroma OMG!!

I’ve got one of those all in one pressure cookers too, the one where you can sauté and brown stuff in the bottom and then close it up to either pressure or slow cook. It’s great for stews or pot roasts.

I really should use it more often.

Grokenstein

(5,725 posts)
73. Not a coffee connoisseur but I feel the same way about green tea.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:56 PM
Jan 2022

If it's got honey or citrus in it, it ain't green tea. But I will drink the bottled stuff, because I like it cold, and because Ito En's extra-dark "bold" green tea is a delicious kick in the mouth.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
11. I was reading about tricks and tips on how to lose weight
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 09:52 AM
Jan 2022

It was very disenheartening.

They claimed that you should not keep around all the the foods you most love because you might over eat them.....what a way to live.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,549 posts)
24. I actually emptied my fridge and pantry of all of my favorite foods. It took three days of nonstop
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:11 AM
Jan 2022

eating! 😋

ananda

(28,866 posts)
16. LOL. I'm a tea drinker now.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 09:59 AM
Jan 2022

Coffee doesn't agree with me and gives
me cold sores.

Oh well.

I'm used to it now. I did miss coffee for
awhile.

MLAA

(17,298 posts)
17. Thank you, but is this real?
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:06 AM
Jan 2022

I’ve tried everything to reduce the joy in my life and have failed. The failures themselves have reduced my joy a small amount but nothing close to all the gimmicks I’ve tried promised!

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
65. I keep watching these
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 02:20 PM
Jan 2022

Videos of what to put in your coffee. Never make it to find out what. They show you 40 dozen people who lost all that weight by just putting a pinch of something. Some day I may find out what. But it will probably cost $100 a bottle. Of 1 oz.

gab13by13

(21,359 posts)
18. If we had good tea here it maybe could compete with coffee,
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:06 AM
Jan 2022

my best friend at work was from India, he told me that the tea we have here in America is the droppings they scrape off the floor in India.

IronLionZion

(45,452 posts)
45. Tea bags are often low quality dried up dust that's been sitting around for ages
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:57 AM
Jan 2022

people who live in tea growing regions can get fresh whole leaves that aren't even dried and brew them. It tastes completely different. That's common in China, Japan, etc.

In India, they often add a lot of spices, milk, and sugar for masala chai.

IronLionZion

(45,452 posts)
31. In my case I use a milk frother and ceremonial grade matcha
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:15 AM
Jan 2022

to bring lots more joy in my life. I love it about as equally as my aeropress coffee.

But sure, I agree that the folks who use tea bags from a mass market store are not living their best lives.

Response to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Escurumbele

(3,395 posts)
38. Unless you suffer from migraines then giving up coffee will give you many, many happy days
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:29 AM
Jan 2022

For those migraine sufferers, two things will do away with those nasty headaches, one is coffee, and the other one is bread.

So bring joy to your life migraine sufferers by giving up coffee, and bread...Then any type of tea (even green tea) with one small spoon of honey will give you so much joy that you will ask yourself why you stuck with coffee for so long. Lets face it, coffee and American coffee for that matter, doesn't taste good. I have never tasted anything more horrific than folders coffee, and all those coffees in offices, McDonalds, etc. it is as close as drinking hot dirty water...that is just my opinion.

If you love coffee then give up office or machine made coffee, instead buy a percolator (see link below) and some South American coffee, if you can find Venezuelan coffee then get it (Colombian coffee is a myth), it is by far the best because it comes from different parts of the country, it is a blend, it is strong but smooth at the same time then, like I said, take the time to use a percolator, that will double your joy of drinking coffee. Another coffee that is very good, is called "Santo Domingo" (see link below), but you will need what? a percolator.

[link:https://www.amazon.com/Primula-Stovetop-Espresso-Classic-Cafetera/dp/B001J1L59E/ref=asc_df_B001J1L59E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167131408724&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3365878968911063152&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011743&hvtargid=pla-276178527343&psc=1|

[link:https://www.amazon.com/Santo-Domingo-Ground-Coffee-Vacuum/dp/B004HEQ7PM/ref=asc_df_B004HEQ7PM/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312094795400&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4191576519708188047&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011743&hvtargid=pla-571905549355&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=67655949808&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312094795400&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4191576519708188047&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011743&hvtargid=pla-571905549355|

NewHendoLib

(60,015 posts)
41. Coffee in the morning, tea after lunch (with something yummy)
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 10:43 AM
Jan 2022

We'll never be with out coffee until I am too old and creaky to do our home roasting!

ZenDem

(442 posts)
46. Coffee makes me puke
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:07 AM
Jan 2022

Just the smell is enough to make me wanna hurl.

