Coffee Lovers...

[catwoman]

I never knew coffee had so many benefits...

The benefits of coffee

If you love coffee, here's some of the latest good news.

• A study of 90,000 Japanese by the National Cancer Center in Tokyo found that people who drank one to four cups of coffee daily had half the liver cancer risk of those who never drank coffee. Researchers aren't sure why, but they speculate that antioxidants may play a role.

• A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health that followed more than 125,000 men and women for more than a decade found that regular coffee drinkers had a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 (or late-onset) diabetes. Studies in Sweden and Finland also concluded that coffee consumption offers protection from type 2 diabetes. Again, researchers aren't sure why.

• A half-dozen recent international studies showed a positive relationship between drinking caffeinated beverages -- including coffee -- and lower rates of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

• Other research links coffee consumption with reduced risk of cirrhosis of the liver, colon cancer and asthma.

 

[HAFRIDI]

im gona take up coffee

 

[Raz]

I also heard something about how drinking tea and coffee reduces the risk of heart disease.

 

[Raz]

im gona take up coffee

Drink green tea as well. Lots and lots of benefits drinking that too.

 

[HAFRIDI]

Drink green tea as well. Lots and lots of benefits drinking that too.

I drank quite a bit of green tea while in pak, not now though...i drink a bit of normal tea, but havent had a sip during rozeh

 

[Raz]

I drank quite a bit of green tea while in pak, not now though...i drink a bit of normal tea, but havent had a sip during rozeh

Do you prefer Tetleys or PG tips and do you put your milk in first or not?

 

[Cartman]

im an addict.. 3 cups a day

 

[Shayan_Sohail]

I find Coffee disgusting.......I dont know how people drink that stuff.

I love Hot Chocolate though.

 

[HAFRIDI]

Do you prefer Tetleys or PG tips and do you put your milk in first or not?

no idea lol..i think its tetleys...milk in then sugar! what about u?

 

[Raz]

no idea lol..i think its tetleys...milk in then sugar! what about u?

Always been a PG Tips fan myself and ive always put milk in after the water but before the sugar like you. However apparently its been scientifically proven that putting milk in before your pour the water makes it taste better.

 

[catwoman]

I am a coffee addict too, had 4 cups today. I find tea and green nasty but don't mind iced green tea every now and then.

 

[Daoud]

I enjoy coffee but am far from addicted. Hopefully I can stay at this stage. Might have it every day for a week, but then go the next week without any

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

I bet you would find research that shows the downside to coffee aswell

 

[zushy_786]

I bet you would find research that shows the downside to coffee aswell

Yep that's true...Any caffeine induced drinks if drunk in moderation is ok.....

 

[Team Slayer]

Coffee

What type do you like? And how do you prepare your cup of coffee?

For me, my fav. cup of coffee is made from Taster's Choice coffee...1 teaspoon (sometimes a bit more), 2 sugar and hot water. Hmmm....

Most of the coffee shop stuff is not bad either.

 

[z10]

i prefer a mug of hug chocolate

btw, TS why do you like being invincible? Appearing offline at all times?

 

[suhaib]

allready discussed few weeks ago, outcome was that coffee is nothing less the cow urine and tastes very simular to it is well.

 

[Has]

allready discussed few weeks ago, outcome was that coffee is nothing less the cow urine and tastes very simular to it is well.

The Coffee thread:

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=16032&highlight=coffee

 

[nafajafam]

Hot chocolate does it for me.

 

[Rob H]

i prefer a cuppa tea or how us brummies call it, a kipper tie

 

[Team Slayer]

i prefer a mug of hug chocolate

btw, TS why do you like being invincible? Appearing offline at all times?

LOL! After posting a few replies/threads...I logout and go back to "work" for a little while...and then, i log back in and return to see what happend since i left. its nice stress relief

but, i admit that sometimes I appear offline...but that is only when I don't want to post...only read (not too often)! it has nothing to do with being invincible waisay

btw hot chocolate is for kids

 

[z10]

LOL! After posting a few replies/threads...I logout and go back to "work" for a little while...and then, i log back in and return to see what happend since i left. its nice stress relief

but, i admit that sometimes I appear offline...but that is only when I don't want to post...only read (not too often)! it has nothing to do with being invincible waisay

btw hot chocolate is for kids

and i like to keep the inner child alive

besides, coffee tastes like **** to me so i'm just being honest

 

[catwoman]

Starbucks.

