I bought some miracle fruit pills from ThinkGeek.com on a lark. This fruit native to west africa makes bitter and sour foods taste sweet. My opinion is that anything that tastes bad has to be good for me, so why not enjoy eating bitter but healthy foods like grapefruit, broccli rabe, capers, frisee. All those things that Sean loves with his hot sauce-burned-taste buds but normal people only enjoy when the bitterness is cooked out some, probably also causing loss of nutrients.

OK so I was too chicken to try it with my morning coffee in lieu of sugar, whew, bullet dodged! I did have a tablet just before eating grapefruit. The tablet itself is sort of sweet-ish in a strange way, nothing terribly unpleasant. The grapefruit post-tablet was definitely the most edible grapefruit I’ve ever eaten. But now, drinking water to wash it all down, I realize my folly. The water tastes, oddly, disgustingly, not sweet but kind of sweet with bitter edges. I don’t know how to describe it. And I can’t get the taste to go away! Oh miracle fruit, you mock me with every swallow I take. The thinkgeek website says the effects can last up to 1 hour. As long as it’s not some mutant strain of the miracle fruit, with my luck lately, this strange aftertaste will last until 2009. Guess I’d better go eat the rest of the grapefruit.