A lot of answers here are things that are acquired tastes. Most alcoholic beverages for example: once you get used to them you start to appreciate the interesting alcohol-soluble flavors that you can’t get anywhere else. Learning to like bitter flavors opens up things like coffee (though the caffeine addiction probably helps too).
The one drink that I cannot understand is cola. I remember in the 90’s seeing all the ads about Pepsi vs Coke. Restaurants and grocery stores and households picked a side. You’d occasionally encounter the weirdo or centrist who liked both, the juggalo with Faygo cola, or elitist with Jones soda, or the weirdo with a generic or another minor brand. All of them are terrible. I like a bunch of weird and strong flavors. Umami, salty, herbal, floral, sweet, acidic, whatever. I have a bag of Horehound hard candies on my desk that everyone else hates. I like to make my own mint soda by adding mint syrup to club soda. I cannot understand how cola ever became popular.
Coca Cola used to have cocaine in small amounts. A friend of a friend of mine had an old sealed bottle from that time period. That could explain the popularity of Coke.
I used to always win the Pepsi challenge back when they did that in stores. I would tell them my winning strategy which they never liked, the one that tasted the worst was Pepsi.
A lot of answers here are things that are acquired tastes. Most alcoholic beverages for example: once you get used to them you start to appreciate the interesting alcohol-soluble flavors that you can’t get anywhere else. Learning to like bitter flavors opens up things like coffee (though the caffeine addiction probably helps too).
The one drink that I cannot understand is cola. I remember in the 90’s seeing all the ads about Pepsi vs Coke. Restaurants and grocery stores and households picked a side. You’d occasionally encounter the weirdo or centrist who liked both, the juggalo with Faygo cola, or elitist with Jones soda, or the weirdo with a generic or another minor brand. All of them are terrible. I like a bunch of weird and strong flavors. Umami, salty, herbal, floral, sweet, acidic, whatever. I have a bag of Horehound hard candies on my desk that everyone else hates. I like to make my own mint soda by adding mint syrup to club soda. I cannot understand how cola ever became popular.
Coca Cola used to have cocaine in small amounts. A friend of a friend of mine had an old sealed bottle from that time period. That could explain the popularity of Coke.
I used to always win the Pepsi challenge back when they did that in stores. I would tell them my winning strategy which they never liked, the one that tasted the worst was Pepsi.