Let me tell you about Julie’s recent cold. She made her grandmother’s legendary chicken soup, the one that usually makes her weep with joy. She took a big, hopeful spoonful, and it tasted like warm, salty water. She was devastated. “It’s like my childhood memories got deleted,” she said, dramatically sniffing into a napkin. Julie learned her hard, flavorless lesson: when the nose is out of order, even love in a pot can’t be tasted.
But here’s the funny part—Julie’s husband, Dave, had the same cold, but he could still taste everything just fine. Why? Because some people get less swelling in their nasal passages. It’s a lottery, really. So if your partner is cheerfully eating spicy nachos while you’re trying to figure out if your toast has butter on it, don’t be mad. They just won the nose-lottery.
Cough Cold Loss Of Taste And Smell at Sam Bolivar blog
