I had opposite experience - everybody was drinking Tullamore and other cheap whiskeys, so I though that I don't like whiskey at all. Then I tried Jack Daniel's and understood that not every single one of them are shit.

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Unfortunately for me....the first thing I threw up on when I was a teen was JD and it really soured me on Bourbon / Tennessee Whiskey....thats pretty much why I went to Scotch in college. 

Its only been in the past decade that I started trying it again and really like lots of it. 