I remember getting that a few years ago with some bad infection. It is awful - nothing has any "taste" (using quotes as we often confuse taste and smell. I cou

I remember getting that a few years ago with some bad infection. It is awful - nothing has any "taste" (using quotes as we often confuse taste and smell. I could taste sweet/salty etc but this is a very small part of the overall sensory experience compared to smells) I would eat blue cheese and raw garlic to try to get some kind of taste, because everything was insipid. So I would barely eat anything, unless I felt hungry. Then, I would mostly eat pasta, because at least the texture was nice. Only texture mattered. Spices helped. Lots of them, put directly over the pasta. Meat felt like old bubblegum, something hard to chew and without any flavoring. In my case, it took more than a month to heal. I believe my sense of smell was permanently altered because since then, I don't like anymore many things with a faint taste that I loved before. Raw mozarella for example still tastes like chewing boiled spaghettis. Only the texture is different. I loved the aftertaste of mozarella before, but I can't find any taste to it anymore.