>>418908Your body breaks everything down into what is functionally sugar (glucose is slightly different but for the sake of simplicity, it's sugar) so the reason sugar tastes good is because it saves your body the effort of breaking it down, this is why they're more properly called "simple sugars". Your body seeks out ez survival and defines survival as achieving certain resources in the brain, more or less, so anything that is both easy and provides chemicals your brain associates with positive outcomes becomes addicting. Video games simulate hunting, all addictive drugs involve euphoria and/or pain relief in some way, porn simulates reproduction, and to your brain, sugar means "lots of easy food, in a format we don't need to burn a lot of energy to process". Remember, your brain doesn't consider being fat to be a bad thing. That's society. As recently as the French revolution, being fat was actually seen as a sign of abundance and status, you had enough food to be fat. The idea of wanting to be skinnier (not leaner, specifically skinnier) only appeared around like WWI, unless you were a prostitute or something.
It's also commodified to hell and back, especially among younger people. Without getting into another rant about capitalism, social media pitches to people that you need to be both fit and beautiful, while also being wealthy enough to buy extravagant shit, but you can't buy anything too extravagant or outlandish otherwise you'll get crowned on, so things like coffee coffeeposting serve as soft wealth flexes. This is how you end up with people like my sister who will eat like 400 calories a day for days on end and then go and buy some atrocious pile of sugar in a cup at Starbucks. And insist on posting it on her story.
Side note, black coffee isn't horrible, but I do think it's fair to say it's an acquired taste. You could say anything being an acquired taste just means you psyopped yourself into liking it, but I dunno, it feels different from that somehow. I think because of the convenience society people have lost the patience to acquire a taste at all, just food for thought.
