AIBU to not understand how the people who drink coffee can like coffee?

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I personally don't get it. It smells stomach turning and tastes stomach turning. Both my parents drink it, although my dad prefers tea. I prefer tea but rarely drink it, I drink hot chocolate more and don't often drink that either. How can people like it? Those who drink it, does it taste bitter/burnt to you? I know really, I am not BU because I can't help I don't like it, just for lighthearted chatter really lol

I absolutely love very strong coffee, black with no sugar. I can't stand tea

Personally I love coffee, strong, unsweetened, freshly ground espresso topped up with full fat milk.

Coke or Pepsi? Vile, disgusting, chemical ridden liquid tooth rot.

I don't drink coffee, it's bloody horrible. I also don't drink tea. I think it's disgusting, I can't even stand the smell of it. YUCK.
Other than that I'm a really unfussy eater. I love the stuff many people hate such as fish, smelly cheeses, liver, olives etc. I'm strange lol. Oh and I hate ketchup too

I love coffee and the smell of it. I have a grinder and an espresso machine, and make a cappuccino most mornings.

I also drink black coffee. I buy Colombian beans. I don’t drink instant coffee or Kerrigan/Nespresso.

I got into coffee when living in south east Asia and friends kept serving super sweet, milky coffee (with condensed milk in Laos, lovely!). I started to reduce/drop the milk and sugar and now love it really strong and black, no sugar. I think your tastes just change as you get older?

I’m a psychopath? That explains sooo much 😂

I didn’t realise there are so many people who dislike coffee!
I love it and, as mentioned by others, quality makes a real difference.
No sugar and usually no milk. Also, I would like to point out that in a lot of other countries white coffee is considered weird.
On the other hand, I can’t stand anything about crisps (taste, smell, noise) and the very idea of them makes me feel nauseous. And I can’t understand how come chocolate and chocolate products are so popular - I find them quite disgusting. I do like some dark chocolate and some cakes rich in good quality cocoa but that’s not much.

It sounds like you have a sweet tooth OP. I can’t stand sweet fizzy drinks and like the occasional hot chocolate but it has to be a high cocoa solid. Love black coffee though! I don’t really like tea, but I think that’s because most people make it really weak and milky (and I don’t tend to keep it at home).
I also like beer, and can’t drink sweet wine.
I really struggled to find drinks I liked during pregnancy as most soft drinks are ridiculously sweet.

DH on the other hand can’t stand coffee, tea or hot chocolate. He basically only drinks water, Coke Zero, beer and red wine.

Sweet white wine though 🤢

I have definitely developed less of a liking for sweet things as I’ve got older though, and more of a liking for coffee. It was a terribly sad day when the coffee shop in the village was taken over by a new person and turned into a ‘bistro’ (cafe with ideas above its station) as they can no longer make a decent coffee to save their lives. I have a coke once in a blue moon now as well, and I always regret it - it’s too sickly.

I love the taste and smell of coffee. I do tend to drink it with milk and sugar, but I like it black too. The bitterness is part of what I like about the taste. I don't tend to feel much effect from caffeine (apparently it's an ADHD thing) so I've not drunk it for that reason particularly, but since my second pregnancy, I've become more sensitive to this and have to limit my intake now. I've totally gone off latte, used to like it when younger but it just tastes like hot milk now.

I never used to like the taste of alcohol, only drunk it for the effects. I appreciate it more now I'm older, but I still prefer coffee to wine and I don't like beer, whiskey or brandy either. Gin I discovered a couple of years ago after previously finding it disgusting - it's in the pairing with sharp lemon.

I like cucumber and olives and I like smoking too but don't for health/parenting reasons.

Yanbu it’s definitely an acquired taste.

I love it - anything coffee flavoured is my favourite - coffee cake, coffee creams chocolates. I drink loads and loads, but am a bit fussy with it. My MIL buys the Nescafé original and I just can’t stand it, it’s grim.

The thing that I absolutely cannot bear is fresh coriander - bleurgh, truly grim. I can’t even bring myself to eat it to be polite, which I can do with most things.

I love it as a hot drink. I can't stomach hot chocolate with milk and it tastes rank with water. Can't stand tea. Sometimes I just love a hot drink. Decaff though because can't have caffeine.

However I hate alcohol. I can taste alcohol in all the drinks no matter how little there is and it's so sour. Tastes like nail polish remover to me. On work nights out colleagues try get me to drink but I seem to be really sensitive to it. Wine tastes horrible and beer even worse haha.

Not everyone likes the same things 😉

I have a theory that no one likes coffee or beer when they first try it, they learn to like it! (I never have)

How is this an AIBU?

I have lots of milk in my coffee. I don't like it if it's too coffee tasting!

How can people drink tea? I love good coffee (never touch instant) but my DH only drinks tea, < each to their own>.

Is it instant though? Instant coffee is absolutely vile stuff. I don’t know how anyone drinks it. If only tea or instant coffee is available, I drink tea.

I am definitely addicted to coffee. We have a bean to cup machine, which grinds the beans needed for a cup at a time and the coffee is amazing.

DH hated coffee too when we met. One day we were out of tea bags so I suggested he try a coffee from my machine - he immediately asked for another one and now he’s an addict too (whoops).

I love everything about coffee. Pre-kids my favourite thing in the world was going a city break, finding the best reviewed coffee there and going to drink it 😂

Most people probably don’t like the taste of coffee very much which is why they add lots of milk and sugar to it. They drink it for the caffeine, not the taste, in just the same way as many people drink wine and beer for the alcohol rather than the flavour.

I often drink lattes at home, espresso is over too quickly and too many upset my stomach, Americanos are too watered down for me. I still drink it for the taste rather than the caffeine.

its an acquired taste, i.e. you need to learn to like it. just like alcohol (which i think tastes revolting)

I LOVE the smell of coffee. Can't stand the taste!

I have a theory that no one likes coffee or beer when they first try it, they learn to like it! (I never have)

If that's the case then why haven't you learned to like it?

And why do people persist in drinking something they don't like- what's the motivation in "learning to like it"?

I grew up in a house where coffee was never bought- ever.
I would sometimes have little tastes at other people's homes and I thought the aroma was divine.
When I was 9 years old I saved up my pocket money and bought myself a jar of nescafe. ( much to my mother's disapproval) I loved cofffe from that moment onwards.

Mmmmmmm. Coffeeeeeee.

I'm sitting here with my psychopathic black cup. When I make nut own coffee I drink it black. When I'm out I usually have a cappuccino, which is a pudding version of coffee. At work at jest once a week someone will say "are you drinking it black?". Never fails to catch me out as an odd thing to comment on. Now I know they are secretly wondering if I'm a psychopath.

People like different things. I love coffee.

Olives how can anyone like them?

To which I would add:-
Yoghurt
Coriander, aka sweaty socks
Whisky/Brandy, can't tell the difference
Gin
Vodka
Chick peas made into calentita, Hi to any Rock MNers

These are a few of my least favourite things.

Why is it odd that not everyone likes what you like?

I loved coffee (and cigarettes) from the very first taste. The smoky depth of flavour appealed to me even as a young child. Gave up the cigarettes decades ago but still love the coffee.