Tampering with Taste Buds for Better Coffee?

An anonymous reader writes "A Globe and Mail article states that scientists are busy working on making everything taste great: " In a small office just west of the New Jersey Turnpike, researchers are taking the human taste bud into a brave new world. Here, it is not cream or milk that the employees of Linguagen Corp. add to their morning java, but a dash of a biological compound that fools their brain into thinking that black, bitter coffee is as smooth as a milky double latte"

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No. You are not alone.

[simetra]

I've been drinking black coffee since I was in grade school. Now I am making pretty good money doing what I like. I'm in Mensa. I'm charming. Kids today sit around on their fat asses, chugging carbonated sugar water. They're fat, lazy, and dumb. We need a movement to get more of today's children drinking coffee. Black coffee.

Really, how can you truly enjoy coffee with all that crap in it? I agree, it's heresy. It's like someone who loves wine coolers bitching about how real wine doesn't taste good. Bastards.

What's worse are those god-aweful flavored coffees! The ones where they actually flavor the beans with some aweful chemicals. One time, this stupid house-keeper where I work thought she was being nice, so she cooked up a batch of this insane blueberry flavored coffee! The whole place reeked of that crap. The flavor agent bonded into the coffee basket, so the coffee tasted of blueberry for about a week. It was a dark time.

I came up with a catchy phrase, suitable for bumper-stickers, sigs, whatever:

Decaf is for the lazy and the damned.

No, sir, you are not alone.