War of the beverages

It's pretty late (because I'm trying to work. Trying.) and so I think my sense of rationality and stuff is a little bit skewed. Hence when I saw a poll on 'Tea or Coffee', I had a bit of a mini crisis.

Ever since I was little, I've always had an opinion on this matter.

I remember the days when I would have fervently argued for coffee, clearly being the greater drink. I couldn't understand how anyone could bring themselves to drink tea, it tasted so bad. Then one day (in the 6th form Common room) someone reminded me of a forgotten fact. Tea is the British English way. ( I can't really speak for Scot/Ire/Wale, because I don't know what you lot drink. But Sam the eagle has made me always want to say 'The British way', so I'm probably going to and that's probably final.)

Even when I was small and liked neither drink, I had heard that tea was the drink of the England. It had taken a little effort (from my lovely friend Joanne. Thanks mate.) to get me to start drinking coffee, so should I not give tea this same chance?

I (correctly) guessed that after about seven cups, tea should become a drinkable drink.

Though it was tough at first, I pushed through and became a drinker of tea.

There have been ups and downs, fluctuations in how much I preferred coffee but recently I feel I've reached that point where (If I'm making it myself, at Uni ) I would almost say I liked them equally. They're different drinks, they serve different purposes. Coffee can wake you up, make you feel slightly more alive at the book ends of the day. A more milky coffee is also a calming drink (although it doesn't wake you up.) Tea is a drink for relaxing. And those times when you just want to feel a little more English, or can't be bothered with a cafetiere.

Why should I choose between these two drinks? It's like choosing between two really good friends. Choosing coffee feels like I'm betraying my "English is the best way ever" part of me, but choosing tea just feels wrong.

If the war of the hot caffeine drinks ever comes, I guess this is one fight I'll have to sit out. When it's all over I'll come out of my cave supporting whichever team won while quietly morning about the loss of the other (and the destruction of so much civilisation.)

I feel like a deserter, but I don't even know which side I'm deserting.