Does coffee actually taste good? Or does everyone pretend to like it, like beer?

>>21457730 (OP)
Coffee tastes like shit
Tea mogs in every way

>>21457730 (OP)
I've only tried like 5 coffees in my life and the only one I liked was McDonald's, which I drink black.

There are people roaming /ck/ who depend on other people's opinions even for their sense of taste.

>>21457730 (OP)
With sugar it tastes great.

>>21457730 (OP)
You're smart, OP.
No one enjoys the things that you don't enjoy. It's all a big performance to impress you.

Coffee and beer "objectively" taste BAD. Right? lol, you're a genius.

PSA from compassionate and benevolent California. We do this for you.

>>21457730 (OP)
One thing I've learned with experience is that taste is mostly a matter of familiarity. Assuming you're a normal person without an eating disorder, you can learn to like pretty much anything just by eating (or in this case, drinking) it enough times.

Drink black, unsweetened coffee every day for a week or so. By the end you'll be able to taste more subtle notes in the coffee and you will grow to enjoy it.

>>21457730 (OP)
thx for reminding me i have coffee

>>21457749
Taste is affected a lot by expectation.

Example: the worst water I ever tasted was from a water fountain I had drank from thousands of times. The only difference was I was exhausted, and my brain was expecting ‘apple juice’. I can’t describe what the taste actually was, but I suspect it was the opposite of apple juice.

>>21457755
No offence, but you don't seem like a very intelligent person. You wrote "drank" when you meant "drunk", and your story is barely comprehensible.

>>21457759
It’s perfectly comprehensible, you’re just not very literate.

>>21457768
Said by the person who writes in ebonics. Why would you be expecting apple juice from a water fountain?

>>21457759
"Had drank" is a perfectly acceptable verb formation in modern English. Good job outing yourself as a brown ESL speaker.

>>21457759
Did you think that ‘drank’ was a word darkies made up like ‘purple drank’? Lmao.

>>21457777
Wiktionary lists it as "dialectal". That dialect is called ebonics. The correct past participle of "drink" is "drunk".

>>21457779
>>21457777
It is amazing how illiterate Americans are becoming. Even a mundane statement like "the past participle of 'drink' is 'drunk'" is a controversial statement to them. Incredible, I weep for the future of my language.

>>21457780
Yeah it's ebonics dialectal in its noun form, as in >>21457779 said. The verb form is standard English.

>>21457785
I have nothing more to discuss with you. Go off and research what a past participle is, then you may humbly come back and concede that you were wrong.

>>21457784
One could argue it’s better to have something to say yet say it poorly than it is to have nothing noteworthy to say at all.

>>21457784
>how illiterate Americans are becoming
>I weep for the future of my language.
Too bad, there's 250 million of us and only 100 million of yous guys (commonwealth). It's our language now, suck it up!

Yeah it can be. I always add a pinch of salt to my coffee. It makes it taste less bitter and neutralize the acid. It taste like roast and chocolate on the darker roasts.

>>21457784
it's "drank" retard

do the more you dislike the taste of something, the more addicting it is?
I love coffee, I love the taste of black coffee, switching to decaf was easy for me.
I love the taste of beer, drinking responsibly is easy for me, unlike Vodka.
I love the taste of cigs, quitting was easy for me though.
Hate the taste of energy drinks, quitting was hard. Hated the taste of sugary and ultra processed junk, quitting was hard.
Why. My mom and family in general is addicted to all of these, yet I was the one who was able to quit / not be addicted to it.

>>21457730 (OP)
I drink unsweetened black coffee, and it doesn't good but I don't mind the taste either. You don't actually have to like the taste, but you can learn to tolerate it and eventually appreciate it.

>>21457730 (OP)
>Or does everyone pretend to like it, like beer?
I don't pretend to like beer, I genuinely like it.
I quit drinking alcohol due to health reasons though, but recently I found a non-alcoholic beer that actually tastes like beer (athletic brewing company's ipa) so I've been drinking that lately.
Still haven't been able to find any decent non-alcoholic lagers or stouts thoughever.

>>21458261
Beer is yucky. I tasted some of my dad's beer when I was 4 and he left a can sitting around (it was high quality Natural Light) and it was so icky and gross. I also don't eat anything but chicken nuggets and french fries.

>>21457805
You've butchered my beautiful language. One day I hope you know what it's like to have something beautiful then have it slaughtered in front of you. But then again Americans are incapable of producing anything beautiful...

>>21458266
You joke but this is literally true for every beer disliker that isn't a woman. I've got a mate who to this day won't drink beer for this exact reason.

>>21458362
That's the feeling I get from everyone who says that on /v/.

>>21458364
>>>/v/ users are a special type of autist

From a purely pleasure perspective black coffee is not very pleasurable. The only enjoyable thing about it is the nice flavour (if you're drinking good quality coffee), the mouthfeel (viscosity, presence of particles, acidity etc). The latte with it's bootload of sugar, artificial flavours and spices is much more enjoyable. Not to mention the delicious milky base which gives your body much needed calories.

