Tastes Like Chicken...

Actually it tastes like bacon. "It" being my water. I have come to the conclusion that the universe doesn't like me trying to be healthy.

First it was the city water. I complained for a month that it tasted like dirt. The people around me said it was all in my mind. I argued something was desperately wrong with it and lo and behold come to find out it was full of ALGAE. Yuck. Let's hope all the nay-sayers think better of it before they question The Shan again...

Anyway so I've been bringing my own water from home. We have delicious yummy well water and this has worked out fine until today. I have three plastic water bottles that I've been refiling and refrigerating each night.

Well today as soon as I took the first sip I thought I smelled bacon. Hmmmm. It wasn't totally unpleasant, I mean I like bacon as much as the next guy. In fact, probably more. Bacon is good on a sandwich...on a salad...by itself...really now that I think about it there's not really a food that bacon and cheese CAN'T improve. But it's not something that you want to drink.

I kept drinking and the bacon twang got stronger. I tried a different bottle and it was the same. I entertained the thought that maybe I was on the verge on BPA poisoning myself since I'm transporting my H2O in containers apparently riddled with dangerous chemicals and "death traps" (according to the Yahoo story of the day about how everything we could possibly eat or drink IS trying to kill us). Did you see that apples are on the most dangerous food list now because of the pesticides, COME ON UNIVERSE, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! But after I calmed down and thought about how I probably do have BPA poisoning I had never heard that it smelled or tasted like bacon and that's something likely to come up because it seems that vegans could use something like that in their various "meats"...BACK ON FRIGGIN TOPIC:

The only logical explanation is that a hog has fallen in and drowned in our well. One time our water started tasting funky and got worse and worse and it was found out that a rat had drowned in there. So now I've concluded that we have a very dead pig in our drinking water.

I'm not positive but I may go back to drinking the algae.