[SAI_Peregrinus]

I don't like the taste of coffee. I don't like coffee in chocolate (though I don't like chocolate much to begin with), I don't like Tiramisu, I loathe coffee-flavored jelly beans, I've tried light roasts & didn't like them, medium roasts & didn't like them, dark roasts & definitely didn't like them, and several varieties of bean and liked none. I just don't like coffee flavor.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

It really is an acquired taste.

I used to be the same way. Although I liked the smell of coffee, I absolutely hated the taste. Then I met my wife, who would make a pot of coffee (and not "brown water" either) at 8PM and I guess I just got used to it. Now it's an everyday thing.

[junebash]

I was in the same boat for many years (as in, my whole 35 year life), and today I still hate “coffee-flavored” stuff. But one day I was really tired and had to get stuff done, and asked for a recommendation for a coffee drink for someone who doesn’t like coffee. The suggestion was a vanilla latte. Fast forward a year and a half, and now I drink coffee almost every day.

If you haven’t given that or a caramel macchiato a try, I’d highly recommend it. You might be surprised. I was.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

I have. I can tolerate them. But I still don't like them, and most places that serve coffee also have tea which I can drink without having to add large amounts of something to mask the flavor.

[nkrisc]

And that's the other side of the coin, some just don't like it. I think even for many people who do like coffee it is still an acquired taste initially.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

> though I don't like chocolate much to begin with

say what you like about coffee - it's disgusting, bitter, horrible tasting stuff.

but chocolate ? I shall beat thee as fine as the dust of the earth, I shall stamp thee as the mire of the street, and cast thee abroad.

[nkrisc]

> say what you like about coffee - it's disgusting, bitter, horrible tasting stuff.

And so is chocolate, unless you put an absurd amount of sugar in it.

I drink my coffee black, though, no milk or sugar. When I've got a good bean and I prepared it just right, it reminds me of unsweetened chocolate, in a good way.

After all, coffee and chocolate both originate with the roasted seeds of a fruit.