Tea on the other hand...almost any tea is good. I do prefer rich, strong black tea, but there are some green teas that are really good. My DIL gave me a ginger-lemon green tea that is just amazing...

Keep your smelly, icky coffee.

StarryNite

(9,446 posts)
51. I don't like coffee either.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:46 AM
Jan 2022

Some teas are good but hot chocolate is my preference. Although I don't drink it very often.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
49. Give up my coffee????
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:28 AM
Jan 2022

I'll give up my coffee when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

I'm in my seventies and my morning coffee and muffin/bagel/toast is the main reason I get up each day.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
57. I'm older than you and I feel the same way. I feel that there is no such thing as too much breakfast
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 12:28 PM
Jan 2022

I'm liberated! And hungry.

I like to mix different cereals together to get the benefits of bran, oat based, granola, trail mix topped with banana slices and dried or fresh berries in season.

I'm in great shape!

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
102. I never liked the taste and it makes run for the bathroom
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 02:03 PM
Jan 2022

diuretic? Now if I have caffeine in another form I get a huge lift.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
56. i'm waiting for the water to boil and just ground my coffee and saw that title and thought, well, i
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 12:11 PM
Jan 2022

could lose some weight and get better sleep, but...... noooo...

Useless in FL

(329 posts)
68. Hee Hee
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 05:45 PM
Jan 2022
Loved all the responses! LOL LOL LOL!

I used to drink multiple cups of coffee throughout the day when I was still working. Now I have reduced it to one cup of Columbian blend, black and no sugar. My dentist said that it's a no no for me because my teeth are so porous and it stains them terribly. SO I reduced it to one cup in the morning while I'm catching up on the early news. I also drank tea for many years but that's even worse than coffee so that's out. I also gave up my evening glass of wine. What's left now that I'm almost 77??

My Mother lived to be 92 and she drank tea all day long, with (a) glass of scotch and milk when the sun was over the yard arm. The only reason she left us so early is that one day when she was going upstairs to read her email with her scotch and milk she remembered that she left her reading glasses downstairs. Instead of turning around and walking back down, she backed down the stairs, missed the last step and fell at the bottom of the stairs. She was in the hospital for 3 months, developed sepsis and died there, never returning home. Sad part is that she never got to drink her scotch and milk! Moral of the story is: drink whatever you like, it may be your last!

TomWilm

(1,832 posts)
70. My doctors always says I should cut down on coffee, red meat, alcohol and smoking ...
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 06:16 PM
Jan 2022

It would be good advice, but I have not touched that stuff in forty years - and has spoiled my body anyway, living on tea and vegetables. And that has been, and still is, very joyful.

Moebym

(989 posts)
74. Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree strongly with most of you here.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:03 PM
Jan 2022

Maybe it's just because I'm Chinese, but it's green tea all the way. Coffee just doesn't do it for me; I don't even like the smell of ut.

And for those who think green tea is weaksauce, you clearly haven't tried the extremely bitter stuff that would put the darkest of coffees to shame.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
76. Too funny!
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:16 PM
Jan 2022

I thought this was going to be a pro-green tea post, and was going to say something very similar to the actual punchline I found herein.

patphil

(6,182 posts)
77. I usually have tea 1 or 2 days a week...when I'm too lazy to clean the pot from the previous day.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:28 PM
Jan 2022

Unfortunately, it still needs cleaning the following day.

Aussie105

(5,401 posts)
80. Oh, get it right!
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 12:48 AM
Jan 2022

Coffee is for drinking, green tea is for rinsing your hair.

Everyone will admire the green tinge your hair develops after a while of doing it right.

applegrove

(118,683 posts)
81. Bought a book on teas. Green tea needs to be steeped for only a short
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 02:05 AM
Jan 2022

time with water taken off the element right before the boil. It is not black tea.

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)
82. Cup of builder's tea first thing. Then a cup of coffee after.
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 04:03 AM
Jan 2022

Green tea?
Same class of stuff for me as quinoa, tofu, kumbacha(sp?), and grits.
Do not want.

Rhiannon12866

(205,467 posts)
87. I tried green tea twice and I got sick both times
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 08:30 AM
Jan 2022

And that rarely happens to me otherwise. I occasionally have blueberry herbal tea, but I prefer real coffee. My grandmother from Poland use to make it for my brother and me when we visited her as kids and we both drink it as adults.

wolfie001

(2,252 posts)
90. In the '70s.....
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 08:56 AM
Jan 2022

.....the media would hint that coffee was unhealthy while pushing oleo margarine as better for you than butter. The French: "Sacré Bleu!!!"

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