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I try to keep my sugar intake to a minimum for weight control, so I quite enjoy bitter foods, but I'm also picky. I drink black coffee daily prepared from a French Press. I dislike most people's poorly made drip coffee that seems to be available everywhere I go these days. When I drink socially, I'll usually either have a bold red wine, a Belgian white ale, or 6+ year aged whiskey on the rocks (hate most dark liquor wells). I find most candy to be too sweet. I avoid juice, soda, ice cream, etc. although I do enjoy them.
You should come to Australia. We have fancy coffee everywhere (drip stuff is known as non-comparable) or at least thats what I hear.
alcohol spirits have something like 8 calories/gram. which is a lot. for dieting it might be best to cut out all alcohols.
I enjoy sugar too much to cut it out like that, but it sounds like you have brought the weight-health goal into focus so well that it can influence your taste preference. Is that correct?
I don't really understand the term fancy coffee. I grew up with even the poorest families owning a cheap moka pot and while theoretically that is not espresso, it doubles as pretty good one anyway. In Central Europe it is not a social class thing. If anything, it is the kind of coffee purchased, not the way of preparation, as some brands are cheaper than others.
I really wish moka pots would get more internationally known. They are dirt cheap, dirt simple, and can bring good coffee into precisely those poor homes that need such small life hacks the most. I hope someone's exporting them to Africa or having the made locally.
Things like Aeropress are even simpler. And really poor houses make excellent coffee in just a small pot -- you probably know it as Turkish coffee -- and have been doing this for decades and centuries.
Yes, tried the Aeropress when ThinkGeek.com introduced it, then eventually returned to the moka pot or other espresso or quasi-espresso makers because I missed the burnt flavor.
The burnt flavor is mostly a function of the roast of the beans, could possible be a function of the grinder, and is affected by water temperature.
You're used to the taste that your moka pot provides and you like it -- fine. But saying that everyone else should switch to them would be a 'typical nose/tongue" fallacy :-)
Dzhezvas are even cheaper and more low tech :). Some of the best coffee I ever had was from a dzhezva.