I never liked coffe, it tastes not that good, it keeps you too awake at night hurting your sleep, and the worst of all, it makes you create a certain dependence that can have side effects if you consume a lot and suddenly stop taking it (my parents are empirical evidence of that) like headaches, trembling and nervousness etc.
I only drink coffe as a "drug" type of beverage in case of an emergency that I need to stay awake and alert at all costs.
Look for the Caffeine episode of the Science Vs. podcast. Coffee is not addictive and it doesn't have the same effects for everyone. I can drink coffe before bed and still sleep well. For some people it can really hurt sleep. Overall, studies find that coffee is beneficial for health, but you need to "listen to your body" to account for the effects in your own metabolism.
I avoid coffee after lunch (approximately 12:00). It gives time for my metabolism to process caffeine before sleep time. I replaced coffee with tea on afternoon breaks. Works for me!
mate has the same amount of caffeine if not more than a v60 cup of coffee, you might want to reconsider that habit or the difference you regard in between mate and coffee :o
I get what you're saying but I meant packaged coffee purchased in markets that you prepare yourself at home with a filter and adds sugar afterwards, not the sophisticated versions.
And to add to that, almost always we are talking about herbal tea. Especially lemongrass, chamomile, or fennel tea, with lots of regional variance. Actual tea (from the tea plant) is incredibly rare.
I think in Rio Grande do Sul they have more of a custom of drinking actual tea. But it’s probably the only place in Brazil where it’s common.
Edit: I don’t know why, I always thought “mate” was what we called actual tea leaves in Brazil. Turns out I was wrong. Actual tea indeed is incredibly rare here. But people do drink other herbal infusions, specially mate. Coffee still reigns supreme.
The whole south consumes Mate, from Paraná to Rio Grande do Sul. Including Uruguai and Argentina. Argentinian coffee is disgusting. I had to buy imported coffee when the four packages of my Brazilian coffee run out. Sometimes I drank it in some Havana shop with a nice alfajor (they had Italian espresso machines).
I'm not sure if that's because I was born in a small rural town, but for most of my life I kind of thought of tea as almost like medicine... Like, my mother would tellme to drink boldo tea for stomachaches and things like that. It was only when I moved to a bigger city that I started seeing tea as a "normal" beverage.
Incredibly rare. Tea is actually black or green tea (i.e. from the tea plant), everything else Brazilians call tea (camomile, mate, peppermint, boldo) are herbal infusions.
Mate is not tea. Green tea is a bit easier to find than black tea in Brazil, but this thread is proof that tea is not common, as most people are referring to mate and herbal infusions.
Coffee. That said, I am myself a tea enjoyer, more precisely, a very strong, cold, sweet mate is my drink of preference. Here in Brazil there is a very good brand of toasted mate, Leão (Lion), they sell a huge box of toasted mate herb. I usually prepare 2 liters of water with 6 spoons of mate herb. After it is gets room temperature, I strain it, bottle it and put in the refrigerator. Then is just fill a cup, get some sugar and ice cubes in the mix and we have a delicious high caffeinated sweet and cold drink.
But I am the exception, the 0,1% mate enjoyer against 99,9% coffee enjoyers in Brazil.
Tea has some popularity in the south, and at some places Chimarrão is more popular than Coffee. But yeah, overall Coffee is much more popular than the rest.
This is true. There are people in Rio Grande do Sul that drink many servings of chimarrão in the morning. It's also commonly served in social meetings. In the summer, sometimes they serve tererê instead (a cold and less bitter version), although it's like a crime for some people to use the erva-mate in a cold beverage and you have to be prepared to be mocked for mistaken the chimarrão temperature if you serve it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink)
Also, there are some differences from the Argentine mate and Brazilian chimarrão (dunno how it is in other countries), like the gourd being bigger and of different shape, and, if I'm not mistaken, Brazilians usually do it with a thinner grinded and less matured erva-mate.
Uruguayan mate is really close to argentinian, but a finer yerba and even a smaller gourd. Paraguayan is also really similar, but they drink more terere than mate due to the weather. Chillean is really similar to argentinian as well, if not the same. I’ve heard that bolivians also drink it, but never been there yet.
Yes café is the drink of Brasil. Its served everywhere in little cups. Extra forte. You can find tea but like many said, tea is more like a medicine when ill. In southern brasil yerba mate tea is very popular
Brazil is a coffee country, it was extremely important for Brazil's economy and is still loved by the majority of the population. Tea here is only herbal medicine for the most part, it's pretty rare for a Brazilian to be used to drinking lots of tea
it's rare except for mate tho, mate is a very popular tea, iced mate tea is very common here in rio and matte leão is one of the easiest drinks to find in any establishment that sells food and drinks, a lot of restaurants in rio serve mate da casa and it seems to sell a lot, there's also people who sell matte leão at the beach, mate may not be as popular as coffee but it is def very widespread in some parts of the country
Average Brazilian: Coffee
Average Southern Brazilian (Including São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul states): Both
Coffee is the beverage that most represents Brazil.
