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pine mouth
16 years ago
Hello beasts, I'm wapsie, a cranky old pervy kitty-cat, and I suffer from a new mysterious ailment: PINE MOUTH.
Google "pine mouth", it's hysterical & bizarre. Thousands of people this year have complained of a strong bitter metallic taste in the back of the mouth. This taste makes all food taste awful, like dishwater with lots of soap in it.
The cause: pine nuts. Ever had pine nuts? They're the essential ingredient in pesto, and they sometimes get thrown into salads for Italian-style dinners. Small, slightly greasy feel, mellow taste. They are delicious. Good Italian and Portuguese pine nuts run US$25-30 per pound (=.455 kg). But there are cheap Chinese/Russian/Turkish nuts for only US$8 /lb.
It's these Asian nuts that leave a bad taste in the mouth. (Heh. There's a sentence I don't write every day.) The taste develops 2-3 days after ingestion.
Science has yet to discover why in this year of '09 the cheap nuts ruin your sense of taste. No chemical poisons from poor processing or genetic differences have been detected. Fortunately, it seems to be a temporary effect, lasting for a week or so.
It's awful, not being able to enjoy food or drink at all. Advice: Don't eat pine nuts. (Careful, they sometimes find their way into fancy holiday cookies.) Even the freshest, most delicious pesto isn't worth the risk of losing all good taste for days (and in some cases weeks. I really hope it isn't weeks for me.)
Google "pine mouth", it's hysterical & bizarre. Thousands of people this year have complained of a strong bitter metallic taste in the back of the mouth. This taste makes all food taste awful, like dishwater with lots of soap in it.
The cause: pine nuts. Ever had pine nuts? They're the essential ingredient in pesto, and they sometimes get thrown into salads for Italian-style dinners. Small, slightly greasy feel, mellow taste. They are delicious. Good Italian and Portuguese pine nuts run US$25-30 per pound (=.455 kg). But there are cheap Chinese/Russian/Turkish nuts for only US$8 /lb.
It's these Asian nuts that leave a bad taste in the mouth. (Heh. There's a sentence I don't write every day.) The taste develops 2-3 days after ingestion.
Science has yet to discover why in this year of '09 the cheap nuts ruin your sense of taste. No chemical poisons from poor processing or genetic differences have been detected. Fortunately, it seems to be a temporary effect, lasting for a week or so.
It's awful, not being able to enjoy food or drink at all. Advice: Don't eat pine nuts. (Careful, they sometimes find their way into fancy holiday cookies.) Even the freshest, most delicious pesto isn't worth the risk of losing all good taste for days (and in some cases weeks. I really hope it isn't weeks for me.)
That's really all I can say. I was going to make a joke about syphilis, but just wow will work.
But no, my taste buds are fine now. I wish I had a better sense of smell, though. It's always been really weak, which is its own liability in food and beverage appreciation.