When I need to be. ;)

I think many of us who have worked with various metals have experienced their unique tastes and smells. As a tangible example, anyone who has removed rust from steel with a wire brush, wheel, or sandpaper, and (incidentally) inhaled the dust will know what iron tastes like, assuming it wasn’t done with water present. This happens in automotive body work, welding, and Celestia-knows how many other repair operations, given the ubiquity of steel in the modern world.

An interesting side note about the taste of iron: anyone who’s gotten a bloody mouth will recognize the similarity between the two. It’s also a way humans have evolved a way of detecting the presence of water in nature. Iron in freshwater is extremely common. I’ve even heard people say, “it smells like water here,” when coming upon a well or similar source, and the iron in the water is the reason. Our feet are also highly sensitive to ground moisture, another evolutionary trait, but I’m getting into the weeds.

Similar experience from childhood of putting pennies in one’s mouth (yes, gross, but it happens), or biting on aluminum foil (accidentally, usually), helps inform one’s “catalog” of metal tastes. Pennies/copper is relevant, because brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Working with electronics as I do also helps, although it’s almost always accidental or incidental, like when a selenium rectifier goes up in smoke, or I put a tin-plated brass terminal in my mouth because I don’t (yet) have a third hand to hold a test lead, and I’m stuck behind a wall of industrial control equipment. LoL

@BigBuggyBastage: Incidentally, heavy metals do tend to be tasty. 🤪
@Mr.Myoozik: So what does bronze taste like?
@BigBuggyBastage: Sorta like a penny.

Hold up. The wha? … Why do you know the specifics of how bronze taste, and why do you think it’s tasty?

…

You really are a robot?!?

@BigBuggyBastage
Delicious metal poisoning

@Mr.Myoozik
Sorta like a penny.

So what does bronze taste like?

And then they’re all poisoned.

Yeah that’s such a Derpy thing to do^^

@FanOfMostEverything
Derpy: “It’s delicious!”

Incidentally, heavy metals do tend to be tasty. 🤪

Never change, Derpy
Never change

“Instructions unclear, contracted metal poisoning.”