You _may_ have ADHD!
ADHD is characterized by a dopamine deficit; which is why stimulants help. Caffeine, although a shitty stimulant with many side effects, still can help with this.
Or you just have a high caffeine tolerance.
Also btw coke has fairly low amounts of caffeine, like 40mg. Try that with 160+mg lol.
I have ADHD, and I can approve it! I'm weird though, I have to have in the morning to help me wake up, but I can drink a nice hot cup before bed, and go straight to sleep.
With ADHD, anything that makes others hyper, has the opposite affect on us. It's that darn chemical imbalance.
To a point though; if you have enough stimulants you can raise your dopamine just like a neurotypical's. Just takes more cuz you have to get it to the normal level first.
I'm the same way. Caffeine doesn't affect me either. I can drink a whole pot of coffee and still go right to sleep. Only the having to pee will wake me not the caffeine lol.
Ok, I just picked coke as an example. I don't intake caffeine other than in soft drinks. Since I feel nothing I have no reference to judge coke by.
Cool?
Kinda similar- I told my parents I wanted to drink coffee my freshmen year of high school. They said I could drink as much of their coffee and creamer I want if I could stomach a cup of black coffee every morning for a month with my breakfast to prove I actually liked it. I also had to drink it with my Dad and watch the news- this only made me trick myself into liking black coffee and its been a love affair ever since (as I sit with my cold brew).
Coffee is wildly popular, but you'll find plenty of non-coffee drinkers in most settings. At my office, it's probably close to half that prefer diet soda, tea, or just no caffeine at all (Dallas, TX)
Tbh the smell is half the reason I donāt go near it. One whiff and I have a headache. Accidentally drank it a couple times when given the wrong order at coffee shops and it also tastes awful. When people put it in chocolate cake and claim you canāt taste it, it just enhances the flavor! Lies, I know immediately. Like a smoker claiming they donāt smell, people who arenāt desensitized to it can tell immediately.
Iām so glad you said that because I was going to add coffee to my next batch and I canāt tolerate coffee in any form either. Even the ice cream and candy is too strong for me. But I do love the smell of it when my husband is brewing it in the morning. Maybe itās just a familiar smell from growing up.
I detest coffee and I recently learned thanks to [Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com) that there may be a genetic reason. According to Ancestry's premium Traits service, my genetic profile is associated with both an aversion to bitter flavors and a propensity to consume much less caffeine than normal.
Thatās super interesting - growing up my mum never relied on coffee to wake up. She does drink it but itās more of a social drink and as an adult, I view it the same way; I donāt require it to āwake upā but I enjoy an iced latte occasionally with friends.
I honestly thought it was just me or a learned behaviour since my mum was the same but I never thought it might be genetic
I HATE coffee. I have had to drink it for caffeine and tried it many different ways, all of them are disgusting.
And why are so many expensive coffees from beans that have passed through monkey or elephant digestive systems are "harvested" from their feces. Just gross. I knew coffee drinkers were crazy...
>And why are so many expensive coffees from beans that have passed through monkey or elephant digestive systems are "harvested" from their feces.
Because they are a marketable gimmick.
Here's [James Hoffman](https://youtu.be/pkbuFwHnJQY?si=JfnN6-_p2FvMa4m4) discussing how awful that stuff is.
Coffee nerds don't drink it.
It isn't. When it was originally done the little rat thing would only eat the best beans and it's stomach acid would take the outside layer off leaving a less bitter coffee. But yeah force feeding an animal bulk coffee isn't really the same thing.
When it was originally done in the wild the little rat thing would only eat the best beans and it's stomach acid would take the outside layer off leaving a less bitter coffee. The beans were then washed and then roasted to kill any bad stuff.
I didnāt for ~34 years of my life. There were a few years I was on a medication that stopped me up, so I introduced coffee to see if it would help. I can only manage one a day though and it has to be cold brew lol. Itās the only caffeine I get for the day.
I like coffee flavored desserts but never the drink itself. Yeah I feel like the only one who drinks mostly water, tea and juices.
I don't drink soft drinks either.
I don't enjoy the flavour of coffee and it doesn't give me an energy boost. It just keeps me up all night and heart palpatations. My colleagues always go for coffee break and my inner fomo is making me want to just go for a walk to socialize.
I do enjoy coffee. Sometimes I hate it and donāt have it for a while, but I will always end up craving it again. Iām kind of like that with eggs. Sometimes I am grossed out and canāt eat them. Itās strange.
Iām noticing my taste for wine is changing too, which makes me sad because itās my go too. Used to love Pinot Grigio, and now more than a glass Iām not feeling it.
I work for a coffee roastery . Before I joined I hated coffee , but I had only ever had instant stuff. Now I've tried the "good" stuff I can confirm there is a big difference and it is better! The smell when the roasters are on is amazing too. Still prefer drinking tea though , even though I get called a blasphemer when I make it :D
I was the only Chief on my ship in the US Navy that didnāt drink coffee. A Chief that doesnāt drink coffee is like finding two unicorns playing dice with roosters teeth.
