I love the smell of coffee but I just gave up drinking it in December.
Funny, my wife doesn’t drink it but thinks it smells great. She’s the same way about bacon.
Never developed a taste for it, but I love to walk down the coffee aisle at the supermarket–SNIFF!
Is it threadshitting if I mention that I am drinking a cup of coffee as I read this thread?
Actually, though I like a lot of coffee, I completely understand why people would hate it. Despite living in Hawai’i, I don’t like Kona coffee at all (and when I had kopi luak in Indonesia, I didn’t like that either). Give me a nice mainstream medium roast and I’m happy. I drink it black, or occasionally with a little cream; I can’t abide sugar in my beverages.
My only observation would be that if you tried coffee once and were repelled, there might be coffee out there you would like, as there is substantial variation in how it tastes. The people in this thread who don’t like coffee ice cream, candy, or tiramisu - you folks I believe would hate the stuff no matter what. Some of the rest of you might be surprised to discover how delicious the stuff is if it is calibrated to your taste buds.
I avoided coffee for 50 years until I endeavored to kick the soda monkey off my back. A spoonful of hot chocolate mix made it palatable until I started to appreciate the taste. Not only does it feed my caffeine craving, but I could set my watch by my colon. What was essentially a drug for me has become a pleasurable taste experience as well.
I hope I’m not threadshitting, either, but the OP had the opinion that Dopers in general don’t like coffee.
I like two or three cups in the morning, mainly to help me wake up. I don’t continue to drink it throughout the day, but I gotta have my morning Joe every day.
Hot cocoa mix in coffee is great!
I hated coffee as a kid but my parents bought cheap stuff , robusta, and used a percolator which burns the coffee. Now most coffee is arabica and it’s not burned now so it tastes much better. Starbucks was on the first places to use only Arabica coffee
I never learned to like the stuff, despite growing up with parents who drank lots of it. Spousal unit is the same way - his folks drink it all day, but as far as I know he’s never gotten beyond trying a sip.
Oddly enough, when I was in Sicily, I did have a cappuccino once, and even an espresso once - could it be that they were made differently there? When I’ve tried both drinks stateside, I couldn’t drink them.
The only way I ingest it now is as part of a Kahlua and cream with a little amaretto.
I’m a tea drinker so definitely not a coffee snob. With that said, it’s not that I particularly don’t like coffee, but very few places brew it to my liking. Most places in North America brew it like it’s black water. U.K. coffee is even worse, but they’re a nation of tea drinkers so I can overlook that.
The best countries for coffee in my opinion? France, Italy and Japan. If I’m not in one of those countries and want a coffee kick, I order an espresso as that’s more consistently made well.
I’ve never tasted coffee but have had coffee flavored ice cream and candy. Plan to live the rest of my life without drinking any coffee. The smell puts me off.
I don’t mind the smell of coffee. But the taste, in any form, is just plain nasty.
(Tea, now…I’ve learned to drink that. It took a while.)
You are not alone. I once ate a chocolate-covered coffee bean. I had to find something to wash the taste out. I also don’t like chocolate ice cream or dark chocolate.
(But yet I’m not a “super taster” who hates vegetables.)
This!
Well, I for one love coffee—taste, aroma, and all—and drink it black every day. (You asked.)
Even though I’m Italian, when I think of good coffee I think of Gevalia from Sweden—back in the 1980s it was most Americans’ first taste of really good arabica. It was more exclusive then; you could only get it by subscription. I also think of the late lamented Arabica coffeehouse on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights, where I practically lived in the 1980s and early '90s. Damn but that was good coffee.
Finland is the most coffee-drinking country in the world. I like the Finnish language, I love Värttinä, and if I were ever there (bbbrrrr!) I’d spend the whole day drinking hot coffee too.
On this side of the Atlantic, Café Bustelo is an excellent hearty brew.
Bedouin coffee is quite unlike any other brew in the world. They buy the beans raw and green, and roast it themselves. IMHO they don’t roast it enough and the taste of raw green coffee is vomitous. The brew is a light shade of tan, for Allah’s sake. They make it with nearly equal proportions of cardamom and coffee grounds; the cardamom improves the taste, but not enough to make it potable. The only saving grace is it’s served in teeny tiny quantities, like a tablespoon per person.
Hey, you want to try something that tastes like shit, try Postum.
I don’t like coffee, either. Friends have offered me what they assured me were very high quality coffees, and out of politeness, I’ve tasted them. They were less vile than ordinary coffee.
It’s an acquired taste. My mom loves coffee, but it gives her a very bad upset stomach, so she never drinks it. And so it wasn’t common in the house when we were growing up, and so I never acquired the taste. Mom usually drank tea, and so that’s what I got used to, as well (though her way of preparing tea is barbaric, and I’ve since grown past that).
This thread also prompted me to wonder who takes their coffee black, like their men, or who has ever been in a Turkish prison.
Same story for me- Kahlua, coffee ice cream, coffee stouts, mocha-flavored sweet drinks, etc. are great, but straight coffee is just… no way. My taste buds vastly prefer tea, for whatever reasons taste buds have. It feels slightly weird at work whenever there’s a new co-worker or a visitor to our office- I always feel I should explain how it is that this middle-aged American male, mug in hand, is breezing past the coffee maker to get a teabag from the cabinet. I don’t even bother to ask our admin to include tea with the regular coffee order- I just supply it myself, since I’m the only one who drinks it.
Maybe, but when there are coffee shortages, we become your new best friends.