Just My Luck

As my followers know, I have been enjoying cooking and eating many new recipes from the Cooking Light website. That was until last Wednesday. When I woke up and poured my morning glass of ice coffee, something was off. Strange, but not troubling, until I had breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and anything I ate or drank was followed by this horrible bitter, metallic taste in the back of my mouth. Thinking it would just disappear as randomly as it appeared, in true Kerrick fashion I powered through. After three days and countless teeth brushing and mouth rinsing to no avail, I turned to the expert: Google. Sure enough within the space of a mouse click I had my diagnosis: pine mouth. The culprit: pine nuts. Specifically, pine nuts from China. I have purchased and eaten many foods with pine nuts and never experienced this phenomenon. I have never even considered where pine nuts come from to be an issue. Apparently, we should all pay more attention. Although not everyone experiences pine mouth, enough people do that there is even a notation about it in Wikapedia. Worse still, it lasts anywhere from a few days to two weeks. I am on day 6, just my luck.