I don’t like matcha or any traditional tea. Tannins in general taste horrible to me, I think I’m sensitive to them or something. It tastes like dryness and astringent, like I’ve put a cotton bud in my mouth
Malort.
Club Mate
Agreed, and I have one every day.
I don’t think you know just how much you have offended the entirety of the German tech world.
I know exactly.
there will be lots of personal opinions here … mine is that champagne is -not awful but still- overrated.
Champagne is one of the few drinks that generally fucks me.
I can have nine or ten pints in a night and feel rubbish but function the following day. I can have a bottle or two of sparkling wine and feel like shit for the following morning, but still function.
Two glasses of champers and I am literally doubled over with a bastard of a hangover the following day.
I had LOTS before I had one from a friend who really knows wines.
That changed my opinion of champagne as a whole, but most of it (especially in the US, or the Brut style) just sucks.
But that’s wine in general. I’ve had lots of mediocre wine and a few that were fantastic (to my tastes).
Consider all the varieties and vintages, then everyone’s personal tastes, and it’s no wonder opinions are all over the map.
IMHO it’s saved by the mimosa. Throw some orange juice in that overhyped sparkling grape juice and I am IN. Great for tolerating events with people you don’t like.
Mimosa just exposes how most champagne/sparkling wine that most people are familiar with just sucks already.
If it didn’t, you wouldn’t mask it’s great taste with orange juice.
Good champagne/sparkling wine doesn’t need that. What bars put in mimosa is the cheap crap that no one should drink in the first place.
Gin. It’s garbage.
I’ll add Gin and Tonic. I’ve tried a lot, anywhere from homemade with supposedly good gin, and at expensive bars. It’s just a shit drink.
It is greatly improved with lemon instead of lime, but the garnish is unlikely to change your mind by itself.
Depends on the Gin, I quite like Drumshanbo neat. And Gin and Tonic is my go to drink.
Don’t drink anymore but loved me some neat gin in my time. The more juniper the better. St. George’s Terroir and Never Never Triple Juniper were my poisons of choice.
More for me. I sip it straight.
Is it supposed to taste like Pinesol? Because that’s all I could taste the first and last time I drank it straight.
You and me both
Tastes exactly like I would imagine tree sap would taste.
Pretty much any non cocktailed alcohol. It all tastes kinda like shit except for some wines.
Add wine and beer to the list.
…again? What do you think noncocktailed alcohols are?
I agree except for barley shochu
sparkling wine
Moxie. Although, I think the “right” answer is that I’d never consider something others liked as bad because that would be judgmental and offensive. Based on recent exchanges here.
Coffee
I get it, it’s an acquired taste. But I sure don’t like it.
This, coffee tastes like arse
“acquired taste” = addictive chemical
It’s also bitter, which humans are evolved to dislike. So it literally is an acquired taste, because some people drink decaf.
I mean that’s fair, and there are plenty of foods like bitter squash that some people enjoy a lot with no addictive chemicals (I know of)
But at the same time, I never met a decaf fan who didn’t first like caf
Could just be changing taste buds. I never made a concerted effort to stop wanting sweet things but in my late 20s I pretty much never made an effort to acquire them on my own. I don’t dislike ice cream but I’ve literally never bought it or any sweets for more than a decade now.
With that change came enjoying bitter tastes more as well.
Depending on how lightly it is roasted and brew method, it can be much less bitter and more floral and “bright”. Agree that the average coffee is dark roast and invariably bitter, however.
I have no evidence but this has always been my working theory.
It explains why people become so adherent to a specific brand or brewing method.
The same applies to cigarettes.
the caffiene makes it bitter, people seem to like the cafestol, if they using unfiltered coffee, which apparently not good for you. its definitely acquired taste, i did not like it when i was still college, when i drank a stronger for first time.
The taste that coffee adds to things is great, and the smell is amazing. A bad brew tastes like bitter dirt water and has the same effect on your stomach. I’ve never had a good black brew in my life.
I do love me some coffee milk, but at that point we are right back to coffee adding flavor to things, not being good itself.
All diet drinks. Whatever sugar substitutes they use taste awful no matter what. Now there are products I can’t consume because the default version has fake sugar as well. Nasty stuff.
Part of it is just getting used to it. I used to hate the no sugar versions of Coca-Cola®️. Other than the taste the viscosity is also ‘wrong’ in Coke zero. The sugary versions is much thicker.
I switched anyway because I was drinking too many calories.
Strangely though, real Coke now tastes weird to me. There is this strange aftertaste that I never noticed before switching to zero.
It also helps with the Zero-style ones that they use a couple of different sweeteners.
One of the tricks I found is that when I occasionally want sweet tea, I’ll take a packet of Equal, sucralose, and stevia and add to my glass. You get more of the sweet but without enough of each one that the bitterness or other weird taste you get when you use enough to make it super-sweet doesn’t happen. It just tastes sweet.
