Did having Covid make you permanently go off chocolate?

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Just this, really. I had a horrible experience one of the times I had covid when I had started to lose my sense of smell and taste before I even realised I was ill, and chocolate was absolutely disgusting. I couldn't taste any of the sweetness but could still taste the other elements, so it was just bitter, oily and horrible. Boak. Now, some years on, I just don't like it anymore. I've lost my sweet tooth generally and the thought and taste of chocolate is fairly off-putting. I keep trying to like it again but I can't.
Anyone else have this happen to them?

Chocolate is very poor these days and everything tastes of oil and grease regardless of covid. It never fails to disappoint.

No, but some things taste different and are just uninspiring. Rather annoying.

No, my love of the stuff remains undimmed.

Sadly, no.

I never had much of a sweet tooth anyway,but I definitely found my taste in food changed and is no better 2 years on.I used to love experimenting with flavours but I only ever fancy really plain food now.A jacket potato is no longer a quick dinner,but a favourite :/

I've gone off my favourite dark chocolate, it just tastes of nothing now. But thankfully milk chocolate is still ok!

Maybe the other way around.

I used to hate chocolate and would feel sick after a couple of bites so I avoided it. In the last few years I love it.

Yes me! Pre-covid I had a small-bar-a-day habit and after covid I rarely fancy chocolate. It isn't even that it tastes different now, I haven't noticed any difference in the taste. I just don't want chocolate now.

Chocolate is the only food I have lost my appetite for, how weird.

Not permanently but yes it did temporarily. The first I went off my beloved hot chocolate and also chocolate. The second time just chocolate. I had Covid over Christmas and still don’t want any chocolate, what I do fancy is salty crisps or Pringles with lots of flavour on.

I've gone off my favourite dark chocolate, it just tastes of nothing now. But thankfully milk chocolate is still ok!
Phew that was a close one.

Not chocolate, but I can't drink coffee anymore. 😫

Nope
However I can't abide the taste of Pepsi anymore

I went off chocolate ( something I'd never thought that I would say) long before Covid.
Palm oil ended my love of it. There's not much chocolate now that I do like.
Covid certainly exacerbated it but there are other foods that I can no longer tolerate.

Most fruits now taste very bitter. Melon is fine.
I'm very fussy about eggs now
Lamb ( my beloved) often smells foul but the biggest disappointment was no longer tolerating my beloved wine.
I can tolerate a different grape variety but it's just not the same. Probably a good thing!

No but for some reason it gave me a craving for Kitkats - the normal non chunky ones! I’ve had Covid 3 times - each time the Kitkat craving came back!

Sadly not. I'd be half a stone lighter if it had. I've never had the losing sense of smell thing though.

Well, I hardly eat any, any more now.
And it did coincide with that time.
Cant say I have put two and two together before. But maybe?

Like others are saying, chocolate doesnt taste as nice as it used to.
I did munch on a few of DH chocolate buttons recently, and thought there were tasting good. More like old time chocolate.

Did having Covid make you permanently go off chocolate?

Sadly No.

Oh my goodness I can't believe the title of this thread!

I have been a chocoholic for all of my adult life. Up until June last year I was eating a whole Terry's Chocolate Orange every day. Some days I'd even eat two of them!

Then I got covid and the very first thing I noticed was that the mere thought of eating chocolate made me feel sick.

I was ill for about two or three weeks and when I got better I found to my immense surprise that I know longer wanted to eat chocolate. And here we are on the verge of February and I have not tasted chocolate for almost seven months.

It's absolutely amazing, I never dreamed this would be the way that my chocolate addiction would end after battling with it or nearly 50 years.

Yes it did the same to me. It makes me so sad as I love chocolate and everywhere we go for dinner, the desserts are about 75% chocolate. It's so hard to find a "treat" when you fancy one in a shop too.

I have come to like the white chocolate that comes with Biscoff crème inside.

To me milk and dark chocolate tastes like burnt plastic. I had covid in 2020 so I don't think it's going to get any better sadly. I suppose it's much better for my waistline tho as I used to eat chocolate every day.

Covid also changed my sense of smell - I can't stand the smell of coffee or cigarette smoke now - they both smell very odd indeed. I also can't stand peppers 🫑 which I used to really love. Such random things to dislike now!

I've lost my sense of taste and smell and things I can detect taste weird and a bit 'off'. Dh was cooking some meat the other day and all I could think was "ew, that smells like a dead body". I still ate it though 😂 (need the protein).

This.

Plus you go off chocolate as you age.

Chocolate made me go off chocolate. It is all so slimy and grainy now. Maybe covid or cost saving methods because of the pandemic. My hearing has gone though.

I wish!

Actually, you could have a point.
Older people than me, rarely talk about eating chocolate.

Yes this happened to DD. She can't even stand the smell of it. She wants to like it again!