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CrantoPSS
Thankfully the fact that chocolate milk comes from brown cows is till true.
IckesTheSane
ispendtomuchtimehere
I remember when I learned about all the lies..
Lleonharte
these "jokes" always seem so forced
Quessir
Jesus, I was told the seven years gum thing back in the 80's. In Ireland. It travelled far, it seems.
JCentauri
Dos Zeta
CedricDur
What a saga!
CaptnVatka
Next thing he'll discover is the truth about Toothfairy, Easter Bunny, Santa, and Sasquatch.
SpanWolf
Most accurate description of beer ever.
AtomicSpatula
Always upvote cat mom. :3
AbsolutelyNotBacon
I don't think there's ever been anyone who liked beer with the the first sip. You gotta tolerate it before you start liking it. Or so I've heard. I don't like it lol
AtmaDarkwolf
I mean... most American beer DOES taste like farts in pee. DO NOT REQUEST HOW I KNOW WHAT FARTS OR PEE TASTE LIKE! - But good german beer, some french brands, even a few brit types, not to mention all the scots and irish types, are great.
nighoki
Beer tasting bad is the only accurate thing.
emmythefox11
0RocketCat0
Oh, what tangled webs we weave....
CatDickTiny
OriginalAndWitty
fartharder
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
...when the ice cream van plays music, its run out of stock.
VodkaReindeer
Me: dad, that's glass made out of?
Dad: sand, I guess
Me:
DatDarthCaedus
#1 Ahh, the gum... I also had a vegetarian classmate once who believed that was true for meat, saying that "the body can't break it down" and that it stayed in your stomach for 7 years while slowly rotting away.
Oh, and a teacher who insisted that ANY seeds you swallow will have a very very high chance of sprouting in your stomach.
somnif
I remember in the 90s there was a lot of people who thought "red meat" just... stayed in your gut. It was bizarre.
AyatollahBahloni
Always upvote catmom!
BenderRodriguz1010
RevRagnarok
OMG true story... I told my kids lots of BS jokingly, like giraffes are angry because they only get AM radio on their little antennae. But when they asked me about beer, I said that there were tiny microscopic animals that eat the sugar and pee alcohol and fart the bubbles of carbon dioxide. Would NOT believe me, after their mother confirmed AND even showed the packets of yeast in the fridge. 🤣😂
sometimesarobot
It's all in how you phrase it
TheElusiveDoctorTurkish
Because they're not animals. Yeast are fungus.
TinyOctopus
The tinier used to make leprechaun traps and tiny octopus would have to figure out ways for the little guy to break out and leave footprints in green glitter and mini cauldrons with chocolate gold coins.
She stopped making the traps two years ago.
Now I understand the look on my dad's face when I told him that I knew he was the Easter bunny.
ToSisPoS
My wee one saw the Elf on a Shelf in a storage bin in June (child was 4 at the time).
The gears just clicked, and oh the lamentations of our betrayal of trust.
“And what about the Tooth Fairy..? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING WITH MY TEETH?!”
jesuisgur
I got up at 6am to hide the eggs in the garden and I hear the blinds open and then "Ha! I knew it!". My 5yo had gotten up just to check on me...
CJAW
What does the note say?
TinyOctopus
Dear lehprecauhn,
I still don't know how to spell your name. Anyways if you escape this year's trap draw a bear like this except on the back of the page.
from your bestie Becky .
P.S. I'll never stop making traps until I capture you.
P.S.S. Bear [drawing of a bear]
CJAW
Maybe she stopped because she ended up capturing one
dontrike
To be fair, a lot of beer does taste like piss.
somnif
I've never once had a salty beer.... do people think beer tastes salty? I see the piss comment a lot but it never made sense to me.
dontrike
Try a Budweiser, or many American mass produced beers like it, and you'll understand. Also, I'm not a huge fan of beer itself, so that's why I dislike them in general.
somnif
I've had bud, coors, miller, none were salty. Tasted like malt extract and soda water, gave me heartburn, but no salt.
HarryBlackstoneCopperfieldDresdenIsMyPatronus
I was so confused by this until I realized you were insinuating that if something is said to taste like piss, that should mean it tastes salty. From there, I realized you were confidently asserting that piss tastes salty. And then I sat in horror, wondering how you acquired this information that made you so certain of it. I'm pretty sure I know, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to. Please, for the love of whatever you hold sacred, tell me I'm wrong.
somnif
Because one of the kidneys main functions is removing excess sodium? Because urine salinity tests are part of most medical tests? I've never actually drunk urine but the basic biochemistry says there's usually a lot of salt in there.
