John and Hank's coffee-versus-tea rivalry (2025)
running joke · status: short bit (2025) · last event: first use (2025-09-09)
In September 2025 John answered Hank's video that came close to calling tea better than coffee, arguing in the title and the video that coffee is just better.
About: tea, Theanine, coffee
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | first use | Hank says his mornings are a little more delightful with a cup of tea than with coffee, at least for him. | Caffeine is Very… 00:06:10 |
| 2025-09-09 | first use | John answers Hank's tea-favouring caffeine video by arguing that coffee is better than tea, the title bit. (playful) → refers to Caffeine is Very… | Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better 00:01:56 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-09-05 · Caffeine is Very… — Hank insists that coffee is technically a tea. (playful) — 00:04:19
- 2025-09-05 · Caffeine is Very… — Hank thinks that delight is part of why tea remains the most popular drink in the world. — 00:06:10
- 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John offers a theory he admits has no evidence: tea stays more popular because it is older and better established in cultures, not because it is better. (playful, speculative) — 00:01:56
- 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John says Hank's video did not quite criticize coffee but came close, strongly implying tea is better because of a chemical giving chill vibes with awareness. (playful) — 00:01:56
- 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John concedes Hank is right that tea is more popular than coffee. — 00:02:26
- 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John concludes coffee is far better than tea, unless coffee is a kind of tea as Hank argued, in which case coffee is the best kind of tea. (playful) — 00:03:53