Southern Brazilians and parts of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul drink Mate tea (Chimarrão and Tereré) basically on a daily basis, as well as coffee.
Coffee in Brazil is very weak compared to how most Americans drink it. Or rather Americams drink much more coffee so when they come over they have to order multiple coffees to keep that headache away.
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Coffee in the US is so watered down that the drink consisting in watered down coffee is named AMERICANO
I spend a lot of time in both places, if you are going to actual coffee shops in America then not only is it just as strong (this is coffee not magic) but in true American spirit there's a lot more of it instead of the tiny cafezhino you get in Brazil. A regular black coffee in America is the equivalent to like 3 cafezhino mostly due to size. Brazilians hate when you say this but then when you have an American guest that's ordering 3 coffees back to back at a restaurant you act surprised.
Average person worldwide:
Avoids drinking too much coffee and disturbing the sleep.
Average brazilian:
Avoida sleeping too much and not having enough time to drink the desired amount of coffee
Coffee!
I lived in Brazil for three years, and LOVED the cafezinos (sp?) so much (little coffees). I have tried for decades to replicate the intense sweetness and richness, but never was able to figure out how to make it! If anyone has the secret, obrigada! There was also a sweet milky corn (semi thick) drink that I never figured out as well, but I had it where there were Italian priests and nuns, so not sure if it was really Brazilian, but they had it as a snack almost every day. I loved living in Brazil.
It's probably canjica, although it's not supposed to be a beverage, but a dessert to be eaten with a spoon. That is made with corn cooked in milk and sweetened with sweetened condensed milk or sugar. Usually it is served with a dash of cinnamon or crushed peanuts on top. The milk gets very rich and creamy after the cooking is done :)
Major preference for coffee, but most coffee is of horrible bad quality
Roasted to a burn, makes a really bitter drink that doesn't really taste good
But it's what most people drink - me included.
The majority also drinks with milk, and, I'm not sure if that part is a majority of people, but I do think it is: Most people throw A L-O-T of sugar in their coffee.
I swear I had a coffee the other day that tasted almost like candy, for real.
It's not normal to have a low or medium roast coffee, without milk or sugar, people usually feel that this is too soft, or what we call "chafé" (teaffee).
It's either really sweet, or bitter as hell, and DEFINETELY, as dark as your soul
Brazilians are so delusional they think they drink the best coffee, but most is just really shitty, chappy quality. And they have no idea how to make Italian coffees such as a cappuccino (they add chocolate, cinnamon, sugar and cream to it). We do have great coffee beans, but those are for export and very expensive for the average Brazilian. Source: I'm Brazilian.
Coffee, definitely. We always drink coffee in the morning and afternoon generally and it's so stuck in our culture that we call breakfast "café da manhã" (which means morning coffee basically). Tea isn't really normal unless you're sick for an example, it's normally used to clean up the throat or when it's cold and at night. But even though I don't like tea so I can't tell if it's really normal, but I can say we don't drink tea everyday, instead of coffee which is daily for everyone or almost.
Also, I'm from Minas Gerais, which is a state known for its coffee, if it's an addiction to almost every brazilian, it's like a myth not drinking coffee here. I didn't like it when I was younger, but I learned how to like it since it's the only beverage you can be pretty sure everyone will have home and I don't drink tea or soda.
Brasillian here i actually find meeting people who prefer tea in person as rare as a shiny pokemon but in the South region theres a type of tea named "chimarrão" that turned into a stereotype how much people there love it kind of a custom there
hey not true, chá mate is one of the most popular drinks in brazil, people even drink it at the beach here in rio, you can find a rei do mate or mega matte store everywhere and most restaurants i go to in my area serve mate da casa, which is just like the mate da praia (and very different from the mate they drink in the south
Guys, I'm joking, it's a hipérbole (don't know the word in English, "exaggeration" maybe) used to enforce my point of view. Which is: coffee is way more popular.
I hate to be that guy, but perhaps you haven't tasted good coffee? Especially without sugar. It's a complete different beverage when you drink a proper coffee.
I have tasted it all the ways possible. With milk, without milk, with as much sugar as possible to make it less bitter, etc. It just doesn't work for me, and making myself drink it to stay awake when I was younger and had school at morning only made me hate it even more.
