Non coffee-drinkers

You should convert to Mormonism.

I cannot take them seriously.

I *wish* I could be a non-coffee-drinker. Seriously. It's a ball and chain. I spend quite a bit, per month, on coffee, half 'n' half, sugar, etc.

Hate coffee. The smell, the taste, the look. EVERYTHING.

OP worse than Hitler.

I'll admit that I love the smell of fresh coffee, and coffee beans, but the taste? Nothing worse...

I am an American tea drinker.

Oof, tea is even worse than coffee.

OP, I have never drank a cup of coffee in my life... I'm exclusively a tea drinker since I was a kid. I can't stand the smell of coffee brewing...

I've always been a picky drinker. Didn't like Coke (and most carbonated drinks), milk, coffee ... pretty much anything. Once Diet Coke was introduced, I became a fanatic. And finally, when I turned 60, I decided to start drinking coffee. So you never know, OP -- your tastes change as you age.

[quote]OP, I have never drank a cup of coffee in my life

Oh, dear.

Gave it up several years ago because it affected my sleep so much. Switched to black tea, and then a few years ago to green tea. I loved coffee, but I feel so much better without it and don't miss it at all. It used to be annoying in coffee-cake-and-cake social situations, but now I only hang out with non-coffee people so it's easy.

I'm not a huge fan of coffee. Instant stuff gives me diarrhoea. And the espresso machine stuff feels like a line of coke along with the anxiety and heart palpitations (if I have more than two double espressos.

I like iced tea. I've taken to making my own, it's simple enough.

Love the smell. Like the taste. Stopped drinking coffee many years ago because I don't want a caffeine addiction that also gives me headaches.

I can’t have it because of my acid reflux :(

I don't drink coffee. I can't stand the smell of regular coffee. The flavored coffees smell good, but I don't see any reason to start drinking coffee now.

My weakness is carbonated drinks. I try to wean myself off them, but when stress hits, I need a Coke.

I hate it. My parents used to drink it all the time and I skipped Sunday school once after church and went into the little lobby where they had a coffee pot for the adults. I poured myself a cup, thinking I'd be so mature. Even added some cream and sugar, knowing I probably wouldn't like the taste of coffee by itself and I still hated it. When I think about how much money everyone wastes on Starbucks every year, I count my blessings.

I also had a roommate in college who always brewed coffee before I woke up every day and the entire room would stink with it. It's not that it's an entirely unpleasant smell in general, but he was an asshole so I always associate the smell with him and want to gag.

I love it! My morning cup is the best part of my day! And I love the smell!

It was my routine for 25 years to wake up and then have 2 cups of coffee.

About 3 months ago, I suddenly stopped. I just didn't want it anymore. No withdrawals or anything. Very strange.

I'm now addicted to peppermint tea. I drink one cup in the morn' then drink it throughout the day at work.

Bow to me bitches.

During the times I was able to quit coffee, my skin was beautiful. I wish I could kick this addiction. Alas, it's my final addiction aside from occasional junk food binges.

Why do you feel ridiculed? Do people make fun of you for it? Who would even do that?

r21, some do actually. They think it's silly how an adult does not drink coffee. Don't ask me why, I don't get it.

I took up coffee in my 20s when I was a heavy drinker.

Gave up alcohol almost 10 years ago, but still drink coffee every morning. One of my great joys of my life.

Eh, I don't have a lot of other vices. Don't smoke and not a heavy drinker. I'm fine with the coffee addiction. I just make sure to also drink lots of water. I also usually take it black and usually make it myself. Never buy overpriced Starbucks drinks.

Life is crappy enough without morning coffee.

I love the smell of coffee and a the taste of a good strong dark roast, but my GERD doesn't like it. I have to have only 1 small Keurig cup, or less per day. If my GERD is acting up I can't have it at all. I often drink plain iced tea or Diet Coke in the morning if I can't have coffee. I don't get headaches without it since I'm not a major caffeine consumer.

Nothing wrong with not liking something. That being said, I wonder about people who like chocolate but hate coffee - compared with the same amount of sugar/dairy, the flavor profiles are very very close.

Never ever trust a non coffee drinker.

Hate coffee, and tea too. Love a hot chocolate though. It’s weird because I was a barista for a few years and everyone said I made an amazing cup despite the fact I never touch the stuff myself.

I'm trying to cut down on coffee and drink hot water & lemon in the morning.

I also have never had a cup of coffee in my life. I hate the taste. Don't like it even when it is tarted up with flavorings. Can't stand the taste in anything else either like desserts. I come from a family where everyone drinks it. The smell of it brewing is nice but, God, what an awful taste.

