I was just heading into the kitchen for, oh, my sixth cup of coffee or so, when I realized that coffee no longer tasted good, despite the fact that I'd just expressed it out of my machine and it was fresh and, visually at least, topped with a perfect crema. This is a well-known phenomenon in my taste history: the one-too-many-coffees syndrome. It's a shame, but evidently my body has a turn-off mechanism, and it has now decided that I don't get anymore coffee today.
That's very odd, though, isn't it? How is it that something that tastes so perfectly delicious and is so exactly what you want at one moment can become repellent in the space of ten minutes? It's not like anything happened in that time period. I didn't eat anything that might have affected the taste, for example. My coffee desire simply shut off.
Now I have to wait twenty-four hours until my coffee will start tasting good again. I'm not sure how this works, but I'm quite sure I know why: if it weren't for my built-in shut-off mechanism, I'd probably keep drinking the stuff until I hurt myself. I never did have much self control.
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Yes! Laurel, I have exactly the same thing. The very same coffee I usually drink--made in just the same way--starts tasting dark, overcooked, and sort of metallic. And it smells that way too, instead of warmly welcoming and encouraging, as it usually does. I think you're so right. It's a kind of shut-off valve.
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