# I don't like coffee or beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385 "2002-09-24T01:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/41 "2002-09-25T20:34:23Z")
I can’t stand coffee. I can’t stand beer. I am amazed at how many folks on this board agree with me. Where have you been all my life? As a matter of fact, as far as beverages go, I would make a perfectly good Morman (unless they have started objecting to chocolate). (Mormans aren’t supposed to consume alcohol or caffine.) As a general rule, I don’t drink any caffinated beverages, if you ignore the tiny bit of caffine in chocolate-flavored beverages. I don’t like tea, and carbonated beverages don’t seem to like me. I don’t care for the taste of alcohol, either. I can stand drinks in which the alcohol taste is buried under other strong flavors, such as the chocolate and mint flavors in a grasshopper, but I don’t see any point in drinking them. My mind is messed up enough already. And I can’t stand the taste of beer, even when the alcohol is cooked out, so forget cooking with beer. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/42 "2002-09-26T05:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*The next coffee drink I have will probably be at Cafe DuMonde in New Orleans, because I have to have something to go with the beignets. Last time I was there, I had hot chocolate, but may try coffee this time. \*\* The cafe au lait at the Cafe du Monde is dee-licious! And so are the beignets. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/43 "2002-09-26T05:44:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Floater \* > \*\*[joking] > Interesting with so many people not liking coffee and beer, but as most if not all of you are Americans I am not altogether surprised, having had both coffee and beer in the US. :rolleyes: > [/joking] \*\* Yes, it is strange. I think those Americans have not been to Europe where the coffee is wonderful, and there are some fine beers and wine. I do not get headaches in Europe when I drink alcohol. I think there are preservatives or additives in U.S. alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/44 "2002-09-26T05:51:30Z")
Well, I like straight coffee, with no milk or sugar whatsoever. Tea is also great, better than coffee, and the same standards of purity apply. It’s awful in the South, where the locals insist on putting a mountain of sugar in their iced tea and drown coffee in various cowey products. Both beverages are pure nirvana cold, and I brew them very strongly - none of the wimpy flavored water that passes for coffee in America for me, please. I drink them hot only in the mornings, but since I’ve given up caffeine, the points are moot. The bad effects caffeine has on me - namely, stuttering, nervousness and the pressing need to urinate every half hour - outweigh any alertness benefit, which I could get by creative sleep scheduling. And beer? Tastes like metallic bilge-water to me. The harder liquors remind me of rubbing alcohol and make me gag. The only alcoholic beverage I have a taste for are some of the better wines, and only in extreme moderation - never more than about six ounces in one day. I have never been intoxicated, and alcohol gives me this very uncomfortable feeling of clammy warmth that I would like to avoid. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![ratzingersreactionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@ratzingersreactionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratzingersreactionary)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/45 "2002-09-26T06:26:13Z")
Without coffee and beer, life would have no point… ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/46 "2002-09-26T11:52:54Z")
I also do not like coffee or beer (oh the horror, a Canuck that doesn’t like beer). I used to try all of the beers I could, hoping to find one I liked, but YECH! Coffee smell wonderful though. My SO also doesn’t drink coffee, we do have a coffee maker, but it has never been used. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/47 "2002-09-26T14:35:07Z")
\*In Heaven There Is No Beer (traditional Polka, public domain) In Heaven there is no beer That’s why we drink it here And When we’re gone from here All our friends will be drinking all our beer In Heaven there is no wine Lets drink til we feel fine And When it comes our time All our friends will be drinking all our wine In Heaven there is no drink At least thats what we think And When we go ca-plink All our friends will be drinking all our drink In Heaven there is no beer That’s why we drink it here And When we’re gone from here All our friends will be drinking all our beer In Heaven there is no beer Let’s stay and Drink it here And When our friends aren’t here We will be drinking all their beer - ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/48 "2002-09-26T14:38:38Z")
Oh My! My dad used to love that song! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-coffee-or-beer/129385/49 "2002-09-26T14:49:58Z")
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