Yummy.
Posted on 11/04/2018 1:03:31 AM PST by vannrox
I have a friend who always drinks his coffee black with no sugar (and is rather pretentious about it, mind you), and whenever the server asks him if he wants milk, he makes the same joke: “I’ll take it black, like my soul.” Now, a new study published in the journal Appetite suggests there may be something to that.
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria asked more than 1,000 men and women to self-report their taste preferences and answer a questionnaire that assessed their Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, everyday sadism, trait aggression, and the Big Five factors of personality.
What they found that those who preferred bitter flavors often exhibited qualities that make them appear bitter themselves. In addition, these people often revealed sadistic or even psychopathic characteristics. In other words, evidence shows that people with psychopathic tendencies tend prefer their coffee black. According to the findings:
“The present research has demonstrated that bitter taste preferences are associated with 549 more pronounced malevolent personality traits, especially robustly with everyday sadism. [The results] confirmed the hypothesis that bitter taste preferences are positively associated with malevolent personality traits, with the most robust relation to everyday sadism and psychopathy…The data thereby provide novel insights into the relationship between personality and the ubiquitous behaviors of eating and drinking by consistently demonstrating a robust relation between increased enjoyment of bitter foods and heightened sadistic proclivities.”
The paper noted that the opposite has also been found to be true, citing previous research that indicates that those who prefer sweet tastes are “sweet” themselves to the extent that they tend to exhibit more “prosocial” personality characteristics. In general, the entire study argues that there’s something to the saying, “You are what you eat.” Again, from the report:
“Sensation seeking is one of the personality characteristics that has often been associated with individual differences in taste preferences. For example, people high in sensation seeking tend to have an increased preference for spicy food. Additionally, caffeine consumption is positively correlated with other facets of sensation seeking behavior, such as experience seeking and disinhibition. Increased preferences for sweet foods appear to co-occur with higher levels of agreeableness. Similarly, a preference for sweet white wine over dry white wine is associated with more trait neuroticism and lower levels of openness.”
Of course, none of this is determinate, and if you like bitter food, you should not make the assumption that you’re “bitter” any more than you should make the assumption that you’re sweet because you like candy.
However, it does make sense that the stimuli that we seek from what we eat and drink would correlate to the stimuli that we seek in life. And it’s worth noting that, of the correlations examined, “general bitter taste preferences were the strongest predictor compared to the other taste preferences. Taken together, the results suggest that how much people like bitter tasting foods and drinks is stably tied to how dark their personality is.”
And for more eye-opening science you should know, see here to find out which personality traits have been proven to extend your life.
The morally pure-—Progressive Leftists, Marxists, etc-—are obsessed with sure-fire ways of identifying the evil. Today it’s white skin, especially white skinned heterosexual conservatives. Now black coffee looks to become a marker.
Junk science.
What were their subjective definitions of “everyday sadism and psychopathy”?
Many of us might disagree.
Hear not here. Spellcheck fails me again
I always knew people who like sweet crap in their coffee were a bunch of wimps!
These kinds of studies are simply redonkulous.
Raman noodles made with black coffee are awesome.
I have to drink it Black. I lost my thyroid to cancer a few years ago. I get up and will have to take thyriod medicine for the rest of my life. No food can be taken until on hour has passed after taking the medicine. That includes sugar, artificial sweetners and flavors, etc. So only black coffee or tea. For me.
I have to drink it Black. I lost my thyroid to cancer a few years ago. I get up and will have to take thyriod medicine for the rest of my life. No food can be taken until on hour has passed after taking the medicine. That includes sugar, artificial sweetners and flavors, etc. So only black coffee or tea. For me.
i drink black coffee but have to have sweet tea
Have you ever drunk cowboy coffee, the drink of your heroes?
That can really be a steaming pile...lol.
Hmm. Wonder what they would think of my choice of black coffee with Habanero powder...
My Dad always drank his coffee black so when I first started drinking it, I tried it that way but found it hard to drink. So, I would order it “black and sweet.”
Then, on my first real summer job I worked with a lot of blue collar guys and it was often my job to make the morning coffee run to a nearby bakery. Everybody ordered their coffee “regular,” which meant with cream and sugar. So, I went along with the flow. That and a buttered roll got us through the morning.
Years later, I switched to just adding half-and-half. No sugar and definitely no artificial sweetener.
Then, about 20 years ago, I switched to drinking black coffee, mainly because I drink 6-8 cups a day and wanted to cut out the calories from the half-and-and half. It was an acquired taste but I love it now and of course the quality of coffee has gone up over the years.
Fresh black coffee is not bitter it is delicious
I drink my coffee black, I like burnt coffee beans such as Starbucks French Roast. The only other coffee that truly enjoy, (but I drink other coffees - because you just cannot be at home all the time)... But the only other coffee that I enjoy would be Community Coffee with chicory, fussed up with milk and sweetener... Sugar is the best sweetener for the Chickory, but I prefer to greatly limit my sugar intake. I don’t get Community coffee with chicory often because it’s very sporadic on the shelves of the local grocery stores where I live. There was a time about 3 years ago where Wally World was actually carrying Community coffee with chicory but, depressed sales probably led to Wally World dropping it from their inventory.
Isn’t this pseudo-scientific article really just promoting sugar!
As to coffee quality, for a very long time, the US got the worst coffee bean products. Starbucks’ introduction as a business actually changed that.
LOL.....you deserve a slap for saying that.....even in jest.
“...butter ruins corn on the cob...”
WUT?!
Yummy.
This “study,” like most, is stupid. What’s even more stupid, is drawing conclusions about someone’s personality from the style of coffee that he/she drinks.
Agreed.
Coffee snob here.
Good coffee is good.
Fresh roasted, quality African beans, brewed properly.
If you need to add contaminants, it’s not good coffee.
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