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" Do you remember your first sip of beer? Terrible! How could anyone like that stuff? But beer, you reflect, is an acquired taste; one gradually trains oneself—or just comes—to enjoy that flavor. What flavor? The flavor of that first sip? No one could like that flavor! Beer tastes different to the experienced beer drinker. Then beer isn't an acquired tast; one doesn't learn to like that first taste; one gradually comes to experience a different, and likable, taste. Had the first sip tasted that way, you would have liked beer wholeheartedly from the beginning! "

Douglas R. Hofstadter


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Douglas R. Hofstadter quote : Do you remember your first sip of beer? Terrible! How could anyone like <i>that</i> stuff? But beer, you reflect, is an acquired taste; one gradually trains oneself—or just comes—to enjoy that flavor. <i>What</i> flavor? The flavor of that first sip? No one could like <i>that</i> flavor! Beer tastes different to the experienced beer drinker. Then beer <i>isn't</i> an acquired tast; one doesn't learn to like that first taste; one gradually comes to experience a different, and likable, taste. Had the first sip tasted <i>that</i> way, you would have liked beer wholeheartedly from the beginning!