I'm not a fan of beets no matter if they are table, garden, red or golden beets. 
Ew no, I don't like them either. To me they are nastily bitter.
Some of them are actually sweet like the sugar beet with is grown for sugar production.
I must not have ever had one of those then, because all the beets I've had were gross (lol).
, France, the United States, Germany, and Turkey were the world's five largest sugar beet producers. In 2010–2011, North America and Europe did not produce enough sugar from sugar beets to meet overall demand for sugar and were all net importers of sugar. The US harvested of sugar beets in 2008. In 2009, sugar beets accounted for 20% of the world's sugar production.
Description.
The sugar beet has a conical, white, fleshy root (a taproot) with a flat crown. The
Beetroot
The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, sugar beet, red beet, or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of "Beta vulgaris" grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as "B. vulgaris" subsp. "vulgaris" 'Conditiva' Group.
Besides being used as a food, beets have uses as a