Some comics feature both tea and coffee, usually preferring the latter, but this comic from a 1902 issue of “Punch” is notable for its impartiality:

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The passenger’s statement (“Look here, Steward, if this is Coffee, I want Tea; but if this is Tea, then I wish for Coffee”) has been (incorrectly) attributed to a number of people (such as Abraham Lincoln), but it remains unclear who said it first, or whether it was merely composed as a fictional anecdote.
Herman is confronted with an alternative solution:

Buni seems to depict the usual attitude of coffee drinkers towards tea.

Ditto Adam@Home:

Horace has made it clear (multiple times) that he definitely prefers coffee:

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It’s hard to say which one it easier to prepare (if you care about doing it well):

Sometimes it doesn’t matter, when it’s just for the caffeine:

Each drink has its own particular traditions.

Why didn’t they get a tea table?
In The Born Loser, that is one huge carafe of coffee for just the two of them.
I didn’t realize the tag was meant to be “art and chip sansom”, creators of The Born Loser. So I searched for “sansom comic” and got many, many NSFW (pardon the pun) strips.
On the coffee-vs-tea thread, here’s Sunday’s Adam@Home
Then there’s what you get from the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser:
The Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser also known as the Nutrimat Machine and the Nutri-Matic Drinks Dispenser is a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation product designed to work out what drink someone wants through taste bud patterns and neurological signals. It is well known for producing a liquid which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Nutrimatic_Drinks_Dispenser
I don’t remember how old I was when I asked my mother why she called the living room table a coffee table when nobody ever put coffee cups on it. Now martini glasses, on the other hand…
Because they put coffee table books on them?
20 years ago, less than half the population drank coffee daily; today it’s 67%. I’m guessing it’s because of the quality but am unsure because I can’t stand the stuff.
Then there’s this old joke. To tell it properly you should replace certain words with whatever unprintable substances seem appropriate.
Customer: Waiter! Is this coffee or tea?
Waiter: What does it taste like, sir?
Customer: What does it taste like! It tastes like TURPENTINE is what it tastes like!
Waiter: Oh, then it’s coffee. Our tea tastes like kerosene.
I get the feeling Herman’s jacket pattern would remain stationary as he moves.
that is one huge carafe of coffee for just the two of them.
My parents had a percolator urn with a spigot. The one shown below is similar, although theirs was stainless, having been purchased prior to the “Avocado/Harvest Gold” era.
MiB (8): ROTFL!
Once, in a restaurant with a dozen friends, I asked for tea and eventually the server brought my cup. Still engaged in conversation, I lifted the cup to my lips, and did a classic spit-take, all unintentionally, because she had brought me COFFEE! Yecchh. Horrid stuff.
“Waiter, this coffee tastes like mud!”
“I’m sorry sir, it was ground only a few minutes ago”.
I’ll get me coat.
They say that in the Army
The coffee’s mighty fine,
It’s good for cuts and bruises
And tastes like turpentine
My parents used to use a glass percolator on the stove for coffee. It would have been about that size, but wouldn’t have been quite that full of coffee.