"Coffee is a language in itself."
For a lot of people, caffeine makes the world go around. It only makes sense this would also be prevalent in fiction as well, and so there are quite a few tropes about coffee and tea.
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- Asians Love Tea: Asian people are avid tea-drinkers.
- Bad to the Last Drop: Really bad coffee.
- Brits Love Tea: British people are also avid tea-drinkers.
- Caffeine Failure: A person drinks coffee to stay awake, but still falls asleep anyway (usually because they were tired beforehand).
- Calming Tea: Tea is used to soothe frazzled nerves, anxiety, and other extreme moods.
- Cannot Have Caffeine: Someone who can't consume anything with caffeine in it, due to medical problems or something else.
- Coffee Shop AU Fic: A fanfic where the cast works at or regularly visits a coffee shop.
- Comical Coffee Cup: A character's coffee cup has an amusing slogan on it.
- The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: A child ropes someone into playing tea party.
- Hot Drink Cure: Someone drinks a hot beverage, such as coffee, to help when they're sick.
- Klatchian Coffee: Coffee that makes the drinker go into overdrive.
- Mid-Battle Tea Break: Briefly interrupting a battle scene to do something ridiculous, often a tea party.
- Must Have Caffeine: Someone that is addicted to coffee.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: A character has a very complex order, often about coffee.
- Proper Pinky: Extending one's pinky while drinking tea is a sign of sophistication.
- Reading Tea Leaves: Divination via tea or coffee in a cup.
- Real Men Take It Black: Someone drinks undiluted coffee to show they're tough.
- Starbucks Skin Scale: Characters who are black or of a mixed race have their skin colour described with coffee-related words.
- Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: A chief steps out for a break, often to get coffee, providing the hero with enough time to steal files or read up on something.
- Stimulant Speedtalk: Stimulants like caffeine bring about a need to talk, often at high speed, often about nothing.
- Tea Is Classy: Tea is used to indicate that a character is of high class.
- Uncoffee: A drink that's very similar to coffee, but isn't coffee.
- You, Get Me Coffee: A newbie or rookie is assigned a trivial task, such as getting the boss a cup of coffee.