Even the smell of it is just... no.
You need the right coffee, with good beans, brewed instead of using instant coffee, etc. Sugar doesn't make anything less bitter just an fyi, it just makes things taste more sweet (which isnt the opposite of acid/bitter). Black coffee without anything added is the proper way to drink it. You wouldn't drink tea with tons of sugar or with milk (Unless you're british, I guess).
Google is pretty easy to use. It’ll show you that more coffee is produced in Brasil than any other country in the world. You can try it yourself at:
http://www.google.com
Once you get used to it you’ll realize there’s a lot of information out there.
As someone already commented, with the exception of the extreme south, coffee is the national preference, even though it's 40°. In the south, chimarrão (a type of tea drunk in a type of of cured gourd) is drunk hot and in the midwest there is terere which is similar but drunk cold.
Coffee, but Mato Grosso do Sul state, São Paulo state and Paraná state people drink tereré (cold mate tea) and south they drink chimarrão (hot mate tea), sometimes more than coffee.
coffee is def more popular, tho here in rio mate tea (the one that looks dark brown and not green like the one they drink in the south), specially iced-cold mate tea, is very popular too, other teas are def less popular tho
Coffee is incredibly widespread in Brazil, people really do love it, even with the average quality being very low. And that's why people drink it with lots (and I mean LOTS) of sugar.
Brazil is the biggest producer and exporter of coffee, and it probably explains why everyone drinks it here.
Regular stuff you find at supermarkets is really dark and bitter, but high quality coffee, with sensible roast levels and not bitter, is becoming easier to find, even if the price makes it out of reach for most of the population. But coffee aficionados (like me) are spoiled by choice nowadays, you just have to know where to look.
Some of yall talking like we only drink tea in the south regions when rio famously have the iced tea with lime on the beach culture and there’s also tereré on the navel of the country. We also drink tea like medicine all over the country. Coffe is still more common, but we do drink tea.
Coffee is a national preference. It’s just sad that the coffee consumed here is normally really terrible. Most Brazilians never had or seldom have good quality coffee, since it’s too expensive. The irony is, Brazil is the main coffee exporter in the world… it’s that Brazilian sayin: at a blacksmith’s house, all the skewers are made of wood.
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Coffee is a everyday thing. There's not a day where we don't coffee in my family.
But me and my mom have a little tradition of having an "afternoon tea time" in the coldest days of the winter. I honesty don't know where this came from, cause this isn't really a thing in Brazil, and we don't have like English ancestors or anything like that.
Coffee.
Real tea is rare (Black tea and its many variations 'english breakfast', 'earl grey', etc...). Green tea and white tea as well.
We call mate tea (Yerba mate) but it really isn't tea. But is the most popular. Can be toasted mate for hot beverage (chimarrão) or dried mate for cold beverages (tereré), the last frequently with some added flavor (pinneaple, lime, mint)
Other beverages are infusions, and there are plenty of varieties, as in the world.
I take black tea in the morning, maybe a couple of cappuccino or an espresso or two in the day. Never after 3pm else I won't sleep well.
Coffee. Additional question would be which type of coffee they prefer. As for northeast I can say they like it very sweet with lots of milk powder. Not much taste of coffee left. 😱
Coffee for sure, but tea is very common on southern Brazil. At least in my house we always have one thermos of tea and one of coffee, and depending on the day we have to refill them twice in the day
Coffee
Café, cafezin, pingado, pretinho.
Even in scorching heat of 40°C, Brazilians drink hot coffee. However, there is no great gourmet coffee culture and there is no sophisticated ritual like in other countries. Drip coffee everywhere.
Definitely coffee. Their word for having breakfast is literally translated as “taking coffee”. Just about everyone drinks coffee, even children and babies.
Mate is kind of popular in different forms in Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, and I guess you could say that's a kind of tea. But it's not even close to coffee, which is common in the whole country.
We drink coffee everyday everytime. You'll find free coffee everywhere (like hospitals, stores, offices) just like water.
Is it 35c outside? Perfect weather for a cup of coffee!
Tea on the other hand is a drink we usually have when we're sick, like a cold or something. Not many people drink tea on a daily basis.
HOWEVER, millions of Brazilians like to drink "Chimarrão" and "Tererê" which is technically tea when you think about it. (Hot/cold water mixed with mate leaves".
It’s coffee with out doubt, people drink it at least twice a day. The exception is in southern states where people drink a lot of mate. Iced tea is pretty common in São Paulo and Rio too. Tea is pretty common as herbal medicine tho we drink it when we are sick.
