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[[File:Coffee vs Tea graph EN.png|center|thumb|600px|Coffee vs tea preference in selected countries<br />Data source: Euromonitor (2012) via The Economist]]
And then, as you can see in the graph above, there's a handful of countries that are sitting squarely on the fence. It's in these places where, instead of offering you tea or coffee, the host will offer you a choice: tea or coffee? In Australia the preferences appear to be most evenly split (50.3% for tea, 49.7 % for coffee). In Europe, the two countries closest to the middle of the coffee-tea spectrum are Estonia and Poland. The question "coffee or tea?" (''kawa czy herbata?'') is actually so common in Poland around breakfast time that it was the title of a popular '90s Polish morning TV show.
The actual picture may not be as clear-cut as it seems due to the lack of data for vast swathes of Africa and by the fact that the survey was limited to only two kinds of hot drink. In southern South America, for example, the answer to the question, "tea or coffee?", may actually be, "yerba mate".
