What is John Green's favorite taste?

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There’s a particular flavor of coffee, or maybe tea, or maybe some kind of cocoa mix, that he really likes the way the stuff on the bottom of his cup looks (like, he’s very fond of that image of coffee in a cup or something – that image is important to him in a way that I can’t tell you exactly why). This image is of a coffee cup, but it could also be of tea:

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(This isn’t a picture of the actual flavor, but you can see that John Green is very fond of the shape and size of the coffee cup)

This has no significance and I was not making this up

There was a time he would sometimes ask for this drink specifically, but as I recall it’s kind of an inconsistent taste. Sometimes he would put a lot of sugar in it and sometimes not at all. He also sometimes put a bunch of cream and/or froth into it, although not always. But it was the shape that really mattered

He also had this picture in his apartment, which was on the coffee table, and was apparently very important to him

He was talking to his friends about it and he thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen:

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This isn’t really the same kind of cup as the picture above, just a similar kind. He was really fond of the picture because he thought it looked funny. Also he was a big fan of the coffee house. He always made fun of people who drank out of mugs:

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He thought the mugs were bad and this picture was hilarious

He had a big picture of a book on the coffee table but I don’t think he would really talk about it at all

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From this I gather John Green’s favorite taste is somewhere between coffee and tea

There are several kinds of instant coffee you could get in America at any time of day that are made to taste like coffee because they don’t actually contain coffee. This may or may not be his favorite – I don’t think it’s been mentioned in the movie, although it would be appropriate, as he is the type of person to put coffee beans in his “coffee” and add cream

But to return to the original topic of “John Green is the sort of person who collects a bunch of random objects and pictures just because they have a specific shape”… I know this may seem silly, but I still have in my kitchen drawer the picture he gave me of this: