[oddeyed]

When I had Covid in December, I briefly lost my sense of smell and taste (only for a few days, thankfully). I decided I would see if the Switch cartridges tasted as bad as I remembered - purely in the interests of science, of course.

I couldn't taste it at first, but then the wave of toxic unpleasantness slowly built up, even after I had moved the cartridge away from my tongue. It was different than I remembered it being, but then again it had been a few years since I tried it (probably spurred by this same headline). Really horrible. Good to know that this bitterant it still is a deterrent if you have anosmia!

[divbzero]

That is really interesting, especially because you could compare the taste with vs. without anosmia. Thank you for trying that for the sake of science and glad you recovered shortly thereafter.

[hnbad]

There's a small YouTube channel by a person with anosmia who made a number of videos explaining what anosmia is like. I think the series is worth a listen if you're interested in that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG3_w7IOivw&list=PL32E3dB2pp...

[eloisant]

Anosmia is the sense of smell.

Most "flavour" are actually perceived with your sense of smell, which is why you felt like you lost the sense of taste. However things like bitter, sour, salty, sweet and umami are perceived with your tongue so you likely didn't lose those.

The cartridge is probably bitter which is why you could taste it.

If that happen again try it, you should still be able to taste salty and sweet typically.