One bit of highly unusual anecdata here: I lost my sense of taste for starch after an auto accident last year, or more accurately, after 6 Toradol shots in the

One bit of highly unusual anecdata here: I lost my sense of taste for starch after an auto accident last year, or more accurately, after 6 Toradol shots in the neck. Off like a light switch. It was like not being able to see red anymore, though purple and orange show up just fine. And I gained weight, in part because I was trying everything to see what foods I could taste. Certain starchy foods like potato chips? No difference. Foods you don't think of as starchy, like pumpkin cheesecake? Tasted like pumpkin pie filling straight out of the can. I only cried once: Fettucini Stroganoff had literally no taste. You could feel there were noodles, but it was flavorless. I also had an inexplicable craving for fruit. Those $4.99 tiny cartons containing $0.50 worth of cut fruit at the supermarket? Couldn't get enough of them. After getting my neck cracked at the chiropractor two months later, it was back on like a light switch. Almost went to participate in a study at Oregon State University, the foremost institution in starch-taste research, but no point after it came back.