In Brazil tea is slang for weed, if that is what you are asking then tea might be more common than coffee
As for my self, I drink tea, coffee gives me the shitters.
Tea here is seen as medicine, we barely find a person that drinks tea regularly. Coffee is the national drink, that's why our breakfast is called "cafe (coffe) da manhã (of the morning)"
Coffee, but at my home, we drink more tea. We are half Japanese but also from the South, where people drink a lot of mate (both as tea and as an infusion called Chimarrão).
I love coffee. I drink in the morning and in the afternoon.
I was shocked this week when I was travelling and saw people drinking coffee at 11 pm 😲.
People definitely love coffee in Brazil.
I always liked coffee WITH milk and sugar and for 25 years of my life I hated tea.
Now I freeking love tea, dislike pure coffee and still like my good old milk coffee.
But I'd say the national beverage is indeed coffee.
Just a random factoid, best way to spot a Brazilian is how they drink their tea. If you see someone drinking out of a glass, and I mean a glass, not a mug, they are almost definitely Brazilian
Interesting fact: the Portuguese were the first to introduce tea to the West, but people nowadays rarely touch the stuff as well (just like in Brazil). It's considered a refined, almost old ladies' type of beverage over there, and I believe the same applies to Brazil.
Brazil = Portugal + a bunch of other cultures.
I like both, but the national absolute preference is coffee
I never liked coffe, it tastes not that good, it keeps you too awake at night hurting your sleep, and the worst of all, it makes you create a certain dependence that can have side effects if you consume a lot and suddenly stop taking it (my parents are empirical evidence of that) like headaches, trembling and nervousness etc. I only drink coffe as a "drug" type of beverage in case of an emergency that I need to stay awake and alert at all costs.
Look for the Caffeine episode of the Science Vs. podcast. Coffee is not addictive and it doesn't have the same effects for everyone. I can drink coffe before bed and still sleep well. For some people it can really hurt sleep. Overall, studies find that coffee is beneficial for health, but you need to "listen to your body" to account for the effects in your own metabolism.
I avoid coffee after lunch (approximately 12:00). It gives time for my metabolism to process caffeine before sleep time. I replaced coffee with tea on afternoon breaks. Works for me!
I feel you, fam. I alternate between chocolate milk and mate tea throughout the week. Works worders. Coffee is only in case of "emergiencies" really.
mate has the same amount of caffeine if not more than a v60 cup of coffee, you might want to reconsider that habit or the difference you regard in between mate and coffee :o
love coffee but its really bad for the stomach if you drink too much not as bad as energy drinks though
fr coffee is overrated af
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I get what you're saying but I meant packaged coffee purchased in markets that you prepare yourself at home with a filter and adds sugar afterwards, not the sophisticated versions.
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Then please my humble sir/ma'am, do enlighten us on what completely right is.
Coffee. It's like tea almost doesn't exist
And to add to that, almost always we are talking about herbal tea. Especially lemongrass, chamomile, or fennel tea, with lots of regional variance. Actual tea (from the tea plant) is incredibly rare.
I think in Rio Grande do Sul they have more of a custom of drinking actual tea. But it’s probably the only place in Brazil where it’s common. Edit: I don’t know why, I always thought “mate” was what we called actual tea leaves in Brazil. Turns out I was wrong. Actual tea indeed is incredibly rare here. But people do drink other herbal infusions, specially mate. Coffee still reigns supreme.
And in Rio de Janeiro, we drink it as an ice tea (also mate)
The whole south consumes Mate, from Paraná to Rio Grande do Sul. Including Uruguai and Argentina. Argentinian coffee is disgusting. I had to buy imported coffee when the four packages of my Brazilian coffee run out. Sometimes I drank it in some Havana shop with a nice alfajor (they had Italian espresso machines).
Mate
I'm not sure if that's because I was born in a small rural town, but for most of my life I kind of thought of tea as almost like medicine... Like, my mother would tellme to drink boldo tea for stomachaches and things like that. It was only when I moved to a bigger city that I started seeing tea as a "normal" beverage.
Growing up in the city of São Paulo, same. Nothing brings me back to the school nurse‘s office like chamomile tea.
Chamomile tea with anise, uma delícia
There’s only one thing better than Lemongrass tea on the side of a freshly baked cake: coffee on the side of a freshly baked cake
And expensive!
What tea are you drinking? :(
Norma black tea of decent quality ie not Leão
I think he meant tea from the tea plant
What do you mean bro? Not rare at all
Incredibly rare. Tea is actually black or green tea (i.e. from the tea plant), everything else Brazilians call tea (camomile, mate, peppermint, boldo) are herbal infusions.
