Were you raised on formula by chance?

Almond milk has always tasted terrible to me. And most western produced soy milk. Warm, freshly pressed soy milk is amazing, and the kind of minimally processed bottled stuff you get from chinese grocery stores is pretty good too.

Soy milk splits when mixed with coffee though, and doesn't really have a neutral enough taste, for that I find oat milk works great.

It's fun cause (sweetened) almond milk was considered a delicacy in Italy, and had been supplanted with shitty tasting almond milk in recent years, much like almond-tasting almonds have been replaced with tasteless ones.

I can't tell if it's a change in cultivar or transcontinental transport, but something bad happened with almonds in Europe.

Imported American almonds maybe?

I guess, but I'm not sure why California almonds shouldn't taste like almonds.