I think that the situation of coffee drinkers in the US is very strange. The majority of the population regularly drinks coffee. But few people actually like how coffee tastes. Which isn't surprising, because coffee has a strong, bitter taste, and most people don't like bitter things. But if so many people don't like how it tastes, why do they still drink coffee? Yeah, I know that some people need their caffeine fixes in the morning or else they're useless to the world, but there are other ways to get caffeine. How did coffee turn in to such a big thing?
Like, when coffee was first brought back to Europe, it was MASSIVE hit. Which I think is weird, because when I wouldn't think if it as being something you would take a sip of and say “Oh, yeah, I need to drink loads of that stuff!” (Granted, as you can probably tell, I'm kind of biased, in the fact that I don't really like how coffee tastes, and can't stand it without some milk and substantial amounts of sugar. I'm a tea-girl, all the way). Maybe our tastes have changed, but I can see no rational reason as to why that would have happened.
And coffee just confuses me in general. Like, who, in the first place, would see this normal looking bean/seed/thing growing on a tree and say to himself “I think that if I pick this thing, let it ferment, then let it dry out, and then roast it, and then grind it up and stick it in some hot water, that would make something I would want to drink.” That just seems absurd to me. But then again, the origins of many common foodstuffs seem strange and unlikely to me (bread, cheese, etc).
So guess, if I were to generalize this whole post down to a sentence, it would be “I don't get coffee”. I guess it would have been simpler to just say that instead of ranting on about it for a while, but if I have done that, I wouldn't have a blog, now would I?
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I often have this thought process with eggs. Although coming to coffee is a bit more complicated, I just don't understand who decided that if you cracked open the shell of unborn poultry and put it over a fire that that the cooked, undeveloped embryo would produce a satisfying breakfast item. Who thinks like that?
ReplyDeleteI personally love coffee, I love tea too, I'm split about 50-50. But coffee really isn't that bitter if you have good coffee. Honestly. Most of the time I drink it black and uncaffeinated just because I really like the way it tastes...but I might be in the minority here.
Yeah, my dad is like that as well. He always get's espresso with just the tiniest bit of cream, and dislikes all "coffee-drinks" because they don't taste like coffee.
ReplyDeleteAnd eggs are indeed weird (in many many ways), but I figure people probably decided that eggs were food by seeing animals eat bird's eggs. But so much of food is like that, where you just have to wonder "Who the hell thought this was a good idea?". You could just imagine that people were just trying anything and everything possible.