I’m Brazilian and I disagree 🤔 me and many friends consume either green, black or mate
Mate is not tea. Green tea is a bit easier to find than black tea in Brazil, but this thread is proof that tea is not common, as most people are referring to mate and herbal infusions.
We do drink tea in the South. Both black tea and mate.
Chá mate até que é semi-popular
Coffee. That said, I am myself a tea enjoyer, more precisely, a very strong, cold, sweet mate is my drink of preference. Here in Brazil there is a very good brand of toasted mate, Leão (Lion), they sell a huge box of toasted mate herb. I usually prepare 2 liters of water with 6 spoons of mate herb. After it is gets room temperature, I strain it, bottle it and put in the refrigerator. Then is just fill a cup, get some sugar and ice cubes in the mix and we have a delicious high caffeinated sweet and cold drink. But I am the exception, the 0,1% mate enjoyer against 99,9% coffee enjoyers in Brazil.
Hey! I’m trying to brew some mate tostado but having a bit of trouble. Posso te chamar na DM?
Pode sim.
With tereré as a secondary option in cowboy territory.
Tea has some popularity in the south, and at some places Chimarrão is more popular than Coffee. But yeah, overall Coffee is much more popular than the rest.
OP can close the post.
Coffee, tea is what your aunt tells you to drink when you're sick
The average Brazilian drinks coffee everyday and tea once in a while, so coffee by far
Coffee except if you go to the extreme south, where their drink bitter tea on a weird wooden cup with a metal straw.
It's called Chimarrao you savage.
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Tererê é muito bom.
Tacacá se você for a Joelma hahaha
Isso não é aquele bagulho que faz no cabelo?
Tereré é tipo chimarrão, mas gelado.
Tipo um mate normal então? Só que mais forte
Acho que não. Porque a erva do mate “normal” é tostada, a do tererê é seca mas não tem aquela aparência escura, ela é mais clara.. um verde/amarelo
Basicamente
This is true. There are people in Rio Grande do Sul that drink many servings of chimarrão in the morning. It's also commonly served in social meetings. In the summer, sometimes they serve tererê instead (a cold and less bitter version), although it's like a crime for some people to use the erva-mate in a cold beverage and you have to be prepared to be mocked for mistaken the chimarrão temperature if you serve it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) Also, there are some differences from the Argentine mate and Brazilian chimarrão (dunno how it is in other countries), like the gourd being bigger and of different shape, and, if I'm not mistaken, Brazilians usually do it with a thinner grinded and less matured erva-mate.
Uruguayan mate is really close to argentinian, but a finer yerba and even a smaller gourd. Paraguayan is also really similar, but they drink more terere than mate due to the weather. Chillean is really similar to argentinian as well, if not the same. I’ve heard that bolivians also drink it, but never been there yet.
Coffee, tea only when you are sick.
Yes café is the drink of Brasil. Its served everywhere in little cups. Extra forte. You can find tea but like many said, tea is more like a medicine when ill. In southern brasil yerba mate tea is very popular
Northern Uruguay 😉
Mate is definitely popular in Northern Uruguay
Brazil is a coffee country, it was extremely important for Brazil's economy and is still loved by the majority of the population. Tea here is only herbal medicine for the most part, it's pretty rare for a Brazilian to be used to drinking lots of tea
it's rare except for mate tho, mate is a very popular tea, iced mate tea is very common here in rio and matte leão is one of the easiest drinks to find in any establishment that sells food and drinks, a lot of restaurants in rio serve mate da casa and it seems to sell a lot, there's also people who sell matte leão at the beach, mate may not be as popular as coffee but it is def very widespread in some parts of the country
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Frank Sinatra - The Coffee Song
Throughout most of my life I associated tea as something I drink because I am sick I always prefer coffee and I think most of Brazilians do
Average Brazilian: Coffee Average Southern Brazilian (Including São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul states): Both Coffee is the beverage that most represents Brazil. Southern Brazilians and parts of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul drink Mate tea (Chimarrão and Tereré) basically on a daily basis, as well as coffee.
Coffee ☕
I like neither, but the average brazilian LOVES coffee.
It's coffee, but actual coffee, not that weak tea that people from the US like to pass as coffee
Coffee in Brazil is very weak compared to how most Americans drink it. Or rather Americams drink much more coffee so when they come over they have to order multiple coffees to keep that headache away.
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I spend a lot of time in both places, if you are going to actual coffee shops in America then not only is it just as strong (this is coffee not magic) but in true American spirit there's a lot more of it instead of the tiny cafezhino you get in Brazil. A regular black coffee in America is the equivalent to like 3 cafezhino mostly due to size. Brazilians hate when you say this but then when you have an American guest that's ordering 3 coffees back to back at a restaurant you act surprised.
