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Have you ever had this happen to you? You love a certain food or flavor for years, and then one day, for some reason, you're completely turned off by it and don't want to have it again? That's what is happening with me right now with mocha.
More specifically, mocha drinks. As I've mentioned here many times, I don't really like coffee, but I like drinks that have a mocha flavor in them. I bought Nestle's Ice Java chocolate mocha flavored syrup for a couple of years. I really liked it, and bought it again this summer. About two weeks ago it suddenly started to taste...um, really bad to me. It didn't taste right at all. I don't know if they changed the formula or if my bottle had gone bad (the date was fine), but it suddenly tasted really sharp and bitter and disgusting. They don't make the other flavors anymore (at least they don't sell them in my area).
But the mocha problems don't end there.
How about Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino? Not the ones you buy at Starbucks locations, but the little bottles you buy at supermarkets. I used to really love this drink. It was one of the only things I liked about summer. But about a week ago that drink also started to taste bitter and sharp and disgusting. The same exact flavor. Now I've switched to the Coffee Frappuccino.
Finally, we come to Dunkin' Donuts. Walking home last week in the blistering heat, I decided to stop and get one of those Coolatta drinks. I had purchased one last year and I thought it would hit the spot. It didn't hit the spot. It tasted like a mixture of burnt espresso and dirty feet. I threw it away about 10 feet from the Dunkin' Donuts entrance. Maybe it was the Turbo I bought last year?
So, I'm off mocha now. Maybe I should just stick to tea like I usually do.
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8-07-2007 @10:22AM Kearns said... If you were a girl, I might ask if you're pregnant. Sounds like a radical change in your physical something...
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8-07-2007 @10:31AM calamari said... My first thought was that you're coming down with some sort of cold or flu. One of my "cold coming on" symptoms is always that coffee smells like burnt band-aids.
You say this has been going on for at least two weeks, so my second thought is that you've changed a medication, maybe?
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8-07-2007 @1:23PM jsmylie said... God, I hope this doesn't happen to me. Mocha's the only form of coffee I can stand.
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8-07-2007 @10:53AM Javakilla said... I used to be a mocha person also, I also lost the taste for liking it about a year ago, I'm also mainly a tea drinker. (try the carmel frapachino)
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8-07-2007 @11:08AM Kitty said... Your tastes do change (sometimes radically) over a period of years...that's why I try foods I don't like every year or so. ;) Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised.
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8-07-2007 @2:27PM Sarah said... Hm, that is really troubling. I just imagined that my love of cheese dwindled overnight...a nightmare!!! I suggest you see if this is simply due to using "cheap" mocha mixes and purchase a mocha-whatever from your favorite coffee/frap/tea shop. I am a firm believer that throwing good money at a problem often illuminates the solution! Let me know how it goes.
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8-07-2007 @4:18PM wynk said... I have had the opposite happen to me several times. I hated cream cheese, for example (I know, I know), and one day I woke up (literally, it happened overnight) liking it. Same with mushrooms and a few other things that don't immediately come to mind. Very strange.
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8-07-2007 @9:53PM Andi said... I read somewhere that every few years (I think 7???) your taste buds change where they detect what flavors, like more of your tongue detects bitter and whatever...screwed up, huh?
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8-08-2007 @12:00AM Lunar Dog said... Hi,
I am a director of quality for a coffee manufacturer that makes iced coffee drinks and i have a good idea for your sudden dis-satisfaction of the mocha drinks and the reason is: Robusta Coffee Beans.
As horrible as it sounds, most iced coffee drink manufacturers lace and spike their ice drinks with the robusta beans for their high caffeine content and cheap price, but this year Europe snatched all the decent robusta beans in the market and US is left with cheap and really disgusting Vietnamese robusta. So thats why you cant compare last years products with this year. Your taste buds are fine, most iced latte's aren't.
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8-08-2007 @12:09PM sandy said... That is really fascinating about the robusta beans! Thanks for sharing that.
I have to say I've had a similar waning of interest in certain flavors, roasted garlic comes to mind... and I've always attributed it to the flavor going "mainstream" and finding its way into too many inescapable things and being kind of cheapened in the process--both literally and figuratively. I remember a million years ago when roasting a head of garlic and then smearing it on crusty bread first became something people tried at home (here in the U.S.) and how exquisite it was! Then you get the "same" thing offered at cheap chain restaurants and in store brand potato chips and sheesh... it all starts tasting like bad robusta. I can see that is going to be a very useful metaphor...
Great site and comments, by the way--my first time posting.
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8-09-2007 @3:43PM Cheri said... This happened to me when I was pregnant. Drank a mocha every day until the day I was pregnant. Never touched one for 9 months and then started up again after I gave birth. But I don't like the frappacinos in the bottle, only the ones fresh from Starbucks
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8-09-2007 @5:20PM Mansi said... hi there,
I know what you mean, coffee can turn u On and OFF pretty fast!! I've done it so many time myself. BUt have u tried this new SmartLid technology??? it can tell u if your coffee is made correct or not, alongwith many other things....
Read my article at http://funnfud.blogspot.com/search/label/Can%20you%20Believe%20this%3F%3F
HOpe u feel better after this!
-Mansi
http://funnfud.blogspot.com
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8-10-2007 @11:15AM tikatika88 said... IT'S POISONED!!!!!
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8-13-2007 @5:23PM alosha7777 said... I don't think this is about mocha. I think it's about exactly what you said in the first paragraph. that one day, inexplicably, you don't want something any more (at least for a long while). as much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE sushi, I actually went 5 months without it last year because I had it so much I suddenly wasn't craving it any more. I have gone through cycles twice like that with avocados... other stuff too I'm sure but I can't think of what right now.
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