Have been wondering about this too. I had flu and drank no
coffee/espresso for about 10-days. It just didn't seem appealing to
drink - went through a mess of darjeeling, orange pekoe and
orange-flavored Constant Comment tea which tasted as normal and had "hot
drink appeal". Flu gone, roaster running, coffee quickly went back on the
every-morning nutritional requirment list.

Dan

"Donald Blum" > wrote in
news:w6bOb.5573$iI2.117@lakeread03:

> The same thing happened to me when I had the flu last month. At the
> same time I was getting sick, my espresso machine was having some
> maintenance work done. I got it back while I was just over the peak of
> the flu. For a week, espressos were tasting across the board awful,
> and still somewhat off the next week or so after that. Now it's all
> back to normal. It must have something to do with the flu bug. I only
> wish I had gotten over the flu (a month) as quickly as it took me to
> get back my regular tastebuds (two weeks).
>
> - Donald Blum