I stand in non-coffee alliance with t and Dana. Bitter and unappealing, hot or cold.

I would squint suspiciously at the 2 of you misguided non-coffee-drinkers, but then I remembered that your dislike of coffee means there's more in the world for me. So my suspicious squint is now a beam of approval.

I'm also leaving all the coffee for you. (Including coffee ice cream, meh).

I feel like I did a test one time that suggested I was a supertaster, but I also love bitter things. Eh.

I tested as a non-taster, and I hate bitter things (see above re:coffee). Maybe "bitter" has more layers or nuance or something if you can taste it better?

You can also try adding just a pinch of baking soda to the pot to cut the acidity.

Chem Teacher to the Rescue!

I drink coffee. I have a Keurig in the office. You may now all proceed to vilify me.

I tested as a non-taster

How do you get this test? I want to get the results and email them to my sister and read them aloud over my mother's resting place--provided they prove I really am a supertaster and not just fussy ans stubborn.

I don't like coffee all that much either. It's fine with some milk/cream and honey/sugar, but the amount of sweetener I put in is not an amount I need to be adding to my daily sugar consumption. Plus, if I drink coffee, then I often smell like coffee for the rest of the day, which I find unpleasant, and I'm also susceptible to caffeine withdrawal headaches after only a few days. Oh yeah, and sometimes it upsets my stomach too.

Tea drinker/delicate flower all the way!

When did you start drinking it? Googling didn't help me much, but I did find a thing about Dunkin that said they only sold iced coffee in Rhode Island at first.

I can remember in high school not being able to get iced coffee anywhere but RI. I graduated in 95.

I remember my mother having one of those Five Easy Pieces toast-order moments at Friendly's, in MA, in the 1970s, only with iced coffee instead of toast.

I was drinking it from Dunks in MA in high school, in the 80s.

As you know Bob, my mother is from Rhode Island, and I grew up drinking coffee milk -- with or without Autocrat (without, it was just a quarter coffee/three-quarters milk).

We had coffee syrup and made coffee milk at home, too. I don't think it was Autocrat though. From Googling, the CoffeeTime and Eclipse brands look maybe familiar but not quite right. [link]

I was probably made up of 50% coffee milk as a child, it was even an offering at school lunches. We always have autocrat, but I buy Dave's now.

Driving ma for the co worker and sister.

I'm still trying to figure out what to tell my parents re: burial. Ideally, I'd do organ donation, cremation, and something like this [link] . I'm betting the cemetery won't allow that though, tree roots wreaking havoc an all.

Have I earwormed everyone with a Belly song, or just me?