To be fair: caffeine is toxic to insects. It's not that we enjoy the intended effect like in hot chilies. It's that the effect differs between insects and mammals
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Nah it was Ethiopians who realized it. Arabs agreed. Then Europeans lost their damn minds at the concept of a non alcoholic social beverage, much less one with an energizing effect
Going from drunk to energized to inventing calculus, optics, a working theory of gravity and orbital mechanics in one lifetime
Man I hate coffee. Tastes like ash in water.
I have high sensitivity towards some tastes. Beer is also not palatable for me.
Not sure why you're being down voted.
Personally I love the taste of coffee, but I can see how high "tastitivity" could make it unpleasant.
Not sure why you're being down voted.
People take it personally maybe ๐๐
But yeah, coffee definitely feels like a love it or hate it kind of beverage.
It sounds like you have had a bunch of dark roasts. Maybe try a light roast and see if it tastes the same?
It doesn't taste the same, nor smell the same, but it all tastes bad. For me, it's like asking me to try different brands of cigarettes. I'll still cough no matter the subtle or big differences.
I hear what your saying. But I enjoy coffee. But if you have tried different types it might not be for you.
It definitely isn't for me โ I know that from my experiences with it. I'm 38 years old, I'm fairly certain after this long. ๐
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Same here. When people ask me why I don't drink coffee I have to explain to them that to me it tastes like a bars ashtray smells at the end of a busy night. The funny thing is everyone in my family loves coffee, I'm just the black sheep that drinks tea.
"Oh you just haven't had good coffee" nope sorry bud, I've had high end coffee, low end coffee, flavored coffee, everything. I even had a supervisor who basically lived on coffee and did everything he could to find a blend that was palatable to me, still nothing.
Exactly. Many who like coffee just can't imagine how someone can just not even learn to love it, no matter how hard they try.
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A lot of people think coffee has one taste. It does not. It isn't all that burnt to hell flavor like you get from Starbucks or most other places. A nice light roast will be more fruity. If you get the chance, I'd recommend trying a naturally processed coffee, which is where the seed is left in the fruit while it ferments and is then removed, so it gets a lot more of the fruit flavors.
I'd also say the same thing for beer, but even more so. Beer is like soup. There's so many different ways to make it with different ingredients. Budweiser, or similar, is what most people try, and it's shit. There's a massive world of beer though, with things like sours that can taste like wine, fruit juice, or candy, to stouts that can have coffee or chocolate notes, and so much more.
You have to have an open mind and explore. There may not be coffee you like (the number of flavors is broad, but still more limited), but I can promise you I could find beer you like. My mom used to say she hates beer, but I've found a good number that she enjoys because there isn't just one flavor.
Thanks, people have been offering me fine beer and coffee my whole life since puberty hit. Everything tastes like shit to me, I'm sorry. Some people just don't like coffee or beer. ๐ And I'm perfectly happy not to need to drink them both. There's plenty of other things to enjoy. Like tea. Fruit juices. A gin and tonic perhaps. A mild non-alcoholic ginger beer.
But coffee can go sit in a corner.
Yeah, that's totally fine if you've actually been open to it and given it a shot! That's great. I just hate when people drink shitty beer (or anything else) and decide they don't like it. You aren't supposed to like those. They're just cheap.
(You can also not want to consume something and not have an opinion on if you like it or not, for those who just want to avoid them for whatever reason you have. That's perfectly good too.)
You seem like a reasonable person. Thanks for backing me (and others) up like that. ๐ค
You can't just say all that and not name any brands. Sure do I start?
You start local. I can't help you with that unless you live near me.
Coffee is the same for me. Beer used to be the same, but I got used to it - still doesn't taste great, but cold it's acceptable. But not coffee, I never got used to it.
That's the thing, I have no interest in subjecting myself to things until they are acceptable lol. I like eating and drinking things that are inherently good to begin with. Things that are good for me, and to me. ๐
Very understandable! I've also stopped drinking beer, because it never started tasting good.
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Funny, after water, beer and coffee are my two most consumed drinks. I like whisky too but havenโt been drinking as much lately. It kind of comes and goes.
Unfortunately, water is third on that list for me.
Like ash? That's wild. My partner also doesn't like the taste, though she does like the smell. I wonder if there's some genetic stuff at play, since I don't know how else it could taste anything like ash.
huh, i also think it tastes like ash...
I do think there might be. I think it's called hyper tasters or something.
"Burnt water" is how I described the taste to my coffee-loving grandparents after numerous (and enthusiastic! I wanted to like it) attempts to find coffee I liked.
No no, coffea.
Ita coffee and tea together.
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What a way to ruin some tea.
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you're welcome. ๐
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