HarryBlackstoneCopperfieldDresdenIsMyPatronus
Thank you. I have no medical expertise or background to speak of, and while I paid attention and studied hard, I wasn't the best biology student. I didn't know any of this, but the explanation makes enough sense that I believe you. I'm really glad to read this response. Stay safe out there, traveler!
trinxter
Funny we used to believe this shit, but now there are people who watch Fox news.
CedricDur
My mother still tells me people getting cold makes them get the flu. She got upset I kept insisting this wasn't so. Refused to believe goggle because I told her not to believe everything GPT tells her (she doesn't even use that crap but now associates google with GPT :D). My father did the same but at least stopped contradicting me once I brought up the relevant links but still mentions about how he got sick because he was cold which shows he still believes it.
Colopty
While it's not the cause, the physiological response to being cold does reduce the immune response in the respiratory system so there is a bit of a correlation between being cold and catching diseases with that infection pathway. The environmental factors associated with cold weather also tend to lend themselves to a higher transmission rate.
So overall, not an entirely true statement but not completely unfounded either. Certainly faster to say than the full Scientifically Accurate™ reason too.
ExTechOp
The story is kept alive also by the way you often feel chills when you are about to get sick.
KnifeKnut
But beer does taste terrible.
apairofpetducks
I genuinely wish I liked beer, or at least thought it was ok. It'd make my life easier plus I bet beer and pizza IS delicious!
MidnightBaelfire
Agreed
eadanke
You're supposed to drink them super cold... so you can't actually taste the beer.
CrazyMuffins
That's just not how that works ma dude...
jtxyz
Of course it does.
They make it by farting bubbles into cans of pee.
Mytoothhurty
I mean that's definition what it tastes like
NickRivieraMD
Just Coors light
Vebrandsson
I wish I could upvote this statement more than once.
ArchonIlladrya
Depends on the beer and your tastes! I had a hefeweizen that was legitimately transcendent before I stopped being able to drink it.
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
Butt beer DOES taste terrible. https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aTRqYmQ0cXg1cmVlenoxMjhzMzRxendzenYwOWQ5bWY2dWtubXF6eCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/MuHJcSI9ySLsrNo59Q/200w.gif
bardman135
Why you out here yucking yums?
inkasep1
Yer absolutely right. Embrace your beer of butts good sir.
Silverlebelge
*hisses in Belgian*
onlyhalfghost
well yeah, you have the option of beer that's actually tasting of fermented wheat, not just six tons of hops per can.
jetportalchaos3
Acquiring a taste for beer is the same steps as Stockholm Syndrome, by the end you learn to love your captors.
uzetaab
If you drink the same brand all the time you get used to it and it tastes fine. Any mass market brand of beer does not taste good, but some of the speciality craft beers can be pretty tasty.
ShearingBlizzard
Get yourself a Framboise.
Nykidemus
"Allo!" https://i.redd.it/dof115bacvk11.jpg
dasklaus
I've never met anybody who liked beer on the first try, it gets tastier as the evening goes on, and over the years, for many people. Like black coffee, or spicy food, nobody will have a "oh wow this is great" reaction to it that hasn't tried it before! Even if it's good beer.
DanCodyComics
You doubt my Irish bones. My dad tried the sip aversion therapy trick on me and I can tell you with certainty that it hit just fine at 4 years old.
Badgerbadgerson3
Damn....who hurt you?
onlyhalfghost
the answer, if someone hates beer but not alcohol, is almost always hops.
Firestar002
My dad did. I was bitching at him at a hockey game about being thirsty and bored (didn’t want to even be there). He gave me his drink…. AWFUL! Swore right then and there I’d never drink it freely.
When I turned 21, had a sip of beer. Yup, still tasted bad.
KnifeKnut
Beer
IHaveAGuyForEverything
And the cycle continues.
DoingItWrongSince1980
Yeah. It'll do that.
msgbubba
I've never liked beer but I've never liked anything bitter, luckily there's Smirnoff ice and Mike's hard lemonade.
richardstinks
The only thing that tastes better than one beer is the next one.
MightyZephyr
FTUG
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OG5zeHVkbTczamVmODZ2eWg3amQxdnUwZHNvNmI0amY0ZHR0Z2JibCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/bIEzoZX0qJaG6s6frc/200w.webp
mdevil
We've had second beer, but what about 12th beer?
SinisterDuff
If you're still tasting after 12th beer, it's fine.
