I was like that with alcohol for AGES. I powered through a short (like, a three nights a week for two months) heavy drinking phase my sophomore year for the sake of making my male friends feel emasculated. After that, casual drinking of fruity drinks and such is easy for me. I’m not a big fan of champagne, though.
prettyarbitrary I’d wondered if it was a matter of desensitization. But eugh, the stuff tastes so vile, why would I want to go through the unpleasantness of adapting to it? Champagne…