Coffee and tea:
In THE BATTLE OF THE SWEET PIE, apple pie won, with cheesecake coming second and cherry, cream and pecan pie tying for third place in the poll. I do wonder what sort of cream pie people were voting for!
It's now turn for hot beverages to do battle. The next poll will be on cold beverages, so this poll is for beverages served above room temperature, whether warm or boiling. For both polls, alcoholic and medicinal beverages will be excluded. So there's no hot toddy, liqueur coffee and mulled wine, and there's no drinks designed to relieve colds and flu like Beechams or Lemsip.
I've already done THE BATTLE OF THE COFFEES and THE BATTLE OF THE TEAS, so this poll may turn into a fiercely contested battle between coffee and tea.
My favourite hot beverages are Bovril (a beef tea), caffè mocha (coffee and chocolate are perfect together), hot chocolate, malted milk (especially Horlicks) and tea (English breakfast tea please) with coffee (especially Americano with milk) being the hot beverage I most want to drink. I still remain confused why the coffee I like most is called an Americano. I was drinking coffee with milk well before it was called an Americano. It was just called coffee back then!
Americano coffee with milk:
I don't see the point of drinking hot water on its own. But my least favourite hot beverage is Camp coffee (a chicory root-based coffee). This hot drink is disgusting in taste! There's no substitute for real coffee.
What are your most and least favourite hot beverages?
Are you a coffee or a tea person, or both or neither?
Do you add sugar to your hot beverages?
Though I'll drink tea especially well stewed so-called builder' tea, I'm a coffee person. I probably drink about eight mugs of coffee a day. My day doesn't start until I've had a coffee or two. My coffee is also served with milk, and preferably with creamer, but with no sugar.
Below is a poll where you can anonymously select your most favourite hot beverage. Unfortunately only one pick is allowed in the poll.
A poll on this site can only have a maximum of 20 answer options, there was unfortunately no room as poll options for: atole (a Mexican and Central American corn-based beverage), bajigur (an Indonesian coconut-based beverage), bandrek (an Indonesian beverage), bouillon (a traditional American beverage), butter tea, hot egg drink (a traditional American beverage), hot ginger cordial (a traditional American beverage), hot soda, mate cocido (a South American yerba mate-based beverage), Postum (a coffee substitute beverage popular during the Second World War), salep (aka sahlep; a Turkish beverage made from orchid tubers), and sassafras tea (a traditional Southern American beverage).
My guess is that this poll is going to be a showdown between coffee and tea with coffee winning. But herbal tea, malted milk and soup may just feature in the poll.
Please see the first comment below to see what has won each battle of the food and drinks so far.
Camp Coffee with Chicory:
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I voted chai, but I drink a lot more coffee than chai. I like my chai fairly heavily sweetened so it's best left for an occasional treat rather than an everyday thing.
I've never had chai. For some reason, it's rarely served up in Indian restaurants here.
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@justskin1 I get that impression too.
I most often drink hot milk - either malted (can't find Horlicks locally anymore so will do with Hemo or Ovaltine), thickened with salep, or sweetened with honey.
I rarely drink coffee, and herbal teas only when sick and in bed.
Recently I have learned how to make tripe soup and the broth part of it is very fortifying when down with a cold or flu, to sip as a hot beverage, spiced with a smear of gochujang paste and lemon juice.
I'm not sure I could drink tripe soup even if it would make me feel better.
@spunkycumfun Well the secret is that I am really sick - taste buds out of order and no olfactory abilities either. I also can't produce saliva so I really can only ingest liquids during the worst of it and this soup provides much needed protein. The hot pepper to heat up my insides and the acid to counteract the lipids. It goes down rather easily.
@missthee I'll take your word for it.
My fav hot beverage is hot chocolate. I drink an excessive amount of tea, however it is all cold.
I love a hot chocolate on a cold winter's day.
coffee, strong and black
I like my coffee strong too but I add a bit milk to it.
While I do drink coffee everyday at work, I do appreciate a nice cup of hot masala chai. There’s a bakery that serves a really good chai.
I've never had chai. I don't see it around where I live.
@spunkycumfun
There’s boba tea but not chai? 🤔
@JN63JPN From what I see around, yes.
Neither coffee or tea for me. I'm not really for hot drinks, except a hot chocolate or two each winter. It has to be freezing out for the hot chocolate
A hot chocolate on a cold winter's day is divine.
Hot apple cider
A couple of people have mentioned hot cider. I've never tried it. Thanks for stopping by.
coffee...
hot, black, wet, and strong.....
I love strong coffee too, though I have to add milk.
Thanks for stopping by.
Coffee. Black. Usually with a little sugar, sometimes without. I drink too much coffee. Not in a day, but i tend to not be too pleasant when i go without, which i try.
Hot honey and lemon is a close second 
I drink a lot of coffee, at least eight mugs a day.
@spunkycumfun Yikes! That's really too much. Eaaaasy fella...
@partygald I've ben drinking that much for decades. I think my body is used to it now.
I voted for coffee and I like mine black. I also am not a fan of dark roast coffee and think Starbuck's coffee is terrible. If I want coffee that tastes burnt I can let my coffee sit on the warmer for two or three hours and pay a lot less for it. I admit that sometimes I love a spot of tea, black of course and my favorite is Mrs Earl Grey.
