i dring hot tea year round, like most people drink coffee. at least in the morning, except for the very hottest days.

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I drink hot tea in the summer since a lot of coffee shops and bookstores have such strong air conditioning!!

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Hot tea every morning, year-round.

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Yeah, not sure why you would stop drinking something because of the season. We spend most of our time indoors in a climate controlled environment, if it's the middle of the summer I'll be drinking tea in a 72 degree office building. If it's the middle of winter I'll be drinking tea in a 72 degree office building.

Maybe if I was living outside or spent most of my time in nature I wouldn't be drinking hot drinks in the summer or cold drinks in the winter, but as it stands now I am in a box all day long, all year long, and it makes no difference what time of the year it is.

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I can't give up my coffee, so it's year-round for me. In the summer, I have one cup in the cool of the morning and the rest in air-conditioned environments.

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i like switching to iced coffee drinks in the summer when it's warm out, but the mornings can still be chilly so a nice warm cup is nice (it's also a nice way to end a meal sometimes).. hot tea goes year round. i only drink hot cocoa and hot apple cider in the fall/winter tho :) hahaha just like the only time i'd ever think of wanting egg nog would be in the winter, around xmas time, not that i've had it in years...

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"I am in a box all day long, all year long, and it makes no difference what time of the year it is."

That is so sad. (Not that YOU are sad, but the situation of being couped in a box 24/7...my version of hell.)

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I drink tea all year round!

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As far as I know the "hot drinks cool you down" idea is the truth. Or rather, cool drinks heat you up. Basically your body ends up using energy to heat up the cold drink you just put into it. This means increased metabolism, which means more heat in your body. Apparently the heat your body generates to warm the drink, is greater than the cooling effect of the drink itself. If you drink liquids at exactly 98 degrees you won't experience this effect at all, so body temperature liquids might be the most cooling.

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I gave up soda a few years ago. I don't like coffee. As for tea, I drink it cold and unsweetened all year round, preferrably with slices of lime and strawberry in it. Hot tea doesn't appeal to me.

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We my grownupandmarried children were little, I would switch from my morning coffee to morning dr. pepper in the summer, but have it in my same coffee cup...They couldn't have soda, but I could...and I guess I thought I would "fool" them..."mummy is just having her coffee" :)
now it's real coffee all year long ...

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I had a professor in university who was from Turkey, and he used the same logic as KC does above for drinking hot drinks in the summertime. There are times when I like an iced coffee, but usually it is in addition to my daily morning hot coffee, and many cups of hot tea (I am not a fan of the supersweet iced tea that one usually finds, and I've never been motivated enough to try and make my own).

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Hot Starbucks bold coffee 365 days a year

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I drink hot drinks year round, but every once in a while in the summer I like a cold coffee drink. I usually get an iced americano, but one of my hard to find favorites is caffe shakerato. I just blogged about the drink yesterday here:

http://www.smellingthecoffee.com/2007/04/shakerato_for_the_summer.html

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I never stop drinking my hot tea. :)

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Chalk up another one for hot tea, year round, every day. And I don't usually put sugar in it, so I'm actually using that to try to get myself off the diet soda thing.

Coffee cold -- ick. A latte or cappacino, maybe, but never regular coffee. That should be hot, and black.

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Hot tea - perennially. Coffee, make that espresso, when I have sweets so... make that perennially as well. I do cold barley ("mugi-cha") during the summers.

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Add another vote for hot tea year-round. I actually take the opposite approach and I stop drinking iced drinks when it gets cold. I can't enjoy ice-cold lemonade in Montreal in January!

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I still drink my coffee hot in the summer; it's too much trouble to ice it down, and it dilutes it too much. I like the convenience of just pouring it out of the pot and drinking it.

If I stop by a coffee shop, though (once a week or so, when I feel like something a bit more extravagant than a mug of hot black coffee) I am more likely to pick up an iced coffee beverage of some sort than a hot coffee beverage.

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I drink iced tea year round. Heck with the warm stuff ;)

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