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Old 04-18-2011, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Have funny taste in mouth.

Cheap Chinese pine nut exports blamed for rare condition - Telegraph
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Old 04-18-2011, 11:55 AM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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Yet another story of how the Chinese are selling their souls to the devil to make a bigger profit - go figure. How anyone can still eat anything with the words "product of China" on it is beyond me.
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Old 04-18-2011, 12:08 PM
 
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LOL Chinese food porn.
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:37 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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I just started experiencing this in the past year or so. I almost started a thread on it. I looked it up online and saw that it happens to a lot of people. I've eaten pine nuts all my life and never had a problem. But now I do get that weird metallic-y taste that takes a few days to go away. I hate it. I figured I would check out the ones at a Whole Foods or something and see if it happened with those. I love pine nuts.
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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I experienced the metalic taste also awhile ago and as much as I like them, have steered clear of them since.
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:52 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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It sounds like they were treated with something or the trees were grown with water contaminated with something. Not surprising given how horribly polluted China is. I know I avoid putting anything in my body which was made in China because they cheat and poison so many people; remember the poison tooth paste or the baby formula with no nutritional value?
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Old 04-18-2011, 02:15 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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I experienced the metalic taste also awhile ago and as much as I like them, have steered clear of them since.
Yeah, it's so bad as to cause me to avoid them, too. It just takes so LONG to go away. The weird thing is that my SO doesn't experience it.
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Old 04-18-2011, 02:19 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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It sounds like they were treated with something or the trees were grown with water contaminated with something. Not surprising given how horribly polluted China is. I know I avoid putting anything in my body which was made in China because they cheat and poison so many people; remember the poison tooth paste or the baby formula with no nutritional value?
Yes, wouldn't it be nice if you could actually rest assured that the food you're eating wasn't poisoning you?
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Old 04-18-2011, 03:34 PM
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God only knows what chemicals or pollutants they've come into contact with.

I'm sick of this crap of almost everything coming from God damned China. In the past, at least we could count on most food being made in USA.
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Old 04-18-2011, 07:57 PM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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From the article, it appears they are mixing a type of pine nut in that is not fit for human consumption:

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Now China – which supplies most of the world's pine nuts – has admitted some exporters have been mixing the Pinus koraiensis variety with the cheaper but inedible Pinus armandii.
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