Sometimes I get problems with my stomach, most people do. Yesterday I started to get a very strange taste in my mouth after eating. Today it was worse, a lot worse. It tastes DISGUSTING. The taste lasts for about 15 minutes or so. At first I thought…stomach acid. This makes sense; I eat, this makes my stomach secrete more acid. Maybe I am very stressed, or am fighting a bug. Well I don’t feel particularly stressed but I do feel quite under the weather. There is one major problem with this theory; I know what stomach acid “feels” like and this is not stomach acid. The truth is rather stranger. Pine nuts.
A few days ago I started eating a packet of seeds (which included pine nuts) and finished the packet over two days. It turns out that eating certain varieties of uncooked pine nuts gives rise to a sort of mild poisoning or allergic effect. A very bitter and metallic taste is produced immediatly after eating. This usually lasts between a few days and as much as a couple of weeks.
How random!
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