Things the anti-Covid medicine Paxlovid makes the inside of your mouth perpetually taste like, a not-exhaustive list
- Licking a hot metal slide on a humid August morning
- The results of an hourlong makeout session with Optimus Prime, wherein he has the alien robot equivalent of morning breath
- Taking the water and coins out of an old fountain at an abandoned mall, and boiling it into a tea.
- In the hopes of not getting a dirty martini, purposely ordering a “clean martini” only for the bartender to wildly misunderstand and add a sizeable squirt of grapefruit-scented dishwashing detergent to your glass, and then drinking it all at once.
- The burps you’d get from really pounding a frying pan-flavored LaCroix
- That urban legend about how you can dissolve a spoon in a cup of cola, but then you drank the spoon and only the spoon
- The transcendent relief that your Covid isn’t worse…but also you kind of put your whole mouth around a parking meter?
Totally agree.



