"I don't like the taste of alcohol"

[Mazty]

Icy-Zone said:

I think people are arguing with you because you're saying that alcoholic drinks taste better than non-alcoholic drinks (orange juice, chocolate milk, coffee), and they're saying that they prefer the taste of the latter. You then automatically process this as them not liking alcoholic drinks at all. I think 99% of people who like alcoholic drinks like it for the effects and not the flavor, because there a lot of cheaper, non-alcoholic options that taste better than your most expensive liquers, wines, beers, etc. And besides, many of the drinks you mentioned are mixed with non-alcoholic drinks to make them TASTE BETTER. lol

Please find where I said alcoholic drinks taste better than non-alcholic drinks.

Stating they can be full of complex flavours =/= better. 

 

Screamapillar said:

No one likes the taste of alcohol. They like the flavors and additives put in alcohol. Pure alcohol is just a clear bottle that will burn your esophagus and make you spit it back up. 

So this is sort of an argument of semantics, more than anything else. No one is going to say "Oh my God, I LOVE that bottle of Everclear. It tastes delicious." But, someone could easily say, "Man, I LOVE that mixed drink with coconut and pineapple juice mixed with Barcadi 151."

It's all about how the beverage is prepared. The same applies to beer. There is no such thing as "pure alcohol" that you can buy, unless your buying a bottle of denatured Ethyl or something, like in the picture of the OP.

In certain states, Michigan for example, it's illegal to sell any alcohol above 151 proof.  Anything over that is strictly banned.

 

Kind of. I just don't see why people think it's acceptable to make such a phenomenalsweeping generalisation and generally I find they only do so when they have very little experience with alcoholic drinks. 
For someone to say "I tend to not like alcohol, but I really like "X" cocktail" makes much more sense than white-washing the likes of whiskey and wine together. To mix all booze under one umbrella makes as much sense as saying "I don't like anything with salt in it". 

brendude13 said:

"I don't like the taste of alcohol"

Yup, sounds like a 4 year old to me. So much butthurt.

Really? I say how making a sweeping generalisation with little experience borders on juvenile and then you go and make that comment? 
K then. If that's the calibre of argument you want to put forward than so be it...