MetaChat - It's a drag being a supertaster with food intolerances.

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10 April 2009

It's a drag being a supertaster with food intolerances. No thank you, I don't drink coffee...or tea...or hot chocolate...

giving in and drinking the yummy hot chocolate or the nasty coffee and not being able to function the next day...→[More:]

forgetting that there's a trick, if you accept tea and then just take the tea bag out early you can hardly taste it...

not being able to eat healthy food such as fruit...

not even knowing what you ate that's making you feel so bad...

having people ask what's the matter and not being able to easily explain how you feel and why.

post by: serena at: 10:43 | 8 comments

Maybe you would feel better if you made yourself a cape with a SuperTaster crest on it?

posted by rmless2 10 April | 11:57

Ok, I'm a moron. What's a supertaster? Is this someone who makes a living tasting things?

posted by eatdonuts 10 April | 15:23

Supertasters are folks who taste things more strongly than average, which is why they usually don't enjoy beer and hot sauce as much as I do.

posted by box 10 April | 16:02

OMG I feel your pain. As a fellow supertaster, I LOATHE coffee, and resent like hell always getting a damn Starbucks card from work on holidays. The very smell of it makes me gag. I like chocolate, and I have gotten used to tea, but fruit is VILE, expecially melons, peaches, and most tropical fruit. They just taste like soap and chemicals to me. I can eat some vegetables, but only in small amounts. I also hate flavors like licorice, anise, rosemary, and pine nuts. It does limit your options when most things that are "healthy" for you literally taste like poison*.

*for many supertasters, it isn't just an "I don't like that" experience. Eating something like watermelon is really like chewing on a bar of soap, and pesto sauce it like putting a spoonful of rotting lawn clippings in my mouth. GAG!

posted by evilcupcakes 10 April | 18:10

so do you guys eat a lot of soup and mild stuff?

posted by eatdonuts 10 April | 18:49

I always assumed I didn't like coffee because it tastes and smells like shite.

posted by Eideteker 11 April | 13:44

damn Eideteker, that is harsh.

posted by special-k 11 April | 13:50

Oh, I dunno--is it any harsher than saying that I like coffee because it tastes and smells delicious? Hmm. Maybe it is.

posted by box 11 April | 14:00

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