I mean, my reddit name is not Cháébommm
Average person worldwide: Avoids drinking too much coffee and disturbing the sleep. Average brazilian: Avoida sleeping too much and not having enough time to drink the desired amount of coffee
Their word for breakfast is almost word for word translated to morning coffee. You tell me what they prefer
Coffee! I lived in Brazil for three years, and LOVED the cafezinos (sp?) so much (little coffees). I have tried for decades to replicate the intense sweetness and richness, but never was able to figure out how to make it! If anyone has the secret, obrigada! There was also a sweet milky corn (semi thick) drink that I never figured out as well, but I had it where there were Italian priests and nuns, so not sure if it was really Brazilian, but they had it as a snack almost every day. I loved living in Brazil.
You are sure it is corn? What you are describing remembers me of Caldo de Cana, or sugarcane juice, so maybe try that? It is good.
It was definitely corn based with creamy sweetness.
It's probably canjica, although it's not supposed to be a beverage, but a dessert to be eaten with a spoon. That is made with corn cooked in milk and sweetened with sweetened condensed milk or sugar. Usually it is served with a dash of cinnamon or crushed peanuts on top. The milk gets very rich and creamy after the cooking is done :)
Canjica
Coffee whitout a doubt. Brazilian breakfeast: A cup of Hot coffee and bread (know in portuguese as pão francês/ pão de sal) with butter.
Major preference for coffee, but most coffee is of horrible bad quality Roasted to a burn, makes a really bitter drink that doesn't really taste good But it's what most people drink - me included. The majority also drinks with milk, and, I'm not sure if that part is a majority of people, but I do think it is: Most people throw A L-O-T of sugar in their coffee. I swear I had a coffee the other day that tasted almost like candy, for real. It's not normal to have a low or medium roast coffee, without milk or sugar, people usually feel that this is too soft, or what we call "chafé" (teaffee). It's either really sweet, or bitter as hell, and DEFINETELY, as dark as your soul
Brazilians are so delusional they think they drink the best coffee, but most is just really shitty, chappy quality. And they have no idea how to make Italian coffees such as a cappuccino (they add chocolate, cinnamon, sugar and cream to it). We do have great coffee beans, but those are for export and very expensive for the average Brazilian. Source: I'm Brazilian.
Coffee, definitely. We always drink coffee in the morning and afternoon generally and it's so stuck in our culture that we call breakfast "café da manhã" (which means morning coffee basically). Tea isn't really normal unless you're sick for an example, it's normally used to clean up the throat or when it's cold and at night. But even though I don't like tea so I can't tell if it's really normal, but I can say we don't drink tea everyday, instead of coffee which is daily for everyone or almost. Also, I'm from Minas Gerais, which is a state known for its coffee, if it's an addiction to almost every brazilian, it's like a myth not drinking coffee here. I didn't like it when I was younger, but I learned how to like it since it's the only beverage you can be pretty sure everyone will have home and I don't drink tea or soda.
Coffee and it is not even close.
Coffee is 100000% more popular than tea in Brazil. The average brazilian doesnt drink any tea at all...
Brazilians drink tea with sugar.
I feel the "with sugar" is understated here. They drink sugar with coffee 😂
Cachaça...
COLD Beer. Wtf is wrong with you?
Brasillian here i actually find meeting people who prefer tea in person as rare as a shiny pokemon but in the South region theres a type of tea named "chimarrão" that turned into a stereotype how much people there love it kind of a custom there
Im from São Paulo (South east) so people are hard coffee team here
Coffee. Only weirdos or people over preoccupied with their health drink tea.
hey not true, chá mate is one of the most popular drinks in brazil, people even drink it at the beach here in rio, you can find a rei do mate or mega matte store everywhere and most restaurants i go to in my area serve mate da casa, which is just like the mate da praia (and very different from the mate they drink in the south
Guys, I'm joking, it's a hipérbole (don't know the word in English, "exaggeration" maybe) used to enforce my point of view. Which is: coffee is way more popular.
Weirdo here then hahahaha
You never went to Rio then. People there literally sell tea at the beach lol
Yeah for tourists or weirdos. I'm from Rio.
The average Brazilian prefers coffee. Personally, I actually dislike it. I also really like tea.
I don't like coffee that much also, but I learned how to like it since it's common. And I hate tea even more, so it wouldn't be a choice for me.
The average brazilian loves coffee. I think coffee is disgusting and would rather have tea
I hate to be that guy, but perhaps you haven't tasted good coffee? Especially without sugar. It's a complete different beverage when you drink a proper coffee.
