Poland-Tea or coffee land?

The very best thing. Not too hot, not too cold, plenty of milk or cream and very very strong

They're generally a bit heavy in your luggage though

This is not for me anymore. I only take the one with 50% Caffeine.

Coffee has gone up in price recently, but is now getting cheaper again.

I bet Starbucks won't drop their prices.

No, they won't...unless people stop going to them.

People should be a bit more adventurous and not oook for identikit cafes.

Starbucks is overpriced and nothing special.

In Poland there's Green Coffee (who bought Cafe Nero). They're still a chain but a better quality one.

So is McDonald's, and yet both companies are successful.

Very hard to know why. One thing see in Poland is that the customers always clear the trays into those bins. Why? It's as if they're in awe of it somehow, it's just a nasty hamburger chain and by clearing up, they're letting them get away with fewer staff. One nice thing in the U.K. is that McDonalds aren't doing well there with sites closing and rivals opening instead.


Starbucks have very low commercial ethics and often try to prevent competitors opening near them. When there is competition, they don't do well.

I like the old Turkish style coffee in Poland. Just pour hot water on your ground coffee and there you go. Nothing beats that. Starbucks is the McDonald's of coffee at a premium price.

It is best if the coffee is finely ground.

For coffee machines that use filters, the coffee must be coarsely ground so as not to clog the paper filters.

I'd say that mostly tea, especially in a private/family setting. Coffee otherwise.

Tea is bad for your teeth. See Brits...or your cup...

Arab and Turkish people drink it a lot, if not more. It is good to keep cholesterol down. Also, in terms of number, the Chinese are tea-drinking people.

Next day, after tea, I need power tools to clean that cup to be white again.

I drink coffee rather than tea, so I'm not an expert, but I guess it could be down to the quality and brand of tea you are drinking, as well as to water quality and so on.

Boil water with citric acid. Everything will be shiny again.

Most Poles I know are coffee drinkers and the ones I do know that drink tea always drink those awful fruit flavoured teas that to me taste like a cup of hot squash.


Higher tannin content.


I bring it home from work to clean the kettle with. Great stuff.

Judging by what's available in stores, it seems to be the other way around. The tea selection is wider.

Brits (like russians and Turks) seem to use tea more for its stimulant properties (it's a caffeine carrier)

Germans, on the other hand think of it as a general health promotion aid which is why they have so many different herbal things that I think Brits don't even perceive as tea.

Poles split on coffee and tea.

Coffee is for caffeine and tea is for health maintenance and/or home remedies.

So they're more like Southern Europeans using coffee to get revved up in the morning but more like Germans regarding tea.

Yes, coffee is mainly for caffeine, but tea isn't for health maintenance - it's just for drinking like water (that's why Poles prefer it weak/diluted, I think). My family members drink tea during meals and most of the time when they're simply thirsty. I used to do that too before I switched to drinking water instead.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why Poles often add lemon slices or lemon juice to tea - to help with digestion. 🤔

"Polish style tea" earrings :):

I wouldn't have said that. There's more caffeine in coffee than tea.


Poles don't appear to like strong tasting tea which is why I think they tend to go for herbal/fruit teas. More about taste than home remedies in my opinion. I think they would probably like Earl Grey tea.

I know a lot of Poles that drink Inka, which I think is some kind of coffee substitute? From PRL times?

Over here, tea is considered to be the national drink and personally, I like a strong cup of tea. Builder's tea.


Lol.

I wouldn't say a "lot".... I personally don't like it, it tastes like weak tea mixed with weak coffee..... brrrrrrrr

I think of it as an ersatz product that developed a following on its own.


Not everybody does but I remember anytime I'd say I wasn't feeling well I'd get lots of recommendations for some kind of herbal tea or other (lipowa being especially nasty and having no discernible effect, ime)

Yes, it's made from grains and chicory. It's drank, for example, by people who can't or don't want to drink caffeine and by kids (my niece likes it).


Yes, herbal teas and such are used as home remedies, but herbal teas are not regular tea. Regular tea (black tea being the most popular in Poland) is used as ordinary, everyday drink that Poles consume during meals and when they're simply thirsty. Of course, you can add some stuff that will make a regular tea have some more healthy properties like honey or raspberry juice when you have a cold, for example.


It can be accompanied by a Polish donut or a cake of your choosing, of course :))):

That doesn't inspire me to try it......


I can only speak for the Poles I know over here and not one of them has ever drank black tea when I've been around. Only coffee, Inka and those 'fruit' teas which I don't consider to be tea at all.


I wouldn't wear them but have to admit they're very cute :):)

Interesting, do you know which parts of Poland they come from?

That's the data concerning drinking tea and coffee in Poland from 2014 article:

portalspozywczy.pl/napoje/wiadomosci/polacy-pija-chetniej-kawe-czy-herbate-zestawienie-badan-rynkowych,106979.html

"Tea is one of Poland's most popular drinks - 98% of Poles declare drinking it on regular basis. We drink only water more often. (...)
In Europe only Ireland (2.18 kg), the UK (1,93 kg) and RuSSia (1.38 kg) are ahead of us. (...)
On the world stage Poles are on the 9th place ahead of such countries like Japan, China or Saudi Arabia where tea is considered as a national drink.
(...)
We pick most often black tea (58.9%), herbal tea (14.2%), Earl Grey (10.2%), green tea (8.1%) and fruit tea (7.1%)."


Yeah, not my style either, but I love that fake mini food stuff - I could own them just to look at them :)))

but in everyday usage people just say 'herbata'... they only specify when context isn't enough.... there's also ziółka but I don't think I've heard it in real life...

Not where I live... If you visit someone's home here and they ask you "Tea or coffee?" they usually mean some regular tea and not tea made from nettle with mango or whatever :)) If they want to offer you something else than a regular tea (most often black tea) then they'll specify that they have green tea, herbal tea, flavoured tea, etc.


Because people usually say specific name of whatever home remedies they need at the moment - "rumianek", "mięta", "melisa", etc.

Fun fact - the first TV morning show in Poland was called "Kawa czy herbata?" ("Coffee or Tea?") :):

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_czy_herbata%3F