Really weird: pine mouth

Once it's gone you'll feel better and then, soon after, you'll want to eat them again. You'll really pine for them.

ginger helps! more ginger!

So, I'm having the same problem as the op, but I haven't had any pine nuts!
Any ideas what else it could be? I haven't found much on the rest of the interwebz...

http://www.healthblurbs.com/many-causes-of-metallic-taste-metal-taste-in-mouth-and-taste-of-metal-in-your-mouth-symptoms/

You're screwed.

No shit.

I like pine nuts.

I had pine nuts in my dinner tonight. I can't see them without thinking of this thread.

Once it's gone you'll feel better and then, soon after, you'll want to eat them again. You'll really pine for them.

Quoted for funny power.

So, I'm having the same problem as the op, but I haven't had any pine nuts!
Any ideas what else it could be? I haven't found much on the rest of the interwebz...

sure you haven't had anything with pine nuts in it? salads? veggie burgers? bread?

sorry to say, but food wise you're in for a shit week (or however long it takes to go away, i read some people only had it for a day, but others for two weeks), nothing will taste as it should

and drink ginger water or ginger tea, worked quite well for me. fresh ginger better than ginger pop. Chewing gum eased it off a bit too

So, I'm having the same problem as the op, but I haven't had any pine nuts!
Any ideas what else it could be? I haven't found much on the rest of the interwebz...

Glandular Fever. Its been said that you can only get this once, but I've had it three times. The first time I was ill, but the other times I knew I had it via two symptoms - a raised temperature and a weird taste in my mouth that makes water taste awful. Funnily enough, other foods and drinks don't taste too different, but normal distilled water is absolutely vile.

Apparently, if you've had glandular fever before, you may hardly notice that you have it a second time, as it doesn't cause too much bother. The bad taste in the mouth, and the water-test, is how I knew.

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Everytime I have a pine nut now I think of this thread. Last week I had a Marks and Spencer pasta salad and it was a bit manky, got that metallic taste and was sure I'd been pine nutted, turns out that it was just the crappy taste of the alcohol free mojito I'd bought with it.

Had any pesto Nhatt?

argh! me and the missus have got this really bad after i made pesto on tuesday. bleaugh! just googled it and realised what's causing it after suffering for three days. unfortunately i tried to self medicate/kill the taste with cheap scotch last night so have a stonking headache as well as the horrible metallic taste to contend with. it's really horrible!

...and was sure I'd been pine nutted...

lol.

That's nuts

Its not nuts at all. I should have posted this earlier, but a well know supermarket has been selling a well known brand of pesto, (not its own label), that has given my wife and sons 'pine mouth'. Its happened on two occasions over the last three months. It will have something to do with the pine nuts, and I've no idea how to tell where the offending things come from.

It did not seem to last more than 12 hours for an eight year old, but mrs18 suffered for about 4 days. The recommendation to eat/chew/make tea with ginger is good.

I fcking hate ginger.

^Name and shame pesto/supermarket.

If ginger tea helps, this stuff is pretty strong - find it in Chinatown somewhere I guess

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ginger.jpg

Mtfu, and chew this stuff. ^^

Name and shame? Not yet. It's clearly a problem with the nuts, so neither the supermarket or the pesto makers fault. But fresh green pesto, not stuff from a jar.
It does seem to be a bit erratic. A plateful can be downed with minimal effect, a taste from the side of the same plate can cause the problem more dramatically. Dooks up there is presumably making his own, cos we know he/she's a foodie, so there's more chance of finding the source of the dodgy nuts from the packet used.

Ninja edit; dooks = bloke.

argh! me and the missus have got this really bad after i made pesto on tuesday. bleaugh! just googled it and realised what's causing it after suffering for three days. unfortunately i tried to self medicate/kill the taste with cheap scotch last night so have a stonking headache as well as the horrible metallic taste to contend with. it's really horrible!

shit man, sorry for ya

as the other says, ginger helped me a lot, also chewing gum. generally though, it was a shit few days

yerp dooks = bloke.
last tuesday i made pesto wit' pinenuts bought from sainsbury's islington the previous day. they weren't out of date.
started getting the horrible taste on thursday and it lasted till today. i still have occasional waves of it but it's mostly gone now.

it was kind of comedy really. didn't bother trying to cook anything nice over the weekend but relapsed to takeaway pizza and beer. everytime me or the missus would occasionally just blurt out "eugh" when it really hit us the other would start laughing. it's just such a ridiculous thing to happen.

DUDE!
SO FUNNY.
This happened to me last year, and it was absolutely horrifying... I thought my liver was failing or something. Apparently it's as a result of toxins used on Chinese pine nuts...
it last almost two weeks for me. ridiculous. everything i ate tasted like two tons of shit.

i get pine mouth. lal eventually pointed to it after i kept getting really worried about this re-occurring metallic bitterness at the back of the mouth. fucking pine nuts. fucking tasty, tasty pine nuts.

Fuck me, I've just seen this. A few weeks ago everything I ate tasted metallic for a solid week, coffee was the worst. I really thought something weird was going on and was at the point of getting it checked out when it went away.

I ate like a tablespoon of pine nuts that were well old, 4 or 5 months at least. At least now I know what the problem was. I figured the metallic taste was down to a massive halloween bender a few days prior!

google says ginger and pineapple will help. I'm getting loads for lunch

Geri Halliwell and Jason Lee (ex-nottingham forest player) will help? thats mighty kind of them, but I dont see how that helps...