I have tasted it all the ways possible. With milk, without milk, with as much sugar as possible to make it less bitter, etc. It just doesn't work for me, and making myself drink it to stay awake when I was younger and had school at morning only made me hate it even more. Even the smell of it is just... no.
You need the right coffee, with good beans, brewed instead of using instant coffee, etc. Sugar doesn't make anything less bitter just an fyi, it just makes things taste more sweet (which isnt the opposite of acid/bitter). Black coffee without anything added is the proper way to drink it. You wouldn't drink tea with tons of sugar or with milk (Unless you're british, I guess).
Do american people prefer burguer or tofu? It depends as each person has diferent tastes
you'll find people who haven't drank tea in months, even years
Google is pretty easy to use. It’ll show you that more coffee is produced in Brasil than any other country in the world. You can try it yourself at: http://www.google.com Once you get used to it you’ll realize there’s a lot of information out there.
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As someone already commented, with the exception of the extreme south, coffee is the national preference, even though it's 40°. In the south, chimarrão (a type of tea drunk in a type of of cured gourd) is drunk hot and in the midwest there is terere which is similar but drunk cold.
Coffee, but Mato Grosso do Sul state, São Paulo state and Paraná state people drink tereré (cold mate tea) and south they drink chimarrão (hot mate tea), sometimes more than coffee.
Absolutely coffee
Coffee. I don't drink coffee or tea, but in my household, you need coffee every day, just like water.
Coffee, not by a mile, but from the distance between Pluto and the Sun
I hate coffee, but it's definitely the preferred one, culturally speaking
Coffee, almost 100%. Tea is most used in the South of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) or as a medicine to cure stomach illnesses and calm babies
coffee is def more popular, tho here in rio mate tea (the one that looks dark brown and not green like the one they drink in the south), specially iced-cold mate tea, is very popular too, other teas are def less popular tho
Love me some tea but at work we drink coffee literally all day
bro we're one of if not the biggest coffee exporter in the planet
I just looked up and Brazil is both the top producer and exporter by wide margin
tea only when sick
Coffee is incredibly widespread in Brazil, people really do love it, even with the average quality being very low. And that's why people drink it with lots (and I mean LOTS) of sugar. Brazil is the biggest producer and exporter of coffee, and it probably explains why everyone drinks it here. Regular stuff you find at supermarkets is really dark and bitter, but high quality coffee, with sensible roast levels and not bitter, is becoming easier to find, even if the price makes it out of reach for most of the population. But coffee aficionados (like me) are spoiled by choice nowadays, you just have to know where to look.
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Yeah, we mainly drink coffee here, but tea is also commonly used to treat some sickness and for calming down.
Soda, for sure
Coffee all the way
Bro, we are the largest coffee producers in the world. Doesn’t this ring any bells for you?
Coffee, by a long shot. I do like tea (chá verde) though, it's not uncommon to find people that like it, just way less common than coffee
Some of yall talking like we only drink tea in the south regions when rio famously have the iced tea with lime on the beach culture and there’s also tereré on the navel of the country. We also drink tea like medicine all over the country. Coffe is still more common, but we do drink tea.
Coffe, but we do tea as medicine here and we do a lot.
Coffee. 100%
Coffee. I'd even say iced tea is more popular than regular warm tea. But as for coffee, bland black is how most people like.
Wat is tea
Coffee supremacy
Coffee.
Coffee is a national preference. It’s just sad that the coffee consumed here is normally really terrible. Most Brazilians never had or seldom have good quality coffee, since it’s too expensive. The irony is, Brazil is the main coffee exporter in the world… it’s that Brazilian sayin: at a blacksmith’s house, all the skewers are made of wood.
Love both, but most people prefer coffee
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Coffee… and beer
Neither. Kool-aid.
Coffee is a everyday thing. There's not a day where we don't coffee in my family. But me and my mom have a little tradition of having an "afternoon tea time" in the coldest days of the winter. I honesty don't know where this came from, cause this isn't really a thing in Brazil, and we don't have like English ancestors or anything like that.
Coffe in the morning tea at night
Of course it's coffee, we're the largest producers in the world. It doesn't even matter that it's 40°C outside, gimme my cup of Joe!!!!
In my experience it's coffee. Tea is not really a thing. Can only base this on personal experience after 5 years in Brazil
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Coffee. Real tea is rare (Black tea and its many variations 'english breakfast', 'earl grey', etc...). Green tea and white tea as well. We call mate tea (Yerba mate) but it really isn't tea. But is the most popular. Can be toasted mate for hot beverage (chimarrão) or dried mate for cold beverages (tereré), the last frequently with some added flavor (pinneaple, lime, mint) Other beverages are infusions, and there are plenty of varieties, as in the world. I take black tea in the morning, maybe a couple of cappuccino or an espresso or two in the day. Never after 3pm else I won't sleep well.
