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1)humans like and enjoy sugar.

2)humans don't like jumping of a cliff but enjoy the thrill of doing it.

spices are in the second category

I think the subset of humans that enjoy the thrill of jumping of cliffs would say, if asked 'what do you like to do in your spare time' in an interview or whatever, 'jumping off cliffs' (or whatever the sport name for it is).

It would take a pretty tedious person to say 'well I don't like jumping out of planes but I do enjoy the thrill of it, going HALO jumping next weekend if you ~want to join m~ might enjoy the thrill of joining me'.

What's the point in looking for loopholes in my analogy lol. It was just what came up in my mind first.

I'm not looking for loopholes, I think it's a fine analogy (because I would say 'I like chillies'!), I'm just trying to understand the distinction you're making, or rather what value/meaning it provides.

Sounds like semantics.

Well it certainly is - that doesn't have to be bad or wrong. I'm just not convinced there's a semantic difference here employed by anyone but GP.

I think this confusion is probably caused by English not being my first language.

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