That explains it

I never liked coffee.

Not even the smell.

When I little there was a coffee plant near by and with the right wind you could smell coffee.

I hated that smell.

...cannot stand the smell..

Nix on dark chocolate, too.

And, I think dry wines taste like cough syrup.

There are a lot of non coffee drinkers.

As for dark chocolate and wine I cannot stand either nor can I tolerate the taste of liquor in general.

I'm not as weird as I was made to feel. I'm married to a coffee afficionado who has a selection of coffee beans from Asia, Africa, South & Central America. Bruh uses a French Press and grinds beans everyday, 2X a day...Can't complain too much because I introduced him to the French Press.

Light roast beans I will drink black.

Dark roast,it tastes like char. Dont like dark roast.
If dark roast coffee is all there is I drink it with a little cream.

With light roast the coffee is a complex flavor. Different beans can have vastly different flavors.

I like beans coffee and cat toe beans,those I just love them they are adorable. When I wake up I get both kinds of beans😸

its way to bitter of a taste.

that some people like coffee; some don’t.

This could change our entire understanding of the universe.

It was what adults did, they drank coffee.

Couldn't take the bitterness, but needed to wake up, so added milk and sweetener and have been drinking it ever since. I love coffee, drink 3 cups a day now, I also like all forms of chocolate and like mild white wines. I never drink dark roast, can't take that burnt taste.

The stronger the better.

I also like spicy foods.

Except, I add cream and sweetner to the very dark, strong coffee.

if you suck at roasting and brewing coffee.

I can brew a cup of Ethiopian or Guatemalan that has no bitterness whatsoever, is sweet on the palate, with hints of mild chocolate, raspberry and a juicy mouth feel.

While I agree with the study and how it shows that people who are addicted to a substance will endure the pain of a bitter or sad cup of coffee in order to get their fix, that study does not, in any way shine a light on why millions of true coffee fans drink specialty coffee, roast their own beans and strive to pull the perfect shot of espresso.

Just the opinions of this one coffee aficionado...

I drink coffee, but it absolutely must have cream and sugar. I can drink coffee with cream but no sugar, but absolutely cannot drink it without cream, even if sugar is available. Basic black, forget it.

Honestly, coffee is a completely different beverage with and without cream and/or sugar.

I am a super taster. Super tasters don't like sour or bitter tastes.

I've always been a picky eater and I got yelled at a lot at the dinner table for not eating Grandma's boiled-to-death veggies and bitter greens. I have some major food allergies too. None of that shaming did anything to change me. They've all been dead for decades now. I eat lots of boring food.

and half. But I love the taste of coffee, and the smell of it. And I like the way it feels waking me up in the morning.

Yeah, I guess I could do without it, and have done in past from time to time, but I really like to have maybe four or six cups in the morning.

over the bitter taste. I buy caffeinated water in order to avoid Diet Coke, which I used to drink too much of, and I drink tea sweetened with stevia, and I like dark chocolate, as long as it's no higher than 50%. I just don't like bitter. I can't stand beer or hard liquor (except in cocktails that hide the taste) and I don't actually like the taste of wine, either, but I trained myself to drink it to get the effect! (My main requirement in choosing a "favorite" wine is that I shudder as little as possible.) With coffee, I was just never motivated enough to get over the taste, since there are other sources of caffeine that taste better to me.

...I had to stop caffeinated beverages, esp coffee, prolly 10 years ago or so.

I was getting weird muscle twitches in various body places that I could only attribute to the high caffeine levels I was consuming...6 cups of the highest caffeine-level dark roast every morning, within 90 minutes, with more later.

If you've ever had electrical stimulation on your arms or whatever (which I have after a car crash not my fault) - that's kinda what it felt like, from the caffeine, just not continuously.

Once I stopped caffeinated coffee, and went to decaf green tea, the muscle twitches stopped.

Now it is hard to stay up so latte.

My current recipe is five parts strong Peete's coffee and one part chocolate milk. I like chocolate, and it has enough sweetness so no additional sugar is needed in the coffee. It's actually not a bad version of an expensive coffee shop Mocha. Probably costs me less than 25 cents to make at home with a $20 Mr Coffee drip maker. I have never understood people who pay $5 for a cup of coffee.

It probably breaks every aficionado law there is, and you can almost stand a fork up in it, but I love it. Inhaling the fresh ground beans is another olfactory thrill every time. I've been using the same no-paper gold coffee strainer for years and years.

I like strong coffee, and medium strong coffee.

I don't like dark chocolate. I seldom eat the other kind of chocolate as well. It doesn't appeal to me that much.

Nothing better on a cold morning than the smell and the feel of the mug in my cold hands. I savor the aroma and crave the taste. The first sip is like heaven.

I have also been known to drop a high cocoa percentage Ghirardelli dark chocolate square in a mug of that very same beverage. The thick chocolate slurry is addictive.

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