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Are you a seasonal hot beverage drinker like I am?

I ask this because here we are past the halfway mark of April and I'm still drinking hot tea. This is late for me. I usually stop drinking hot tea around the start of April and start drinking diet soda and iced tea (I don't drink coffee). The weather has been cold and rainy/snowy this month, so my tea drinking has stayed at the same level it was in January. Which I like, of course, but it also worries me because I'd rather switch to drinks like diet soda that won't give me as much daily sugar intake (yeah, I know, I could drink my tea with less sugar or Splenda, but where's the fun in that?). As for hot chocolate, well, that's a fall/winter thing and I stopped that weeks ago.

So readers, are you seasonal hot and cold beverage drinkers too? I remember my mom used to drink hot coffee in the hot summer months too because she read somewhere it was good for you or cooled you down in some way I don't quite understand, but science was never my best subject in school.

Nina Lalli from the Village Voice says that the flavored coffee movement has, by and large, passed her by. One day she wakes up, smells the Starbucks Gingerbread Latte, and wonders, "Am I the weird one? Is my "small coffee with milk—no sugar" a sign of my utter party-pooperness?"

In a world where every coffee establishment competes to offer more and better, and more oddly-colored, Christmas blends, flavors and sweet additions, is it bah-Humbug-ism at its worst to pass all this by for a regular, ordinary coffee with milk?

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