Thread 214261911

In my country, I generally disliked it, having tried it multiple times. but then one day while visiting a friend’s country (South Korea) he handed me a small canned coffee. It tasted okay.
But now I find myself ordering coffee in diners, chilling in cafes, and even casually browsing coffee machines at the store the other day, in my country.
Did you guys always drink this stuff in your country? Has this happened to anyone else, a quiet addiction where the first hit didn’t even feel that amazing?

In my country, I generally disliked it, having tried it multiple times. but then one day while visiting a friend’s country (South Korea) he handed me a small can of beer. It tasted okay.
But now I find myself ordering beer in diners, chilling in cafes, and even casually browsing beer brewing kits at the store the other day, in my country.
Did you guys always drink this stuff in your country? Has this happened to anyone else, a quiet addiction where the first hit didn’t even feel that amazing?

I started drinking it at 18, I didn't drink it for the taste, I drank it because it got me through the day, my first job was laying pipes, and I had to crawl into 300 year old crawlspaces with an impact drill, it was cold dark and damp and the coffee kept me sane while I sat there for 8 hours drilling through granite

>>214261911 (OP)
>cafe for woke women
>canned coffee for blue collar guys

>>214261911 (OP)
I love coffee, ever since I started to handle drinking hot drinks as a teen I enjoyed it thoroughly. When I was a kid I obviously wasn't given too much coffee or caffeine aside of soda, but I also got burned quite quickly if I tried drinking from a ceramic cup. I can kind of handle it now.
I do admit though it's a bit boring if there's no sugar or a little bit of sweetener in my hot drinks, but I can drink bitter yerba mate with no issue.

>>214261911 (OP)
Always liked the smell but never tasted good coffee as a kid. In high school we had a coffee machine and so I used to order the cappuchino in a little cup, it was good quality industrial coffee, with a little sugar and a little milk right (so cappuccino). Overtime I transitioned to actual hard-hitting black coffee, still with a little sugar. And at some point you're so desensitized to the taste of coffee you just order that shit black, no sugar.
But I really started drinking good coffee when we acquired an espresso machine for the family, that's when I started trying different brands. And only lately have I been using a Bialetti machine with organic "ethical" coffee, the kind of serious gourmet shit.