Gin2ki
Terrible beer tastes terrible, indeed.
devasto
I think it depends on the beer and what it's being had with. Beer alone? Not great. Beer and pizza? Fantastic. Burgers and a stout? Fabulous. The NA Sam Adams is my favorite, and the Guinness NA stout is perfect with something hearty
Seras91
i even tried assumingly good german beer. Nope still tastes horrible
reichstein
I agree. Beer is the worst tasting beverage I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing, and it's not even close.
OhIfIMust
I snuck a sip when I was a kid: It was horrible beyond my ability to describe, and I’ve had no interest at all in trying it a second time.
reichstein
I have tried beer multiple times over the years. Often when someone is drinking a beer which they claim is a really good beer.
It has been amazingly horrible every single time.
It's awful enough that I struggle to understand how anyone actually enjoys it. The best I can come up with is that it must taste very different to other people.
DanCodyComics
Flavor is not as relative as many people think. More often than not distaste for any given food is more psychological than sensory in origin. That's why some people get very turned off to 'exotic' foods that are very common to other cultures.
Cornflakes91
most beers do, dark beers have a chance of being good
TapiocaMartini
You are drinking the wrong beer. https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dmE0azJ1cWI1aGJkcWk2MHI5aGV6Y2tzaHJodW9tbW81dGRlc3VjNiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/QsyPRpG6WVR6SYfBVw/200w.webp
KnifeKnut
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Nykidemus
Basically everyone I've ever met has been like "Oh, but have you tried x? I'll get you one!" All still made with hops. Hops tastes like ass.
choppedliveraldente
You taste terrible. There. Now we all hurt.
exbenedict
Depends on the beer but yeah there are plenty that are ass
Amousewithchees
It really depends on the beer... some are just pisswater swill, but things like Redd's Apple Ale are tasty.
DoingItWrongSince1980
Tastes are subjective. I dislike red's. Way too sweet. Their Easy Apple (less sweet) was tolerable, but I haven't seen it in ages. Not sure they still make it.
Love me a good stout though. But I generally enjoy the taste of a (good quality) black coffee and super dark chocolate. I know that's not universal.
I rarely drink sweetened drinks, so my tastes reflect that. I'll have a glass of soda with pizza, and enjoy that. But for sipping. I can't throw back six sodas or six Red's.
jridley
All of this depends on the person. I can't bear alcohol. Even a small amount of alcohol in something tastes like someone put vinegar and some kind of industrial floor stripper in. Completely triggers my gag reflex.
apairofpetducks
Anything that even hints at hops is a no for me, dawg. That's the flavor that turns me off beer.
JesaraB
Redd's Apple Ale is not a beer, no matter how much it claims to be one, it uses a tiny amount of "hops extract" instead of actually brewing with hops, in order to claim it has the requirement, while avoiding all the actual traits of it.
It is like Kraft Singles, it is Beer-adjacent, like those are Cheese Food Product not Cheese, even if it passes itself off as the imitated product.
Xenarion
Depends which, but yeah.
Akseptance
I always prefer cervesas. I know it's just Spanish for beer, but the way that Mexican and other Spanish beers are made results in a lighter, sweeter, and more flavorful beverage imo.
Xenarion
There's a bunch of micro-breweries around here, and it gives me a ton of variety of tastes.
pkmnfrk1
The trick is to find the beer that offends your palette in a way that makes you go “hm!” instead of “yuck”!
dpflug
...checks out. -- Goze
absolutelymad
I like apple cider
battery1979
Terrible beer tastes terrible.
boobityboobityboobity
It tastes like it's doing a job, and you're gonna need a whole crew to fix you
HurricaneShade
Cheap beer, yes indeed. When you stop drinking just to get drunk... buy better beer.
jridley
I've tried some that knowledgeable friends have handed me - still can't bear anything with alcohol in it. Smallest bit of alcohol = have to work hard to suppress vomiting. Same for coffee and tea.
HurricaneShade
I mainly buy flavored beers for making beer bread.. the alcohol burns off and you are left with the flavor
MakeItBackAlright
I've gotten numerous people drinking beer who felt the same. It's not sugary soda and doesn't hold your hand, but good beer is fuckin alchemy that you can taste seasons in.
Surisuule
I make a smoked IPA that is so good. It has won several taste tests, but more importantly it has converted beer haters. That's the highest praise.
"Here, try this bubbly rotten water and lemme know what you think. Oh now you like beer! Awesome."
Surisuule
Also many of the people here seem to have simple palates. I've seen soda mentioned multiple times. I find that cloying amount of sugar gross. I like my drinks to have more flavours than sweet and wet. A sip of some beers is like a roller coaster on my tongue. Strongly fruity without sweetness that mellows and fades as a strong bitter follows. I think I'll have one tonight.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
I hope all the people in this thread trying to coach people on how to make alcohol moderately less nasty take a step back and realize they sound like a bunch of addicts desperately seeking social validation for their substance of choice. I doubt they will, but I hope they do.
