To ask if anyone else gets this?

[HowDoYouFeelNow]

Every so often after I eat a meal I can still taste some of the food in my mouth up to three days later - I ate some smoky bacon crisps the other day, and I could still taste them in my mouth after a couple of days. Nothing seems to get rid of it either - brushing my teeth, eating other food, it just comes back. I don't know if it's strong flavours that do it, because I sometimes get it with melted cheese. It's recently gotten a bit weider though - right now I'm having it with chicken, but I cooked some last night to eat cold today and I can taste it even though I haven't actually eaten it . It tends to come and go in phases, so I'll have a time where it happens a lot and months where it doesn't happen at all. Just wondering if anyone else has this? Apologies for the dull details but I am curious

Do you floss and brush your tongue and the upper back part of the roof of your mouth?

I do floss, although not as regularly as I should. I brush my tongue, hadn't actually considered the back part of the roof of my mouth.

From experience, stuff (bacteria, food and maybe plaque 🤢) can get stuck there, so it might be worth a try. Also floss once a day. Smell the floss after use if you need an incentive (sorry)

not envy! Thanks for the tips - I'll give them a go, and hopefully it works.

Greasy foods tend to linger a bit longer than non-greasy because the fats in them cling to your mouth and aren't washed away by water. Have you tried swishing some milk or yoghurt around in your mouth and seeing if that helps? The idea is that the fat which is clinging to your mouth dissolves in the fat in the milk or yoghurt, and then is gone.

The only time I get this is with acid reflux - I will taste the food accompanied by a burning sensation in my throat. I thought it was that until you said it's happened with something you've not eaten. You're not pregnant are you? My sense of smell and tastebuds went berserk when I was pregnant.

OnTheRise I did think about types of food causing it, I'll try the yoghurt - thanks!

KatnissK I'm definitely not pregnant. I considered acid reflux, but there's no burning feeling, just the taste of the food.

Tonsil stones maybe?

I've never even heard of tonsil stones! I'll look at it.

OMG tonsil stones are evil. DD8 gets them and I can smell them from across the room.

Oh christ OP don't google tonsil stones!

Try the Corsodyl mouthwash. I can guarantee that after a while this is all you will ever taste.

Too late, Laiste! Luckily I can't see any but (not envy!)

Thanks, Clandestino

Only once. It was a doner kebab. I'm a vegetarian and I got shitfaced (this was 20 years ago) and ate one. Three days it took to stop smelling of elephant's leg.