“It’s an acquired taste” is the same as “you just have to gaslight yourself into enjoying it.”

I think there's some legitimacy to "You have to get over the shock of a very novel-tasting or feeling food before you can really figure out if you like it", but yeah, I suspect that about a lot of acquired tastes.

I've liked bitter tastes since a very young age. I think it may have started as a fascination. Like "Wow, nothing else tastes like this, this is crazy." But yeah, bitter good. Love it, always have. There are plenty of us that needed no gaslighting.

I've always liked tea and coffee, since I've first tried it as a kid. It was not an acquired taste for me at all. Without sugar or milk or anything else. I don't understand the opposite, why do people fill stuff with sugar.

Alcohol, however, has been more of an acquired taste and in my 40s I still don't enjoy it that much.

I was gonna say I really enjoy tea, but then realized that my fruit tea with plenty of sugar probably doesn't fit the description xD

Yea, bitterness it a weird taste, I don't mind a hint of it, that can be interesting, but straight up bitter drinks are yuk!

I focus on the non-bitter flavors.