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This is great! However, I am a tea drinker and proudly show off my art pens, thank you very much. You pleebs who drink coffee wouldn't understand. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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One day, us coffee drinkers and you yea drinkers will live in harmony! I dream of that world. We can make a tea date (like tea party and coffee date mashed together) and compare pens.

One day. Today, coffee is just objectively better. Imagine dipping a banana in a cup of tea…

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Spot on with Americanos! I do not understand why anyone would order one...

Aeropress is probably a TWSBI, fiddly, cheap, meant to be tinkered with.

Also... There are some gorgeous tea Benus.

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(BTW, I too put oat milk in my coffee)

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A fellow person of substance I see! I can definitely see Aeropress being a TWSBI, especially the fiddly part. I’ll venture to say French Press is a Leonardo Mosaico just because it’s so much effort to clean and yet you can have the same experience with a Keurig. And before I get flak, I absolutely do drink all these types of coffee.

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As a tea drinker, I was disappointed to read your comments about tea drinkers and Bic pens. And I am one of your supporters.

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In my defense, my brother is a tea drinker and I still think highly of him. Besides… I put oat milk in coffee, my judgement is certainly impaired! I appreciate your tolerating my humor nonetheless

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Thanks. I must say that I think of England and the British in conjunction with fountain pens and, of course, their love of tea, which I share. I do not drink coffee (with or without oat milk)!

I enjoy your postings and your evaluation of the pens.

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I appreciate your taking the time to read and enjoy <3

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I am sorry, but I must add on to this.

Hand-dripped, with beans that have been matured for over a year, made by the best coffee roaster and brewer I’ve ever known: You like coffee in and of itself. You usually drank six shots of espresso daily because you couldn’t stand watering anything down but needed the flavour to make you happy. You’re probably always chasing after the deepest, richest flavour possible, and describe coffee notes with music genres and tree types because you don’t know enough about scenting and tasting to use the words smart people use. You spend hours in a tiny café in a narrow alleyway in the middle of the busiest city in the area, drinking coffee and eating lemons and generally wasting time. You’re tone deaf but love music, you can’t read your own handwriting but go to obscure art exhibits, you can barely do a leg lift but you go to the ballet every time there’s a good performance. There’s a Pilot Elite between your fingers and a TN with a Weekly Vertical with every single second planned, but you never actually do anything on time. You carry around a multitool and disinfectant because YOU NEVER KNOW and your OCD would blare like a nuclear alarm if you didn’t, but you’re also that person who actually uses bookmarks and sews your own drawstring pouches. You’re an idiot and take five times as long as everyone else when doing something, and everything is going to be done ‘soon’. But your good friend who you’ve only met a dozen times and already knows your secrets is the best barista in history and you’re going to be her apprentice one day. Or so you delude yourself.

Sorry. I needed to write that out.

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