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I can't stand coffee. It smells skunky to me, and it tastes bad. It's probably a genetic quirk of mine. But as a result I don't get the hype for it, and I sometimes wonder if some people just like it because it's cool to like it.
It's definitely an acquired taste, I assume that if you get hooked on it, you start to associate the taste with getting stimulated which makes it seem pleasant.
Having said that, I don't drink coffee (tastes awful unless it's drowned in milk and sugar at which point what's the point), but the smell is heavenly, and I like coffee flavour in cakes/desserts.
And I say this having tasted some of the best espresso known to man - my closest friend is obsessed and has equipment worth thousands, and we've sampled great coffee places including in Italy.
I've tried drinking it many times. In fact I used to drink it a bit when I was a teen, but the taste was "meh" to me and I was getting stomach cramps when I drank it. So I stopped. And over the years since then the smell has just got more and more skunky and unpleasant to me.
I don't even like coffee flavored chocolates or foods because of my dislike for the taste of coffee. I put up with the smell of the drink for my wife's sake (because she loves coffee). But sometimes it gets so over-powering to me that I just quietly go to another room.
I really think it's something in my active genes that causes my dislike of coffee. Like my body thinks it's poisonous or something.
It also makes your breath smell for you, your friends and your colleagues.
Pee smells different too, but that's less of a dealbreaker.