Everything I eat or drink tastes beige

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I've had manflu ever since I got back from Egypt two weeks ago. I have spent most of the last fortnight not being able to taste anything at all

We had Burble and Tinkerbell up for a visit last weekend and enjoyed their company very much. I made a special effort to prepare tasty meals for them but I couldn't taste anything at all.

We went shopping today. We went to the Metro Centre this morning and had breakfast in the Wetherspoons, which tasted beige. Then we went for a wander around Ikea and since we were there around lunchtime, we thought we may as well have some meatballs, which tasted beige.

I had been to the Whisky Shop to stock up on whisky since it was payday and I spent £145 on 3 bottles of nice whisky but, since I can't taste anything, I bought a bottle of cheapo Asda Islay malt when we went there, I'm not going to waste good malt on broken taste buds. I'm drinking the Asda stuff now, neat to maximise the flavour, along with some bottled ale and guess what .......... they taste beige.

I'm really fed up. My sinuses no longer feel like they're going to explode but I'm still bunged up. I don't care about all that stuff - not being able to taste anything is driving me insane.

One of the few pleasures I have in life is my whisky. I've been trying to imagine what it would be like if I was like this for the rest of my life - the thought scares me. I've heard of conditions where people can't taste anything. I don't think life would be worth living if I couldn't taste good food and good whisky.

I hope my sense of taste returns before I go back to Egypt so that I can at least have a taste of the whiskies I bought today.