It is depressing...

[liralen]

... to realize that the mere fact that a coffee or tea is in a paper cup is something I can now taste.

I had to dig around in the common kitchen to find a ceramic cup in order to really enjoy the coffee from the k-cup critter installed there.

Yeesh.

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[(Anonymous)]

We'll leave the commentary of martial arts instructors who try to impress people for another day, but can sympathize to an extent. Certainly, I have to be very desperate to drink anything - beer, soda, juice - from a can. The metals leaves a 'tang' at the back of my teeth that usually sets off a headache.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I had a tai chi... hmmm... example? Instructor, perhaps, in a very loose sense of the term. I remember what really impressed me was when one of our rather... uhm... gung-ho students who was well-versed the hard arts (or one would assume from the black belt he tried wearing to a couple of classes until the class looked at him funny a few too mnay times) tried to surprise our teacher with an attack. The teacher looked quite surprised when the student grabbed him and the *student* suddenly did a backflip and landed badly.

It was that look of utter surprise on both their faces when the teacher's reflexes kicked in without him even knowing it and he deflected the student's energy without being conscious of the act.

My sense of taste can tell when there's direct contact with metal while cooking (not cutting), but I don't always avoid it. Sometimes I invite it with respect to my cast iron skillet. Steaks taste better when seared on cast iron versus aluminum or stickless or glass. Spaghetti sauce is very bad in cast iron. :-) An aluminum wok and a cast iron wok give very different results.

I'm glad it doesn't give me headaches, though I do like pop from bottles better than cans.