Yesterday morning my Coles order arrived, which included a big bunch of watercress. I hadn’t actually ecountered any watercress since my Thameside childhood, when I used to love the stuff, so I was happy to scoff a few gobfuls as soon as the delivery arrived.

Later, with lunch, I poured a scotch & dry on the rocks, and immediately noticed that it tasted very much like stale wee-wee. I had a couple more and the last was particularly bad, like it had been squeezed out of a nappy that a neglected baby had been wearing all day. I didn’t suspect the watercress was to blame at this stage – it was just a mystery.

Anyway then the Ross people arrived and we went out for a drive, and on my return, I poured a glass of white wine while preparing a seafood pasta dinner.

The wine, too, tasted like stale piss :/ I used some watercress in the dinner, and the white wine kept tasting like wee-wee the whole evening. As a test, I tried some shiraz and that delivered an even nastier piddle flavour.

By this stage I’d thought I might have covid, which sometimes alters taste, but a RAT proved negative. So I thought I might have had a minor stroke, and proceeded to imagine further symptoms.

Anyway by lunchtime today the effect had thankfully gone – wine tasted like wine again and I was left with the mystery as to why my booze tasted like piss for a whole day. Finally I suspected the watercress and looking it up, it does contain chemicals that alter the way the body metabolises various drugs and medications.

So I put it to the test by eating another couple gobfuls of watercress and lo, my wine instantly tastes like old nappy piss again. This effect is likely to last for hours :/

SO BE WARNED.

Bubblecar said:

Yesterday morning my Coles order arrived, which included a big bunch of watercress. I hadn’t actually ecountered any watercress since my Thameside childhood, when I used to love the stuff, so I was happy to scoff a few gobfuls as soon as the delivery arrived.

Later, with lunch, I poured a scotch & dry on the rocks, and immediately noticed that it tasted very much like stale wee-wee. I had a couple more and the last was particularly bad, like it had been squeezed out of a nappy that a neglected baby had been wearing all day. I didn’t suspect the watercress was to blame at this stage – it was just a mystery.

Anyway then the Ross people arrived and we went out for a drive, and on my return, I poured a glass of white wine while preparing a seafood pasta dinner.

The wine, too, tasted like stale piss :/ I used some watercress in the dinner, and the white wine kept tasting like wee-wee the whole evening. As a test, I tried some shiraz and that delivered an even nastier piddle flavour.

By this stage I’d thought I might have covid, which sometimes alters taste, but a RAT proved negative. So I thought I might have had a minor stroke, and proceeded to imagine further symptoms.

Anyway by lunchtime today the effect had thankfully gone – wine tasted like wine again and I was left with the mystery as to why my booze tasted like piss for a whole day. Finally I suspected the watercress and looking it up, it does contain chemicals that alter the way the body metabolises various drugs and medications.

So I put it to the test by eating another couple gobfuls of watercress and lo, my wine instantly tastes like old nappy piss again. This effect is likely to last for hours :/

SO BE WARNED.

Hmm, I don’t know watercress.

But I can comment that every one of your drinks tastes like piss for at least an hour after brushing teeth with peppermint toothpaste.

Hello Mr Car. :)
I don’t know about how watercress destroys the enjoyment of fine wines.
It used to be that people were warned off watercress because of liverfluke.

I think somebody is faking Mr Car’s account.

We were warned watercress wrecks wines whiff.

Also, absolutely always avoid any and all alliteration.

party_pants said:

I think somebody is faking Mr Car’s account.

I’m more concerned that he knows what urine tastes like.

Bubblecar said:

Yesterday morning my Coles order arrived, which included a big bunch of watercress. I hadn’t actually ecountered any watercress since my Thameside childhood, when I used to love the stuff, so I was happy to scoff a few gobfuls as soon as the delivery arrived.

Later, with lunch, I poured a scotch & dry on the rocks, and immediately noticed that it tasted very much like stale wee-wee. I had a couple more and the last was particularly bad, like it had been squeezed out of a nappy that a neglected baby had been wearing all day. I didn’t suspect the watercress was to blame at this stage – it was just a mystery.

Anyway then the Ross people arrived and we went out for a drive, and on my return, I poured a glass of white wine while preparing a seafood pasta dinner.

The wine, too, tasted like stale piss :/ I used some watercress in the dinner, and the white wine kept tasting like wee-wee the whole evening. As a test, I tried some shiraz and that delivered an even nastier piddle flavour.

By this stage I’d thought I might have covid, which sometimes alters taste, but a RAT proved negative. So I thought I might have had a minor stroke, and proceeded to imagine further symptoms.

Anyway by lunchtime today the effect had thankfully gone – wine tasted like wine again and I was left with the mystery as to why my booze tasted like piss for a whole day. Finally I suspected the watercress and looking it up, it does contain chemicals that alter the way the body metabolises various drugs and medications.

So I put it to the test by eating another couple gobfuls of watercress and lo, my wine instantly tastes like old nappy piss again. This effect is likely to last for hours :/

SO BE WARNED.

DON’T PEE IN WINE BOTTLES

Spiny Norman said:

party_pants said:

I think somebody is faking Mr Car’s account.

I’m more concerned that he knows what urine tastes like.

:-)

I saw that coming. But then, I do too.

Urine tastes like weak Australian beer, with a bit of sulfur.