"Did you get sick?": nope, i was fine. Everyone talking abt throwing up from bad tastes is a coward tbh, even with how absolutely Wrong it tasted on every level and how my brain immediately said I was about to fucking die and I needed this Out Of Me I didn't throw it up. I was fucking stoic.
"Did you get sick (long term)?": Nope. Like I said, bacteriophage virus. I had been studying this thing for a while, as well as the bacteria it infects - I knew for certain it couldn't affect me. Nor my microbiome. The bacteria clade affected isn't found in the human gut unless something has gone very wrong, which wasn't the case for me at the time lmao. The only thing it killed was my perspective on how bad is bad tasting
"What color was it?": Kinda brown
"Did your lab director ever find out?": He did not. Like I said, I was beautifully stoic. And also left the lab to go down an entire fucking water bottle immediately afterwards. (It did not help. I was tasting that shit for a week.) Also, it was leftover sample to be discarded anyway that I drank - it just so happened that instead of a biohazard wastebin, it was disposed of in my mouth
"What media did you use/was the taste a result of the media?": standard SM buffer. I don't know if it affected the taste, as I didn't get the chance to taste SM buffer alone - this was more of a case study than an actual experiment. However, the chemical makeup of SM buffer is primarily water with some other stuff mixed in that should give it more of a salty taste, and doesn't explain the rancid-ass taste I actually got. Therefore, yes the taste was likely the viruses rather than the buffer, though if I ever get a chance to drink SM buffer alone I'll do my due diligence and have a control sample
"WHY?":
For science.
