Also, beer, olive oil, and cigars, and every other food people argue over and say “No, just try it, you’ll see I’m right, and you’re wrong.”
I mean flavor, not nutritional quality, so yeah, some “cheese” is not actually cheese, but flavor-wise, it’s all fine. It’s designed to taste good, and people buy it by the truckload.
“Oh, you just haven’t had really good coffee.” No, I have had coffee people claim is “really good”, expensive coffee, brewed “just right”, but again, it’s just different to me, not better. And, no again, I don’t put sugar or anything in it.
“You just don’t have a ‘refined pallet’.” Bullshit elitism. Proven when it comes to wine, at least. People can’t tell the difference between expensive wine and box wine.
Different, not better. Yes, of course, it’s subjective, but the way people argue shows that many don’t actually believe that. And, you’ll be dismissed for not agreeing.
Robusto coffee is sour and tastes terrible. I’d rather not drink coffee. If you can’t taste the difference blind, you have no taste.
So is light roast Arabica, sour bitter. But roasting Robusto dark and mixing it with dark roasted Arabica, removes all the sour. In a blind taste test you would not be able to tell.
Just like taking Pinot Grigio and mixing it with Columbard, softens the bite that white wine has.
Price means nothing if the product was not thought out.
I disagree at most only a little bit with most of your takes, except for the cigars.
There I disagree on a completely different level:
In my very own unpopular opinion, I consider all cigars to be abysmal smoke sticks from the lower reaches of hell.
So no, they are not fine.
Take my upvote for that crazy take!
The instant coffee you posted a picture of us 100% awful tasting and I say that from experience as a non coffee snob.
Coffee contains tastes that people often find offensive, mainly bitterness. Still some people like bitter tasting coffee for exactly the bitterness. That and most taste preferences are just learned and humans suck at unlearning things.
The coffee pictured tastes like freezer burn.
Upvote for unpopular opinion, I think.
Taste is subjective, I agree. You could drink the most expensive, finest aged wine and one person will think it’s shit and another will love it, because their tastes are different.
Though you do say “Most coffee” in your premise, which implies that some coffee is worse than others ;)
Subjective tastes don’t mean quality is also subjective. You can just say that you like shit wine and shit coffee, you don’t have to justify it.
Wine is maybe a bad example, since my understanding is experienced sommeliers often can’t tell the price point if you just switch bottles.
There’s a lot of snobbery and pricing based on reputation rather than any proper definition of quality, but that’s not the same as saying there’s no difference in quality in wine.
Coffee? Don’t care
Wine? Don’t drink
Chocolate? The style/recipe or do you mean the cacao it originates from? Pretty much all dark chocolate tastes the same to me (inferior to milk/sweet chocolate) 🤷
Cheese? CHEESE‽ WTF is wrong with you? Parmesan tastes nothing like mozzarella and ricotta is like an entirely different world!
Your opinion is clearly tasteless! It also lacks nuance and texture.
This is a tasteless opinion, not an unpopular one.
Lidderally.
Having preferences is one of the few joys that we can have left in this world.
Where I live most coffee cost the same to have it made, about $5 a cup for McDonald’s to the hyper local sourced from speciality farm brew.
The one you like most is best. people trying to share their favorite with you is a way of sharing joy.
Some people can’t share in that. Just like some people are partially deaf, some people have muted taste. They can hear something, but not enough to enjoy it. Just because someone can’t tell one piece of music from the next doesn’t mean all music is the same.
That said I think you opinion is unpopular. Most people have favorites when it comes to food and drink.
Lmao, OP you might want to get your taste buds checked, or spend more time paying attention to what you’re experiencing.
Yes taste is subjective, and the placebo effect is real, that doesn’t meant that it’s completely subjective or that there isn’t broad overlapping of bell curves.
Some flavours genuinely have more complexity than others, and there’s more for your brain to appreciate and process. It’s why children love pure sugar candy and adults generally don’t. Our brains have grown bored by just a simple flavour, kids haven’t.
I would say that one could make the claim that one brand of coffee is bad compared to another one but if someone tells me that they like the cheap store brand instant coffee then who am I to argue with their subjective experience.
I think there’s been a study about wine as well that people who are used to the taste of cheap wine generally don’t enjoy the expensive ones. Not because they’re bad but because it’s not what they’re used to.
Cheap wines can be very different too, alcohol in general isn’t tasty but you can feel the difference between good cheap wine and bad cheap wine, because some take shortcuts and subpar grapes and some don’t, local cheap wine is almost certainly will be of better quality than some overseas cheap wine.
Not unpopular, factually incorrect.
There are thousands of varieties of all of those things and entire professions dedicated to studying the differences between them for a reason.
Uhu sure. And then theres this https://time.com/4902359/wine-tastes-better-when-it-costs-more/
Sure, but you forget that wine cannot be burned to ashes to be sold as a starbucks christmas blend.
Or, maybe, your feeling of smell and taste aren’t good.
Freshly ground coffee is better than instant coffee. Freshly ground pepper is better than pregrounded. Don’t know what “box wine” is, but there is a difference between badly made wine and alright wine.
“Box wine” is a gallon of wine in a plastic bag stored in a cardboard box with a spout on it. You usually only see cheap, mass-produced wine sold that way, and you usually only see addicts drink it; most casual drinkers would prefer to save their money for something slightly more enjoyable.
I personally buy it for cooking, seems to work great for that, but I never actually drink it.
Understood, lol. It was called powder or tetrapack around here. It wasn’t as bad as it looks, better than some bottled wine I’ve had in recent years. It might be nostalgia or teenager mind making it up tho. 🫠
Nah you’re right, some bottled wines are total trash, just badly made swill put into a bottle to sell at an upcharge.
I mean, there are extremes of snobbishness that extend into placebo territory. It definitely happens in the world of coffee, with expensive packs people buy for the sticker.
But this is an over generalization. There is a point of “you get what you pay for.”
There is also the ethics of the sourcing to consider.
This extends to all sorts of food and drink. And other hobbies too, like electronics.
I do agree mostly, but chocolate is a hard disagree, cheap alternatives give a noticably bland taste.
You do you, it’s kind of sad your palette is so fucked.
