I’ve tried everything ranging from white chocolate to 90% dark chocolate. It just doesn’t appeal to me and that increases with the strength of the cocoa content.
I’ve always been a big fan of sour things. Even a kid, I remember liking the taste of grapes or orange juice after brushing my teeth. I’ve heard there may be a nutritional explanation for some taste preferences but I’m not a scientist or doctor.
Perhaps it has to do with caffeine. I also never enjoyed tea or coffee as well and I know chocolate has a fair amount of caffeine so that could be it.
From this post you’d think I don’t have a sweet tooth but that only comes to chocolate. When it involves anything else, I probably abuse sugar too much lol. I add 15 tablespoons of sugar to milk and put double cream in it. I can gobble up skittles and sour gummies. It’s a wonder I range from 120-130lbs.
Anyone else here find that huge chocolate bar in the kitchen cupboard when they were a kid?
Only to find out upon first big bite it was unsweetened bakers chocolate? :eek:
Pretty much the same here only I ate sweets when I was young like most other kids. So I was born with a sweet tooth but outgrew it by the time I was 20.
I can easily remember the last time I had chocolate, even though it was a while ago: I had a Reese’s peanut butter cup around Halloween from the candy I bought for the neighborhood kids. I used to love them (on preview: the cups!) and was curious whether I’d like it. Nope, I didn’t.
It doesn’t surprise me that someone hates chocolate. If I like something, there’s a bunch of people who don’t like it and vice versa.
I’m quite used to this. What does surprise me are the large number of people who can’t get their brains around this. Somehow we’re all supposed to like and hate the same things. Taste doesn’t work that way.
One of my colleagues, Mrs. H (we’re teachers), doesn’t like chocolate at all.
Every year-end holiday time, my wife loves making candies, especially hard toffees with chocolate layer. I brought a bunch to share in my first year teaching there, and Mrs. H politely declined.
The next year, I again was passing out toffee. As I came up to her and some others by her outer door, I offered everyone else some, but then jokingly said, “But none for you!” Our colleagues looked shocked, but Mrs. H saved me by assuring them that she hated chocolate.
I love chocolate, but I have an uncle who dislikes it. At some point he just started talking people that he’s allergic so that they’d stop trying to convince him that his subjective tastes are wrong.
My youngest child can not abide chocolate. One of my favorite memories of him was the first time he was old enough to do actual trick-or-treating in the neighborhood (4 or so, I think).
After about the fourth house, I hear him sniffling, and ask him what’s wrong. “Everyone keeps giving me chocolate!”.
Fortunately, his two brothers are normal, and we worked out a swap - he got most of the Starbursts and other non-chocolate candy in exchange for his chocolate. I did have to impose price controls, as they were attempting to extort him on 3-1 or 4-1 ratios.