If I'm making the coffee, I just put it in the coffee maker and let it do all the work..drink mine with a bit of brown sugar, no cream though.

 

[Invictus]

I like the Timmy's type.

 

[Kashif]

Hazelnut Latte is nice. What baffles me is how people can drink plain coffee without sugar/milk.

 

[Easa]

I like Frappachino's from Starbucks.

 

[Hash]

some Mullah at my work said coffee is haram!

 

[Ayubi]

a thread about coffee???

 

[suhaib]

wat are these latte and frappachinos

 

[Kashif]

a thread about coffee???

Hang around if you dont want to miss the threads on Lassi and Sekanjabin
(soft Lemonade for confused desis).

 

[Oxy]

some Mullah at my work said coffee is haram!

YOu work in a mosque?

 

[cinderella]

Hang around if you dont want to miss the threads on Lassi and Sekanjabin
(soft Lemonade for confused desis).

haha. lolzz

cant stand coffee. it's too bitter. but i like the caramel machiato. very sweet lol

luv hot chocolate

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

some Mullah at my work said coffee is haram!

it is if you put Carlsberg in it

 

[Hash]

YOu work in a mosque?

I work in a call centre in ealing which is a mix between rude boy central, mullah central, sikh central and a handful of plucky white students. Oh and me as well.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

I work in a call centre in ealing which is a mix between rude boy central, mullah central, sikh central and a handful of plucky white students. Oh and me as well.

Which group do you belong to?

 

[suhaib]

wat are these latte and frappachinos

anyone

 

[hatch101]

French Vanilla from Tim Hortons or a little more than a teaspoon of any instant coffee in milk and microwaved does it pretty much

 

[Hash]

Which group do you belong to?

I have my own group.....hence the 'and me as well'

 

[tradecars]

i like coffee once a day and it goes something like this 1 tea spoon coffee / 1 tea spoon sugar heat milk until very hot pour into the mug and you have a very creamy smooth mug of coffee
regards khal

 

[Cartman]

hazel nut latte.. black.. no cream of sugar.. i have 3 cups of that a day.. 2 at work.. one after work.. that keeps me going.. thats my feul.

 

[Team Slayer]

hazel nut latte.. black.. no cream of sugar.. i have 3 cups of that a day.. 2 at work.. one after work.. that keeps me going.. thats my feul.

yeh baat hui na! i usually prefer plain coffee (although some of the flavoured variety is pretty good too), but i don't have 3 cups though...1 or 2 depending on mood/amount of sleep.

 

[Cartman]

man im an addict and i im at a point where 1 cup doesnt do it for me.

 

[HAFRIDI]

i prefer a mug of hug chocolate

btw, TS why do you like being invincible? Appearing offline at all times?

What's hug chocolate?

 

[peridot]

I love mochachino from "Caffeine".

 

[Aurangzeb]

i drink a hot up of chai in the morning and sometimes one at work...coffee is too strong and it gives me gastric problems...not to mention it tastes like pakhana...

 

[Hash]

i drink a hot up of chai in the morning and sometimes one at work...coffee is too strong and it gives me gastric problems...not to mention it tastes like pakhana...

so you know what pakhana tastes like?

Care to explain how/why? I think it deserves its own thread though.

 

[Aurangzeb]

no man...i hear its makroo to taste pakhana...so i would never do it...but let me rephrase...coffee tastes like my perception of what pakhana would taste like...samje?...

 

[MIG]

Coffee

Now I know one learns something new one day but a South Indian friend of mine totally threw me with this fact - South Indians have been having Coffee. locally grown, for eons and actually prefer Coffee to Tea !


Being a Pakistani, I have always considered coffee to be an Amreekan kind of thing that we have acquired a taste for - never realized that some part of the subcontinent has been addicted to it for a while !

Any coffee drinkers out there?

