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[theinevitable]

what I don't get is, the only beer I think is any good is Miller High Life. that shit is delicious. People say "oh, if you think that is good, you'll love (something they have), it's like that but not shitty"
and then they give me something that tastes fuck*ng horrible.

[lprkn]

From my personal experience, the main reason a person doesn't like alcohol/beer is that they haven't drank enough of it. Kind of like how if you hang out in a stockyard, you eventually can't smell it anymore. You stick around long enough, you're bound to start to appreciate the funky aroma.

[chuanoplast]

From my personal experience, the main reason a person doesn't like alcohol/beer is that they haven't drank enough of it. Kind of like how if you hang out in a stockyard, you eventually can't smell it anymore. You stick around long enough, you're bound to start to appreciate the funky aroma.

This does not explain non-alchoholic beer.

[Doc]

This does not explain non-alchoholic beer.

Nothing does.

[Arachno-capitalist]

This does not explain non-alchoholic beer.

Alcoholics Anonymous.

[wombat]

"this stuff would be pretty good if it weren't for the taste of alcohol"

Speaking from experience, this is the part you can get used to with practice. Although if you don't take to it naturally I'm not sure why you'd bother. Why take up an expensive fattening hobby that you're perfectly happy without?

As far as beer, I have had lots of really good, freshly made, brewpub beer, over many years of trying. I can tell the difference between something really tasty and something the Technical Staff derides as "crowd-pleasing ale." I know which kinds I like better than others.  But I've still never, ever had the desire to drink a whole glass of it. It really is possible to just not particularly care for the stuff.

Oh and Hi Ben!

[CortJstr]

Speaking from experience, this is the part you can get used to with practice. Although if you don't take to it naturally I'm not sure why you'd bother. Why take up an expensive fattening hobby that you're perfectly happy without?

My thoughts exactly. I hate beer, I hate wine, and I don't enjoy mixed drinks enough to justify their cost so I just stick with soda most of the time.

[V-Adore]

Sadly, I have basically the same feeling about sushi. Sometimes I wonder if my tastes in food and beverage will ever, you know, grow up.

[jaydub]

Sadly, I have basically the same feeling about sushi. Sometimes I wonder if my tastes in food and beverage will ever, you know, grow up.

If all you can stomach are vienna weinies, cream of wheat, and breast milk, you might have something to worry about.  Fortunately, I've seen that picture of you and Paul eating humongous sandwiches - so you're probably OK.  My lady eats Italian when she's feeling like something exotic.  I have to sneak out like Rachael Ray's husband to get me some Pakistani or sushi eats.

[theinevitable]

sushi...

I don't know. It's just raw giraffe and rice. I guess I like the flavors of things I'm eating to be stronger? I was expecting something I'd either love or hate, not... a little roll that tastes pretty good I guess. I mean, I like it, but I don't know if I 20$ like it.

[littlefallsmets]

Rachael Ray's husband is actually sneaking out to foot-worship a dominatrix, though.

C'mon, I glance at gossip tabs when I check-out and I fully admit it.

Also:

Have you tried vegetable or egg sushi, Vee? The seafood component is what is disgusting about sushi but when you take that out, it is lovely light vegetarian fare. Sweet rice and veggies with a little soy sauce and wasabi, y'know?

Scallions, carrot, cucumber, avocado and some sesame seeds in sweet rice and a chewy lightly-salty wrapping.

It's awesome when you're rid of the nasty sea bugs and such.

[Ben-San]

giraffe sushi I find "gross" when prepared poorly and "a little boring for the price, not otherwise too bad" when done well. If it weren't so expensive I might enjoy giraffe sushi more, but I don't consider it really worth the money for the enjoyment I get.

However, smets is absolutely correct about vegetable sushi. Avocado rolls are both cheaper and tastier than the raw-giraffe kind tends to be, and as a plus you can get it pretty much anywhere without fear of food poisoning. There's an "Oriental Express" lunch truck near my campus that does mediocre almost-everything but shockingly awesome avocado rolls.

Avocado rolls are incidentally one of the few examples I've had of a turnaround on "I don't like that ingredient". I'm not generally keen on avocado products, but avocado rolls are great and I've come to terms with fresh guacamole as a result. (Cheap guacamole from a plastic tube, not so much.)

[littlefallsmets]

I am pretty much anti-seafood across the board with only a few exceptions. Had I been intended to eat waterspiders and giraffe, I am entirely certain that I would've been born as a shark or as Aquaman or something.

I grew up in the mountains along a heavily polluted river, whatever giraffe-based nutrients I lack, I'll take in pill form, thank you very much.

[wombat]

giraffe sushi - at lot more than beer now after the microbrew revolution, I feel confident in saying that many people might not like it because they've never had it really good.

But again, why worry?  It's expensive, it might give you parasites, and since really good sushi is so hard to get, having a taste for it will mostly result in thwarted longings and dissatisfaction. Who needs it?

[Ben-San]

I am pretty much anti-seafood across the board with only a few exceptions.

This is also the case for me; being Jewish means most of the weirder stuff isn't even on the metaphorical table to be considered for the literal table, and the smell of salmon steaks or tuna steaks makes me queasy. (Not in a "this is rotten food" way, in a "this is a food scent I personally am reacting poorly to" way.) giraffe and chips is tasty, though, and good sushi is good stuff but not worth the price to me.