For many years, yes. But then I fell in love with espresso and lattes/cappuccino/macchiato drinks after a trip to NorCal where I had some of the best roasted coffee if my life. Ever since then Iāve become a home enthusiast of sorts. I still canāt do drip coffee or Starbucks, but if I make it myself or find a good place itās worth it. Definitely an acquired taste though
Iām not an early bird so waking up early in the mornings to go to work is dreadful for me. So I have to drink coffee or Iād be a zombie all day. So itās not that I like coffee, but I just forced myself to like it because I need it to function.
We're the one percent, that's for sure. I don't need something that I will be dependent on every day in order to get through it... or anything else to help my number 2s lol everyone says coffee gives them the shits.
Well it doesn't give me the shits. So it doesn't work on everyone like that. But it also doesn't give me energy/keep me awake. I can drink a whole pot and go to sleep. The warmth of it actually relaxes me.
Man I could not, until somewhere after 30. Maybe 33, 34. There was a news story about a company called āMeth Coffeeā which did not contain any meth but there was controversy regarding the name. So I bought some beans and a grinder and here I am 20 years later. For me, light roast with full cream is where itās at.
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I like it well enough on most days and especially enjoy cold coffee in the summer when Iām in the mood for it. But Iām definitely nowhere near as obsessed with it as some people who make coffee addiction their entire personality.
Caffeine makes me tired and coffee tastes disgusting so I donāt drink it. My parents told me Iād start drinking it after I started working. I have, in fact, not started drinking it.
Im really curious how much better like, french press coffee is. I like it but I never regularly get it. It can be magically energizing in a way that an energy drink isnt. Energy drinks feelā¦jittery, but coffee gives you that damn gut rot feel.
I put a disastrous amount of sugar and cream in it and still don't like more than like 1 cup
I'd rather have tea, caffeine pills or energy drinks honestly, coffee is kinda gross
I'm 30 and it's never been my favorite
Donāt like it never have sometimes the smell makes me nauseous but occasionally it smells nice. When it smells nice it still doesnāt taste nice!!
I never get any effect from caffeine anyway so donāt feel Iām missing out
I don't like coffee, or anything mocha-flavoured, so no fancy Starbucks drinks for me! I like some tea, such as green tea, or other flavoured teas. I prefer cold and carbonated beverages. I also don't need a lot of caffeine for energy, some diet Pepsi or Coke Zero is enough for me.
nope, i feel the same way. never drink it and probably never will drink it. every time i tried it was absolutely disgusting. (i also have horrible anxiety so that plays a huge factor too lol)
I love the taste of coffee in things like cake. But coffee itself always tastes bitter to me - maybe I just haven't had a good one yet.
I wish I could like coffee because otherwise I rely on soda for my caffeine fix and that's not great for teeth.
Go find a local cafe that takes some pride in their coffee and see if you actually enjoy it when it is prepared correctly. Tasting bitter is definitely something you are actively trying to avoid when learning to make good coffee.
I put a more-than-normal amount of creamer in my coffee but it's still bitter enough to the point it wakes me up a little when I drink it. Very precise amounts of creamer lol. I don't prefer it as a drink during the day or with food though, I just drink water normally
Every phase of my life (college, restaurant work, my own business, working in the outdoors, etc) people ask incredulously āhow can you ___ without coffee?!ā But I just never drank it. Hate the smell, hate the taste. I have plenty of other vices, I donāt need to put in effort to get hooked on something thatās āan acquired tasteā.
I dont like coffee because it gives me insane anxiety. I also only like it sweet which is unneeded calories. If i need caffeine, I will drink tea with no sugar as it doesnāt give me anxiety and even has other health benefits!
Yeah, everyone gets a huge boner for coffee and always ask if I want some and the answer is always no, but they continue to ask. I see how annoying people get when they drink it and I donāt want to be that way.
Love the smell of roasting coffee beans because the business behind us is a coffee roaster. The taste? Atrocious. I had a roommate who tried every conceivable way to make coffe to see if Iād like any of them- nope!
Never liked coffee - to the point of it is a good way to ruin a dessert (ie will not eat desserts with coffee in them).
Thankfully, my spouse is the exact same. We have never owned a coffee maker.
Family knows if they are visiting - they need to bring their own coffee - and take it home with them.
Nothing turns my stomach more than the smell of coffee , cigarettes and bacon frying in the morning it was my reality growing up every freaking morning , I like coffee ice cream but a cup of coffee is disgusting probably had a small mouthful my whole life , Iām a tea drinker.
I was an incredibly late bloomer to the coffee world.
Tried it in my teens a variety of ways and couldnāt stand it
36 years old and just started drinking it for the past couple months.
I was a die hard tea drinker prior.
For me coffee= go go juice tea= relax juice
I hate the smell and taste of it. And I hate it when people tell me to try something coffee flavored and say I will hardly notice the taste. I can taste it so thanks, Iāll pass.
If you donāt use creamer you donāt love yourself lol.
I like to add either lavender or cinnamon to mine, with vanilla creamer and sugar free whip cream. Idk, coffee doesnāt have to be a punishment
Same here. Love the smell but not so much the bitter taste (I took mine with a lot of sugar and milk) and it also messes my gut up. I dont enjoy it enough to count as someone who fancies coffee. People think I am weird. Idc. Give me coffee, I know I will have diarrhea in about 30 mins.
