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It's Monday, I'm tired, so it's time for a post about coffee.

I don't like coffee. Never have. In high school I hung out for hours on end, almost every day, at the local cafe, but I usually got a Mt. Dew or tea (Tangerine Orange Zinger was my favorite), never coffee like my friends. I even developed a serious crush on one of my coffee-addicted friends, despite her perpetual coffee breath (there's a long, emo-tastic story, there). But never the coffee. I tried it every once in awhile (just like I try tomatoes every couple years), but nada.

Now I'm starting to reconsider my stance. Here's my story:

A couple years ago for my birthday my mom sent me (for I was away at college) this chocolate gift basket from this local granola grocery. I love chocolate like mk5dude loves starting new topics, so this was a good gift to begin with. There were the usual gourmet chocolate bars, some absolutely killer truffles, and this package of chocolate-covered espresso beans. Now, I think I've established that I'm not much for coffee, and never in my life have I looked at a coffee bean and though, "mmm, I'd really like to chew on that". But these things were good. So good. I still didn't like coffee, but whenever the conversation turned to coffee I could say, "but I did have these chocolate-covered espresso beans once..".

So now a couple weeks ago, I was hanging out with my girlfriend and my friend Cara watching some episode of *cough* Gilmore Girls (don't give me that look) and she pulled one of these Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino things out of the fridge. I asked for a taste, because I know that "Mocha" means there's chocolate in it. I did not swoon at the taste, because my mouth could still tell it was coffee, but it turned out to be something I could learn to love.

Ergo, the slippery slope. In the past few weeks, I've had more coffee than in my entire life. I have at least one of these Starbucks things each week, though if I have a complaint with them it's that they have so much sugar (but that's probably half the reason I like them). I still avoid caffeine early in the morning (I learned my lesson about caffeine addiction back in high school), but I'm trying new things, which is usually good. At the friendly local coffee shop last week I had an Iced Mocha (basically the same thing) and it was fairly good, and a couple days later I had a "Mounds Bar" (cappuccino with chocolate and coconut flavoring), and that was definitely good.

Is there a point to all this? If there is, I think it's two-fold: a) I'll eat anything if you put enough chocolate in it, and b) they say that if you eat something 8-10 times, your tastebuds learn to accept it and even like it. Maybe someday I'll learn to like tomatoes.

How do you feel about coffee? Have you tried it with chocolate? What about other food aversions that you got over? Entertain me.

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I don't really like coffee. It tastes kind of okay, but I hate caffiene so no.

I got over my caffiene addiction this summer by drinking a tiny bit less each day 'till I didn't need it anymore. I started exercising to make up for it because otherwise I'd be way too tired.

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I've gradually become a Starbucks addict. Even if it's overpriced, I sometimes crave a frap! Mmmmm.... I still don't like regular, hot coffee. I go for the cold drinks with the whipped cream on top. Mmmmmm...

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I don' like Coffee. I've tried it many a timesn, but to no avail. My mom is a coffee fiend though (She loves the back of my Homsar shirt). It just taste like hot mud to me.

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The only thing with coffee in it I have ever touched, is Mocha Fudge, and it was pretty good. It's against my religion to drink coffee, so, I wouldn't know anything about it.

I also have a love for the chocolate covered espresso beans, in fact I think there are still some in my house *goes and checks* w00t there are. In terms of coffee to wake up, I've always been as awake as I need to be at any hour of the morning so I only drink coffee if I'm cold during select mornings in the middle of winter but I don't get cold much so i don't drink it enough to get addicted. I AM hooked on the Nestea iced teas though (ya know, the one with the snowman) seeing as it's the only caffinated beverage to be had in my schools I take advantage of them when I can and when I do it's usually 2 or more in a day. I also am a occasional drinker of Red Bull but that much caffene makes me jittery.

