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Originally Posted by Fish

That's pretty lousy if true...

AFTER COVID, YOUR FAVORITE FOODS MAY SMELL LIKE ROTTING MEAT

A June study found that roughly seven percent of 4,000 examined COVID-19 patients reported smell distortion. Most patients regain their sense of smell within weeks, but some are far less lucky. A small subset of those with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell for much longer.

And sometimes it doesn’t fully return back to normal, with some familiar smells and tastes feeling off, according to the WSJ, a condition known as parosmia.

In extreme cases, according to the paper, French fries end up smelling like rotting meat and chocolate like chemicals. 46-year-old high school teacher Ellen Glynn told the WSJ that iced coffee smelled “like someone left uncooked chicken under a couch cushion for a few weeks.”

Jennifer Spicer, an infectious disease physician at Emory University in Atlanta, told The Washington Post earlier this month that red wine ended up tasting “like gasoline.”

When my taste and smell first started to come back red wine tasted like vinegar. I couldn't taste much of anything sweet. Still struggle with chocolate at times but thankfully foods taste pretty much the same as they did.