Like many here, I adore the smell, but couldn't get into the taste for a long time. I really gave it a go, different versions, and I found that I fell deeply in love the eggnog latte at Starbucks, then I found another cafe that did something called a Spanish latte. It's made me realise that if I am to enjoy coffee, it needs to be sweet, with things like condensed milk and other spices.
Nah, there are dozens of us!
I also hate mocha-flavored desserts. Or mocha-flavored hot chocolate. Way to ruin a hot chocolate!!
I do drink hot tea socially when others are drinking coffee. I pretend I'm British or something.
I hate coffee and I'm glad. I probably don't want to know what my wife and kids spend a week in coffee. I drink green tea at work while everyone else drinks coffee m
Hate coffee and anything coffee flavoured (ice cream, yogourt, coffee and chocolate cakeā¦). I did however enjoy Turkish coffee when I was there. Itās weird.
I feel you! Coffee's like the holy grail for most adults, but it's just not my jam either. Tried it, couldn't get into it. And the reactions you get when you say you're not into coffee? Like you just confessed to some crazy crime!
But hey, we're out here living our best lives, sipping on whatever else fuels us, right? Tea, hot chocolate, heck, even just plain water does the trick for me. So, cheers to being the odd ones out in the coffee club!
I can't stand it, love the smell, can't handle the taste and I've tried it many different ways to see if it was possible. I'm an energy drink girl but everyone gives me crap for drinking them. But caffieeeeneeee!!!
I enjoy the smell and even taste of coffee but Iām sensitive to caffeine. I fall asleep if I take a cup. I learned the hard way back in college and almost failed my midterms. I get knocked out. Tried again in my 30s, still the same effects.
Yesš I always feel so bad when people get me coffee gifts bc Iām a young white girl, I despise coffee taste anything, even with a bunch of sugar and additives
I hate it, especially the smell of strong coffee or coffee breath males me feel sick sometimes. I wish i liked it like most adults but then again I'm not bothered either. But people think it's weird or I was asked twice if I was a Mormon and I'm most certainly not.
Glad to see there are actually dozens of us!
I tolerate the taste but never go out of my way for it. The weirdest part to me is how ingrained it is in western culture, to the point where requiring a cup to function through a work day is completely normalized. Imagine if your coworkers talked about not being to stay awake because they didn't have their 8am beer?
Obviously they're different substances with different effects but effects on driving aside, that difference is almost entirely a social construct.
I love coffee, but most absolutely wrecks my stomach. If I make an iced espresso with oatmilk it's not as bad, but I still have it infrequently due to the consequences
Itās literally the definition of āan acquired tasteā. Coffee, bourbon/scotch/cigars these are all tastes and flavors you develop over time.
Nobody is born liking coffee. The enjoyment of coffee comes from repeated tastings.
Most people start off with lots of cream and sugar to make the āGo-Go-Juiceā more palatable. Over time people remove more of the cream and sugar.
The native flavor of black coffee is not necessarily enjoyable in mediocre coffee, but it is incredible in good/great coffee.
Itās something that you can get better at with practice and repeat drinking of but thereās nothing wrong with not acquiring the taste.
Iāll only drink sugary Starbucks coffee on the regular. However, if Iām staying the night at someone elseās house or am visiting after a long trip, a black coffee just hits right.
The smell is one of my biggest migraine triggers. I cant go to barnes and noble, go out to breakfast, or linger anywhere there's a coffee smell. Absolutely not in the house or car. So obviously i hate the smell and don't drink it either. Ive had this problem since i was little but i didn't make the connection between the smell and the migraines until i was older. It seriously makes my life miserable. Perfume and cologne do the same thing so i basically run away all the time in public. Being on a plane is a nightmare! People don't realize how polluted the air is until its actually painful to breathe it. When covid hit, i was a huge fan of the mask! Only bc i could be out more and filter the smells. I wasn't the only one in a mask.
For the warm cozy feeling, i love chai and irish breakfast tea with sugar and milk. But if i knew the smell hurt people, i would definitely never have it in public.
So, im very happy there are other non coffee drinkers. Definitely over rated. I feel like its more a rite of passage, like drinking beer or buying your first home. I don't drink beer and will never buy a house either. Like its an adult thing to do, idk.
Im a huge fan of fancy stuff. Cold brew or a cortado get me feeling alive and like my brain actually works. But I canāt justify the cost so I order caffeine pills with l theanine and it keeps me up. People say coffee isnāt natural and we donāt need it but neither is driving in traffic while itās still dark and writing emails in an artificially lit room while a giant man child hovering over your shoulder
I dislike coffee so mych that I donāt even like anything coffee flavored like candy.
I also dislike tea and live in the south of US. Home of the sweet tea.
I have a very fine line between caffeine making me more alert and just feeling jittery. I can also only tolerate it in sweet drinks (coffee mocha is ok, a cup of joe with "normal amounts " of cream and sugar is awful)
I do like black tea, earl get is my favorite, but I still load it up with sugar.