I too think Starbuck's coffee is horrible even though there's Starbucks everywhere here.
@spunkycumfun I have no idea why so many people think their burnt coffee tastes good. Then there is the fact that most people seem to need to have them put all kinds of flavored syrups and creamers in it to be drinkable.
@justskin1 Adding syrups in coffee needs to be banned!
I voted for Hot Chocolate as that's the only hot beverage I can drink. Thanks for another great battle here.
I hope your Friday is a fun one and you have a wonderful weekend as well..
Hot chocolate is a great hot beverage.
To me coffee, dark and with sugar and a cloud of milk
I thought you would sneak in a shot of Baileys into your coffee!
@spunkycumfun Of course!!!
@AuraAviatik6 I have to say that if I feel the need to sweeten my coffee I would have to use a shot or more of Baileys.
I am still drinking regular coffee - what you're calling "Americano". But I gotta tell ya, between prices driven up by climate change, and now tariffs, I might need to take a page from the Civil War southerners and learn to tolerate Chicory coffee!
Those tariffs are going to hit coffee (and tea) drinkers hard.
I like my men hot and my drinks cold. I will, on very rare occasions, have some warmed cider.
Just do you know, in the US, cider is a non-fermented drink.
I've never come across hot cider. I'm not a big cider fan.
I am not a fan of cider. Mainly as I find it too sweet. I also understand that before Prohibition cider was a very popular drink, mainly fermented but also unfermented. I have come to understand with Prohibition many of the cider apple trees were cut down and so a great range of ciders disappeared. Especially the not so sweet ones.
@justskin1 I went to a Cider 101 program at the library last fall and learned a lot. Technically cider IS fermented, otherwise it's just apple juice. There is an upsurge of cideries in my area. They use a variety of apples.
@superbjversion2 From what I had read there were a lot of apple varieties that were used mainly for cider and not for general eating. A lot of those were cut down. I have no idea if very many of those varieties were saved. I hope they were. I am not a fan of apple juice as I find it to be too sweet with not enough flavor to temper that sweetness. I admit to not having much experience with different ciders.
Pepsi
I love Pepsi. Thanks for stopping by.
For the record, Brussels sprouts won THE BATTLE OF THE VEGETABLES, bananas won THE BATTLE OF THE FRUITS, basil won THE BATTLE OF THE HERBS, garlic won THE BATTLE OF THE SPICES, cashew nuts won THE BATTLE OF THE NUTS, sunflower seeds won THE BATTLE OF THE SEEDS, roast beef won THE BATTLE OF THE ROAST DINNERS, cheesecake won THE BATTLE OF THE PUDDINGS, pepperoni won THE BATTLE OF THE PIZZA TOPPINGS, Caesar salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SALADS, green beans won THE BATTLE OF THE BEANS, watermelon won THE BATTLE OF THE MELONS, tomato-based pasta sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE HOT SAUCY DIPS, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE COOL SAUCY DIPS, vanilla ice cream won THE BATTLE OF THE ICE CREAMS, capellini (aka angel hair) won THE BATTLE OF THE PASTAS, steak won THE BATTLE OF THE BARBECUE, romaine lettuce won THE BATTLE OF THE LETTUCES, honeycrisp apples won THE BATTLE OF THE APPLES, stout won THE BATTLE OF THE BEERS, whisky won THE BATTLE OF THE SPIRITS, clam chowder won THE BATTLE OF THE SOUPS, sourdough bread won THE BATTLE OF THE BREADS, liver won THE BATTLE OF THE OFFAL, roast turkey won THE BATTLE OF CHRISTMAS FOODS, Old Fashioned won THE BATTLE OF THE COCKTAILS, Americano coffee won THE BATTLE OF THE COFFEES, English breakfast tea won THE BATTLE OF THE TEAS, maple syrup won THE BATTLE OF THE PANCAKES, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE CONDIMENTS, ribeye steak won THE BATTLE OF THE STEAKS, portobello mushrooms won THE BATTLE OF THE MUSHROOMS, beefsteak tomatoes won THE BATTLE OF THE TOMATOES, barbecue crisps won THE BATTLE OF THE CRISPS, strawberries won THE BATTLE OF THE BERRIES, crab won THE BATTLE OF THE SHELLFISH, vanilla yogurt won THE BATTLE OF THE YOGURTS, jasmine rice won THE BATTLE OF THE RICE, chicken wings won THE BATTLE OF HOT FINGER FOODS, cheeses won THE BATTLE OF COLD FINGER FOODS, dry red wine won THE BATTLE OF THE WINES, tap water won THE BATTLE OF WATER, blueberry muffins won THE BATTLE OF THE MUFFINS, cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHARCUTERIE, cow milk hard cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHEESE, burgers won THE BATTLE OF FAST FOOD, olive oil won THE BATTLE OF THE OILS, beef stew won THE BATTLE OF THE STEW, cow milk won THE BATTLE OF THE MILK, butter won THE BATTLE OF THE BAKED POTATO, salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SIDE DISH, pizza won THE BATTLE OF THE SAVOURY PIE, and apple pie won THE BATTLE OF THE SWEET PIE.