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>otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao Every luxury food or drug tastes horrible until you've learnt to enjoy it. Remember your first beer or coffee? My

>otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao Every luxury food or drug tastes horrible until you've learnt to enjoy it. Remember your first beer or coffee? My guess is sugar would initially taste somewhat foul ('sickly sweet') if one was brought up without it. EDIT: I'm not recommending that people start snorting or imbibing cocoa powder. However I think that if this were the only form of chocolate then one would quickly learn to enjoy it.

Riesling 11y ago
From my personal experience, I have to agree with wapapaloobop. I put a spoon of raw cacao in my morning coffee, because I love the taste. However I drink (and eat no) sugar whatsoever and found the taste disgusting (in the sense of spitting it out) when I accidentally drank from my girlfriends coffee some time ago.
- matwood 11y ago
  I agree with you. I enjoy straight espresso and good black coffee. If I want to 'sweeten' it I add some milk. When getting coffee at shops I have mistakenly received one of those super sweet caramel, sugar whatever they are called and almost had to spit out the sip. I wonder if it is learned or if people who like sweets have different taste buds than those who do not. I also like really hoppy beer and bitter candy.
  - dsr_ 11y ago
    It is partially learned, partially a built-up tolerance. Anecdata: About three years ago I drastically reduced my intake of carbohydrates, including all forms of sugar and starch. After around two months, I tried tasting some things that I had stopped eating -- fruit juice, a bit of pie -- and discovered that they were horribly sweet to my tongue.
    - stcredzero 11y ago
      The amount of sugar going into foods has increased. I remember there being around 20 grams of sugar in most sodas. Now, there is typically about twice that amount, and Honest Teas are "lower in sugar" with 19 grams. The US food industry's tactic is this: foist lots of sugar on people when they're kids and don't know any better. Then, when they're adults, you can get away with plying them with lots of high fructose corn syrup, which is super cheap due to subsidies.
toephu2 11y ago
I still don't like the taste of coffee or beer.

Riesling 11y ago

From my personal experience, I have to agree with wapapaloobop. I put a spoon of raw cacao in my morning coffee, because I love the taste. However I drink (and eat no) sugar whatsoever and found the taste disgusting (in the sense of spitting it out) when I accidentally drank from my girlfriends coffee some time ago.

matwood 11y ago
I agree with you. I enjoy straight espresso and good black coffee. If I want to 'sweeten' it I add some milk. When getting coffee at shops I have mistakenly received one of those super sweet caramel, sugar whatever they are called and almost had to spit out the sip. I wonder if it is learned or if people who like sweets have different taste buds than those who do not. I also like really hoppy beer and bitter candy.
- dsr_ 11y ago
  It is partially learned, partially a built-up tolerance. Anecdata: About three years ago I drastically reduced my intake of carbohydrates, including all forms of sugar and starch. After around two months, I tried tasting some things that I had stopped eating -- fruit juice, a bit of pie -- and discovered that they were horribly sweet to my tongue.
  - stcredzero 11y ago
    The amount of sugar going into foods has increased. I remember there being around 20 grams of sugar in most sodas. Now, there is typically about twice that amount, and Honest Teas are "lower in sugar" with 19 grams. The US food industry's tactic is this: foist lots of sugar on people when they're kids and don't know any better. Then, when they're adults, you can get away with plying them with lots of high fructose corn syrup, which is super cheap due to subsidies.

toephu2 11y ago

I still don't like the taste of coffee or beer.