Also, beer, olive oil, and cigars, and every other food people argue over and say “No, just try it, you’ll see I’m right, and you’re wrong.”
I mean flavor, not nutritional quality, so yeah, some “cheese” is not actually cheese, but flavor-wise, it’s all fine. It’s designed to taste good, and people buy it by the truckload.
“Oh, you just haven’t had really good coffee.” No, I have had coffee people claim is “really good”, expensive coffee, brewed “just right”, but again, it’s just different to me, not better. And, no again, I don’t put sugar or anything in it.
“You just don’t have a ‘refined pallet’.” Bullshit elitism. Proven when it comes to wine, at least. People can’t tell the difference between expensive wine and box wine.
Different, not better. Yes, of course, it’s subjective, but the way people argue shows that many don’t actually believe that. And, you’ll be dismissed for not agreeing.
I would say that one could make the claim that one brand of coffee is bad compared to another one but if someone tells me that they like the cheap store brand instant coffee then who am I to argue with their subjective experience.
I think there’s been a study about wine as well that people who are used to the taste of cheap wine generally don’t enjoy the expensive ones. Not because they’re bad but because it’s not what they’re used to.
Cheap wines can be very different too, alcohol in general isn’t tasty but you can feel the difference between good cheap wine and bad cheap wine, because some take shortcuts and subpar grapes and some don’t, local cheap wine is almost certainly will be of better quality than some overseas cheap wine.