 

[AZ]

Absolutely detest hot drinks, be it coffee or chai

 

[shabbu1]

Not a big fan of coffee at all...love tea though! I have a cup almost every morning in order for me to function lol

Interestingly, it was first discovered and drank in Ethiopia in the 9th century...was widely drunk across the Mid-East during the medeival period (and known in Europe at the time as the "Mahomedan berry") and then eventually ended up in Europe, America etc...

 

[Momo]

MIG, your friend might be right on this one, but there is a school of thought that believes that everything under the sun was first discovered/invented/made/used/popularized/thought of/innovated etc by Indians. A lot of TV programs have been made on this too.

And even some scientists and engineers are not immune to this kind of thinking. I once read a few pages of a textbook on Fluid Mechanics by one R. S. Khurmi (I later found out that he had written text books on every Mechanical Engineering subject!), and the author in the first chapter makes some startling revelations. He tells the reader that everything that was discovered by Archimides and other gentlemen was actually discovered by Indians first. In fact they had been utlilizing those principles for years when they were officially discovered, but the original Indian discoverers were never credited.

I dismissed these things as innocent patriotism and went on. In the second chapter, Khurmi saahab suddenly (without any warning) proposed that a certain quantity should be measured in 'Khurmi' units (for absolutely no reason at all). I had had enough by this time, and threw the book away, never to touch any text book authored by an Indian ever again.

 

[Wassixpakistani]

Long Live Nes Caffe .

 

[Zahid87]

I thought it was a mid east thing too. Read somewhere that it was the arabs that popularised it. Love Coffee though. Cannot function without it. Love Kha'wah too.

 

[Apnacricket]

its something to drink and relax

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Absolutely love it.

 

[MIG]

MIG, your friend might be right on this one, but there is a school of thought that believes that everything under the sun was first discovered/invented/made/used/popularized/thought of/innovated etc by Indians. A lot of TV programs have been made on this too.

And even some scientists and engineers are not immune to this kind of thinking. I once read a few pages of a textbook on Fluid Mechanics by one R. S. Khurmi (I later found out that he had written text books on every Mechanical Engineering subject!), and the author in the first chapter makes some startling revelations. He tells the reader that everything that was discovered by Archimides and other gentlemen was actually discovered by Indians first. In fact they had been utlilizing those principles for years when they were officially discovered, but the original Indian discoverers were never credited.

I dismissed these things as innocent patriotism and went on. In the second chapter, Khurmi saahab suddenly (without any warning) proposed that a certain quantity should be measured in 'Khurmi' units (for absolutely no reason at all). I had had enough by this time, and threw the book away, never to touch any text book authored by an Indian ever again.

I dont think he was claiming that coffee was invented there - its just the fact that they have been drinking it forever - ie the working classes of India, the labourers etc

Now who introduced the Indians to coffee is a different matter

 

[wiseguy]

rarely drink coffee its all about the DESI CHAI ooooo!!!

 

[urbestfriend]

I come from a small town called chikmgalur located in south india which is famous for coffee estates. Our region is hilly and the coffee plantations thrive in the dense moist rainfall rich slopes. Since coffee is main crap in south India, our main drink is coffee. South Indian coffee preparation is different though, filter coffee is prepared by mixing milk and sugar with filtered coffee solution made from Arebica coffee seeds . Tea is rarely preferred.

Legend says that he first seeds were sown about 350 years ago on the slopes of Baba Budan Giri Hills in Chikmagalur. .The story goes like this a piligrim known as Baba Budan also known as Hazarat Shah Janab Allah Magatabi smuggled seven seed of coffee from Mecca while he was on a piligrimage.The seer sowed these seeds in his garden near a cave in Chandragiri. British people helped these coffee plantations to grow.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

I prefer Coffee to Chai anytime.

In summer cold coffee and in winters hot coffee, nothing beats that.

 

[nikred]

Now I know one learns something new one day but a South Indian friend of mine totally threw me with this fact - South Indians have been having Coffee. locally grown, for eons and actually prefer Coffee to Tea !


Being a Pakistani, I have always considered coffee to be an Amreekan kind of thing that we have acquired a taste for - never realized that some part of the subcontinent has been addicted to it for a while !

