Chili peppers too. All of these initially-offputting tastes are strategies by the plant to make animals not want to eat them. However as humans we've decided th

Chili peppers too. All of these initially-offputting tastes are strategies by the plant to make animals not want to eat them. However as humans we've decided they're tasty and that it's worth learning to like them. The key difference between these and alcohol is that we know none of them are actually harmful (yes I know that coffee is harmful in large quantities). This is quite different to drinking ethanol, a literal poison that sends the liver into panic stations the instant it detects it.