• Rob Bos
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    128 months ago

    I love how coffee smells, and heavily diluted in an icecap or something, it’s fine.

    Straight up, though? Disgusting. I’ve tried for years to develop the taste for it. No dice.

    A well prepared tea just goes down easier.

    Even a caffeine free green tea is a step above hot water. And I’ll drink straight hot water on a cold day in a pinch.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      Did you ever try filter coffee from a speciality shop? Some coffee variants almost taste tea like. A whole different experience from your common bitter liquid

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        8 months ago

        Oh yeah. I sometimes ask my partner to take a sip of her coffee. She asks me why I punish myself. She takes it plain black, and we get it from a ton of different places.

        I’ve tried larger amounts to see if my palate adjusts, but it never really has. Granted, I could try harder, but there comes a point at which it’s just not worth the effort. Tea is fine. Even shitty generic black teabags are okay as long as you don’t steep them longer than 20-30 seconds, and maybe bulk them up with a bit of sugar and salt to cut the bitterness. Too easy to overextract them and they’re usually extracted with fresh-boiling water, which is a little too hot.

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      8 months ago

      yea how the fuck it smells so good but tastes like meh. Wait cinnamon…

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        48 months ago

        And as with cinnamon, all you need is quadruple the amount of sugar as you use coffee in order for it to start tasting ok.