What was the use before the Arabs?

Going from drunk to energized to inventing calculus, optics, a working theory of gravity and orbital mechanics in one lifetime

It sounds like you have had a bunch of dark roasts. Maybe try a light roast and see if it tastes the same?

Not sure why you're being down voted.

Personally I love the taste of coffee, but I can see how high "tastitivity" could make it unpleasant.

A lot of people think coffee has one taste. It does not. It isn't all that burnt to hell flavor like you get from Starbucks or most other places. A nice light roast will be more fruity. If you get the chance, I'd recommend trying a naturally processed coffee, which is where the seed is left in the fruit while it ferments and is then removed, so it gets a lot more of the fruit flavors.

I'd also say the same thing for beer, but even more so. Beer is like soup. There's so many different ways to make it with different ingredients. Budweiser, or similar, is what most people try, and it's shit. There's a massive world of beer though, with things like sours that can taste like wine, fruit juice, or candy, to stouts that can have coffee or chocolate notes, and so much more.

You have to have an open mind and explore. There may not be coffee you like (the number of flavors is broad, but still more limited), but I can promise you I could find beer you like. My mom used to say she hates beer, but I've found a good number that she enjoys because there isn't just one flavor.

Funny, after water, beer and coffee are my two most consumed drinks. I like whisky too but haven’t been drinking as much lately. It kind of comes and goes.

I don't care for the taste, but the smell is truly fantastic.

The Arabic dark roast beans are like used barbecue charcoal, but South American beans in a light roast are more like hazelnut black tea. There's a massive difference.

Same here. When people ask me why I don't drink coffee I have to explain to them that to me it tastes like a bars ashtray smells at the end of a busy night. The funny thing is everyone in my family loves coffee, I'm just the black sheep that drinks tea.

"Oh you just haven't had good coffee" nope sorry bud, I've had high end coffee, low end coffee, flavored coffee, everything. I even had a supervisor who basically lived on coffee and did everything he could to find a blend that was palatable to me, still nothing.

No no, coffea.

Ita coffee and tea together.

Same on both counts, except with a little creamer/sugar, it can taste good!

Beer big nope, no amount of flavor will remove the smell/taste of piss for me.

It's definitely a taste that not everyone likes. I personally love coffee with a bit of sugar (1/2 a teaspoon per espresso shot). I also love espressos but hate Americanos. Maybe it's the type of drinks you tried?

Coffee is the same for me. Beer used to be the same, but I got used to it - still doesn't taste great, but cold it's acceptable. But not coffee, I never got used to it.