"acquired taste" means it sucks

[ShawnD1]

Why do people claim their shitty expensive wine is an acquired taste? I've never seen someone give chocolate to a child and say chocolate is an acquired taste. Coca Cola is not an acquired taste either. People try them and love them right away. Acquired taste is admitting that you know it sucks but you drink it anyway.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I've often heard that beer is an aquired taste.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

have you ever given a gourmet chocolate to a child? They would prob spit it in your face.

 

[darkewaffle]

They call it an acquired taste because if you don't like it, you need to acquire some taste.

 

[purbeast0]

eh there is plenty of shit that i used to not like that i like now ... so i'm going to have to disagree with you OP.

tomatos and beer are the 2 that come quickly to my mind.

 

[AreaCode707]

If you have the palate of a four year old, more power to you.

Acquired doesn't mean you drink it and suffer through until you like it; it means you acquire the taste as you get older and enjoy it.

 

[purbeast0]

5th double post of hte day...

 

[kami333]

I didn't like Coke when I was little. The carbonation made it "spicy".

 

[dullard]

Beer and coffee are both aquired tastes, yet people tend to love them.

I agree with you though. Why bother to aquire a taste if you don't like it?

 

[bfdd]

I've often heard that beer is an aquired taste.

people who drink snobby beer snob beer say that crap well them and people who are super picky eaters/tasters/smellers and don't want to admit that they're just a puss and super picky.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

In other news, 'youts' disdain anything not in their limited experience.

 

[Anubis]

lies Moxie is great

 

[Mike Gayner]

They call it an acquired taste because if you don't like it, you need to acquire some taste.

This.

 

[bfdd]

If you have the palate of a four year old, more power to you.

Acquired doesn't mean you drink it and suffer through until you like it; it means you acquire the taste as you get older and enjoy it.

I think some people "acquire tastes" because they think it makes them better or some crap or they try to justify their expensive purchase. "Acquired taste" is like the snobby way of saying "different strokes for different folks"

 

[bignateyk]

Coke sucks and good quality dark chocolate is not liked by all.

Rant fail.

 

[ShawnD1]

have you ever given a gourmet chocolate to a child? They would prob spit it in your face.

That's how you know it sucks.

Same applies to adults. Give them something but don't tell them what it is or how much it costs. They'll rant about how horrible it tastes. Then you say it's $300 chocolate from some special place nobody has ever heard of, then it's "omg it's so unique tasting"

 

[AstroManLuca]

I always hated olives as a kid. Now I love them (not the canned black ones, yuck, but good olives I love).

I guess that's an acquired taste.

And some tastes you acquire while others you don't. I've gone from hating beer to liking it but I've never once enjoyed wine.

EDIT: Oh, I see, you're not just talking about liking or not liking a type of food, you're saying that people will defend more expensive versions of something if they know it's more expensive.

That doesn't really fall under the "acquired taste" saying though. Not sure what you'd call that.

 

[bfdd]

That's how you know it sucks.

Same applies to adults. Give them something but don't tell them what it is or how much it costs. They'll rant about how horrible it tastes. Then you say it's $300 chocolate from some special place nobody has ever heard of, then it's "omg it's so unique tasting"

It's funny when people try to argue against this as well, yet it is a super easy to reproduce test and is constantly used by marketers to figure out how to sell a product.

 

[bignateyk]

That's how you know it sucks.

Same applies to adults. Give them something but don't tell them what it is or how much it costs. They'll rant about how horrible it tastes. Then you say it's $300 chocolate from some special place nobody has ever heard of, then it's "omg it's so unique tasting"

So basically your rant boils down to "everyone likes artificial sweeteners and sugar".

 

[LumbergTech]

I always hated olives as a kid. Now I love them (not the canned black ones, yuck, but good olives I love).

I guess that's an acquired taste.

And some tastes you acquire while others you don't. I've gone from hating beer to liking it but I've never once enjoyed wine.

my daughter loves olives, i've hated them my entire life

 

[LumbergTech]

So basically your rant boils down to "everyone likes artificial sweeteners and sugar".

all the people i know who say they "acquired a taste" for wine have a problem with alcohol

 

[cherrytwist]

OP posts are definitely an acquired taste.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Coffee to me was an aquired taste, tastes like crap to begin with then you begin to like it. Same with beer.

 

[lxskllr]

An "acquired taste" means that it's too complex to digest on the first tasting. It has too much going on to appreciate the first time through. Children, and Americans have pedestrian taste, and they need to be educated. You get that education by trying new things, and making the effort to see what it is other people like about it. Children will just suck on their Lik-M-Stiks, and drool on themselves ;^)

 

[CrazyAznDriver]

I hated beer when I tried it the first few times, but now love it. Can't really think of other examples though. I liked wine from the first time I tried it.