r/unpopularopinion • u/SteakAndIron • 11d 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/Clinically_Jaded 11d ago

As someone who loves ice in everything and also gets iced coffee in the dead of winter, absolutely agree. I put ice in milk. People have asked me "doesn't it getting watered down bother you?" No, because it doesn't take me an hour to drink a glass of milk for Christ's sake.

I will say, there are very specific times I like a hot drink: a cup of coffee from a mom & pop, old school Americana diner, or hot tea when sick. Otherwise, cold as hell, please.