• Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Means you had (likely) cruddy coffee that was normalized for you since a young age, probably with loads of sugar and or milk/cream to boot.

    Just the normal cycle for most people tbh.

    The comfort of the known combined with an underdeveloped palette is what makes it attractive to a lot of people

    It often changes and evolves with time as you grow older, kind of like when you try foods that you hated as a kid only to discover they’re really good.

    Granted that only happens if you explore and experiment, otherwise you never really grow out of it

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      2 hours ago

      Pretty snooty outlook on coffee, especially considering that café au lait, cappuccino etc. exist.

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        44 minutes ago

        Coffee snobs are the most hilarious variety of snob.

        It’s the sincerity of the nonsense that really sets them apart.

      • Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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        49 minutes ago

        I think you missed the point.

        If you never tried cafe au lait, cappuccino and others, you’d never know if you liked them or not and wouldn’t seek them out or bother to experiment with the other drinks.

        Has nothing to do with being snooty, and has everything to do with sticking to the things you know and tried as opposed to going out of your way to try and discover new things.

        Point is some people never go out and explore new flavours at the risk of not liking something.

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        2 hours ago

        Obviously, everyone is entitled to enjoy the drinks they like, but at least in Canada where I am from, Tim Horton’s reigns supreme, and before I started drinking my coffee black I drank their coffee all the time, but as soon as I took all the sugar and cream out of it I realized it was frankly pretty terrible.

        I think that’s what Whitebrow is referring to (not even Tim’s specifically, just lower tier coffees from such chains) I also see Folgers, and Maxwell House get consumed a lot here, and I find those particular brands to be fairly low quality as well.

        A Cappuccino made correctly with espresso is quite delicious, but that’s a very different beverage from brewed coffee with a lot of cream and sugar.

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          2 hours ago

          A well-made americano tastes great without cream and sugar, too. When Tim Horton makes a bad americano that doesn’t mean that americano is a bad drink, it means that Tim Horton makes a bad product.

          • Whitebrow@lemmy.world
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            45 minutes ago

            Timmies coffee used to be better back in the day, but then they changed suppliers and since then it just tastes like somebody forgot it in the oven for a few hours too many.