I love tea though and drink it non-stop. Iced all year round but also do hot tea in fall through spring. Black only, though. I know green tea is good for you, but it tastes awful as well.

Coffee and alcohol are communal things. I used to drink, but would only drink around people I knew well & trusted. And only when I absolutely did not have to drive. I ended up not drinking very much, socially. The non-drinking did seem to affect my social life. In retrospect, who the fuck cares about people who can only socialize while drunk or buzzed.

[quote] The smell of it brewing is nice.

I agree. It's like bacon. I love the smell of it frying in a pan but don't want to eat the greasy stuff.

I am not a coffee drinker. I never much liked the taste. I prefer tea.

I like hot coffee but not iced coffee. I like iced tea but not hot tea. So I have something to drink for every season.

I was a tea drinker til my late 40s. I'm 55. I drank a lot of Diet Coke and wanted to give up aspertame. I started drinking iced coffee. At first I could only drink a tiny bit but now I drink a couple a day and love it. I make it myself and keep a pitcher in the fridge Coming from being a devoted tea drinker I couldn't believe the jolt energy coffee gives. I still don't love hot coffee.

Yes, R24, you reminded me to drink more water. It really does help & I get lazy about drinking water.

I love the smell and the taste of coffee, but only if it has a ton of sugar and cream in it. I mean, at least a quarter of the liquid has to be cream and perhaps two tablespoons plus of sugar. Once I realized that the amount of the calories I added to the coffee was the equivalent of a chocolate bar or a milkshake, I quit drinking coffee.

Now all I drink is water, skim milk, and V8.

I love the smell of brewing coffee, but I don't drink it. Perhaps 3 cups a year. I always thought the day would arrive when I simply couldn't function without it - but that day hasn't ever come. However, some say it has health and cognitive benefits. I'm a light sleeper, so I would have to have it in the morning only if I did drink it. I do like tea, but usually drink decaffeinated.

Caffeine has deleterious effects on me - inability to sleep, heart palpitations including PVCs, hands shaking, etc. So although I love the smell and taste of coffee, I had to give it up years ago. I drink hot decaffeinated tea now.

I have never had a cup of coffee in my life. Back in the day, I used to get shit from the people I vacation with for needing to stop to smoke every once in a while. Luckily, I quit smoking five years ago, but they all still drink coffee... and now nothing annoys me more than having to sit around and wait while they all stand in an interminable Starbucks line every day.

I guess it's karma.

68 years old and have never had a cup of coffee.

My caffeine intake is from lots of Diet Coke.

Just for the record, I also have never smoked weed or bottomed.

Coffee drinkers are the worst. You just know they enjoy foreskins and analingus and they are all smokers, or ex-smokers. They eat French food, and transmit venereal disease, sitting around talking about boxing and Karl Marx. Vile pigs, should be shot.

Well, I do like foreskins and ass and Karl Marx.

r41 are you my missing twin? I'm going to be 68 next week, have never bottomed, and am addicted to Diet Coke as well.

Coffee breath is unattractive.

Real men love a cup o' Joe.

The rest are pantywaists.

I used to make myself a cup of coffee or mocha for breakfast when I was going out to work and needed to hype myself up in preparation for entering the arena, but now that I'm home I don't need that much caffeine. When I was still going out to restaurants I'd order coffee if I was having breakfast. I never get Starbucks. I think their coffee's disgusting.

Starbucks is not my favorite, I buy from a good coffee distributor. But I like it and keep some on hand. I buy their Veranda Blend, which they label a blonde roast. It's pretty mild. It's got less of a burnt taste, although I've grown to like that taste as a change of pace. I don't understand people who put sugar in coffee. That disgusts me. Coffee should be somewhat bitter. But half and half is a requirement. Tea, which I also drink strong, should have sugar (or Splenda) and half and half. My grandfather used to make fun of his father's accent and speech "I've got to 'ave me 'arf and 'arf" so it goes back at least four generations in my family.

I love coffee but have never seen the appeal of tea. Even when I lived in China, I couldn't get into tea.

I like McDonald's coffee. I have one cup in the morning, with two creams, and I'm good for the day. Never had Starbucks.

Only place I ever got into tea was when I worked in Japan. The break room had these tall pots of very hot water and mesh strainers. For a short period, I got interested in loose green tea. At the time, I had not started on my coffee habit, so, I think the caffeine content (in the green tea) was significant (addictive) for me.

I spend a fortune on green teas. It's rather silly but I know and appreciate many varieties now. I have a thermostat kettle to heat the water correctly. This is important, and many green teas are brewed low - 75C for example. I don't like stale tea. I can enjoy cheap tea if it's fresh. For coffee, I like all kinds. No need for it to be gourmet but of course I love perfectly prepared coffee. But I like some rough roasts - included arabicas.