From a utilitarian perspective black coffee has more caffeine which keeps you awake, and also encourages bowel movement because of its nature as a hot beverage

>>21458418
I already get five bowel movements a day, so I really need more?

>>21458355
I've visited your shitty, rainy, sad little island. You atheistic dorks are too miserable to even dream of beauty.
Americans have more soul in their little finger than all of Great Britain.

>>21458428
Your people are grotesque and your towns look like this. Your people turn to Christ thinking if they believe hard enough they will be granted a soul, what they don't know is that God has long since turned his back on you all.

>>21458443
This.

>>21458443
In my experience, American towns look like this, and are occupied by intrepid, intelligent and well-intentioned characters.

>>21458454
My building's in the pic overlooking the park. It's a nice neighborhood, and the view is quite good (not going to take a pic from my balcony because you weirdos can figure out exactly what building it is). I love living in Burgerland, and couldn't imagine living in another country, as everyone from there seems to think about Burgerland a disproportionate amount.

Yes coffee tastes good. I will consume coffee, coffee flavoured products or items that contain coffee. Where as for beer I will only drink it if it gets me buzzed.

>>21458500
Don't know why but this reminds me. I saw a post by this redditor once. He was saying how he enjoys the taste of vodka but has never been drunk and is terrified of getting drunk. So for his 22nd birthday he was going to go to the pub a d order a large meal with a shot of vodka and glass of water. He intended on periodically sipping the vodka over the course of an hour while eating and downing a glass of water after each sip.

>>21457730 (OP)
Lots of people get coffee wrong. It tastes like shit when you drink it alone but combines very well with various meals. Fantastic for typical breakfasts. It's like if you had tried to eat ketchup alone with a spoon.
Tea is better drunk alone as it's way more subtle but coffee is unsuited for that.

>>21457730 (OP)
its a desert drink. honey salt cinnamon vanilla milk

>>21457730 (OP)
I prefer Greek coffee

>>21458514
Why don't you go back to reddir, you faggot.

>>21457730 (OP)
They're addicted. Like beer, yes.

>>21458535
It's been posted here like 300 times newfag

>>21458534
*Turkish coffee (although it is also enjoyed by the Greek-speaking Turks who have long occupied Greece)

>>21458573
Not it hasn't. Go back.

>>21458581
Your bitch mother pisses in a soup pot and calls it coffee you son of a donkey

>>21457730 (OP)
>Does coffee actually taste good? Or does everyone pretend to like it, like beer?

>>21457730 (OP)
I put powders in my coffee to make it taste good.
Coffee also makes my breakfast taste much better.

>>21457730 (OP)
I've had really delicious black coffee before, and really good beer. Most coffee sucks though, because the biggest factors in how good coffee is the quality of the beans, and the freshness of the roast, most people don't roast their own. Everything else is details, and every improvement you make to the brewing process is diminishing returns at best and placebo at worst. I've absolutely had coffee that tasted like chocolate and fruit, that's not a meme.
As for beer, I'm not an expert on it at all, I barely ever drink, but I can tell you that the black isle oat stout I tried tasted WAY better than the cheap beer they had at the office christmas party - the former had a sort of "deep", smooth, almost spicy (like dessert spicy, not hot spicy) taste, while the other one was literally like piss and dishwater.

>>21458532
nah it tastes better by itself, at most a spot of milk but that's it.

>>21458418
tfw your coffee has no particles

>>21458606
Yes it has . I've probably been on this godforsaken site since before you were born

>>21457730 (OP)
I don't think anything I've ever eaten besides artificial grape flavoring tasted bad

>>21458721
And artificial cherry

>>21457730 (OP)
it tastes good when it's strong and not brown water.
Tastes like shit when you put milk or sugar in it albeight

>>21458669
'em

>>21458718
No you haven't. Go back.

Coffee beans themselves taste terrible. Like many foods it's an ingredient, not just something you chow down by itself.
Does chocolate actually taste good? Try a spoonful of dry pure cocoa powder. It's disgusting. It's shit. It's only good when mixed with sugar and diluted down with something like milk or cream or put in cake mix.

Even the most autistic coffee purist dilutes the coffee with water. Most people also add cream and sugar which makes coffee taste good.

>>21460497
>Even the most autistic coffee purist dilutes the coffee with water. Most people also add cream and sugar which makes coffee taste good.
Wrong. Coffee purists drink espresso, the purest form of coffee short of just eating the actual beans, which nobody would ever do. As for people who add cream and sugar, they don't like coffee, they just want a caffeine hit in a pleasant and drinkable form.

>>21460616
Espresso is 97.8% to 99% water. That's as pure as anyone takes their coffee.
What's funny about coffee autists is that they are retarded. That whole ''espresso'' thing somehow tricks them into thinking they are drinking some pure coffee juice because the ''''''''''''''''brewing''''''''''''''''' process is obfuscated by a machine that uses fancy terms like ''muh pressure'' to ''brew'' the coffee. I am sure coffee autists believe they are drinking the purest form of coffee straight from the beans.