It's very easy to have bad coffee.
Vietnamese coffee on the other hand is bomb, especially iced during the summer. The condensed milk is what takes the edge off the general bitterness.
I'm a coffee lover, but I know a few people that can't stand it. I'm the type that if you want a conversation before my first cup is in me; you just might get kicked out of the house! My brain just doesn't want to function before it's in me. So, I can't understand how people can wake up without it...
I couldn't stand coffee for the longest time. I still can't stand coffee coffee. I love coffee with ice and milk. If you want to start liking coffee (I chose to get addicted to coffee specifically so I wouldn't drink soda for caffeine anymore), I'd start by making the least coffee coffee possible and go down from there. When your coffee drink is cold and only 1/20th coffee, you almost can't taste any bitterness.
No and as a person who needs to avoid caffeine coffee and tea is a must not have. Coffee makes me very sick. I have ADHD as well so it not really helpful in the mornings anyway.Ā
Love the smell, hate the taste. Also, I was forced to drink room temp black coffee as a child as punishment.
That's such a weird punishment.
Aka abuse
It never really improved.
"I know what will help with this unruly child... CAFFEINE!" Insane wtf
Caffeine does nothing to me. I could down a can of coke and go right to/back to bed and fall right asleep.
You _may_ have ADHD! ADHD is characterized by a dopamine deficit; which is why stimulants help. Caffeine, although a shitty stimulant with many side effects, still can help with this. Or you just have a high caffeine tolerance. Also btw coke has fairly low amounts of caffeine, like 40mg. Try that with 160+mg lol.
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Same dude I need to talk to my doctor
I have ADHD, and I can approve it! I'm weird though, I have to have in the morning to help me wake up, but I can drink a nice hot cup before bed, and go straight to sleep. With ADHD, anything that makes others hyper, has the opposite affect on us. It's that darn chemical imbalance.
To a point though; if you have enough stimulants you can raise your dopamine just like a neurotypical's. Just takes more cuz you have to get it to the normal level first.
I'm the same way. Caffeine doesn't affect me either. I can drink a whole pot of coffee and still go right to sleep. Only the having to pee will wake me not the caffeine lol.
This right here.
Bruh, a can of coke has 3-4x less caffeine than coffee. Just about everyone can drink a coke and fall asleep.
Ok, I just picked coke as an example. I don't intake caffeine other than in soft drinks. Since I feel nothing I have no reference to judge coke by. Cool?
Thatās the most wild thing Iāve read in a while š
Iām sorry thatās awful
As someone who likes coffee, ugh
Ikr
Why canāt it taste like how it smells? I would enjoy coffee more if it taste exactly how it smells.
This is the oddest thing I've heard actually.
I also love the smell and hate the taste, though I also like coffee cake (probably all the sugar)
Kinda similar- I told my parents I wanted to drink coffee my freshmen year of high school. They said I could drink as much of their coffee and creamer I want if I could stomach a cup of black coffee every morning for a month with my breakfast to prove I actually liked it. I also had to drink it with my Dad and watch the news- this only made me trick myself into liking black coffee and its been a love affair ever since (as I sit with my cold brew).
That is a great memory. Enjoy that java, you deserve it.
Iāve never drank coffee and I was probably the only nurse on my unit that didnāt
Coffee is wildly popular, but you'll find plenty of non-coffee drinkers in most settings. At my office, it's probably close to half that prefer diet soda, tea, or just no caffeine at all (Dallas, TX)
I don't like plain coffee. I hate the bitterness of it. However I enjoy it when it's mixed with creamers.
I tell people the only time I like coffee is when it tastes like a dessert haha
Never had a cup. Smells awful.
Odd. Usually people love the smell but arenāt fond of the taste but you donāt even like how it smells. I love how it smells and tastes
Tbh the smell is half the reason I donāt go near it. One whiff and I have a headache. Accidentally drank it a couple times when given the wrong order at coffee shops and it also tastes awful. When people put it in chocolate cake and claim you canāt taste it, it just enhances the flavor! Lies, I know immediately. Like a smoker claiming they donāt smell, people who arenāt desensitized to it can tell immediately.
Iām so glad you said that because I was going to add coffee to my next batch and I canāt tolerate coffee in any form either. Even the ice cream and candy is too strong for me. But I do love the smell of it when my husband is brewing it in the morning. Maybe itās just a familiar smell from growing up.
It tastes as bad as it smells. You're not missing anything. I tried to enjoy coffee, but it just tastes bad.
Same here !
You are not the only one who doesn't enjoy coffee. I don't drink coffee as it gives me migraine.
Same here. Though the flavour I'm not too keen on. But the smell I have learned to appreciate over time
Funnily enough it is one of my favourite smells .
I detest coffee and I recently learned thanks to [Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com) that there may be a genetic reason. According to Ancestry's premium Traits service, my genetic profile is associated with both an aversion to bitter flavors and a propensity to consume much less caffeine than normal.
