Evil awful stuff. Don’t know if the odor or taste is worse because I’ve so rarely tasted it outside of finding out some food was ruined by it but I have smelt the fetid odor of it far too many times. A local mini-mart chain has a coffee shop franchise in each store and they purposely let the rank odor of coffee permeate the air throughout the place with the horrid miasma of coffee vapor. Won’t go inside the place, there’s always another mini-mart down the road
That’s right; urbanites and Bedouins are sociological opposites.
Can’t stand the stuff, except as a delivery system for whiskey.
Hate coffee, the taste and the smell.
I had half of a cup of coffee once. I added sugar after sugar after sugar in an effort to make it more palatable. None of it worked. Awful stuff. I’ve never tried it again.
Have I told the story of a woman I know, from Italy of all places, who used to hate coffee, or at least it was too much for her. But, as time came to pass, she found herself lucubrating in Germany and needed a little something; fortunately or unfortunately all the office had was American-style coffee, like making love in a canoe so she was able to drink it. Either the caffeine was addictive, or she simply found she liked it; one thing led to another, and today she enjoys ristretto shots of excellent quality.
I am sad I missed this post all these years. I always though I was the only one who hates coffee. It seems everyone I know loves coffee. My GF is crazy for coffee.
I hate it. Maybe hate is too strong but really, really dislike it. And this goes for anything with coffee flavor in it. Things like tiramisu which seems like all people love.
Every few years I will take a sip to see if anything has changed…nope…always awful.
That said, I do not care if others enjoy it. I just feel left out of the club on a regular basis.
Someone on this board said years ago “acquired tastes are just Stockholm syndrome for the taste buds.” I agree, but when the taste being acquired includes physical rewards (caffeine for coffee, alcohol for beer) one learns to like the taste much faster. Without the caffeine and alcohol, I never would have developed my taste for beer and coffee.
I’m surprised that I apparently haven’t posted in this thread.
Neither my wife Pepper Mill nor I like coffee, and we don’t drink it. As Pepper puts it, she loves the smell of fresh coffee at a Starbucks or other specialty cafe, but when she drinks it, it tastes like, well, coffee. We will occasionally eat something made and flavored with coffee (tiramisu, for instance), but that’s as far as we go.
Ironically, both my mother and my daughter practically live on the stuff. Evidently it can skip a generation.
Neither Pepper Mill nor I like beer, either. We do drink tea and wine, though. We had both at a “tea” held at a winery on Mother’s Day.
I have always hated coffee. When I was about 4 years old, my parents were drinking coffee after dinner, and I asked to try some. My mom let me have a sip, and as soon as it hit my tongue, I spit it out all over the floor.
My mom used to tell me that she didn’t like coffee at first but she “acquired a taste for it” when she started working full-time and there was always a pot of coffee at her office. She said the same thing would happen with me, but it never did. Once I tried mixing half coffee grounds with half hot cocoa mix. I still hated it. I tried increasing the proportion until it was about 90% cocoa and 10% coffee and I still hated it. To this day, I hate any kind of drinks, ice cream, baked goods, etc that has any discernable coffee flavor in it.
For a long time I drank Diet Coke to wake up in the morning, but I started thinking I should switch to something healthier. So I tried black tea. It took a little getting used to, but I definitely did “aquire a taste” for that. But never with coffee.
Agree with that notion, only there wasn’t enough caffeine in coffee or alcohol in beer for me to tolerate the taste of either. Caffeine is available in the form of very tasty cola, and alcohol in a variety of flavors. While caffeine is pretty fast acting in any form I prefer vodka when it comes to alcohol. It’s much more efficient. I don’t have the patience to drink a half gallon of something to get a buzz on, when it’s time to get drunk I don’t want to wait.
I’m not too picky and will drink anything at times when circumstances require it, because ordinarily it is a boon to becoming ambulatory in the morning.
And The Science! indicates it does appear to have life extension properties - not necessarily mine, yours.
Hate? well not quite. Dislike is better. I love the smell of a freshly opened can (my wife loves coffee), and I will drink a mocha- with extra chocolate and whipped cream.
But just coffee- I do not care for it sir, not at all.
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I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it and I don’t drink it. I don’t mind the aroma of roasted beans or fresh grounds or even brewed coffee, but my taste buds say no no no…I drink black tea and diet colas to get my (admittedly weaker) caffeine fix.[/quote]
Same here.
Yeah, I bet a poll of “Do you like coffee?” would find about 60% + of the board saying “yes”.
Love coffee, but mostly dislike coffee flavored foods.
I’m the opposite. I like a lot of things flavored with coffee, but don’t like drinking the beverage.
I like “Mocha” very much. A good mug of hot cocoa, make it a little on the hot side, sweetness wise. (Cocoa powder, cane sugar, Half & Half, pinch of salt) Then add a heaping teaspoon of freeze-dried coffee. Even the el-cheapo FD coffee lends a really nice smoky, toffee flavor.
Any coffee that comes out an “urn” that keeps it hot will invariably be vile. I would pour that out, too.
Fresh-brewed high-quality coffee, on the other hand is the nectar of life, IMHO.
What ruins coffee is keeping it on a burner. That’s why thermal carafes are far superior.
I suspect one reason I’m not fond of coffee is that all of my relatives got together on Sunday morning after church at my grandmother’s and drank coffee out of her old pot that, I swear, smelled as if it had never been washed. The air was suffused with the bitter, acid tang of Old Coffee. That has stayed with me all these years, and trumps any good feelings I get from the aroma of Starbucks’ carefully manipulated brew.
Well, no wonder! Worse than that, though, is the “coffee” (note the air quote) they comp you at garages. Cheap to begin with, it sits on the hot plate for hours turning into horrific tasting sludge.
I would say that, if you had quality coffee properly made, you could at least drink a cup without dry heaving. LOL
By the way, tea is definitely better for you overall. It is lighter, less acidic, and contributes to your health.
If you do not like coffee, you are not alone, but people talking about “urns”, “cocoa”, “sludge”, and other things makes me suspect that many, many people have never encountered even an average, let alone excellent, cup of coffee (just burnt, stale, weak, processed, adulterated, ersatz, or otherwise ruined). Someone who hates coffee may dislike the taste, but drinking a cup should not make anyone ill or spit it out onto the floor.
