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I don't like black sugarless coffee either, but with sugar and milk it's quite nice. So do I like coffee or not?

• SilasX 9y ago
  Depends. Is the black coffee disgusting or tolerable? If the black coffee is disgusting to you by itself, then the sugar is just masking it and it's the sugar that you really like. If the coffee just tastes plain but improves with the sugar, then it would be fair to characterize it as liking coffee. I've talked to people who swear up and down that they like alcohol, but they only like Smirnoff Ice and cosmos and can't tolerate anything else. That's not liking alcohol.
  • ZeroGravitas 9y ago
    If we're being that pedantic, then surely you'd need to ask people what they thought about pure alcohol, which I think is liked by basically no-one. And if you don't like that, then you can't say you like vodka or beer, you just like the extra water etc. In reality, when people say "I like alcohol" they mean they like some subset of alchohol based drinks, and when people say they like coffee they mean some subset of coffee based drinks. But perhaps more importantly, we're talking as if there was some macho points to be gained by liking the taste of a poisonous substance that is often abused by addicts to the detriment of their health and the lives of those they love when presented in some abitrarly acceptable mixtures but not others.