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I bought a bag of pre-ground coffee the other day, thinking I could save some money by getting one of my cups of coffee per day from a much cheaper source. I'm not sure if this was a particularly bad one (a search didn't reveal any customer/reviewer dissatisfaction with it) or my palate has just fully adjusted to the experience of whole beans that I grind myself, but I had a remarkably bad experience with it. The coffee was fucking soulless. It didn't even have the classic smell of coffee. The taste had no appeal or depth at all. I don't know what they did to it when they processed those poor beans, but it was almost unsuitable for human consumption. Jfc. I've thrown the bag in the trash now.
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I guess you and @Muninn just don't like coffee very much. I'm being serious. Most people buy their coffee in giant tubs of Folgers or Maxwell House. Most of the "high end" coffee is sold pre-ground in bags at grocery stores. Most of the premade coffee people buy isn't from dedicated coffee shops but from diners, gas stations, and fast food restaurants. Go to a grocery store and see what percentage off coffee on the shelves is whole bean. Dedicated coffee shops usually do grind their own beans, but that market is dominated by Starbucks. I'm of the opinion that if you discount 90% of the market as undrinkable garbage, you don't actually like coffee. It's like someone who says they "really like pizza" but they'll only eat Neapolitan-style pizza with basil and fresh mozzarella.
Hmm. A bad, plebeian take, and unskillfully delivered, sorry.
A more fair comparison in your analogy (reductio ad absurdum) would be to claim that someone who shies away from the oft-sold, cheapest, processed frozen pizza made with the lowest quality ingredients, partly destroyed by the processing and stored for way too long, doesn't like pizza. Which is still a dubious take but it's closer to what we're talking about with coffee. The beans do suffer from being left exposed to oxygen after grinding. That's a fact.
Having discernment is not absurd. It means you appreciate the food/drink in the forms that bring out their qualities, and don't bother with the forms that do not. That's legit imo.
If 90%+ of the pizza sold in the US were frozen pizza and most people didn't think the difference in quality was salient enough to spend a few extra bucks on pizzeria pizza even occasionally, then I'd agree with you. But almost everyone agrees that frozen pizza is an inferior convenience product in a way they don't for coffee that you don't grind yourself. If I'm visiting friends whose culinary habits I'm unfamiliar with for the weekend and they tell me in advance that we'll be having pizza for dinner Friday night, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if they made frozen pizza, but I wouldn't think "wow, these people must be really into pizza" if they made it themselves or ordered from a shop. I would think they were more into coffee than the average bear if I wake up on Saturday morning and they're grinding coffee beans.
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