I have never drank coffee but I did love the smell of it brewing at one time, then all of a sudden the smell of coffee brewing at work started to smell like skunk to me. Considering about half the coffee drinkers posting in here either wish they could stop or cut back, I sure don't feel like I am missing anything by never taking it up and yes OP I too have had contemporaries ridicule me for not being a coffee drinker.

I really don't understand how people live without coffee and tea. Like I'd go crazy if I didn't have either to drink.

That's your addiction talking, R54.

I drank a ton of coffee in my youth. But now that I'm in my 50's I drink Green tea and herbal teas. Rarely if every drink coffee and don't like the taste. I particularly hate Starbucks. I don't know what I was expecting but it is gross.

R56 Starbucks coffee is absolutely disgusting. It should have an octane rating.

I'm the opposite. I actually loathed coffee until I hit 40 (I'm 47 now) and I loved it. I think it's due to taste bud changes. As you get older your palette changes.

r55 Id rather be addicted to coffee than meth!

[quote]Non coffee-drinkers...

...should NOT be on the Datalounge.

Hot broth for me.

There are people who are absolutely addicted to coffee, will drink a dozen cups a day. Is the the caffeine they're addicted to? Or is the taste of coffee addicting? I never understood it. I think people with addictive personalities ARE prone to be coffee drinkers. My mother's second husband was an alcoholic; he drank at least a six pack of beer or two a day, smoked continually and drank coffee like water. A totally addictive personality. He died in his early forties.

r61 when I was growing up, we had a neighbor who was manic depressive. When manic, he would drink coffee around the clock.

[quote]I have never drank coffee

Oh, dear. Again.

The past participle of DRINK is DRUNK.

No love for Postum?

r63 = bossy bottom barista!

Asshole!

Drank a lot of coffee until I was about 36 or so....then just gave it up cold. Will drink tea (iced and hot). Love a good hot chocolate.

5 years sober OP. Sleep is so much better. And so is my bank account. I do miss those epic shits though.

r68 I only drink coffee in the two-hour window after I wake up (so usually between 4:30-6:30) and I don't touch it the rest of the day. I haven't noticed my sleep affected.

R23 R31 Coffee can reverse a very small portion of damage alcohol does to your liver. Oatmeal does the same thing.

R61, Why did your mother marry him?

In my 20's I drank coffee regularly at work, but I'm 44 now and it gives me the shakes. Also, I hate cleaning out my coffee maker. The only caffeine I consume these days is cold brewed, unsweetened iced tea - Luzianne brand. I just make a pitcher of it every other day or so.

Hot is the Devil's temperature!

Don't feel too bad, a lot of people don't like coffee...

Then they grow up.

Who ridicules people for not drinking coffee? I've been a tea drinker my whole adult life and never been criticized for it. I love the smell of coffee brewing, and can appreciate the taste (especially Turkish coffee and espressos), but the breath that it gives you after....I remember vividly as a kid the coffee and cigarettes breath of many adults, blech. I love traveling in Asia, as they all have electric water kettles and tea as the dominant choices in hotels.

Coffee gives me the sweats and shakes, which is no good for a makeup artist. However, when it's been hour 16 on an 18 hour work day, it'll help me drive home awake.

The stink of coffee is only slightly down the scale from hydrogen sulfide

Love the smell of brewing coffee but can't stand the taste, Been addicted to Coke for 50+ years.

I'm not a coffee drinker, but I enjoy the smell and like coffee ice cream (and a very rare ice blended, sugary coffee drink). I hardly ever drink alcohol (not a fan) and can take or leave sodas/soft drinks. I mostly just drink water.

I'm the same R78. Don't drink. Don't like it. But love the smell of it.

"Why did your mother marry him?"

She was in love with him. She was scum, and she was in love with him. I've never been able to figure that out.

I have to detox from coffee every few months. It starts to taste terrible to me. Then, after a week of mate (Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder) I crave that morning cup. And coffee with dessert, only it would keep me up all night.

Sweet tea is amazing.

Non coffee drinkers?

An abomination.

Sweet Tea is an abomination.

I love coffee. Will drink about 3 cups a day. The taste is divine. The Starbucks Verona blend is the best. I don't go to starbucks that often, maybe twice a year now. I make it at home in a percolator.

And yes, I think adults who don't drink it are weird. But I also think beer and most alcohol is disgusting so go figure.

I also think soda is disgusting. Liquid sugar. No one should be drinking that shit. It's vile.

^^^ I never drink soda with sugar. I drink the carbonated chemical concoction version.

