Worst Beverage?

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I’m back home with a keyboard and internet that doesn’t have a kickback for low use, so I found the thread I was talking about:

Did you acquire the taste for root beer as an adult?

As an Immigrant, I was introduced to root beer / Dr Pepper (I know they are not the same - but are similar) in my 20s but never quite liked it. Neither did many of my other Indian friends. We picked up different beers, wines, cocktails, soft drinks etc etc but nobody I know picked up root beer. Is this common with other people who are introduced to Root beer as an adult ? Are there other flavors/tastes that are unlikely to be acquired as adults ?

So lots of talk about commonalities of taste in Root beer and Dr Pepper that I at least would extend to Moxie. And how the hints are more apparent (and largely more repellant) to drinkers who were exposed as children.

Specific to Moxie though:

@pulykamell

I had Europeans tell me they don’t like it because of the wintergreen flavor, and that reminds them I specifically of medicine (that some of their medicines are flavored with wintergreen.) I wish I could be more specific about which area of Europe, but I don’t remember who told me that.

I tolerate wintergreen, but it’s not a flavor I particularly like. That said, combined with vanilla and sassafras or sarsaparilla or licorice, I don’t mind it.

Dr. Pepper is not at all in the same category to me. That just tastes like cola flavored with almond extract and maybe a few other things. More comparable drinks might be Moxie, birch beer, and sarsaparilla soda.

Not that they didn’t say the same earlier upthread, but here they’re making some of the same distinctions I did in reference to the beverage vs Dr Pepper.