Well yes, because bitter is a bad taste. But it’s a bad taste that frequently goes with some of the most addictive drugs on earth so people delude themselves into thinking they actually like it.
Bitterness does taste good to some people. Dark chocolate is way more interesting than milk. The peel of a charred lemon wheel on some broiled fish is bracing but brings incredibly complex wood and floral notes.
I actually agree that most coffee tastes pretty bad and is drunk as a drug not a beverage. That’s why I take mine with too much cream and sugar usually. But if you like tannins and you get someone who knows how to bring them out coffee can taste good on its own. I’ve tasted it done right but never managed to do it myself.
Coffee tastes bad, even the breakfast milkshake frappucinos that people scorn for not being real coffee still have that coffee flavor in there.
I think you dislike the flavor profile called ‘bitter’
Well yes, because bitter is a bad taste. But it’s a bad taste that frequently goes with some of the most addictive drugs on earth so people delude themselves into thinking they actually like it.
Bitterness does taste good to some people. Dark chocolate is way more interesting than milk. The peel of a charred lemon wheel on some broiled fish is bracing but brings incredibly complex wood and floral notes.
I actually agree that most coffee tastes pretty bad and is drunk as a drug not a beverage. That’s why I take mine with too much cream and sugar usually. But if you like tannins and you get someone who knows how to bring them out coffee can taste good on its own. I’ve tasted it done right but never managed to do it myself.
I like broccoli rabe, rapini must have cocaine in it I guess