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Wow, that’s pretty crazy
Idk if it was the Covid but when i made my homemade tacos with cilantro it was amazing but before that every time it tasted like soap
Cilantro tasted like soap to me before 2011, after that it was delicious. Not necessarily covid that caused your change, cant explain mine except that I was eating a lot of it in delicious meals so who knows
A lot of people have changes in their sense of smell after contracting covid. It will be interesting to see if the “soap” taste comes back to you eventually.
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2022/09/change-smell-after-covid-19-infection-what-you-need-know
https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/loss-smell-post-covid-how-severe-it-and-how-long-can-it-last
Yes I have bad nose blindness. I get hints of things then it goes away.