I like it specifically because both it and regular beer taste bad. Sometimes im eating good food and i have to fuck it up for a little bit so i can remember how good the food is.

Deviled eggs. Every woman i know fawns over them and scarfs them down the second they can but its literally all of the worst foods plopped into an egg (the egg is fine, i guess)

That being said, i love the taste of medicine and look for things people complain tastes like cough syrup or nyquil

I see like 50 mentions and alcohol and energy drinks. I got something different.

Kombucha.

Holy shit, it's like a soda that went off, and I don't even like soda. It is pungent and awful and I hate that it's marketed so well. Any time I see it on a shelf I'm like "Ooh, what's this fancy looking juice? That's a nice looking bottle. Oh, it's Kombucha, I would rather drink a cup of foamy dog vomit"

Cough syrup vomit in cough syrup? Yeaaaah, no. 🤢

I've had maybe a dozen drinks since my first one 7 years ago, and most of those were bagged fruity frozen drinks that, yeah, helped hide the alcohol flavor. Would have been better as just nonalcoholic frozen fruity drinks. Mocktails can be good but imo most of the ones I've had were overpriced for juice and soda water.

Outside of those, I had some sips of an IPA and a pilsner on a food tour, tried a couple cocktails my folks made after they got back from a cruise (which was weird because I never saw them drink before), tried whatever drink has a salt rim at a restaurant (it was terrible). Haven't had anything this year. Never been buzzed.

Kombucha was what she was reacting to.

Point of order: Deviled eggs aren't a drink.

Red Bull is marketed as a drug, not as a beverage.

Nobody discusses the scent of cocaine.

I shall commit ritualistic suicide in shame.

Counterpoint, people eat them like a drink

Oh there's variety for sure, there's a big brewing scene in Australia, so tonnes of choice, and some people love them, but I can't stand any of the taste. Love spirits, but beer I kinda just can't.

The thing that stands out to me is when I talk to people about it about half talk about it like it's something you have to force yourself into liking? Culturally we have a bunch of peer pressure about it, so I see where that comes from.

I in no way fault anyone if they can't handle it, and I'm being a bit facetious. But I don't get why anyone would choose it like it's some healthy option. I hate low fat or low calorie anything, but at least I understand the motivation there.

I hated tea and coffee (apart from the smell) until my early thirties… now I drink gallons of both. Turns out I hated the “additives”. Black tea (maybe with a slice of lemon) and black coffee I really enjoy.

Also the smell of Redbull (taurine?) used to make me feel sick but now I can drink it. Weird.

I've has some good stuff. Many flavors to choose from.

its like soda-lite, if people want probiotics, get in pill form more effective.

and the eggs seems to pricey, its not my cup of tea.

freshly made is always better than stuff you buy in a bottle pre-made, pre made it overprocessed.

Interesting. Ironically I never liked Coca-Cola. Nowadays I don't like most sodas at all, way too sweet. I might be getting old.

Matcha and / or bubble tea. Can't stand the stuff.

Itt people haven't had good versions of those things

Most coffee tastes like burnt vegetable farts. I think it's the process and that to get the most caffeine out, you have to over-roast it or something so that it's the most porous. Or they do that so that it's fast. I dunno. Vita coffee has a decent decaf with the orange label. Not great, just decent. I had to grind it finer than other coffees and pull slower shots.

https://www.caffevita.com/products/novacella-decaf

I worked at a natural grocery store in college. I was totally with OP at first, but many a free sample got me into it. If you drink enough of it, you start to enjoy it, much like beer or wine, it's an acquired taste. There was a time where I was drinking 1/day. Now since I'm not around it all the time, I'll get it once every few months, but I still enjoy it very much.

Bitter ales, jager

Kind of want to do a circle of those in "irish car bomb" format now

Beer.

Sincerely, a German.

Matcha is so bitter, like drinking dirt. I do like fruity bubble tea though.

I'll echo something others have said in reaction to other drinks, but it sounds like you've not had good champagne then.

What does 'good champagne' taste like to you?

These are inside thoughts.

I think there was something like you need four experiences to normalize what you don't like. Be it food on kids or coffee or whatnot.

Personally, I don't like coffee either, but for me that includes the smell.

I've always thought the same, then after looking up if there's a gene that makes horseradish taste like medicinal ass I found out there is and guess what it also does for alcohol.

Aha, I can certainly relate to liking black tea over flavoured tea. I still have a bag of BOP from a trip in Kerala 15 years ago. It's lost a bit of its flavour since then..., I should make plans for renewing the stock.

What's pretty good too is cola nut. It's very common in Madagascar and I was able to buy some.

Wtf no, it tastes like Caramel.

If you like yogurt it's not that different. Both are 'off' and it's just the cultural context that you grow up in that teaches which one is acceptable.

Vodka. It tastes like paint thinner.
People say they like it and it must be popular because it sells frequently.
But then why do people wince after drinking it?!

If you didn't drink alcohol for multiple years. They all mostly smell and taste like isopropyl or paint thinner. Its kinda funny. Especially wine.

I hate the taste of beer, but I love horseradish.

I'm so confused.

Alcohol. I cannot abide the taste (or aftereffects) of alcoholic drinks, that shit ruins everything

I drink and still think white wine tastes like paint thinner.

Everything that isn't water.

Aren't bad tasting drinks fun though? Like it's a sensory experience

The genes were strong, but you were stronger xD

Moxie. It’s like all the worst flavors of birch beer and root beer combined.

It’s only bitter if you get a dry type. Get a sweet champagne.

Eh, I've tried both. The bitterness I'm talking about comes through on the back of your tongue after you swallow a sip, just like with the dry stuff. I think it's the carbonation that causes it? Sweet champagne just masks the taste a bit at first, but after a few sips it's just as strong.

Monster, and especially Rock Star were delicious.

And can't separate that and personal preference from calling the thing objectively bad, but everyone else is fooling themselves as a joke on them I guess?

I love a good, natural mastica made from real tree sap, but a bad anisette or fake chemical mastica or ouzo very much isn't for me, either. The Turkish Yeni Raki is just running the typical Balkan rakija/rakia/also called raki in Albania, IIRC, bit isn't the Turkish flavored stuf.

Now, apricot rakija, that's where it's at.

But I actually do like it....

Root beer. It just tastes like mouthwash.

Malort broke Chicago containment? SMH

Nashville doesn't have enough Scandis to have a tradition of medicinal bitters, which is what malort is based on. It's an invasive species there, like kudzu or Asian carp.

Agree, and yet, I love it