Smirnoff Vodka, that shit tastes like cologne.
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Typical British tea. I'm British and definitely an outlier but the typical black tea with milk and sugar is revolting to me. I love green, oolong, some black, yellow, white etc though.
Beer.
Like the taste but my system doesn't agree with it. I feel bloated and it makes me have stone in my stomach.
After a bit it settles and I can drink it. Rather have a wine or dark rum once every month or so.
Well beer is amazing, but it's the same as with coffee. You need to force yourself into liking it first and eventually it will taste good. I also might be biased because I have access to Bavarian beer, especially the small local breweries are just top notch.
I've liked bitter flavors since apparently I could first eat, so I don't think everyone has to force themselves.
I prefer beer than soda and it can pair nicely with some foods but most of it simply doesn't taste good on its own. "Beer is great" is mostly a social construct.
I don't know about that. Sure, society kind of pushes you to like and drink beer but I do actually find it refreshing. As I said, the small breweries actually make good beer that–especially in Bavaria where beer is typically less bitter.
Seconded. I'm willing to believe that a decent amount of people like it, tastes changing from person to person, but I really tried and I feel like there might be a lot more peer pressure in there than we expect.
Malort.
I tried Red Bull once and it tasted like shit medicine juice. Never tried it again.
I've heard that it tastes better for people with a lot of tooth plaque, as it masks the taste of plaque
Energy drinks.
Like okay, Monster Java to me is awesome to have once in a while. But, I've tried numerous energy drinks in the past and the flavors don't always hit. I'm drinking some overly artificial liquid garbage and it's telling me that it's "Strawberry Aggression" on the can.
If you tried just one energy drink or two just for variety, you've tried them all.
I can't get into sparkling water either.
All of the coffee flavoured energy drinks give me the turbo shits, hadn't had any of them until recently so got a set imported, couldn't work out what it was until I ran out of the cans and went back to normal (will agree they taste alright, if no a little like cafeteria coffee with UHT milk and plain sugar)
But I will argue that the European flavours actually taste like real fruits, you don't get the petrochemical derived colours and flavours aftertaste that they try to mask with acidity in the US versions.
It's why gamersupps is king - flavours taste like they're supposed to, the only sour ones are intentionally so, and they replaced sugar with sucralose, so you dont get that stevia/artificial sweetener taste.
Which one specifically give you the shits. I want to gift it to a friend.
Genuinely the entirety of their Java range
Your better bet is sugar free haribo
Saw several coffees mentioned and that got me wondering.
I have had good cafe coffee once in my life. Most of the cafes make sugar nonsense. When I order black coffee, it's a coin flip between burnt bitter mess and fucking battery acid.
Now what are the chances that many people haven't had a decent cup of black coffee?
I don’t know why but in my country is very widespread the torrefacto coffee, that shit is disgususting, and almost everywhere you order coffee is always torrefacto (except in proper coffee shops, they are getting popular lately).
And in lot of places they make it even worse, so I would say that the chances are pretty high here.
I've had this thought as well. In the US, most people's first experience with coffee is months old Folgers or Starbucks. These two examples are both burnt and taste like battery acid. So, of course they're going to hate coffee.
That's wild, I've enjoyed most coffee I've had. I can't actually think of one I didn't enjoy, maybe a burnt roast a decade back? But yeah definitely different tastes.
The thing is most chain cafes here only serve coffee from an espresso machine and most people here are familiar only with chain cafes. So best case they tried americano type of drink, which to me is always very harsh.
For me it's anything diet or zero branded. Fucking aspertane. That bitter aftertaste just feels like someone raped the sugar out of the beverage.
Sucralose and Acesulfame are nearly just as disgusting to me. Stevia is the only one I can drink.
I've never looked up which exact sweetener is bitter to me, aspertane just seems very common. However, there have been no sugar free drink I've enjoyed.
Don't get me wrong. These sweeteners are sweet, but then there's this long lingering chemical bitterness. And it fucking stays in the mouth like onions or some shit.
Weird fact about it, it has the same amount of calories per gram as sugar too! It just happens to be approximately 200x sweeter, so they can add 200x less.
Pee
ITT: People answering "drinks I don't like but others do", which has nothing to do with the OP. But to be fair OPs question is not really anything that can be answered objectively anyway, since taste is very subjective. So one person not liking it does not mean that other peope who claims they like the same thing are lying, they most likely really do like it.
Anyway, the thread would probably have been more relevant if OP had asked "Something you don't like, but is liked by others?".
Carbonated flavored water. I do not understand how people can drink something that’s only claim to flavoring is that it at some point sat near a fruit of some kind.
Carbonara flavored water 😏
I like them. It has a little flavor and no sugar. It's basically water but with a little variety.
- Alcohol generally, beer more specifically.
I dont particularly like the taste of alcohol, and beer is just way to bitter for me generally. Ive had some wine that was decent, and occasionally ill have a cider, but I generally just don't understand why people drink alcohol.
- Energy Drinks.
I don't get why people like them, they taste awful. Red bull in particular makes me wanna throw up. Its so carbonated and so bitter they add so much sugar, and then you just get this sweet-bitter taste that is just awful.
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