I agree with you r85, beer is so...yeasty.

I can't stand those "Don't talk to me until I've had my morning coffee!!!" people. Change your shitty processed food diet then you won't be tired and need coffee.

I don't drink coffee, OP. It's just never been my thing. I've always felt weird too. I would prefer a tea or a hot chocolate. Just have never really liked the taste of it.

I have never drank coffee but I would slap the shit out of someone trying to get me to say I have never drunk coffee.

TL:DR post —— Coffee, Coke and anything with caffeine makes me look like a drug addiction. I break out in sweats and start having the shakes. When Starbucks first came out, I’d go with friends and order regular old coffee the caffeine would hit me hard. I’m 57 and can’t even drink Coke because how the caffeine wrecks my body. Yep, totally boring post.

[quote]Hate coffee. The smell, the taste, the look. EVERYTHING.

Ditto. I think most people drink coffee because of social pressure, to make them look like an adult, and certainly not because it tastes any good. That's why you have so many flavorings, to try to hide the horrid taste.

Another non coffee drinker here. The smell of fresh brewed coffee is nice but the taste is awful. I can't even stand coffee ice cream or tiramisu. I like fresh brewed iced tea (unsweet) but hot tea doesn't do much for me unless I have a sore throat. I've always been a soda drinker but I've recently given that up.

Don't mind non-coffee drinkers

HATE decaf coffee drinkers.

I agree with R94 - I love the smell of coffee but hate the taste and "consistency" (too thick and too bitter). I don't love sugar so adding the amount needed to balance out the flavor is just not appealing. Coffee also seems to be an instant heartburn culprit (and honestly I don't have GERD or heartburn with anything else other than cucumbers). Coffee flavored desserts are fine (the sugar added I suppose), but I am not a huge dessert fan either. When I crave rich/calorie-heavy food - it is always salty as a rule. I love iced tea (unsweetened) and I drink plenty of hot tea with either milk or lemon. I have never liked sodas (even as a child), but drink a ton of seltzer water. Yes, non-drinkers are definitely singled out as a rule, but there are worse things to be LOL.

I find the unsweetened tea thing really odd...especially iced. To me the sugar brings out the flavor. Unsweetened tea, to me, would be next to water and not worth the effort to brew. Worse than water actually because it’s slightly bitter.

I’ve had Japanese tea varieties and found them extremely bland. But people claim they’re “so flavorful.”

Same with people who dilute juices and soup. It becomes very watery with no flavor.

Seltzer tastes yucky to me. The quality of the water or the carbonization adds a bitter flavor. Sometimes a certain variety made from spring water (usually Italian) will be OK, but the generic ones are almost chemical tasting to me.

I really dont know how people go through life without tea. So many health benefits, its like drinking liquid medicine. The Chinese may do other crazy shit, but they got it right with tea.

I grew up thinking the only kind of coffee was “black” which I didn’t like. In my 30s, a friend worked at a coffee shop said, I know something you’d like and fixed me the equivalent of a mocha Frappuccino. YUM! But I don’t consider that coffee, more like dessert.

I only like latte with caramel, or iced coffe, like iced mocca.

I don't dislike coffee, but for some reason it causes severe symptoms of depression whenever I drink it that lasts for several hours. We're talking sitting in the closet or lying in bed, staring into space, listening to So Tonight That I Might See, only getting up to pee, type of depression.

I don't know why this happens, and I drink lots of tea without issue, and even Mountain Dew doesn't cause the problem, so I don't think it's the caffeine.

As a result, I don't drink coffee.

I've started drinking some of the fruit-flavored waters (both sparkling and still). They're not bad and can be refreshing unless you're really craving something sweet.

[quote] I don't dislike coffee, but for some reason it causes severe symptoms of depression whenever I drink it that lasts for several hours.

I'm the opposite. Coffee actually helps me with depression / low mood. I've gone through periods of no coffee. Once, during a no coffee period, I could not get motivated in the mornings and felt depressed. I had no coffee on hand, so I went to Starbucks and got some coffee. It was like a light came on and I felt instantly better.

Just have some wine instead

I LOVE and am addicted to iced coffee (I get a throbbing headache if I don’t drink any by around 1pm). I prefer it with skim milk (or a dash of whole milk or cream) and artificial sweetener (I like Sweet n Low). I started drinking it (as a substitute for dessert) when I was 19 and on a strict diet.

I don’t like hot coffee or hot beverages in general unless the weather is subzero, in which case I wait for the drink to cool down to “warm”.

I prefer iced tea unsweetened.

I hate coke/Pepsi, and only tolerate carbonated beverages if they’re mixed with something uncarbonated.