My mouth is not piney.
I made pesto on the weekend. That was the end of the back bed full of basil; we harvested the first round for a big batch of pesto (with walnuts) back in July, and the little side-stalks I left growing had now reached to a 3-foot hedge of basil. So, Pesto. Last batch was walnuts; this time we'd been by trader J's so I'd bought a bag of pine nuts for the occasion.
There's this thing called pine mouth that sounds really foul. Something about recent pine nut harvests - be it harvest from a different area, a different sub-species, raw vs toasted, excess production of some chemical because of the weather, or whatever - has, in some people, caused a reaction in which everything you put in your mouth tastes bitter and nasty, starting about 36 hours after consumption and lasting about 10 days. Not everybody, and not every bag of nuts, but Trader Joe's is definitely affected, and we did eat plenty of them.
On Saturday, I opened the bag, ate a couple raw, toasted a panful, ate a couple toasted, chopped the rest up in the pesto, and ate a plate of pasta with pesto. It is late on Monday and I am not in a bad way. I was nervous for many reasons - yes it would suck to have everything taste terrible, but also I spent a long time making that stupid pesto, and it would make me very very sad to be unable to eat it.
There's this thing called pine mouth that sounds really foul. Something about recent pine nut harvests - be it harvest from a different area, a different sub-species, raw vs toasted, excess production of some chemical because of the weather, or whatever - has, in some people, caused a reaction in which everything you put in your mouth tastes bitter and nasty, starting about 36 hours after consumption and lasting about 10 days. Not everybody, and not every bag of nuts, but Trader Joe's is definitely affected, and we did eat plenty of them.
On Saturday, I opened the bag, ate a couple raw, toasted a panful, ate a couple toasted, chopped the rest up in the pesto, and ate a plate of pasta with pesto. It is late on Monday and I am not in a bad way. I was nervous for many reasons - yes it would suck to have everything taste terrible, but also I spent a long time making that stupid pesto, and it would make me very very sad to be unable to eat it.