I cut back my regular Coke addiction with Coke Zero, and was not happy. I found Pepsi Zero tastes closer to what I like than Coke Zero does. And if I add a teaspoon of sugar, it’s almost pleasant to drink.
im the same with diet “soda”, now the sugary ones is just too sweet and you know you feel bad drinking it. i think mexican coke, aka cane sugar is the best one from what ive heard.
I like diet drinks in the right spots, diet A&W root beer has a lovely smoky taste imho, perfect for sipping something cold coming home from the grocery store when I don’t want sugar or caffeine to disrupt my system
i love the little frozen bits of root beer you get when you make a float with diet root beer.
I’ve found that the fake sugars taste acidic, so if I go with acidic soda like orange soda, it masks it well enough. I didn’t drink much soda but sugar free orange Fanta is my go-to now.
aspartame, is the most common amongst diet sodas brand names. people dont like stevia soda, because some people apparently taste it differently.(the brand names like zevia, makes it sickly sweet)
Diet Dr Pepper is the only one I like and I assume that one of the flavors in it is covering up that nasty fake sugar flavor and aftertaste.
I like them all, but definitely Diet Dr. Pepper the most. I assumed it was because Dr. Pepper has kind of an artificial/medicinal flavor.
I have a friend who is from a non-“western” country, and moved to North America. This has been one of their biggest gripes with living here: food (especially but not exclusively prepared food) is either full of sugar, or full of artificial sweeteners. Seeing as they don’t particularly like sweet foods, and they absolutely don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners, this means that like half the food in a grocery store or restaurant has to be immediately written off. For example, if you want a soda thats not so overwhelmingly sweet, currently the only options are Bubly and imported stuff. Obviously, there are other drink options, so its not like its the end of the world, but having a glass of milk or cup of tea with your pizza just doesn’t hit the same. At the same time, everyone is talking about dieting and about how terrible everything is for you, yet no one seems to consider just making food less sugary.
Totally agree. Since they have a super tax here all the drinks have gone either fully diet or reduced sugar and added sweeteners to it.
I can’t stand it. Coke is basically the only hold out left and the full sugar version is getting less and less prominent in supermarkets.
Flavored Sparkling water with no sweeteners of any kind. I’m looking at you Bubly
Sorry but you’re utterly wrong
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Shit tastes like someone else is thinking about the flavor
Reminds me of this.
Unironically I like La Croix, specifically lime.
However if I’m feeling splurge-y I’ll get Topo Chico Lime or Grapefruit.
Oh, you just reminded me how much I hate Topo Chico specifically. You shouldn’t be able to taste the minerals in the water, especially when it’s mixed with other stuff. But the minerals are soooo forward that’s all I can taste.
Topo chico solos lacroix
It’s also waaaay more expensive than La Croix, which is why I don’t always buy it
Most teas smell like a wet forest floor to me.
Do I have the perfect tea for you!
Moss loose leaf tea!
So… what does it taste like?
A wet forest floor… in Iceland
Lapsang Souchong. Smells like a campfire
Best tea ever! It’s like drinking liquid smoke
Ted Lasso has it right: pigeon sweat.
Only exception for me is southern-style sweet tea where the tannins make the 'beetus juice taste a little caramel-esque.
I agree, and that’s why I like it.
and that’s a… bad smell, to you?
I don’t want to lick a wet forest floor, much less ingest it.
It is a nice smell like a campfire, which I also don’t want to ingest.
a campfire, which I also don’t want to ingest
See, now you’ve completely lost me. Do you not eat barbeque? Or, like, half of Mexican cuisine?
I meam the literal campfire.
BBQ has a different smokey smell.
Baiju
Is that the one that tastes like medicine? My (HK) friend calls it Chinese poison
Nah! It’s a pretty unique taste. A little bit like vodka but an after taste of dry cheekpea maybe
I haven’t drank enough baiju to form an opinion, but I always thought it was more of a class of liquor then anything specific (think whiskey, as opposed to jack Daniels). I had one person tell me it was the moonshine of China. And then I go to a liquor store and see some highly prized bottle of it for 3 or 4 hundred usd or more.
Yes. It’s a denomination. There’s also Taiwanese Baiju that taste like jaggermester
If I’m not mistaken it’s only mean « clear liquor » so
Energy Drinks. Yes every single sickly disgusting rancid smelling one of them.
bad for your kidneys too.
Seltzer water. I don’t understand why it’s even sold at stores or offered in cafeterias. Stuff tastes like cement.
Edit: grammar
It’s like drinking static though, it’s lovely
It feels like the water is angry, why drink angry water???
Because, like water, I too am angry
Lol I actually refer to it as angry water
My dad used to get weekly deliveries of the stuff. Couldn’t stand it.
I love seltzer water. I think the taste of cement you hate is carbon. Even if the bubbles are gone, I can still taste it.
Maybe it’s like cilantro. To some people it tastes like soap.
It’s carbonic acid and doesn’t taste good to me.
