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I still remember the process of acquiring the taste for coffee. On those occasions, it was a matter of either drink the coffee or drink the horrible water that was available.


My introduction to coffee was a similar one. When I was in my late teens, I decided that as all adult social events appeared to consist of standing around drinking tea or coffee, that I had better learn to like one of them.

I disliked the taste of coffee a little less than tea (still can't stand tea). So I started drinking milky coffee, with a couple of tea spoons of sugar. Over a couple of weeks I slowly reduced the amount of sugar down to zero. At that point milky coffee tasted fine to me. You really can train yourself to like tastes that you intially dislike.

When I was a student I trained myself to like black coffee, as I didn't often have drinkable milk available. Once I had finished that I strongly disliked the taste of coffee with milk in it (though I do now drink very strong cappuccino).

Given that this was in the eighties in the UK, this was all instant coffee. I have now of course trained myself to drink fresh coffee, and I find instant coffee unpleastant. Give me a white sugared instant coffee now and I couldn't drink it...

The human brain is a very strange but flexible tool.
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