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Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/13/2023, 4:37 AM

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Pendell @pendell9/13/2023, 4:23 AM

every single person when I was like 15: "oh just wait until you're older, then you'll like alcohol."

me, 21, drinking a margarita: "man, this would taste a lot better if it didn't have any alcohol in it."

Pendell @pendell9/13/2023, 4:24 AM

every time i drink a frozen margarita i just wish i was drinking a normal slushie instead.

Pendell @pendell9/13/2023, 4:33 AM

I remember when I was like 13 or something my dad was like "here don't tell anybody" and let me have a sip of his beer. It tasted so vile I thought he'd fucking pranked me. I was like "no. NO. THIS can NOT be the thing every grownup is always drinking, there's no FUCKING way"

It tasted like fermented cat piss. Now, to be fair, it was a Bud Light, but every other beer I've tasted has just been like "ooo what if we tossed a different flavoring into the cat piss while it's fermenting?"

Whiskey/vodka/ all that hard liquor shit is just Hateful Water.

mixed drinks are acceptable, but in all cases i have to appreciate the faint flavor and then try to not make a childish face of disgust as the alcohol flavor floods my mouth and throat. Thoroughly unpleasant in every way, makes me wonder if I'm missing something, maybe it's like one of those genetic things like the one that makes celery (or was it cilantro?) taste like soap to some people or the one that makes cats smell funny. Like maybe I've got the genetics that make alcohol just taste like shit. But that would be the easy way out. The hard answer is rationalizing that the entire human race for almost all of our history has chosen willingly to consume these liquids despite how they taste.

Maybe if I get drunk I'll understand it? But I don't think so.

#pendell rambling

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/13/2023, 4:37 AM

This is understandable

Like the ridiculous thing is that I often like drinking stuff but I hate getting drunk, so mostly I get liquor that's kind of spendy because a single bottle lasts me a full year. There's a lot of really strong and even harshly flavored things I like but I wouldn't suggest it should be expected to get down with the taste of scotch any more than, say, Carolina Reapers or really strong cheese...

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farrowking37 @farrowking379/13/2023, 4:53 AM

Alcohol can definitely be a lot! The taste/burn of ethanol isn't necessarily pleasant, but as someone who enjoys a lot of different varieties of it now I do enjoy it! There's a lot of interesting and unique flavors you can only get out of the various fermentation/distillation processes that are cool.

That being said, if it's not your thing it's not your thing! No reason to force yourself to enjoy it. Everyone's got their own tastes!

Pendell @pendell9/13/2023, 5:23 AM

My main annoyance is there's just this cultural idea - maybe it's a specially American thing idk - that genuinely disliking alcohol is seen as childish. like, to a not insignificant number of the population out there, the only valid reasons to not drink are: you're pregnant, a recovering alcoholic, or your liver is Gone. If you agree to go to out with your friends and you order a virgin piña colada, you'd better have a damn good reason. It's dumb and I wonder how many people simply forcibly stockholm syndrome themselves into enjoying alcohol just to fit in.

farrowking37 @farrowking379/13/2023, 5:27 AM

Totally fair that is dumb and does suck!

Gravity Pike @gravity-pike9/14/2023, 12:16 AM

I mean, as an aforementioned Recovering Alcoholic, let me tell you: if you put up with the taste for long enough, your brain learns to associate it with Reward Chemicals, and then it tastes good. That's the whole game.

It's not that other people are "faking" liking the taste of alcohol - taste is just subjective, after all. But liking the taste of something is one of the ways that your brain teaches you to put more of it in you. Alcohol hyjacks one of the reward pathways in your brain, and other parts of your brain (not consciously knowing what alcohol is) will try to figure out how to arrange circumstances so that that thing happens again.

It's the same machinery that makes you enjoy eating basically anything other than sugar. If an animal eats something, and then feels good afterwards, its brain wants to remember that this is safe to eat, even if the plant is producing bitter chemicals to try to scare you off.

Quilynn @qln9/13/2023, 7:23 AM

It's different for everyone! When I first started consuming alcohol I honestly enjoyed the burning sensation from doing a shot of hard liquor. I've always really enjoyed really intense, almost assaulting flavours in food and drink though, so it's not all that surprising.

Wine and beer do taste delicious though, for reasons unrelated to the alcoholic "burning" sensation. Funky grape juice.

Though, for sure the main reason people enjoy alcoholic is the physiology effects. Many many people dislike the taste of all alcoholic drinks, you're not alone.

I think it's less like cilantro and more like black licorice (which I also like, because I like weird intense flavours.)

@secrets9/13/2023, 1:13 PM

getting drunk is the coors light piss flavor of altered states too lol. like there's definitely beers I like but this is absolutely a thing that only got culturally ingrained because for four thousand years the alternative was drinking the same river water the whole village shit in and by the time the idea of ever cleaning anything had gotten broad acceptance 99% of the other shit to do at a party was incredibly illegal

@Belderchal9/13/2023, 2:46 PM

I do think most alcohol tastes awful. However; I love dry (unsweetened) wine, sake, and some korean yogurty thing I can't remember the name of.

Wine is an acquired taste, but not in the same way drinking piss flavoured beer is. There's actually something to enjoy there that doesn't feel like you have to force yourself to like it.

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