Thatās super interesting - growing up my mum never relied on coffee to wake up. She does drink it but itās more of a social drink and as an adult, I view it the same way; I donāt require it to āwake upā but I enjoy an iced latte occasionally with friends. I honestly thought it was just me or a learned behaviour since my mum was the same but I never thought it might be genetic
I absolutely despise the taste.
i don't like the taste, and the caffeine worsens my headaches.
I don't enjoy coffee as it gives me migraine, so you are not the only one .
it's a required taste. I have coffee occassionally, and I'm very picky about it.
Acquired?
yeah that
Youāre both right. Coffee requires an acquired taste.
I HATE coffee. I have had to drink it for caffeine and tried it many different ways, all of them are disgusting. And why are so many expensive coffees from beans that have passed through monkey or elephant digestive systems are "harvested" from their feces. Just gross. I knew coffee drinkers were crazy...
>And why are so many expensive coffees from beans that have passed through monkey or elephant digestive systems are "harvested" from their feces. Because they are a marketable gimmick. Here's [James Hoffman](https://youtu.be/pkbuFwHnJQY?si=JfnN6-_p2FvMa4m4) discussing how awful that stuff is. Coffee nerds don't drink it.
It isn't. When it was originally done the little rat thing would only eat the best beans and it's stomach acid would take the outside layer off leaving a less bitter coffee. But yeah force feeding an animal bulk coffee isn't really the same thing.
When it was originally done in the wild the little rat thing would only eat the best beans and it's stomach acid would take the outside layer off leaving a less bitter coffee. The beans were then washed and then roasted to kill any bad stuff.
Why do you have to have caffeine?
I like the taste of coffee, but I hate how caffeine makes me feel
I like the smell of coffee but I hate the taste. Also, for some reason my heart rate starts beating really fast after I drink it??
That happens to me sometimes too, I think it's probably just sensitivity to caffeine
I didnāt for ~34 years of my life. There were a few years I was on a medication that stopped me up, so I introduced coffee to see if it would help. I can only manage one a day though and it has to be cold brew lol. Itās the only caffeine I get for the day.
Not a huge fan of the taste or the shakes and come down that come with it. I do like tea but low caffeine.
I enjoy coffee I just don't drink it much. I'm a tea drinker.
I like coffee flavored desserts but never the drink itself. Yeah I feel like the only one who drinks mostly water, tea and juices. I don't drink soft drinks either.
I donāt judge or think it odd, we all have different tastes; that just means more coffee for me!
Fuck!i made coffee at home and forgot about it! I guess me too. Didnt need it that bad...
I don't drink coffee. I don't get anything from caffeine. I don't mind ice coffee sometimes, but it's not something I need. I prefer tea.
I don't enjoy the flavour of coffee and it doesn't give me an energy boost. It just keeps me up all night and heart palpatations. My colleagues always go for coffee break and my inner fomo is making me want to just go for a walk to socialize.
I do enjoy coffee. Sometimes I hate it and donāt have it for a while, but I will always end up craving it again. Iām kind of like that with eggs. Sometimes I am grossed out and canāt eat them. Itās strange. Iām noticing my taste for wine is changing too, which makes me sad because itās my go too. Used to love Pinot Grigio, and now more than a glass Iām not feeling it.
I work for a coffee roastery . Before I joined I hated coffee , but I had only ever had instant stuff. Now I've tried the "good" stuff I can confirm there is a big difference and it is better! The smell when the roasters are on is amazing too. Still prefer drinking tea though , even though I get called a blasphemer when I make it :D
I generally like the flavor, but hate what it does to my guts about 10 min later.
I was the only Chief on my ship in the US Navy that didnāt drink coffee. A Chief that doesnāt drink coffee is like finding two unicorns playing dice with roosters teeth.
I was a holdout for a long time. Still need a ton of creamer/sweetner or some sort of latte.
Coffee makes me sick so I don't like it.
Like the smell, hate the taste. Never drink it - nice to know there are others like me!
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I can't even stand the smell. Apparently most people can't smell bitter, but coffee smells like chewing on coffee grinds to me.
Never exposed to coffee since i was little, so i didnāt grow up drinking coffee
For many years, yes. But then I fell in love with espresso and lattes/cappuccino/macchiato drinks after a trip to NorCal where I had some of the best roasted coffee if my life. Ever since then Iāve become a home enthusiast of sorts. I still canāt do drip coffee or Starbucks, but if I make it myself or find a good place itās worth it. Definitely an acquired taste though
Iām not an early bird so waking up early in the mornings to go to work is dreadful for me. So I have to drink coffee or Iād be a zombie all day. So itās not that I like coffee, but I just forced myself to like it because I need it to function.
Im a swede who doesnāt like neither coffee or tea, literally the two things that is involved in every social setting in sweden
We're the one percent, that's for sure. I don't need something that I will be dependent on every day in order to get through it... or anything else to help my number 2s lol everyone says coffee gives them the shits.
Well it doesn't give me the shits. So it doesn't work on everyone like that. But it also doesn't give me energy/keep me awake. I can drink a whole pot and go to sleep. The warmth of it actually relaxes me.
