[ARCHIVED THREAD] - I hate coffee... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/15/2009 6:16:17 PM EDT
| I don't get what the attraction is? It smells alright (roasted beans) but tasted like fermented bile. How do ya'll drink that stuff? |
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I don't get what the attraction is? It smells alright (roasted beans) but tasted like fermented bile. How do ya'll drink that stuff? We like it because we are heterosexual. 
But seriously, you ought to try to find some actual good coffee, not the swill in the average diner. |
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I love it. My wife brought home some shit from New Orleans that smells like burnt rubber and tastes like motor oil with 100K miles on it. It's got some crap called chicory in it. It's the best. Yep, I usually get Cafe Du Monde coffee. The best there is. |
| I hate coffee! My Grandma gave me a sip when I was probably 5 or 6. I knew right then that I'd never like it. I really can't even stand the smell of it and just so all you coffee drinkers know - "your breath smells horrible after you've been drinking it." My coworkers are addicts and since I sit near the coffee mess I always hear them bitching when somebody only leaves a little in the pot instead of making more. |
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I don't like Coffee, I drank it some while I was on the Army, mostly late at night when I was on duty, and it was cold as hell and there wasn't anything else to drink. It doesn't matter how late it is, or how cold it is, there is always a huge urn of coffee ready in the orderly room tent. It helped me stay warm and awake, but that is about the only thing I have to say about it.
I have tried better coffee outside of what I had in the field while in the Army, and I didn't like the better coffee any better. I drink Ice Tea starting as soon as I wake up in the morning, and will have a Coke or two throughout the day, then drink Ice Tea again at home. |
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It's like sex; it can be smelly, stinky and messy, but if done right, it's terrific. My parents drank it, so I did. I'm pretty sure it's an acquired taste. My wife hates it, but she likes the smell. I'm now talking about coffee, not sex. 
But you summed it up pretty well. |
When I was a child, I too liked the smell but not the taste of coffee, I prefered things like grape juice and orange soda. As I grew older, my sense of taste changed. I don't mean that figuratively, and I don't mean to call you a child (although since you don't like coffee, well... ) but I mean to say that my sense of taste actually became different.
Lot's of things I didn't care for at an earlier age became not only tolerable, but preferable. Conversly, all the sugar from my childhood has become something that I can barely abide any longer. In fact, I also avoid Bourbon now because it's too sweet and prefer a whiskey that tastes (to me) less like candy. I still like sweets occasionally, and a Tom Collins or vodka and lemonade on a really hot day is nearly mandatory, so I'm not casting any aspersions in regards to that either. Not everybody digs coffee, and that's cool. I'm not super picky about the coffee I drink but it has to be at least the level of Folgers. Much cheaper than that and it really is a cup of sour, bitter, rancid black bile. Oh, no sugar or cream but some sort of alcohol is acceptable. |
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Like wine or beer, it's an acquired taste. And by acquired taste I mean acquired chemical dependency.
Seriously though, once you've reached the point that you need the caffeine, you can begin to try all thousands and thousands of difrernt ways to take a cup. It's impressive how much varation there is, and how personal a taste it becomes. When you find the way you like it coffee will become an important and welcome part of your day. |
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I don't get what the attraction is? It smells alright (roasted beans) but tasted like fermented bile. How do ya'll drink that stuff? 
coffee is the blood from which all life flows 
like anything else, it's an aquired taste ... i personaly think most beer, and just about every wine taste like ass ... so...so lets just leave it at - to each their own |
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On the submarine, when we were trapped back in Maneuvering in the Engineroom, we pretty much needed the Reactor Technician for everything. We'd whoop the growler (no disrespect––a man who could make coffee was not to be troubled with unnecessarily) to summon him. 2 growls = coffee, port side 1 growl = coffee, starboard side 3 growls = come to Maneuvering for non-coffee related busines And then you come in here... I dunno dude. |
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Please don't tell us you like tea. Other than ice tea.  I actually hate any warm or hot drinks. However, I love good iced tea and will drink it without sugar or anything else. If the iced tea sucks I add sweetener. Yeah, don't really care for hot drinks. Coffee flavored food/drinks are great. Actual coffee, I don't like nearly as much. We don't crave anything in the morning since we aren't addicted 
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