Do you put sugar in your coffee/tea?

[JEDI]

I usually drink my coffee & hot teas w/o sugar.
Yet I like sweet iced tea served in restaurants.

Just made hot black tea and decided to add sugar.
Not bad.
Diabetus, here I come

 

[lxskllr]

No to both, but on very rare occasions I'll have chai with a good bit of cream and sugar, or coffee with Irish cream, or maybe cappuccino, but I haven't made cappuccino in years. Those are some tiny fraction of 1% of my total consumption.

 

[Torn Mind]

I think COVID ended any hope of me trying out coffee, tea, or anything caffeinated ever again, sweetened or unsweetened.

But I would have drank them unsweetened if I was still able to...dental scare obviously means no more sugar.

Xylitol is an alternative.

 

[Shmee]

I like sweet tea, but have had my coffee both black and with cream and sweetened. But then when I go to Asian restaurants, they usually have unsweetened hot tea. So I can do either with either.

 

[bbhaag]

I put a little cream and sugar in my coffee but prefer my tea unsweetened. I don't drink much of either though.

 

[JEDI]

I like sweet tea, but have had my coffee both black and with cream and sweetened. But then when I go to Asian restaurants, they usually have unsweetened hot tea. So I can do either with either.

i sometimes add milk to tea or coffee to cool it down as i'm impatient to drink it.

dont understand why people add artificial creamer to coffee since it doesnt cool it down?

 

[Muse]

I add nonfat milk to my coffee, that's it. I like a little sweetener in my occasional tea (usually Lipton's teabags, but I have lots of others), maybe 1/2 teaspoon of sugar or a pinch of stevia. I sweeten my lemonade with stevia! Just a pinch, i.e. maybe 10th teaspoon in 20oz lemonade, which I make kinda weak.

 

[Brainonska511]

Small amount of sugar in my coffee, like half of a utensil teaspoon, and not a mounded half. For tea, depends on the type of tea, but generally would follow the same process as my coffee.

 

[Muse]

I do try to limit my sugar intake. They say too much is really not good for you, in many ways. Generally I don't have a sweet tooth. I like my sugar but many of my meals don't feature anything sweet and I don't miss it.

 

[IronWing]

Sugar in my coffee makes me mean.

 

[Shmee]

i sometimes add milk to tea or coffee to cool it down as i'm impatient to drink it.

dont understand why people add artificial creamer to coffee since it doesnt cool it down?

I imagine it is for the taste mostly, though I think real cream would be better.

 

[BoomerD]

I like my coffee like I like my women...ground up and in the freezer hot, strong and black.
Tea, whether hot or iced, a spoonful of Splenda. I stopped using actual sugar in beverages or on hot/cold cereal nearly 20 years ago.

 

[brianmanahan]

sugar masks the true flavor of a good coffee

i'll only use sugar or milk if the quality of the coffee is crap

like when i'm too tired in the morning and i screw it up

 

[JEDI]

I stopped using actual sugar in beverages or on hot/cold cereal nearly 20 years ago.

Cereal: You added more sugar on what is essentially 90% sugar?

 

[JEDI]

sugar masks the true flavor of a good coffee

i'll only use sugar or milk if the quality of the coffee is crap

like when i'm too tired in the morning and i screw it up

$60/lb Hawaiian kona coffee FTW!
Or go (a lot) cheaper with Juan Valdez columbian coffee.

Both are hand picked coffee beans but Kona rejects 7/8 of the beans that are picked. Only 1/8 goes to roast and gets labeled as Kona.
and The Kona plantation only makes ~$8/lb profit on those.
(This is from the tour when i was in Hawaii post-covid)

 

[BoomerD]

Cereal: You added more sugar on what is essentially 90% sugar?

I don't eat the sweetened kiddie cereals.

 

[brianmanahan]

$60/lb Hawaiian kona coffee FTW!

whoa that's pricy! i've never tried kona, i usually drink ethiopian which runs me about 20$ for 12 oz

 

[Exterous]

I'll only use sugar or milk if the quality of the coffee is crap

Wimp.

No sugar ever for me regardless of the quality of the coffee or tea

 

[MrSquished]

I like a little crack with my coffee.

 

[I'dluv2]

Don't drink coffee or hot tea. But love me some ice tea. At home I drink Liptons Pure Leaf tea unsweetened. Absolutely love it's flavor. At a restaurant usually put some artificial sweetener in my tea, as their flavors aren't the best.

 

[BoomerD]

$60/lb Hawaiian kona coffee FTW!
Or go (a lot) cheaper with Juan Valdez columbian coffee.

Both are hand picked coffee beans but Kona rejects 7/8 of the beans that are picked. Only 1/8 goes to roast and gets labeled as Kona.
and The Kona plantation only makes ~$8/lb profit on those.
(This is from the tour when i was in Hawaii post-covid)

We bought several pounds of Kona coffee when we were on the Big Island...about 20 years ago. Directly from the growers/roasters. Good coffee...but not really that much more expensive than Maui coffee or any other semi-premium beans.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I drink a lot of tea and a lot of coffee.

Morning Coffee gets a splash of whole milk to cool it down and give it a richer flavor. Typically only have milk coffee foe breakfast.

From there out I rotate through English breakfast, earl grey, and matcha tea for the remainder of the day no cream no sugar.

Every once in a long while when I'm getting Diner Coffee as dessert I'll put a couple packets of sugar and half and half in there to make it a treat, but that is really one cup in 1000 for me.

Alternatively my mum makes a cup of Chai with enough sugar in there to blow out an elephant's pancreas, but that's pretty rare as well.

 

[brianmanahan]

Wimp.

No sugar ever for me regardless of the quality of the coffee or tea

i figure if it's a dark roast then there's no point to tasting the coffee anyway, all the true flavor's been burned away. i do usually only add milk unless it's REALLY bad.

my favorite coffee shop only does light roast pour-overs, and they refuse to offer milk, sugar or flavors.

some one-time customers don't know this and get ticked off, but that just makes the owner go into one of his long-winded spiels about why it ruins the coffee haha

 

[stargazr]

No sugar in coffee, honey in tea.

 

[snoopy7548]

Nope. I drink hot coffee black. Iced coffee with cream.