I wonder why in the world I don’t notice much difference with canola/soy/etc. Once in a great while I’ll buy some olive oil in case it’s finally the day when it starts to seem amazing to me, but the day hasn’t come yet. And fans tend to have a favorite that’ll be so expensive.
Fat is one of the essential food groups, along with salt, sugar and grease.
That’s fine. I only use olive oil in fairly specific applications/cuisines (Mediterranean mostly, though it works with a lot of Latin American dishes, too.) Elsewhere, it tastes weird to me, as it has such a strong taste that clashes (to me). But good olive oil is freaking delicious on its own with some bread.
Grease and fat are the same. I think you left out dairy.
I believe the missing item is caffeine. 
I agree both that olive oil has too strong a flavor to use as a neutral fat, and also that it can be truly delicious.
I misread the OP.
Fat by itself? Not really. Always need something with it. Ideally a piece of meat or a starch.
To enjoy it raw, it absolutely has to be the expensive stuff. Think of it as olive juice. It smells intensely fruity and burns your throat a little as it goes down. You’ll notice a big difference the first time you try it.
When I was young I would eat butter by itself. It seems to be a phase since I generally stopped doing it. I still like to eat french bread with just butter, or dipped in olive oil though.
I also have found out other friends and people I know also are butter or such as a kid. Crisco or lard or practically any shelf-stable fats would be a no on their own though. Could be of the hydrogenation process.
People, people!
The four essential food groups are fat, sugar, caffeine, and alcohol.
Sheesh! And I thought Dopers were smart!
One time at Outback, I ordered a filet mignon that had a chunk of fat that was even better tasting than the beef. Added bonus: it grossed my wife out of existence watching me consume it. Sorry, puppy dogs.
This, but for me, much of the taste in fat is from the salt. I don’t care for just plain oil or fat. When I was a child, my grandmother used to serve bread spread with unsalted butter. I didn’t hate it, but I like salted butter much better.
If you want to dip your bread in EVOO, it wouldn’t bother me. But I wouldn’t join you unless I could salt it.
Yes sir - lobster stuffed with tacos.
I love the grease in the bottom of a pan of baked chicken even better if the chicken has been seasoned ill eat it with a spoon and I have to have marbled steak … I hate dry beef …
I hate fat, unless you’re including butter! Of course I use various oils for cooking, but as for a hunk of fat on my meat - it makes me gag. I dissect my meat. I even trim fat off of stew meat. I have a good, easy recipe for shredded beef sandwiches (that I love) but I hardly ever make it because it takes so long for me to shred the meat. I inspect every bit of it for fat/gristle. I would never order something like that at a restaurant because I know they don’t take any fat out. It’s just shredded as it is.
Just wanted to point out that while some people will spread some variant of pork drippings on a piece of bread, hence may be said to love fat/lard, under normal circumstances nobody would eat a stick of butter or drink a cup of olive oil. Everything in moderation…
Oh no?
Heh 
Let’s say, I can see a bite-sized piece or butter or a couple of tablespoons of oil, but I speculate there is only so much you can have at once and keep down.
No way to know, of course, unless anyone here has witnessed or done it (and is willing to admit it!), but I would wager that the number of people alive today who have eaten a quarter-pound stick of butter, or drunk a cup of olive oil, at one go, is in the tens of thousands.
Mention of eating a whole stick of butter produced a memory of staying up late and watching anything at all that was on television. Seems it was “People Who Live in Brass Hearses” from Tales from the Crypt. A guy (Bill Paxton) who loved butter and kept a stick in his pocket to munch on. Ewww. Went to the ice cream guy and asked for butterscotch, butter pecan, butter brickle. Whatever butter brickle is.