Any coffee drinkers out there?

lol......for me its the other way round. I always thought coffee is only a South Indian thing. Always knew about the English and their love for tea, so I assumed Americans would prefer tea too. But was surprised by to find tea is virtually absent in US.

I can't explain it, but Indian coffee does have a different flavor, aftertaste to the one you get in US.

I prefer coffee but developed the habit in US and never drank much when in India.

 

[Mohsin]

I'll have a cappuccino or frapaccino once in a (long) while but not a coffee fan and addict like some.

 

[Apnacricket]

cappucino is lovely.

 

[Momo]

I dont think he was claiming that coffee was invented there - its just the fact that they have been drinking it forever - ie the working classes of India, the labourers etc

Now who introduced the Indians to coffee is a different matter

Oh my fault then.

urbestfriend has presented a theory about Bublu Bhuyan aka Hazarat Shah Janab Allah Magatabi smuggling seven seeds of coffee from Mecca. This needs to be researched.

 

[urbestfriend]

Oh my fault then.

urbestfriend has presented a theory about Bublu Bhuyan aka Hazarat Shah Janab Allah Magatabi smuggling seven seeds of coffee from Mecca. This needs to be researched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Budan

 

[SAM'S]

oh boy, my day doesn't start without coffee or latte

 

[Tntboy]

Chai anytime over coffee...

 

[RexRex]

Being a Pakistani, I have always considered coffee to be an Amreekan kind of thing that we have acquired a taste for - never realized that some part of the subcontinent has been addicted to it for a while !

Any coffee drinkers out there?

i've been drinking coffee since i was a foetus.South India is littered with coffee estates.It is certainly not an american 'thing'.

 

[Khalil]

Forget about coffee and the traditional teas. Nothing beats South Africa's rooibos tea. The best tea in the world.

Fantastic relaxant and calmanative. A perfect tea for hot blooded Pakistanis

 

[pun500]

drink neither ... prefer milk (any form ie plain or flavoured) . oh beer is nice too

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

On another note, the state I'm from produces the best tea in the world.

 

[nikred]

On another note, the state I'm from produces the best tea in the world.

Assam tea

 

[moumotta]

Indian coffee is a slow brewed coffee. The brew (decoction?) is filtered and kept ready to mix with milk and sugar when required.

IN fact in India there is a Tea/Cofee line that I think runs some where south of Nagpur. It is interesting if you travel south by train. Suddenly those chaiwalla chants of chaii, chaiii are replaced by kafee, kafee as you cross the invisible line.

 

[nikred]

Indian coffee is a slow brewed coffee. The brew (decoction?) is filtered and kept ready to mix with milk and sugar when required.

IN fact in India there is a Tea/Cofee line that I think runs some where south of Nagpur. It is interesting if you travel south by train. Suddenly those chaiwalla chants of chaii, chaiii are replaced by kafee, kafee as you cross the invisible line.

I can't speak for other places but in Hyderabad both tea and coffee are equally popular. Whenever you visit anyone's house you are given an option for either tea or coffee.

 

[Khalil]

On another note, the state I'm from produces the best tea in the world.

Are you a member of ULFA

 

[12thMan]

On another note, the state I'm from produces the best tea in the world.

My guess is that tea is used or should be used in Pakistani parliment and not Brook Bond

 

[deathstreak]

Now I know one learns something new one day but a South Indian friend of mine totally threw me with this fact - South Indians have been having Coffee. locally grown, for eons and actually prefer Coffee to Tea !


Being a Pakistani, I have always considered coffee to be an Amreekan kind of thing that we have acquired a taste for - never realized that some part of the subcontinent has been addicted to it for a while !

Any coffee drinkers out there?

Ohh the South Indian filtered coffee.

 

[nikred]

Ohh the South Indian filtered coffee.

No, its madras filter coffee.

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Are you a member of ULFA

) What kind of an assumption is that ?

 

[Paradox]

Love it. The Madras Filter coffee (picture posted in the thread) is also amazing, they have it here in Singapore at a lot of places (obviously since there're many many South Indians here)

 

[moumotta]

I can't speak for other places but in Hyderabad both tea and coffee are equally popular. Whenever you visit anyone's house you are given an option for either tea or coffee.

No Beer?