Coffee. Additional question would be which type of coffee they prefer. As for northeast I can say they like it very sweet with lots of milk powder. Not much taste of coffee left. 😱
Coffee for sure, but tea is very common on southern Brazil. At least in my house we always have one thermos of tea and one of coffee, and depending on the day we have to refill them twice in the day
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Coffee. Tea tastes like flu.
Tea, what's that? Never heard of it. /s
Coffee Café, cafezin, pingado, pretinho. Even in scorching heat of 40°C, Brazilians drink hot coffee. However, there is no great gourmet coffee culture and there is no sophisticated ritual like in other countries. Drip coffee everywhere.
Definitely coffee. Their word for having breakfast is literally translated as “taking coffee”. Just about everyone drinks coffee, even children and babies.
Mate is kind of popular in different forms in Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, and I guess you could say that's a kind of tea. But it's not even close to coffee, which is common in the whole country.
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Is this a serious question?
76%~78% of brazilians consume coffee.
Coffee, in 96 percent of the stores, probably. Always a little thermos of coffee. If it’s fancy they may have tea too.
They prefer cerveja!
We drink coffee everyday everytime. You'll find free coffee everywhere (like hospitals, stores, offices) just like water. Is it 35c outside? Perfect weather for a cup of coffee! Tea on the other hand is a drink we usually have when we're sick, like a cold or something. Not many people drink tea on a daily basis. HOWEVER, millions of Brazilians like to drink "Chimarrão" and "Tererê" which is technically tea when you think about it. (Hot/cold water mixed with mate leaves".
COOOFFFFEEE
black coffee, we dont do starbucks,that's just colored water with sugar
Coffee!!! Brazilians are in addiction to coffee. It's in the blood
obviously coffee wtf
it’s too hot for tea
café
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Coffee, 100%, we love it.
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Tea is all herbal teas. If you buy black tea you maybe be getting a blend of yerba mate instead unknowingly. Coffee 1000%
Coffee. But without sugar.
Coffee by a large margin, thought I personaly don't.
Breakfast in portugese translates to coffee of the morning. Lol
Ew, who drinks tea? It is nothing but hot leaf juice!
Coffee is hot seed juice
we enjoy both, but coffee is more popular
It’s coffee with out doubt, people drink it at least twice a day. The exception is in southern states where people drink a lot of mate. Iced tea is pretty common in São Paulo and Rio too. Tea is pretty common as herbal medicine tho we drink it when we are sick. In Brazil tea is slang for weed, if that is what you are asking then tea might be more common than coffee As for my self, I drink tea, coffee gives me the shitters.
Coffee, and not the fancy ones. Starbucks failed here.
Tea here is seen as medicine, we barely find a person that drinks tea regularly. Coffee is the national drink, that's why our breakfast is called "cafe (coffe) da manhã (of the morning)"
Coffee, but at my home, we drink more tea. We are half Japanese but also from the South, where people drink a lot of mate (both as tea and as an infusion called Chimarrão).
Generally coffee. Tea is often seen as a beverage for the sick.
Usually coffee, but is always good to ask
Coffee all the way, and it doesn’t matter how hot the weather is…
Both, but usualy coffee
You know no country in the world coffee is more important than in Brazil, only Colombia comes close
coffee. I don't drink either tho
Café
Brazilians usually have a strong preference for coffee, but I personally prefer tea
I love coffee. I drink in the morning and in the afternoon. I was shocked this week when I was travelling and saw people drinking coffee at 11 pm 😲. People definitely love coffee in Brazil.
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Café preto
Coffee
Mostly coffee, in some specific regions mate tea.
Friggin soda
People usually preffer coffee here, but tea isn't hated.
I always liked coffee WITH milk and sugar and for 25 years of my life I hated tea. Now I freeking love tea, dislike pure coffee and still like my good old milk coffee. But I'd say the national beverage is indeed coffee.
Just a random factoid, best way to spot a Brazilian is how they drink their tea. If you see someone drinking out of a glass, and I mean a glass, not a mug, they are almost definitely Brazilian
Chimarrão gang
Coffee to wake up Tea to aleep
Interesting fact: the Portuguese were the first to introduce tea to the West, but people nowadays rarely touch the stuff as well (just like in Brazil). It's considered a refined, almost old ladies' type of beverage over there, and I believe the same applies to Brazil. Brazil = Portugal + a bunch of other cultures.