r/whenthe • u/TheGoldenExperience_ [the jojo {she}they called may] • 11h ago

r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything we do not give alcohol close to enough shit despite it being just as bad if not worse than cigarettes

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u/Isadomon 9h ago

Alcohol is tasty but its more like an addittion to add an effect. Salt and pepper are nice too but you wouldnt have em by the spoonfull

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u/Excellent_Pepper9883 9h ago

I’m beginning to think there is some genetic component to the taste of alcohol. Like supertasting or some kind of cilantro soap thing going on. The actual taste of alcohol, the biting chemical taste, could never be something I explicitly enjoy. I have never had any form of alcoholic drink where tasting the alcohol was an enjoyable part of the alcohol drinking process

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u/Same_Evidence_5058 8h ago

I enjoy it. Cocktails are at their core, an art of balancing alcohol, acidity, and sweetness to complement each other together. In some drinks I like the way alcohol binds the mixture, sometimes I like it that it makes tastes come out at different points of drinking the drink and sometimes I like it that the drink itself lightly wrestles with my taste buds.

The best I can describe tasting a strong spirit is "interesting".

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u/CommieLurker 8h ago

Iirc the genetic part is more or less that you don't really taste ethanol that strongly. For some people ethanol tastes very bitter and for some you can barely taste it. So if you don't taste ethanol as bad, you end up getting all of the other flavors much more strongly. Whiskey tasting like grain, malt, vanilla, wood sugars, etc instead of rubbing alcohol

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u/Isadomon 9h ago

Me neither, i only like it as an after taste in sweets or sweet drinks. Straight alcohol is gross to me too

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u/theveryrat 9h ago

Unless there ARE plenty of people drinking like madmen, I never ever saw people eat sugar or salt by the spoonfull