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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.
The actual comparison for fresh ground coffee beans is brick fired pizza vs everything else, though, isn't it? And while I'll agree that brick fired pizza is better than dominos, we would refer to your hypothetical person who eats pizza only if it's brick fired as 'doesn't like pizza but eats it brick fired'.
No, it isn't. To simplify it completely it's something with significantly ruined ingredients vs not ruined ingredients.
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