Tastes weird

 Been fighting the bug for weeks, holding it off as much as I could, but it's finally won. I have flu A.

I've heard how with COVID you lose your sense of taste, but with my experience of this flu strain, is it possible that food tastes worse?

I've had the most disgusting meals over the last two days -- on food I usually enjoy. The beef daily bowl from Stuff'd was an awful mess that I forced myself to choke down for the vitamins while the only taste sensation I was getting was the salt in the ground beef to which I've become super sensitive. Same with the fried bee hoon I got for breakfast. I get that when I need to carbo load for the day and it was equally horrid with nothing more than stewed cabbage topping -- all bland with sharp spikes of salt for variety.

Weird that the best tasting thing I've had so far was the McDonald's double fish fillet that tasted as advertised... or it could just be that my ability to taste is starting to normalize again. We'll find out tomorrow.