Re coffee: I've hated the taste of coffee since I was a kid. I believe I can trace it back to when I was sick once and ate coffee-flavored ice cream. From that day on, I associate it with throwing up, and cringe at the taste - can't even eat chocolate with coffee in it, or have a coffee-flavored drink.
BUT: a couple of weeks ago I tried my first espresso. Not bad! (Cue coffee aficionados: it's not the same thing/flavor. I know! That's what I like about it!)