Surisuule
"Hey that one thing you love sucks. And you are bad for liking it" is a heck of a take. I love beer, that doesn't make me an alcoholic. I love something that brings me joy and want to share that joy with others.
I don't need your approval to drink beer, or play video games, or read books, but if I can make your life better by suggesting a different way for you to enjoy one of my favourite things I will. Life sucks enough without trying to take enjoyment from others, trying to share it is bette
Surisuule
r.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
I didn't judge people for using (or loving) any substance, I judged them for encouraging others to use a harmful & addictive substance. Nor am I demanding that you seek my approval
Neither books nor video games cause diseases, cancers, or dependency; pretending that they're the same as alcohol (or any other substance) is incredibly disingenuous
Someone saying they love weed or cocaine & encouraging others to use it sounds like they've some degree of addiction. Alcohol is no exception to 1/2
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
2/2 this. Of course, I don't know if you are or are not addicted to alcohol and that's a judgement I couldn't make regardless. What I do know is that - dependency or no - alcohol is harmful to your health, and that harm is present at far lower levels of consumption than people generally appreciate. I would encourage you to find less unhealthy alternatives, though I don't know what they'd be for you.
SenfinaZeit
Alcohol in general tastes bad. Alcohol poisons the flavor of anything it's in.
insaaanity
Ethanol can dissolve some flavour compounds and adds a certain welcome, harsher note to food when used *extremely sparingly*.
pritolus
100% agree, I can't stand anything with alcohol in it and I hate when people put it in food
Samthetrue
Some people enjoy certain things. I love a good bourbon. To me, a good bourbon has rich flavor and doesnt burn at all. I also am a social drinker, so I drink when hanging out with friends and associate favorite drinks with favorite people.
It shouldn't hurt to take a drink. It shouldn't make you feel bad tomorrow. Those people suck and are doing it wrong.
SenfinaZeit
My taste buds are just sensitive to the alcohol itself so I I don't care for it. Although bourbon just tastes like smoke to me so I don't like it for that reason as well.
AlmightyElephant
I would say not entirely true but true enough.
My advoce for anyone who wants to try drinking but hates the taste of alcohol... take a shot of vodka and dump that shit in a glass with your favourite fizzy drink. You will notice the vodka as an undercurrent, but it will still primarily taste like the drink you like.
Beer on the other hand, tastes like boiled ass and doesn't mix with anything at all.
SenfinaZeit
Can't stand vodka. Tolerate tequila.
AlmightyElephant
Can't speak for how well tequila mixes with stuff, but the basic idea is to take a spirit with a very light flavour (even if that flavour is very strong when neat) and dilute it into a better flavour until the spirit is if not undetectable, at least little more than a weird hint in the background.
Like, a shot a shot of vodka in a can of coke to me is similar to the experience of just drinking a coke in a room where there's an open bottle of nail varnish that you can smell
Smoretank
Thought I was the only one that found alcohol terrible tasting. Its like burnt rubber to me. Its all I taste in any drink.
NaughtButOne
Nope. Very same. I occasionally buy a whiskey or wine thinking, maybe this time I'll get it... Hints of oak and nutmeg and raspberry or whatever-the-fuck... But nope. It's always just, mmm yes, faint hints of paint thinner with a note of gasoline.
Smoretank
Oh well I too wish I could the complex flavors. At least virgin drinks can be tasty. Oddly enough nutmeg taste like flowers to me lol. Cilantro is soap. My taste buds are messed up.
BenYourFriend
This is the primary reason I don’t drink. Like, yeah, drinking is bad for you, alcohol poisoning, yadda yadda..
But it doesn’t even fuckin taste good. That is such a big barrier to entry for me that I’m not gonna bother trying
NaughtButOne
My favorite is whenever you bring this up and people are like, "oh you just gotta mix it with [whatever]" and it's just like, all that does is ruin a perfectly good drink? I will just have the orange juice, please.
JustinArnold
Yup. Closest ive ever come to enjoying alcohol was a screwdriver. My response was 'its not as bad as the rest of what ive tried, but ide prefer just the juice'
BenYourFriend
SERIOUSLY THOUGH
why the fuck would I do a mixed drink with half sprite or half Sunkist when I can just drink the soda!!!!
