It might be a surprise but I had never had coffee or tea in my life except that one time when I had to get myself cold coffee.
I was on one of the road trips where we had decided to travel in the night to make up time. The others urged me to drink cold coffee to make sure I was awake. I was usually the official navigator when we went on trips during holidays. I don't even know if this was common or it was a role that we had created during our crazy trips. A navigator would sit in the front (next to the driver) and help the driver with the routes as well as check the speed limit to make sure the driver did not go past the limits. The other additional job was to pick up kuthu songs or those fast paced songs and play them on the ipod. Why??? To make sure the driver and the navigator don't fall asleep 😊 No illaiyaraja songs since most of them were melodies and might induce one to go to sleep. That was the first and the last coffee I had in my entire life.
Tea was a different story. The only times I had tasted tea was when I used to dip or dunk the two to three biscuits in my dad's tea cup and gobble those biscuits. I would then leave the tea for him to drink 😊
At work, I had no reason to take a coffee or tea break since I never had them. I only had plain milk once in the morning. That was all.
A year back, I read an article that talked about the benefits of green tea. Hoping that drinking green tea would help me in weight loss and keep me fit, I got my first taste of tea. I had added a generous amount of honey hoping it would make drinking green tea bearable. It was like drinking one of those liquid medicines or syrups. Well, after my first cup of green tea, I had no idea why people were always after drinking tea/coffee. Nothing great about it.
I religiously tried that every day. I got hot water and dipped one of those green tea bags and mixed that with a lot of honey to make it taste better. After a few months, I got used to the taste and was able to drink the tea without honey. These days I drink the tea (green/black) without much fanfare and with no honey.
Still, I don't think I can drink real tea or coffee. That is something I have still not got used to.
I was on one of the road trips where we had decided to travel in the night to make up time. The others urged me to drink cold coffee to make sure I was awake. I was usually the official navigator when we went on trips during holidays. I don't even know if this was common or it was a role that we had created during our crazy trips. A navigator would sit in the front (next to the driver) and help the driver with the routes as well as check the speed limit to make sure the driver did not go past the limits. The other additional job was to pick up kuthu songs or those fast paced songs and play them on the ipod. Why??? To make sure the driver and the navigator don't fall asleep 😊 No illaiyaraja songs since most of them were melodies and might induce one to go to sleep. That was the first and the last coffee I had in my entire life.
Tea was a different story. The only times I had tasted tea was when I used to dip or dunk the two to three biscuits in my dad's tea cup and gobble those biscuits. I would then leave the tea for him to drink 😊
At work, I had no reason to take a coffee or tea break since I never had them. I only had plain milk once in the morning. That was all.
I religiously tried that every day. I got hot water and dipped one of those green tea bags and mixed that with a lot of honey to make it taste better. After a few months, I got used to the taste and was able to drink the tea without honey. These days I drink the tea (green/black) without much fanfare and with no honey.
Still, I don't think I can drink real tea or coffee. That is something I have still not got used to.
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