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More people, by several orders of magnitude, like unsweetened black tea than unsweetened chocolate. And probably another order of magnitude for coffee.
Does this mean that you should ask people about tea rather than chocolate? There are a lot more of them. And maybe it's easier with tea. If it's easier with tea, maybe you should do tea first. But if it's easier, maybe the masses of people who do it did it without planning or introspection, while the hard task may be a better source of information.
I've asked more people about tea than about chocolate. But I haven't asked anyone about coffee, because I don't drink it, and I think that's worth trying.
What is the outcome of asking people about tea? Do they say useful things? specific to tea, or things that might generalize to chocolate?
With tea, a few people like unsweetened black tea and have always experienced it as having flavor (though there's still the usual acquired-taste aspect of bitter/tannic things). Others, like me, find that without sugar it's just fragrant water that doesn't get experienced as having taste, but they like it that way. I haven't found anyone who's actively learned to enjoy sugarless black tea in the way I would like to.
I enjoy sugarless black tea. I didn't use to. I got into through green tea (which I admittedly still prefer in the general). I think drinking a lot of green tea and getting pretty into it (trying lots of different loose leaf types, learning about ideal steeping temperatures and times) got me used to the basic form of tea, after which it's a lot easier to get into black tea.