BenYourFriend
This applies to more than soda it’s just the ones my family brings up most often for mixed drinks
Eldibs
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Anything with alcohol in it tastes like chemicals. Beer tastes like bitter and chemicals. Have the people who claim it tastes good tried any non-alcoholic, non-water beverages? Lemonade? Tea? Soda?
Isikyus
I agree with you about beer, but have you tried mead?
On the other hand, (black) tea, on its own, is actually quite bitter. There's a reason it's so often served with milk and sugar.
GeneralAnubis
Bitter? Don't drink IPAs
TyrannusEquus
I liked it right off. But I like my coffee and tea with nothing added to it. I'm a very picky eater, but I'll drink just about anything.
AlmightyElephant
From what I hear from the people who like beer, they always say they were drinking beer for a good year or two before they started to actually like it. Which sounds insane to me... for the price of a slab you could instead get yourself a slab of your favourite fizzy drink, a small bottle of vodka, and mix yourself an alcoholic drink that tastes like just your fav drink. And have Vodka left over for next time.
somnif
I liked the first "good" beer I had, before which all Id had were random occasional coors/etc (which still taste foul to me)
Eldibs
That still tastes like chemicals to me. I have yet to have any drink with alcohol that doesn't taste like chemicals.
ratrider524360
I like the sour and bitter flavors.
Hate IPA's. But there's something really refreshing about an ice cold cerveza or pale ale. And very hearty about a dark lager.
I also like the buzz.
Ularsawa
Well, for the taste buds of Americans, who prefer and are used to overly sweet and overly fatty stuff, a lot of good foods taste wrong. Oh, and about the price: a bottle of half a liter costs 40ct here (Germany)
AlmightyElephant
Speaking as an Australian though, a small bottle of vodka runs less than a slab of any beer that people seem to like (read: better than a VB)
But having had sips from a bunch of beers that I've been assured are actually good, I can confirm that beer likers must not have tongues with which to actually taste the piss they drink. You're better off just drinking the vodka straight.
Surisuule
I was given a beer by a German after a 9 mile run. It was heaven, after that I tried a few and they still tasted terrible. But after trying a few dozen types I had a few I loved. Not a year, just had to find the right one. After a few years of drinking good ones my tastes branched out. Now I like a wide variety, but I still hate piss-fart beer. Beer is my favourite drink, but I'd rather have no beer than bad beer.
keroko
But at that point, why even bother with the alcohol? Just mix your favourite drink, sans alcohol.
AlmightyElephant
Because two mixed drinks will get you nice and tipsy, and you can then decide whether you're aiming for drunk or just topping up the tipsy throughout the night
Colopty
Given the diversity of beer, that's quite the broad statement.
keroko
It helps when it's the taste of alcohol itself we don't like.
Colopty
The diversity includes non-alcoholic beers.
0RocketCat0
No, if you have to work to find the good one, it's bad. You might as well be saying "sure, you say you love ice cream, but that's because you haven't tried the right terrible flavor. Have you even been to a shop that sells orange flavor with bits of toothpaste mixed in and crushed ibuprofen sprinkled on top? You'll start wondering why ice cream even exists! They even make fish flavors!"
astrangehop
Meh, it's because beer is bitter. Just because half of all ice cream is vanilla soft serve doesnt mean you wouldn't enjoy green tea, strawberry, or vanilla ice cream. IPAs ruined the idea of craft beer.
Colopty
Well in this case it's more like someone tried pasta, determined they didn't like it, and immediately wrote off all italian food just because it was under the same vague umbrella term as pasta. So no pizza, gelato, or tiramisu for them on the basis that they tried pasta and didn't like it, and how dare anyone suggest I put in the unreasonable work of trying those other dishes, that just reinforces how bad all italian food must be if it requires effort to find a good one!
0RocketCat0
Oh, no, we beer haters have tried at least 5 kinds, including at least 2 microbrews. We've been offered a "good one" by a variety of people in a variety of locations including foreign countries (or, at least, a foreign beer offered by a foreigner who insists it's the country that's the problem, not the beer). We've heard many, many people make that spurious claim.
Nykidemus
If you really want to get a bunch of free fancy beer, tell everyone you know you dont like it. "Oh but you havent had the good one yet!"
Nykidemus
In short, hops tastes like eating out the ass of a treant with Crohn's disease.
Colopty
There are beers without hops as well.
Nykidemus
I'm by no means an expert, but I'm under the impression those are like, wheat wines, or some other not-technically-beer thing. I've tried a couple and they're generally still kinda bad, but not as bad. I just dont ever see a situation where it would be better to ferment a grain than a fruit. Bread I guess.
battery1979
Not according to German beer purity laws.