Coffee Smell vs. Coffee Taste – Question #58
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LOVE the way it smells. Really, REALLY don’t like the way it tastes.
When I was little, I thought that drinking coffee was part of being a cool grown up. I loved the way coffee drinkers held their mugs. I loved the way coffee drinkers happily sipped their steaming drink.
And I LOVED the smell of coffee brewing each morning.
It just smelled so…cozy and comfortable.
I figured that when I was older and allowed to drink coffee, I would just love it! I thought that I’d be able to sit there with the grown-ups and look cool while I sipped my coffee too.
And then I tried some.
YUCK! Seriously? THIS is what coffee tastes like?
I was in shock. That is not the taste I expected to go along with the great smell and the cool coffee sipping.
Later I gave it another try…this time with cream and sugar. Lots and lots of sugar.
Nope…nothing could mask that taste for me.
To this day, I just can’t drink coffee. I can’t even eat a coffee flavored jelly bean.
Oh, but I still love the way it smells.
Matt doesn’t like coffee either, so I LOVE it when we have house guests who like to drink it. We have a tiny little coffeepot. When we have overnight guests, with hope and a gleam in my eye I always ask them if they’d like me to make coffee for them in the morning. I LOVE it when they say yes because when I make it I get to smell it brewing!! Mmmm!
So…are you a coffee drinker? How do you take your coffee?
If you are a coffee drinker, will you PLEASE come over some time so I can brew coffee for you?! Please?
I love hot coca, hot apple cidar with brown sugar and butter. It’s just great that way. I also love my coffee cold, with lots of sugar and a good flavored creamer, with whipped cream out of the can and a little sprinkles. Now thats a real treat.
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Oh yes, we have to have coffee in the morning! Hubby and I like to make some decaf in the evening after the kids are in bed…and maybe have some of your applesauce bread to go with it. :) Hubby drinks his black, I take mine with a little sugar and cream…sometimes I just sprinkle cinnamon on top…yum!!
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Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! No coffee for me thank you. I don’t even like the smell.
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My dad is the same way. Loves the smell, hates the taste! However, because he’s heard that your taste buds change every seven years, he tried coffee at least once a year to see if he likes it yet. Hilarious; and the answer is also, nope, not yet.
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Ever since I was little, I have loved coffee! I would drink it at any opportunity I had. When I made it to highschool, could drive, and found friends who also liked coffee as much as I did, we spent a lot of time at the local coffee shop.
Now, my husband and I are the proud owners of a coffee house/ cafe/ coffee bean “roastery” (not sure if that’s the technical word, think like bakery – Haha). My husband actually comes home with that wonderful aroma in his hair everyday! We get to try a huge variety of coffees on a regular basis and I have found that there are some coffees that I LOVE and some that I very strongly dislike. I’m a believer that everyone likes coffee, they just haven’t foudn their perfect brew yet (haha). :)
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I LOVE COFFEE!!! And yes, I am shouting! Love how it smells! I used to love it super sweet and with a LOT of cream/milk, whatever was available. However, in the last few months, I can’t stand cream in it anymore and I barely put any sweetener/sugar in it. I’ve come to love the bitter taste and I don’t know why! I love the warmth of it, and yes, it is cool! I’ll be over to have a cup and some great conversation!!
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I really enjoy a nice cup of black coffee – once in a while. The caffeine (or maybe something else in it) really messes with me. But I will tell you something – I don’t really like Colombian coffee which is the norm in the US. If you ever have a chance to drink a FRESHLY brewed dark Jamaican blend or a light and nutty Brazilian blend, you might have a totally different opinion of coffee! I have to admit as much as I like my coffee black, I do enjoy a carmel-frappicino-coffee-like-drink every once in a while. :-)
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Candace Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Wow, Catherine…you have quite the palate! My favorite is an Ethiopian that we roast in store. It has is a lighter roast with a naturally sweeter taste, MMMM.
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Catherine Reply:
February 8th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I can be quite the coffee-snob! But I always consider it a special treat and I don’t even own a coffee maker.
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I actually weaned myself off it last summer. I was just tired of being so addicted – if I went without coffee one morning I got a terrible headache and couldn’t do anything. So, when I had an upset stomach and couldn’t have coffee for two days, and then had a week off from work, I figured ‘This is the best opportunity I’ll ever get to quit.’ I had a four day headache, but I really am glad I quit.
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I love the way it smells too. Mmm. I wander down the coffee aisle at the grocery store (where the fresh beans are) and just inhale deeply. I LOVE it. I enjoy a flavored and sweetened latte now and then for a treat, but we don’t even own a coffee maker because my husband just doesn’t like it, and I am mostly indifferent. I have had good coffee though. A good quality bean, flavored, and brewed gently, and I can drink it black (or brown, actually).
Since for the past two years I have been pregnant or nursing, I have mostly stayed away from anything caffinated. It’s one less addiction I have to worry about that way anyway. *Ahem* CHOCOLATE! *Ahem*
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LOVE coffee! I buy the syrups at Starbucks and make my own lattes : )
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Mmmm. Way too much of a coffee drinker here. LOVE the way it tastes AND smells. Might just go make a cup, now that you’ve mentioned it. :O)
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