When I have the good fortune to happen upon a teacher that is selling sodas I usually get a Mountain Dew, I was turned on to them by a friend's brother that recently had some kind of epiphany and transfered to bible collage the next semester so he had to give up all the vices he was so used to like foul language and smoking. After a couple of days there when he thought he could take it no more he met some other like minded bible collage students that filled the void with Mountain Dew and it's been like that ever since. Ah Mountain Dew, I loves you so much.

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Mt. Dew was so popular at my high school that my junior year they got a new vending machine that sold only Mt. Dew. It seemed like everybody at DHS had a Mt. Dew habit.

This winter I pretty much stopped drinking Mt. Dew cold turkey. I think I've mentioned this elsewhere. I used to have a 3-4-can-a-day habit, but between the sugar and the caffeine I was starting to have serious concerns about my health. Nowadays I can barely even handle two cans of any soda in a day.

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Mmmmmm I love coffee. I drink coffee every day. Usually I'll stop at the Tim Horton's kiosk (you Yanks really are missing out - do you even know what "large double-double" means?) at school, or if I'm at home I make it here. The bookstore where I work has a Starbucks in it, but I usually try to stay away because it's just so expensive, even with our 20% staff discount. But when I do give in, it's a Caramel Macchiato for me. Mmmmmmm I love coffee.

It's weird, though - I didn't drink coffee at all until I was 18 and I went to Japan. After meals there, you're always offered coffee or green tea - and this isn't your regular green tea. It's very thick, not like the kind you get in coffee shops or grocery stores. Anyway, I was not a fan of the green tea (although I like it now), so I always opted for coffee, because it'd be considered rude to refuse. So I guess that's when (and where) my love for coffee was born.

As for other food aversions, I used to hate eggs. I used to eat scrambled eggs when I was little, but then when I realized what they really were, I couldn't bring myself to eat them anymore and even the taste would sicken me. So, like IJ, I'd try them every couple of years to see if I still hated them, and I don't anymore! I still have to try really hard not to think of their origin, but it's getting easier. I still can't eat any sort of meat off the bone, though. No chicken wings for me.

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I'm not a big fan of eggs, though it has nothing to do with their "origins". I like scrambled eggs alright, especially in Chinese or Thai food, but I don't care for hard-boiled eggs or anything with a yolk.

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Odd as it may sound, i LOVE COFFEE!!! decaf tho...otherwise my mum dies of annoyance. I have an aversion to most foods...anything colored red, blue or green. And sometimes yellow and purple.

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Our fingers will falter
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We'll know that it's over and smile and go greeting
Whatever comes next

So, that leaves, um.. orange, brown, black, and white? Sounds like it could get boring pretty fast.

I have a friend who can't eat anything bright red, especially gummy ones, because of a very old traumatic food aversion. But, with her OCD, it's kind of the least of her food issues.

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I may have mentioned this befroe, but I'm pretty much addicted to soda. I usually drink 4 cans a day. At least it's not Mt. Dew, though. That stuff makes you bounce off the walls.

I hate coffee and tea. The only hot beverage I like is cocoa.

And I love tomatoes and eggs. My traditional Saturday morning breakfast is two sunny-side up eggs, toast and sausage. It may be bad for you, but I loves it so.

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I used to hate diet soda. Now it's the only soda I drink. Hrrmmm... I also used to hate seafood. Now I like the more familiar textured seafood, like swordfish. I still hate shrimp and lobster. Shame too, because I live in a state where lobster comes cheap.

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You dont't like tomatoes? How can you not like tomatos?!?!?!?!one!!!/slash/

One word that describes coffee for me: BLEH.

I hate the smell of coffee so much >_< I remember when I was like, seven or ten or something, I was on this plane with my dad, and I accidently knocked his coffee over and it fell on my blankie T___T Merph....

Food adversion...hmmm...well, I used to actually think Moutain Dew tastes like pool water (seeing as the first time I had ever seen it was in a vending machine near a pool XD), but then I realized it must taste exactly like Mountain Lightning.....>.> Oh, and then there's fishsticks. Man, I couldn't stand those things before...now I love 'em!