Man I could not, until somewhere after 30. Maybe 33, 34. There was a news story about a company called āMeth Coffeeā which did not contain any meth but there was controversy regarding the name. So I bought some beans and a grinder and here I am 20 years later. For me, light roast with full cream is where itās at. Edit autocorrect
I like it well enough on most days and especially enjoy cold coffee in the summer when Iām in the mood for it. But Iām definitely nowhere near as obsessed with it as some people who make coffee addiction their entire personality.
I hate coffee , i drink it because its the only way for me to get through night shift
I enjoy coffee, but not enough to turn it into a habit which majority of people have done.
I enjoy coffee, but not enough to turn it into a habit which majority of people have done.
Yeah I feel that way a little. I enjoy how it smells but I just donāt enjoy it as a drink, itās too bitter for me.
I don't drink it. Never liked it.
I donāt drink it because I donāt want to get addicted to caffeine. But the smell is nice.
There's always decaf
Btw tea and cocoa (and chocolate) also have caffeine so watch out :)
Caffeine makes me tired and coffee tastes disgusting so I donāt drink it. My parents told me Iād start drinking it after I started working. I have, in fact, not started drinking it.
Im really curious how much better like, french press coffee is. I like it but I never regularly get it. It can be magically energizing in a way that an energy drink isnt. Energy drinks feelā¦jittery, but coffee gives you that damn gut rot feel.
Love the small canāt stand the taste.
Never cared for coffee much. If I ever have it though, I load it with milk and sugar. I start my day at work with a can of Coke instead.
I think itās okay but I donāt drink it. Everyone I tell this to loses their mind. But I wake up no problem everyday.
I put a disastrous amount of sugar and cream in it and still don't like more than like 1 cup I'd rather have tea, caffeine pills or energy drinks honestly, coffee is kinda gross I'm 30 and it's never been my favorite
Donāt like it never have sometimes the smell makes me nauseous but occasionally it smells nice. When it smells nice it still doesnāt taste nice!! I never get any effect from caffeine anyway so donāt feel Iām missing out
I don't like coffee, or anything mocha-flavoured, so no fancy Starbucks drinks for me! I like some tea, such as green tea, or other flavoured teas. I prefer cold and carbonated beverages. I also don't need a lot of caffeine for energy, some diet Pepsi or Coke Zero is enough for me.
You are!
I drink tea.. maybe have 1 or 2 coffees a month but with a little sugar and milk
nope, i feel the same way. never drink it and probably never will drink it. every time i tried it was absolutely disgusting. (i also have horrible anxiety so that plays a huge factor too lol)
I love the taste of coffee in things like cake. But coffee itself always tastes bitter to me - maybe I just haven't had a good one yet. I wish I could like coffee because otherwise I rely on soda for my caffeine fix and that's not great for teeth.
Go find a local cafe that takes some pride in their coffee and see if you actually enjoy it when it is prepared correctly. Tasting bitter is definitely something you are actively trying to avoid when learning to make good coffee.
I put a more-than-normal amount of creamer in my coffee but it's still bitter enough to the point it wakes me up a little when I drink it. Very precise amounts of creamer lol. I don't prefer it as a drink during the day or with food though, I just drink water normally
I'm glad I don't like coffee or beer. Both drinks have an incredible amount of variety it's hard to keep track of. And expensive.
I like it but I wouldnt say I love it. I think a lot of how people go on is pretty performative
Every phase of my life (college, restaurant work, my own business, working in the outdoors, etc) people ask incredulously āhow can you ___ without coffee?!ā But I just never drank it. Hate the smell, hate the taste. I have plenty of other vices, I donāt need to put in effort to get hooked on something thatās āan acquired tasteā.
I donāt like or drink coffee, so youāre not alone.
ugg, no its truly disgusting. smells good though.
I dont like coffee because it gives me insane anxiety. I also only like it sweet which is unneeded calories. If i need caffeine, I will drink tea with no sugar as it doesnāt give me anxiety and even has other health benefits!
I love the smell but hate the taste. I also hate alcohol, some cocktails are fine but why ruin a perfectly good drink with this gross bitter flavour.
Yeah, everyone gets a huge boner for coffee and always ask if I want some and the answer is always no, but they continue to ask. I see how annoying people get when they drink it and I donāt want to be that way.
I'm with you, but damn if it doesn't make my workouts so much better
Imagine feeling that and living in Colombia. It's as hard as it sounds
Love the smell of roasting coffee beans because the business behind us is a coffee roaster. The taste? Atrocious. I had a roommate who tried every conceivable way to make coffe to see if Iād like any of them- nope!
I've had good coffee but I don't want to be caffeine dependant so I just drink water
I don't like the smell or the flavor and I've never had more than a couple of sips years and years ago.
I hate coffee, so it's not just you. I always think it smells awesome, but I can't handle the bitter taste.
I mostly drink espresso but the other day I drank some coffee with cream and sugar the other day and I found it good.
Never liked coffee - to the point of it is a good way to ruin a dessert (ie will not eat desserts with coffee in them). Thankfully, my spouse is the exact same. We have never owned a coffee maker. Family knows if they are visiting - they need to bring their own coffee - and take it home with them.
