Poland-Tea or coffee land?

You have lost a lot, make yourself a good Earl Gray from a porcelain cup, with a slice of lemon added only after a few minutes when it has steeped and is not so hot. Then you will feel why drinking tea is poetry itself. 🫖

Exactly.
That is why some Polish males treat invitation for tea very seriously.

Where is the tea???

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Tea and a cigarette only after "work".

Again, a 5-day course in a seaside resort, usually a time to drink coffee and tea in unlimited quantities. I'll ask if they have decaffeinated coffee this time.

Only today, on the third day of my stay at the hotel, I managed to teach them that boiling water is needed to brew black tea. So far, they only served warm water. Interestingly, the staff should know this because they speak Polish. Unfortunately, there are only Asians in the kitchen.

[quote=Alien]boiling water is needed to brew black tea[/quote
Yes. Ideally just off the boil. Using water that's not been boiled before. And mashed (brewed) for at least two minutes.

A cup of hot water with a tiny teabag next to it is just coloured water.

Is this in Europe?

During my recent vacations I've noticed that more and more kitchen staff in hotels is from Asia (some south asia but more southeast Asia - Filipinos especially).

In the US most restaurant kitchens are staffed by Mexicans (no matter what they serve).

Who told you that ?
Almost 60% of kitchen help across the U.S.A. is White with not even 20% made up of Hispanic or Latino no matter what they serve.

I personally prefer a spot of tea over coffee.

In Germany by the sea.

Obtaining boiling water to make tea is practically impossible in German hotels. I am happy if I get foiled tea bags that do not lose their flavor during storage. I always have to fight for boiling water, not always successfully.

How cheap can you get.
Microwave ovens only cost $50.

I usually take a small travel kettle, the kind that folds small.


For tea???

Human depravity knows no bounds...


Why? Are Germans still taking a 'wait and see' to that newfangled.... elec... tricity?

I don't know, for example, on Wednesday, after my earlier intervention, they installed an electric samovar. They set it to 80°C, but when I turned it to 100°C I had boiling water. Unfortunately, the next day the samovar disappeared and the thermoses with hot water returned. Needless to say, there was no lemon slices for my Earl Grey either.

The morning coffee is over, it's time to start the day, from now on I will only drink tea and ev. Coke as if we were going out for dinner somewhere. I couldn't drink coffee all day long. I think I would look inside my body like our coffee machine when I have to clean it sometimes.

Step by step. Caffeine withdrawal has its symptoms.

This won't happen to me, the black tea I drink throughout the day also contains caffeine called theine.

I have to agree with Alien here, I drink coffee in the morning, to wake me up and then it's tea all day, till it's alcohol time LOL!!!!

Try tea in the morning to get your metabolism going, decaffeinated coffee in the afternoon and non-alcoholic beer in the evening and you will not only lose your big gut but feel much better also.

There must be one morning coffee, this is what my wife taught me, it is our "sacred time" during the day. Then I only drink other drinks, I drink beer once every two months, interestingly, I like to drink American beer or Czech beer. Coming back to the coffee, it is made from decaffeinated coffee beans from a professional coffee machine. I don't know how they do it, but this coffee is only available in one store and it's expensive as hell. Thank goodness it's tax deductible.

Decaffeinated coffee is a little more expensive here.
We call it "buzzles coffee".
A lot of people are now drinking the "Half Caf" coffee with half the caffeine.
I used to believe the myth that tea will help you sleep until I read that most tea has caffeine in it too.

I don't know about whether tea will make you sleep, however from my personal experience tea WILL NOT prevent sleep like coffee (afaik caffeine in tea is in a glucoside form which is probably why)

@gumishu
That's the same for me. Caffeine levels are generally far lower in tea, especially if it's weak tea as it's usually made in PL. If you drink stronger tea that's brewed longer, the caffeine content will be higher though still far less than, say, espresso.

Green tea seems popular in PL. Personally I dislike it however it has positive effects.

This is true, you may still fall asleep however tea can affect your deep sleep pattern.

Israeli-russian Cofix cafes will be closed in Poland. They were supposedly used mainly to bypass sanctions. I wonder if they are also in Germany.

I always assumed they were Polish - but now see they are in Kazakhstan, Armenia and probably some other parts of the former UNNR.

I tried them because I think the awful Sbux and Costa need competition, but Cofix were just as bad. In fact the cake I bought there is one of the worst things I ever ate.

Was bad luck to enter in 2020 - with lockdown and then war.

I've never seen Cofix and I've never been there. Their name is also unfortunate, it resembles a coffin.

The one I visited was an old costa and they just painted the interior black. Extremely un inviting.

There is a gap in the market for someone that can do coffee fast and cheap

Costa belonged to Whitbread's and was nice at first. Now it's the MaccyD's of cafes.

Much better to go to an independent one, where they exist.