Are you not mature enough to develop a taste for bitter things?   For what it's worth, I can't stand the coffee at work.  For caffeine, I drink Diet Mountain Dew and don't touch the coffee--it's Wal-Mart coffee, and the only way I can choke it down would be if I added enough creamer and sugar that there's a sludge at the bottom of the cup. But you're not wrong.  A lot of the teenagers in my junior high youth group would get a regular can of Mountain Dew and pour packets of sugar in it.  Because regular Mountain Dew wasn't sweet and beetus-inducing enough for them (and if it's really that important to you, what the fuck is wrong with stevia or sucralose or aspartame instead of sugar?).  These were the same people who picked on me for not fitting in.  That was over half a decade ago, so they're probably fat by now if they've kept up that habit.