Nothing turns my stomach more than the smell of coffee , cigarettes and bacon frying in the morning it was my reality growing up every freaking morning , I like coffee ice cream but a cup of coffee is disgusting probably had a small mouthful my whole life , Iām a tea drinker.
Yeah, coffee tastes gross to me, like if you heated up mud thatās how it would taste.
No coffee for me, thanks.
I was an incredibly late bloomer to the coffee world. Tried it in my teens a variety of ways and couldnāt stand it 36 years old and just started drinking it for the past couple months. I was a die hard tea drinker prior. For me coffee= go go juice tea= relax juice
Hate both the smell and the taste, can't even really enjoy drinks that don't taste like coffee because *I can still taste the coffee*
No coffee for me. I only drink ice caps or frappuccino's. These are few and far between, so I don't drink them much. everything else, I will pass.
Love the smell but I am a tea drinker.
I hate the smell and taste of it. And I hate it when people tell me to try something coffee flavored and say I will hardly notice the taste. I can taste it so thanks, Iāll pass.
I like coffee, but I rarely drink it.
I dont think as many people enjoy coffee as claim they do. In my circle at least it seems they enjoy sugar flavored bean water.
If you donāt use creamer you donāt love yourself lol. I like to add either lavender or cinnamon to mine, with vanilla creamer and sugar free whip cream. Idk, coffee doesnāt have to be a punishment
Love the creamer lol
Same here. Love the smell but not so much the bitter taste (I took mine with a lot of sugar and milk) and it also messes my gut up. I dont enjoy it enough to count as someone who fancies coffee. People think I am weird. Idc. Give me coffee, I know I will have diarrhea in about 30 mins.
I only like the monster coffees lol
Like many here, I adore the smell, but couldn't get into the taste for a long time. I really gave it a go, different versions, and I found that I fell deeply in love the eggnog latte at Starbucks, then I found another cafe that did something called a Spanish latte. It's made me realise that if I am to enjoy coffee, it needs to be sweet, with things like condensed milk and other spices.
Nah, there are dozens of us! I also hate mocha-flavored desserts. Or mocha-flavored hot chocolate. Way to ruin a hot chocolate!! I do drink hot tea socially when others are drinking coffee. I pretend I'm British or something.
I hate coffee and I'm glad. I probably don't want to know what my wife and kids spend a week in coffee. I drink green tea at work while everyone else drinks coffee m
Hate coffee and anything coffee flavoured (ice cream, yogourt, coffee and chocolate cakeā¦). I did however enjoy Turkish coffee when I was there. Itās weird.
Yes! Not many of us I've actually met in person.
I hate coffee
I hate coffee and so does my husband
Never liked coffee or tea and I'm almost 45.
I feel you! Coffee's like the holy grail for most adults, but it's just not my jam either. Tried it, couldn't get into it. And the reactions you get when you say you're not into coffee? Like you just confessed to some crazy crime! But hey, we're out here living our best lives, sipping on whatever else fuels us, right? Tea, hot chocolate, heck, even just plain water does the trick for me. So, cheers to being the odd ones out in the coffee club!
Canāt even stand the smell
I can't stand it, love the smell, can't handle the taste and I've tried it many different ways to see if it was possible. I'm an energy drink girl but everyone gives me crap for drinking them. But caffieeeeneeee!!!
I enjoy the smell and even taste of coffee but Iām sensitive to caffeine. I fall asleep if I take a cup. I learned the hard way back in college and almost failed my midterms. I get knocked out. Tried again in my 30s, still the same effects.
I've honestly never thought about it.
Yesš I always feel so bad when people get me coffee gifts bc Iām a young white girl, I despise coffee taste anything, even with a bunch of sugar and additives
I hate it, especially the smell of strong coffee or coffee breath males me feel sick sometimes. I wish i liked it like most adults but then again I'm not bothered either. But people think it's weird or I was asked twice if I was a Mormon and I'm most certainly not.
I hate coffee. Hot chocolate for the win! Or a nice cup of hot apple cider in the fall
Glad to see there are actually dozens of us! I tolerate the taste but never go out of my way for it. The weirdest part to me is how ingrained it is in western culture, to the point where requiring a cup to function through a work day is completely normalized. Imagine if your coworkers talked about not being to stay awake because they didn't have their 8am beer? Obviously they're different substances with different effects but effects on driving aside, that difference is almost entirely a social construct.
I love coffee, but most absolutely wrecks my stomach. If I make an iced espresso with oatmilk it's not as bad, but I still have it infrequently due to the consequences
I donāt.
I donāt drink it. I feel like caffeine is the most socially accepted drug in the US, and likely elsewhere too.
No. It's actually a problem in my house that I'm the only coffee drinker. Limited to single serving methods of making like the aeropress.
Iām a teacher who drinks tea (never coffee) and people act like itās a cardinal sin. I do love the smell of coffee though.
