Thought I might be suffering some kind of bizarre neurological disease! Everything I eat tastes bitter!

My pine nuts were also bought from a bulk bin at a BC Save-on-Foods, a couple of weeks ago. I intend to contact their manager to let them know….

Days 2 and 3 are definately the most brutal. The taste is vile. I’ve now been able to pinpoint it to the likeness of hairspray, and not just any hairspray. I once bought a generic for Paul Mitchell at a beauty supply store, that I could not use because every time that I tried, it would leave this taste way in the back of my mouth, near my throat, just like this. I closed my mouth when I sprayed it, but it didn’t help because it seemed to be coming down my sinuses from my nose. I would have to hack it up and spit it out for like 30 minutes afterward. I know, lovely, right? Well as gross as that sounds, I wish that would work now. There is no getting rid of it. I tried many of the posted suggestions, but believe that only time will provide relief.

I put a call into the drug company that I contacted last week to report this as a side effect. I apologetically retracted the report and explained how I identified the culprit.

Also, I saw the three squirrels that I fed the pin nuts to playing in my tree this morning, so I guess that is a good sign. However, one of them threw almonds on my roof, so maybe he is experiencing pine mouth as well.

I still have some of the pine nuts left. I’m keeping them in the refrigerator wrapped up in a note with the nasty woman’s name that I spoke with from Diamond of California Nuts. I think I will hang on to them for awhile, just in case. Stupid pine nuts!

However, the taste began to slightly die down after about a week, then all of a sudden, it came back again, worse than before. Horrible, disgusting bitter, metallic taste every time that I ate something, yuck! Then I was really confused. How could it come back when I never took the pill again?

So I googled the symptoms thinking that perhaps there was some medical explanation, when all kind of information containing pine nuts from China popped up. I immediately ran to my kitchen to identify the source of the pine nuts that I had eaten for the second time in two weeks…sure enough, China. Diamond of California was the label. I contacted their Consumer Affairs Dept. A really rude woman tried to downplay it, like she’d never heard the complaint before, until I became more assertive. When I expressed the concern that this might come from a chemical used to treat the crops rather than a dirty trick played by mother nature, she slipped and mentioned that “Quality Control” had done extensive testing and the FDA never put out a recall. She then also admitted that most of the calls started at the beginning of last year. Nice, huh? Here they are a year later still selling them.

Worst part is, that I didn’t really like the nuts the first time that I tasted them, but I thought that they might be a food which you need to aquire a taste for, so I tried them again. I still didn’t care much for them, so I put them out for the squirrels. Poor squirrels. I hope that nothing happens to them. My husband joked that they are probably wondering why everything tastes like hell to them too.

I addition to vinegar, I was ok with beer and very salty foods.

This isn’t normal, and it can’t be healthy. Just because nobody has yet been sickened doesn’t mean that the FDA shouldn’t look at this. Food should not taste like bitter soapy metal. And a restaurant salad with no more than 25 pine nuts shouldn’t do this kind of damage.

Interesting that if you type “bitter taste” in to google now “bitter taste pine nuts” is one of the suggestions that pops up.

I looked at a can of almonds this afternoon thinking of putting a few in a salad but by-passed them totally! I wonder if any bad nut can cause this horrrific reaction?

I’ve been eating black licorice and itseems to be helping a little…could be just coincidental.