Aesop Poprock posted:

fizzymercy posted:

Mercury tastes like mercury. Vaguely sweet and metallic and weirdly dense and slippery. It felt oily. It warmed up really fast and I couldn't wash it out of my mouth with water so I had to swish with mouthwash to get it out. My sense of taste got hosed up for a few days afterwards and I cried a lot thinking I was going to go insane. E: Also my hands and feet still have neuropathy from this.

It distinctly did not taste like the liquid form of the silver almonds you see at weddings, which is what dumb child me thought it would taste like. I was very disappointed in my Mother rushing me to the ER for what should have tasted like dreams.

(Don't drink your Father the Science Teacher's mercury sample.)