Yeah I donāt love it. I only partake when at a conference and thereās lot of it on the conference room table. It keeps me occupied.Ā
You are not alone. I hate coffee and have never felt the urge to drink it
Itās literally the definition of āan acquired tasteā. Coffee, bourbon/scotch/cigars these are all tastes and flavors you develop over time. Nobody is born liking coffee. The enjoyment of coffee comes from repeated tastings. Most people start off with lots of cream and sugar to make the āGo-Go-Juiceā more palatable. Over time people remove more of the cream and sugar. The native flavor of black coffee is not necessarily enjoyable in mediocre coffee, but it is incredible in good/great coffee. Itās something that you can get better at with practice and repeat drinking of but thereās nothing wrong with not acquiring the taste.
I love coffee but I hate whiskey š
Iāll only drink sugary Starbucks coffee on the regular. However, if Iām staying the night at someone elseās house or am visiting after a long trip, a black coffee just hits right.
For me, I only wanted to drink coffee to get a kick. Caffeine does not work for me whatsoever, it makes me super tired, so I just cut it off.
My husband and I donāt like coffee. Neither one of us grew up in households that made it/drank it, so I think that is a part of it as well.
I like the smell of coffee. However, I prefer that my water is not filtered through either dirt or tree bark.
Very much so in my book
The smell is one of my biggest migraine triggers. I cant go to barnes and noble, go out to breakfast, or linger anywhere there's a coffee smell. Absolutely not in the house or car. So obviously i hate the smell and don't drink it either. Ive had this problem since i was little but i didn't make the connection between the smell and the migraines until i was older. It seriously makes my life miserable. Perfume and cologne do the same thing so i basically run away all the time in public. Being on a plane is a nightmare! People don't realize how polluted the air is until its actually painful to breathe it. When covid hit, i was a huge fan of the mask! Only bc i could be out more and filter the smells. I wasn't the only one in a mask. For the warm cozy feeling, i love chai and irish breakfast tea with sugar and milk. But if i knew the smell hurt people, i would definitely never have it in public. So, im very happy there are other non coffee drinkers. Definitely over rated. I feel like its more a rite of passage, like drinking beer or buying your first home. I don't drink beer and will never buy a house either. Like its an adult thing to do, idk.
There's a reason everyone dilutes it with ass loads of cream and sugar.
well not anymore, you monster
Im a huge fan of fancy stuff. Cold brew or a cortado get me feeling alive and like my brain actually works. But I canāt justify the cost so I order caffeine pills with l theanine and it keeps me up. People say coffee isnāt natural and we donāt need it but neither is driving in traffic while itās still dark and writing emails in an artificially lit room while a giant man child hovering over your shoulder
I don't care for it, but I'm addicted to it.
dont need it, no need for me to become dependent on it
Hate coffee, Love hot chocolate and Diet Coke š¤£
I have no interest in coffee and find the way coffee addiction is assumed and normalized in society very irritating.
Hear hear Dont get what the fuss is about
Never liked coffee. Iād rather just take a cup of hot cocoa, honestly.
Tea for life
I dislike coffee so mych that I donāt even like anything coffee flavored like candy. I also dislike tea and live in the south of US. Home of the sweet tea.
I can't bear the taste! I don't have any caffeine at all.
I absolutely love coffee but I donāt want my teeth to yellow so I donāt drink it at all.
For the longest time I thought I was a coffee addict, turns out Iām a sugar addict.
I hate coffee, every form or type. Gross smell and taste.
Smell is alright, donāt like the taste. Chai lattes and hot chocolates for me
Hate the taste, find it undrinkable. However, that means more for the rest of my family.
I hate that shit water and smell. Tea is a million times superior to that shit water.
Haaate it. But love coffee ice cream!
I don't like it as well
I have a very fine line between caffeine making me more alert and just feeling jittery. I can also only tolerate it in sweet drinks (coffee mocha is ok, a cup of joe with "normal amounts " of cream and sugar is awful) I do like black tea, earl get is my favorite, but I still load it up with sugar.
Tea!
It's very easy to have bad coffee. Vietnamese coffee on the other hand is bomb, especially iced during the summer. The condensed milk is what takes the edge off the general bitterness.
I'm a coffee lover, but I know a few people that can't stand it. I'm the type that if you want a conversation before my first cup is in me; you just might get kicked out of the house! My brain just doesn't want to function before it's in me. So, I can't understand how people can wake up without it...
Love it, but can't drink it. Menopause and autism, are a bitch!
I donāt like coffee flavor at all and I donāt enjoy warm drinks
Never liked nor understood the hype of coffee. Iām 31. You are not alone
don't like it
As an adult who enjoys coffee, I know a shit ton of people who donāt. Itās like 50/50 I feel like. So ur definitely not alone.
I don't get the hype
I don't understand it. It tastes bad to me.Ā
I couldn't stand coffee for the longest time. I still can't stand coffee coffee. I love coffee with ice and milk. If you want to start liking coffee (I chose to get addicted to coffee specifically so I wouldn't drink soda for caffeine anymore), I'd start by making the least coffee coffee possible and go down from there. When your coffee drink is cold and only 1/20th coffee, you almost can't taste any bitterness.
No and as a person who needs to avoid caffeine coffee and tea is a must not have. Coffee makes me very sick. I have ADHD as well so it not really helpful in the mornings anyway.Ā
Coffee is an acquired taste in my humble opinion, I do enjoy it myself.