Friday, March 5, 2010

The Greatest Unresolved Battle

Tea, or Coffee.

Personally, I'm a die hard fan of a nice cup of filter coffee. I often would like to say, "It's filter coffee way, or the gully way", but I don't.

On the negative Z-axis though, I love iced tea. And usually when I go to a Chinese restaurant, I'd like to order some Oolong tea.

I'm basically like a flipped coin that landed vertically.

So I took two phrases, one relating to each one, and attempted to break it down.

Now, in the blue corner, weighing a packet of international appeal, is coffee. It's most popular phrase being, 'Coffee break'.

In the red corner, careening to expensive types of leaves, is tea with its popular phrase being 'Tea-time'.

The battle between the two comes down to technicality.


First off,  COFFEE - BREAKS

  • A coffee-break can be taken whenever.
  • Makes room for impromptu get-togethers 
  • It is more random and spontaneous. 
  • It cannot be dependable on a daily basis (and hence the sometimes exclaimed, 'Give me a break').
  • Due to it's lack of a fixed time slot, it needs to be allotted some time at possible opportunities, and this results in coffee breaks appearing many times a day (especially college canteens when you skip class). 
  • Flexible enough to accommodate tea-time snacks into the itinerary. 

Next,  TEA-TIME

  • Tea-time is a fixed time of the day.
  • A daily schedule revolves around tea-time (for example, 'I say, why not you and your wife join us for some tea. Jolly good, ho ho, and all that old chap).
  • Is very orderly, similar to a very well disciplined army general.
  • It can be counted on to be there every single day, but lacks spontaneity due to the set routine established. 
  • Since tea-time is at an established time, it definitely appears divisibly (made up word) lesser than coffee-breaks.
  • It has a huge range of snacks dedicated to it, known as tea-time snacks.

Conclusion
Well, if you are orderly, disciplined, have a daily routine, etc. then you should soothe your 'non-spontaneous and predictable life style influenced' mind by drinking tea, like a gentle man/ lady.

And if you are spontaneous, excitable and impromptu, then you should mellow down your fickle, 'No future plans for life' mind by enjoying a nice hot cup of kappa.

For everything else, it's a tie.

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