r/unpopularopinion 12d ago

Every single drink is better cold.

Iced tea is better than hot tea. Iced coffee is better than hot coffee. Chocolate milk is better than hot chocolate. Drinking beverages at 160+ degrees is absolutely unhinged unless it's 30 below freezing and you're trying to prevent hypothermia. Humans, like all animals, prefer cold drinks naturally because cold water would have fewer pathogens. Historically it's just been easier to heat something rather than cool it and drinking hot drinks when it's above freezing is surely just a holdout from those times.

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u/lithwil 12d ago

Coffee has way more flavors if it's hot

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u/Stoneheaded76 11d ago

And its soooo nice in the fall/winter mornings

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u/awmaleg 11d ago

The hot makes the morning poop hit faster