Sparkling water. Water is great, why make it taste funny?

The smell too. Idk what it is about the smell of Monster when it gets warm, but it’s god awful.

Fucking amazing, that’s what.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are too damn sweet.

"acquired taste" = addictive chemical

It’s cause Malört is fucking gross so people started drinking it ironically and came full circle.

There’s a bar in Tennessee that specializes in Malört based mixed drinks. I tried some just to say I did and they were just OK.

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.

Good for you. I'm a more frequent drinker but I think it's a good thing that it's going out of fashion -- it's definitely one of the most harmful intoxicants.

THe trick is to be 10 and your family allows you a little pony beer (old 8 oz glass bottle) 1-2 times per year. It takes away the mystery and when I was older, I didn't feel a need to go get alcohol behind anyone's back. And when I was 21, I drank occasionally, like with pizza sometimes or spaghetti, or a mixed drink socially or something.

Of course, for those that are alcoholics or otherwise get addicted to the alcoholic effects, it can be a struggle, but not really probably relating to when you start drinking in such cases.

Sour beers / goses. I keep coming back every couple of years to see if my tastes have changed and they always taste awful to me. I'm glad most brewers hopped (pun somewhat intended) on the IPA train because I much prefer them over the sour options.

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 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.

What about V8?

Must be one of those cilantro situations, I'm the complete opposite. Give me sours all day and take away all the IPAs, blech

.....it doesn't even smell good?! I'm so sad for you. Coffee, bread, bacon are my 3 favourite smells

Lol I actually refer to it as angry water

Bubbles!

Lapsang Souchong. Smells like a campfire

Cola, any kind. I dont get how fizzy brown drink became popular outside of the whole "cocaine in a drink" thing early on.

I'm a Pibb man myself.

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'll go one step further and say, most energy drinks in general.

It's not even so much the flavor as it is the chalky texture and aftertaste that just about every one of them seems to have. I'm not sure if they're all powder-based or what, but there's a residual feeling left on my tongue that I can't stand.

i love the little frozen bits of root beer you get when you make a float with diet root beer.

All beers are bitter, things humans evolved to stay away from (bitter signals poison). If you like beer, it’s because you’ve become accustomed to it, not because it’s a good flavor to humans.

It’s also bitter, which humans are evolved to dislike. So it literally is an acquired taste, because some people drink decaf.

Eggnog. 🤢

Recently visited The Wee Tap in Edinburgh and have tried lots of Vault City. None beat Azvex Operation Genome [26.05] Mango and Blackberry Ice Cream Sour though. Could put that in the meal deal isle with the other smoothies and no one would notice the difference.

Because, like water, I too am angry

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.

Another acute case of Dr Pepper poisoning

IPA tastes like the bottom of a shoe.

Haha long story short, I was in the middle of one of the *stan countries driving through and we bought a 12 pack of 2 litre bottles that we didn't realise was sparkling. Making cheap packet pasta, coffee and brushing your teeth with sparkling water is not fun!

For a while, these green grass puree drink stands that were becoming popular. I cannot think of the name, but surely somebody else will remember.

It tasted, predictably, like freshly mowed green grass which you would be burping up for days.

I had precisely one sample. Others were returning multiple times a day and I'm just like... No way you could have become that self-deluded but... We were there for a while!

Original Monster tastes like battery acid and I don't know why I love it (especially khaotic)

Fine by me, you take all the sours and I'll take the IPAs. Cheers.

Oh the white peach is genuinely habit forming. One day I opened the fridge to find out hubs had picked me up one on the way home and genuinely felt myself salivate.

Late 20s, never got into coffee except for mocha on rare occasions

If matcha wasn't basically the new boba (at least in the West), trendy and whatnot among the girlies, people would admit it's just grass + whatever else is in the drink (and it's not the grass but the rest which makes it enjoyable). Or maybe it really does taste great but only for half of the Western world, idk, but it hasn't been my experience (and my wife hates it too so there are always exceptions, lol).

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.

Kombucha, I can't stand the taste but people who like it seem to be obsessed with it. It's good for making vegan leather with though.

Someone already said beer, so I'll go with wine. I've tried it several times. Both red and white. All disgusting.

I'll take straight gin or vodka over wine.

Dr pepper with cream soda is the bomb

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

I'd say that, even aside from anything specific to Monster, most carbonated beverages are optimized for drinking cold and aren't great when warm.

You take that back

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If they taste good because they taste like something else, why not just drink that something else? /hj

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.

Bizzarre take but valid

This and Underberg. Most of my bartender friends love it and I’m still convinced they’re all fucking with me. I’d rather take a shot of Malört. But I’ll still join the round of Bergs for the camaraderie.