Coffee is objectively bad and anyone who likes it is a) a caffeine addict, and or b) a sheep who is trying to look cool

Dude, this is really interesting.

Broccoli

Dark Chocolate

Beer

Red Wine

Grapefruit

Artichokes

Brussels Sprouts

I shudder to think what else I could be consuming that has a bitter taste to it.

Now I know I need to stay away from all these foods as well. Thanks for the education!

You sound like the type of guy that orders hot chocolate at Starbucks. Come join the rest of the grownups.

OP, you have the palate of a 6 year old.

You might wanna look up the definition of 'objectively'.

I'm glad we found someone that knows reasons for existence. Surely you're not going to stop at taste buds. Can you please tell us why whole humans exist? Why do I exist? Why do you exist?

It's called "an acquired taste."

You seem narrowed minded. I'll include the definition: acquired taste, a liking gained through experience.

I don't like coffee but cocoa is very bitter but tastes good when you add sugar and milk and make chocolate.

People add sugar and milk to their coffee and seem to like it.

Coffee is magical, OP. You're misinformed and missing out.

Have you ever heard the expression, "don't yuck someone else's yum?"

grow up.

not one of the sheep wrote:

Humans possess "bitter" taste buds for one reason and one reason only: to detect poisonous compounds. If a primitive man popped a berry into his mouth and found it to be bitter, he knew not to eat that kind of berry anymore.

We are literally biologically programmed to find coffee unpleasant. This isn't my subjective opinion. It is objective truth. It isn't possible to truly "like" coffee any more than you could like any other noxious stimulus like being burned or cut. Basic neurology tells us this.

You are confusing the primary and secondary qualities of objects. It might be objectively true that coffee acts on our bitter taste buds and that our bitter taste buds had a certain purpose in our evolutionary history. But that is all related to the primary properties of coffee.

How something tastes is a subjective, secondary property. Nothing tastes objectively good or bad.

John Locke is the one who first made the primary/secondary distinction known:

^^^^

I don't know why the link didn't work:

http://documents.routledge-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/9781138793934/AS/knowledgeoftheexternalworld/Secondaryqualities.pdf

not one of the sheep wrote:

Humans possess "bitter" taste buds for one reason and one reason only: to detect poisonous compounds. If a primitive man popped a berry into his mouth and found it to be bitter, he knew not to eat that kind of berry anymore.

We are literally biologically programmed to find coffee unpleasant. This isn't my subjective opinion. It is objective truth. It isn't possible to truly "like" coffee any more than you could like any other noxious stimulus like being burned or cut. Basic neurology tells us this.

You are the truly bitter one. I do not drink coffee but I don't deride anyone who wants to drink it.

Good coffee isn't "bitter"...this is objective truth. You eat too much sugar.

leader of the flock wrote:

Good coffee isn't "bitter"...this is objective truth. You eat too much sugar.

I agree that good coffee isn't bitter. But I think other bitter stuff is delicious - grapefruit, 70% dark chocolate (or even 80%, depending on the producer), hoppy IPAs, Campari, ... The OP might be a supertaster. Nothing "super" about that - it effectively means you can't handle a wide range of more intense flavors and so go through life eating bland sh*t. Good luck OP.

Crappy folgers isn't tasty. But if you have a wonderful dry processed Ethiopian, or earthy medium roasted Sumatran? Brewed correctly? Those are so flavorful, hardly bitter, and objectively very tasty.

not one of the sheep wrote:

Humans possess "bitter" taste buds for one reason and one reason only: to detect poisonous compounds. If a primitive man popped a berry into his mouth and found it to be bitter, he knew not to eat that kind of berry anymore.

We are literally biologically programmed to find coffee unpleasant. This isn't my subjective opinion. It is objective truth. It isn't possible to truly "like" coffee any more than you could like any other noxious stimulus like being burned or cut. Basic neurology tells us this.

Just put some milk in it bro!!! Problem solved, thank me later;)

not one of the sheep wrote:

Humans possess "bitter" taste buds for one reason and one reason only: to detect poisonous compounds. If a primitive man popped a berry into his mouth and found it to be bitter, he knew not to eat that kind of berry anymore.

We are literally biologically programmed to find coffee unpleasant. This isn't my subjective opinion. It is objective truth. It isn't possible to truly "like" coffee any more than you could like any other noxious stimulus like being burned or cut. Basic neurology tells us this.

Well I guess you can call me a MF sheep

Do you feel better now?

Ruppolini wrote:

You might wanna look up the definition of 'objectively'.

Even more importantly, the OP should check with his remedial English teacher why saying that [insert a noun here] “is bad” is a meaningless statement.