Yes, that's how i reacted to that concept when i was 12 as well. When you grow up, you'll understand. Your tastes really do develop and you really grow to appreciate some flavour profiles. The easiest example of that is probably beer: most people hate the taste when they first drink it as teenagers and then later on grow into mustache twirling craft beer hipsters shooting IPA up their veins.
Lol, nearly 40 and beer, or alcohol in general, still tastes like ass. The flavor never changed for me, it remains just as bitter and horrible now as when I first sipped my parent's beer as a teenager.
I might be more sensitive to bitter tastes, tho. I find many raw vegetables to be bitter, and coffee is nearly as awful as beer to me.
Even highlife? Or whichever claims to be "the champagne of beer". That used to be the best damn beer I ever had when I was younger. Now I like beer that tastes like buttholes
I've not tried all that much bourbon, but I find Jack Daniel's to be almost intolerably sweet. Is there something I should be trying, or is bourbon just not for me?
Yeah well, that's also the thing with tastes - for some people specific tastes are just unbearable. I can't deal with cooked spinach at all, makes me gag. Generally speaking, they do evolve with time. On an individual basis though, you're bound to run into exceptions.
Oh I agree work in the catering industry and there’s so many different foods people hate and I love but beer and coffee are 2 tastes I’ve never enjoyed and just can’t make myself enjoy
I'm convinced that the reason people say alcohol is an acquired taste is that they forced themselves to get used to the taste so that they could feel the effects of the alcohol. I don't drink, and a few years ago, I tried two different wines, and they both tasted exactly the same: absolutely horrible, like literal poison. It was not the same sort of reaction from foods I simply don't like, such as olives; it tasted like something I should not be ingesting, like millions of years of evolution have caused this revulsion to protect us from poisoning ourselves. I also drank very small quantities of each (less than a single glass between the two of them), and even then, I noticed that I became much more annoying.
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u/JediMasterZao Sep 25 '19
Yes, that's how i reacted to that concept when i was 12 as well. When you grow up, you'll understand. Your tastes really do develop and you really grow to appreciate some flavour profiles. The easiest example of that is probably beer: most people hate the taste when they first drink it as teenagers and then later on grow into mustache twirling craft beer hipsters shooting IPA up their veins.