>>21460616
I'm a coffee purist and lately I drink exclusive Monster energy drink because it is obviously the superior choice.

>>21457741
its a shitty joke from a pseud webcomic

>>21458454
bottom right is telluride colorado
lived there as a kid. im sure its hipster trash now.

>>21457730 (OP)
It's a cilantro thing, non shit quality black coffee gives me the same dopamine hit as dark chocolate.

I love the taste but my sense for smell is weak. Shit like soda & juice just tastes like sugar me. Coffee has a pleasing rich flavor but maybe if I had fully functional taste I might hate it.

>>21460497
>Does chocolate actually taste good? Try a spoonful of dry pure cocoa powder. It's disgusting. It's shit.
you have american (read subhuman) tastebuds. i got over the bitternes as a ten year old and regularly put cocoa powder in hot milk with nothing else
i don't especially like coffee THOUGH

>>21460497
>>21461399
addendum, muh luxury 70%+ dark chocolate tastes exactly like average fucking cocoa powder with some sugar. it's a fucking scam.

>>21460981
>dopamine hit
stop repeating things you do not understand
everyone pretends to be a fucking endocrinologist these days and they're usually outright wrong, or it's a gross simplification. it's fucking pathetic, return to describing actual emotions you stupid materialistic goy.

>>21457730 (OP)
Don't you have to be over 18 to post on this pathetic website?

>>21461418
manchild website. get over it.

>>21461421
The two weeks it was shut down were quiet possibly the best times on the internet since before this "web 2.0" bullshit began.

>>21457730 (OP)
Depends. Most coffee I've gotten at McDick's/Starbucks/etc. has been burnt or stale, and that's the what makes it taste like bitter dirt. At that point you need to add stuff to cover it up and make it palatable, which is what they expect you to do and why it's not a problem for them.
But if you get fresh beans, I was surprised to find that you really can taste the difference. Grinding your own beans, you can make an enjoyable cup of black coffee at home with a $20 drip machine, as long as you don't let it sit around for too long.

So coffee DOES taste good, provided you don't fuck it up on purpose.

>>21461456
>So coffee DOES taste good, provided you don't fuck it up on purpose.
i've had authentic coffee you describe. it's acceptable but i don't go out of my way to have it. i fundamentally don't prefer the taste of coffee.

It doesn't taste good
That's the reason I drink it, because it's a bad tasting caffeine source so I won't have too much

Its more like medicine than a beverage meant to be enjoyed

>>21461422
Ew. You’re one weird miserable schmukkkkkkk.

>>21461528
the caffeine dose from coffee and energy drinks is toxic. a large cup of black tea with milk or two gives you way smoother energy boost and clear head without the anxious jitter and amplified mental illness. i figured it was tolerance so i tried having energy drink or coffee every day for weeks and nope, felt unsettled every day.

>>21461548
If I have tea it's only a matter of time until the honey comes out, and then I get fat

>>21461422
And yet you're still here. Curious.

Personally I'm glad 4chan still exists, it's like the only remnant left of what the Internet used to be before it got taken over by corporations. But there are still a few Redditors like you who get lost and find your way onto 4chan where you immediately begin complaining that it's not a censored, corporate-run hugbox like you're used to.

It’s my favourite drink after water

>>21460422
Newfag I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Become an hero

>>21457734
its not a contest and I drink both.

>>21457746
nobody ought to give a fuck about California.

>>21457780
nah drunk is what your uncle is before fumbling in the house at 2 am to touch your no-no parts.

>>21460981
>cilantro
brown person meme.

>>21461670
>Personally I'm glad 4chan still exists, it's like the only remnant left of what the Internet used to be before it got taken over by corporations.
Really, it's just a remnant left of what the internet was like when 15 year olds were in charge.

>>21457730 (OP)
You got me OP I'm an agent of big bean and I've only been pretending to like the yucky black water in order to sucker people into buying and make my bean stocks pump.

>>21461460
>it's acceptable but i don't go out of my way to have it
Yeah it's really not totally worth it unless you really like coffee. Most people are happy enough with coffee-based shakes, and even I'll settle for subpar coffee with milk.

I'm 33 years old and I've never drank a sip of coffee in my life (and no energy drinks or caffeinated teas either). It's just another thing that makes me feel like an outcast, like the rest of my pathetic life. Everyone is addicted to coffee basically from teenage years.

>>21462033
>I've never drank a sip of coffee in my life
good thing you're in the thread about coffee then

>>21457736
The only black coffee I like is Mcdonalds too. I got one by mistake and to my surprise it actually had a pleasant taste. Unlike when I tried folgers and Maxwell house black.

>>21461840
It is enough for California to let you know that it cares about you, it doesn’t require reciprocity.

>>21457777
>obsolete
>informal (esl)

>>21460980
To hell you ride! To hell you ride!

>>21462121
Leaf? IIRC McDonalds gets their coffee from the same distributor Tim Hortons did like 10-ish years ago before the hue takeover.