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I still avoid diet soda. Artificial sweeteners are nasty.

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Wow, what a lot of picky people. De-Caf, for me, is the only way to go. Everything else I eat! I LOVE Thai, Indian, Japanes and Chinese food. I'm a bit picky about Mexican because my mom grew up in a 90% Mexican community, that made DARN good food. And the most populer resturant in Rexburg is called "Gringo's" for heavan's sake! I mean, Gringo's means "White Man"! People call me picky because I hate to go to Gringo's... and there's a Bajio grill just down the street! It's a thousand times better.

Edit: I can make darn good eggs. Scrambled, fried, boiled, ommlettes, you name it.

I used to think the same thing. Now I've been drinking diet almost exclusively for several years and they taste the same to me. Except in restaurants. In restaurants, diet is still gross.

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I unnerstand. I recommend the new Pepsi One. It uses Splenda, so it tastes like normal soda. Yay.

If you want to know my opinion of Mt. Dew, just CLICK HERE.

AND HERE.

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I have a strange relationship with coffee. It smells pretty good when it's freshly ground, but I will not drink hot coffee. To me, it tastes extremely bitter (especially the crema on top). It boggles me to think of how people can drink straight black coffee, with no sugar or milk. Bleh.

However, I do drink iced coffee (Aussies love their iced coffee). It's like a milkshake thing, it's cold and probably contains enough added sugar to make it not taste so bad. And because it has no bitter taste to it.

I also do not like peas, tomato, OJ, ketchup, BBQ sauce and many other things.

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My boss will drink an entire pot of coffee a day. And that's from 7am to 7 pm. And that's not including the coffee he has at home and brings in. So with having to clean out the coffee pot every day along with his breath is another reason why I dilike coffee.

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You don't like ketchup? What do you put on your scrambled eggs? And hot dogs? And meatloaf? And fries-from-France?

Etc, etc.

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I put mustard on hot dogs.
Everything else is au naturale

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I cannot stand mustard. I just hate it.

Mustard-covered marshmallow Peeps would set me running, let me tell you.

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I also severely dislike mustard.

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Mayonaise, or anything that reminds me of it, makes me want to puke my pants.

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Now there's a Kevin Smith segue if I've ever seen one..


Truthfully, it'd probably be easier for me to list the foods that I DO like than it would be for me to list the foods I don't like.

Here is a small sample of the things I don't like. Tomatoes (I can eat them in stuff, but not by themselves or uncooked on anything.), lettuce, pickles, cucumber (my dad won't eat cucumbers, and he'll eat almost ANYTHING), Zucchini (see cucumber), eggplant (see cucumber), most any vegetable (see tomatoes), any fruit (see tomatoes), coconut (very allergic, plus I don't like it anyway), tofu, ... and the list just goes on, and on, and on.

Some of the stuff I do eat, that most people don't seem to like: Spinach (raw, cooked, it doesn't matter), broccoli (steamed, with a bit of soy sauce, it's heaven), wild game (venison, wild turkey, antelope, elk, it's all pretty good, except squirrel, which I refuse to eat, for no really good reason, I just don't like the name, "squirrel"), coffee, extremely spicy food, this list goes on, too...

I LOVE COFFEE, only when it's made correctly, though. If I can see the bottom of the mug with a 1/8 cup left, it's not strong enough...

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I like coffee. But not as much as my aunt. She's crazy.
I also have a strong disliking for mustard.
But tomatoes are weird. Sometimes I'll eat them and like them, but then I put them on my own sandwiches and hate them. Strange.

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Here here.

Ketcup >>>>> Mustard

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I am absoulutley disgusted by tomatoes. The only tomatoes I will eat is in Ketchup and Spagehheti(I don't know how to spell it) sauce and Pizza sauce.

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